Tansy Davies

*Vanguard of the new wave of young British composers * Informed by the worlds of both the classical avant-garde and experimental rock * Scores are littered with unusual yet insightful directions, such as “urban, muscular”, “seedy, low slung”, “stealthy” and “solid, grinding” * Influenced by both the natural world and, recently, by the controversial architecture of the Iraqi-born Zaha Hadid

"… a livewire impossible to pigeonhole…" -- The Times (London)

"This conflict between the human and the natural, the bodily and the geological - between Prince and Xenakis - is at the heart of her music." -- The Guardian