Rhiannon Randle is a composer, violinist, vocalist, traditional fiddler, lever-harpist, nature photographer and avid birdwatcher, with a passion for exploring thresholds between classical & traditional music. She finds joy in combining her myriad of creative pursuits into multi-dimensional artworks and sharing her lifelong obsession with the art-form of music through her teaching. She is currently based near London, UK.
Equally at home in a classical concert hall or at a traditional music session, her distinctive compositional voice combines an intimate awareness of diverse musical traditions with an original, contemporary twist that has won praise from Sir James MacMillan for its ‘breadth of expression and boldness of communication’. Fuelled by the cross-fertilization of classical and folk music, she seeks to discover new ways to reimagine both kinds of tradition – anything from symphonically developing jigs and reels, to transforming a classical string quartet into a ceilí! Her instrumental works, such as for Britten Sinfonia, Heath Quartet and ACE-funded projects including Theorbo Today (2021) and Psappha’s Composing for guzheng scheme (2018), demonstrate her passion for combining contemporary Western art music structures with unusual, ancient and non-Western instruments and musical materials.
Heralded by Boosey & Hawkes as 'one of the UK's bright, emerging choral composers', Rhiannon’s vocal music is widely respected and recognised. Her choral music is published by Boosey & Hawkes and Stainer & Bell and is regularly performed in the repertoires of major UK churches and cathedrals such as York Minster and St. Michael’s Cornhill, London, where she has held the position of Composer-in-Residence since 2017. She has also written three substantial one-act chamber operas, one in association with the Royal Opera House.
Rhiannon is an active professional violinist with many years of orchestral and chamber music experience, and studies traditional fiddle playing and composing with renowned Irish fiddler Kevin Glackin; her style is heavily influenced by the Donegal tradition from northwest Ireland. Rhiannon is also studying the performance of Welsh traditional folksongs with lever-harp accompaniment, in connection with her Welsh roots. She is an experienced choral soprano, who has sung extensively around London and Cambridge, including with Jonathan Rennert and The Choir of St. Michael’s, Cornhill, London, with Stephen Layton and The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge and Girton College Chapel Choir, where she held a choral scholarship.
She is an undergraduate tutor at her alma mater Cambridge University, and at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, where she studied for a master's degree in composition with Julian Anderson and Julian Philips and graduated with distinction.
Full biography: rhiannonrandle.com/fullbio.html
Equally at home in a classical concert hall or at a traditional music session, her distinctive compositional voice combines an intimate awareness of diverse musical traditions with an original, contemporary twist that has won praise from Sir James MacMillan for its ‘breadth of expression and boldness of communication’. Fuelled by the cross-fertilization of classical and folk music, she seeks to discover new ways to reimagine both kinds of tradition – anything from symphonically developing jigs and reels, to transforming a classical string quartet into a ceilí! Her instrumental works, such as for Britten Sinfonia, Heath Quartet and ACE-funded projects including Theorbo Today (2021) and Psappha’s Composing for guzheng scheme (2018), demonstrate her passion for combining contemporary Western art music structures with unusual, ancient and non-Western instruments and musical materials.
Heralded by Boosey & Hawkes as 'one of the UK's bright, emerging choral composers', Rhiannon’s vocal music is widely respected and recognised. Her choral music is published by Boosey & Hawkes and Stainer & Bell and is regularly performed in the repertoires of major UK churches and cathedrals such as York Minster and St. Michael’s Cornhill, London, where she has held the position of Composer-in-Residence since 2017. She has also written three substantial one-act chamber operas, one in association with the Royal Opera House.
Rhiannon is an active professional violinist with many years of orchestral and chamber music experience, and studies traditional fiddle playing and composing with renowned Irish fiddler Kevin Glackin; her style is heavily influenced by the Donegal tradition from northwest Ireland. Rhiannon is also studying the performance of Welsh traditional folksongs with lever-harp accompaniment, in connection with her Welsh roots. She is an experienced choral soprano, who has sung extensively around London and Cambridge, including with Jonathan Rennert and The Choir of St. Michael’s, Cornhill, London, with Stephen Layton and The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge and Girton College Chapel Choir, where she held a choral scholarship.
She is an undergraduate tutor at her alma mater Cambridge University, and at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, where she studied for a master's degree in composition with Julian Anderson and Julian Philips and graduated with distinction.
Full biography: rhiannonrandle.com/fullbio.html