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‘Spinning an iridescent weave of music from attractively simple ideas’
The Telegraph
‘Shimmering textures were cleverly crafted’
The Times
‘The ear is led texturally, and expertly, throughout’
Seen and Heard International
Louise Drewett (b.1989) is a British composer, based in London.
‘Clearly a talent with a very distinct sensibility’ (The Telegraph), Louise writes concert music that draws on her formative experience working with community choirs.
Her music has been performed at venues including The Barbican, Royal Festival Hall, Wigmore Hall and Cafe OTO. She has received commissions from organisations including the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Sinfonietta and the International Guitar Foundation, and written for soloists including Lotte Betts-Dean, Andrew Watts, Joseph Havlat, Cristian Sandrin, Amy Jolly and Lucy Humphris. Her community opera, ‘Daylighting’, commissioned by the Royal Academy of Music for their 200th Anniversary, was nominated for an Ivor Novello Award at the Ivors Composer Awards 2022. Her educational music is published by ABRSM.
Louise holds a PhD in Composition from the Royal Academy of Music where studied on a scholarship with Philip Cashian, Hans Abrahamsen and Oliver Knussen. At the Academy, Louise was Manson Fellow in 2021-2022, and was awarded the 2018 and 2019 Charles Lucas Composition Prizes. Her study was supported by a Countess of Munster Musical Trust Award, a Vaughan Williams Bursary from the RVW Trust and the Charles Lucas Memorial Fund.
Louise is a composition professor and lecturer at the Royal Academy of Music, where she was recently awarded an Associateship in recognition of her services to music. She works regularly with the New London Chamber Choir and Folkestone New Music, curating occasional concerts for each organisation.
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