Composers' Workshop: Georgia Denham

Georgia Denham draws on a love of visual arts, anecdotal story and reimagined transcription to create her work. Thinking of music as a physical form, notation is at the core of how she sculpts and nurtures sounds. Georgia’s music is ever adjusting in its foundations and source material, ever open to new influence and responding to her experience of the world. In this talk, Georgia will discuss the everyday as a legitimate starting point for music, and how this has manifested in what she creates.

Georgia has written music for Music We’d Like to Hear, Decibel, the New European Ensemble, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and Orkest de Ereprijs. In 2020, her piece for violin and piano, kindly, softly, was nominated for an Ivor Composer Award in the Solo or Duo category. She has previously studied with Andrew Hamilton and Fumiko Miyachi at The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, and with Calliope Tsoupaki at Koninklijk Conservatorium, Den Haag. Georgia is now studying for her PhD in Composition at the University of Cambridge with Richard Causton, where she is a Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholar.

Photo by Guri Bosh