Maria Lamburn

Maria Lamburn (Madalena, Maria Madalena, Galé Ritonic; Born 26 November 1960) is a British composer and musician whose style uses large scale instrumental scores. Education * Royal Academy of Music 1978–80 * Goldsmiths College 1980–83 * Guildhall School of Music and Drama 1983-84 Career Lamburn’s debut album Murmur, funded by the Arts Council of England, was recorded for the jazz label Babel Label in 1999. Her next two albums, Heaven on Earth (2006) and Taith Amser (2006) are of songs; Taith Amser received a Creative Wales award, Arts Council of Wales to tour these albums with imagery by photographic journalist Rhodri Jones. After graduating from Goldsmiths and Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where her compositional output included scores dealing with experimental graphics, minimalism, sonic collage and visual arts improvisation, Maria won the Cornelius Cardew Prize for Composition, in 1982. Her style includes idiosyncratic in rhythm, line and harmony, and is characterised by an interest in perception which has led her to find potentials for interaction, response, and interpretation – such as field research at the Greenham Common anti-nuclear campaign (1986), setting up a wome