Pseudonym:'Madalena'.British performer/composer. Album 'Murmur' released on the London-based Babel label. Eclectic compositional approach featuring haunting melodies and textures which fling the listener from the shores of Wales to the mountains of Morocco through windows of space/time.
Commissions include Royal Academy of Dance (Dance Piece); BBC Singers (Chant);Ian Mitchell's 'Gemini' (In the name of whom do you blather? & Calling kids and Cooching & As many women as evolve); playwright Margaretta D'Arcy (Opera); feminist writer Valerie Walkerdine (film: Didn't she do well?; radical midwife Nicky Leap (film:Homebirth - your choice)
Performing work with own band Murmur (viola, saxes,piano);Huw Warren's Barrel Organ Band ; Caroline Kraabel's Mass Producers; Charles Hayward's Camberwell Now; Billy Jenkins; June Tabor; John Cage; John Stevens; Mervyn Africa;
Studied:University of London - Goldsmiths College;Royal Academy of Music; Guildhall School of Music.Tutors include Robert Saxton, Melanie Daiken, Stanley Glasser, John Tilbury, Susan Bradshaw. Winner of 1983 Cornelius Cardew Composition Prize. Entries in: Who's who in Music; Dictionary of Women Composers (Macmillan) etc