Rachel Stott
Rachel Stott lives and works in London, UK. She was educated at Wells Cathedral School, Churchill College, Cambridge and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and has subsequently pursued a career as both violist and composer. Her music has been performed at the London South Bank, Wigmore Hall, St John’s Smith Square, festivals across the UK, and in continental Europe, North America and Japan.
Rachel’s works include orchestral pieces, four string quartets, (for the Fitzwilliam, Dante and Callino quartets and the Revolutionary Drawing Room,) song cycles, music theatre pieces, and an opera for children, The Cuckoo Tree, based on the book by Joan Aiken. She has written many works for period instruments including the record-breaking, Odysseus in Ogygia, for six viole d’amore, performed in June 2012 at the Viola d’amore Congress in Innsbruck. Her most recent commission (summer 2020) is for tromba marina quartet, for the Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments. She also composes for unusual modern instruments such as musical saw. Several World, for massed saxophone ensemble, was performed at the 2012 World Saxophone Congress in St Andrews.
Two CDs of Rachel’s music, Vanishing Barriers and Odysseus and the Sorceress have been released by Omnibus Classics. Her piece Serendipity and Household Objects, composed for the Schubert Ensemble’s Chamber Music 2000 project, is recorded on NMC D080 Bright Futures.
Rachel Stott lives and works in London, UK. She was educated at Wells Cathedral School, Churchill College, Cambridge and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and has subsequently pursued a career as both violist and composer. Her music has been performed at the London South Bank, Wigmore Hall, St John’s Smith Square, festivals across the UK, and in continental Europe, North America and Japan.
Rachel’s works include orchestral pieces, four string quartets, (for the Fitzwilliam, Dante and Callino quartets and the Revolutionary Drawing Room,) song cycles, music theatre pieces, and an opera for children, The Cuckoo Tree, based on the book by Joan Aiken. She has written many works for period instruments including the record-breaking, Odysseus in Ogygia, for six viole d’amore, performed in June 2012 at the Viola d’amore Congress in Innsbruck. Her most recent commission (summer 2020) is for tromba marina quartet, for the Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments. She also composes for unusual modern instruments such as musical saw. Several World, for massed saxophone ensemble, was performed at the 2012 World Saxophone Congress in St Andrews.
Two CDs of Rachel’s music, Vanishing Barriers and Odysseus and the Sorceress have been released by Omnibus Classics. Her piece Serendipity and Household Objects, composed for the Schubert Ensemble’s Chamber Music 2000 project, is recorded on NMC D080 Bright Futures.
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