Anna Semple (b. 1997)
Composer; Singer
Works published by MoV
Drop down, ye heavens (SSATB)
Drop down, ye heavens (SSATB)
Anna Semple (b. 1997)
Anna Semple is a freelance composer and singer based in London, having finished her Masters in Composition at Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2021. Recent commissions include works for Roderick Williams, Helen Charlston, St Paul’s Cathedral, The Sixteen, the Royal Opera House, Waterperry Opera Festival, and The Marian Consort. She has worked with a wide variety of artists including vocal consort EXAUDI, clarinettist Vicky Wright of PlusMinus Ensemble, members of the London Symphony Orchestra and solo accordionist Miloš Milivojević via Psappha’s ‘Composing for’ scheme. As a singer Anna works with a variety of concert groups including Tenebrae, Alamire, SANSARA, and HEXAD Collective.
Anna's work is primarily engaged with her interests in embodied processes of working (both in performance and writing) as a way of subverting the classic mind vs body/masculine vs feminine dichotomy, and she enjoys experimenting with the ways in which the things we see and feel can be communicated with sonic immediacy.
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