Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade (b. 1989)
Composer; Cellist

Works published by MoV
Car aupres de toi (SSSSAA)
Car aupres de toi (SSSSAA)
Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade (b. 1989)
Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade is a composer and cellist currently based in Edinburgh. Growing up in a family of puppeteers, she has always been fascinated by intersections between music, language, movement, and the visual arts. Over the last five years she has collaborated with a range of artists on the East Coast of the US while pursuing doctoral studies at Princeton University. Composing for old, new, and damaged musical instruments, her past projects have included works for flower pots, electric guitar, viols and theorbo, the Trinidadian steel pan, string and percussion quartets, a homemade glass harmonica, and a fire-damaged piano. She is currently writing music for a youth opera production at Glyndebourne, where she is a Composer in Residence; Ninfea is also a recipient of the Psappha Ensemble’s Peter Maxwell Davies Commission, through which she is writing a work for chamber ensemble and sitar. (Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade)