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Kerensa Briggs (b. 1991)

Kerensa Briggs is an award-winning composer based in London. Her music has been performed internationally at venues including St Paul’s Cathedral and the Sistine Chapel and has been widely recorded and broadcast by ensembles such as The Tallis Scholars, the BBC Singers and the choirs of Hereford, Worcester and Gloucester Cathedrals. Amongst other accolades Kerensa was winner of the National Centre for Early Music Young Composers Award 2014. She is a member of the TheoArtistry Composers scheme at the University of St Andrews Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts; the Illuminate Women’s Music project, and is a board member for the International Alliance for Women in Music. Her love of sacred music emanates from her choral background – she was a member of Gloucester Cathedral Youth Choir, the choir of Trinity College Cambridge, and the choir of King’s College London where she held a Choral Scholarship and undertook an MMus in Composition. (Anthology biography)