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PGCR 2020: Charlotte Glyn-Woods

PGCR 2020: Charlotte Glyn-Woods

Selected as part of the 2020 Picture Gallery Composer-in-Residence scheme.

Their residency work

You can see and hear their musical response to Royal Holloway's art collection as part of this residency either here or on the Department of Music YouTube channel:

About the composer

Charlotte Glyn-Woods (b. 2000) is an undergraduate composer, currently in her final year at Royal Holloway University of London. 

"Over the past three years of my Bachelor’s, I have come to focus mainly on composition and conducting. My compositions have featured as part of The New Music Collective’s composer development project in my second year, and I am now working with two singers from the Collective as part of the upcoming Encores project. Further on in the year, I will be working with the other members of the collective to produce recordings to be used in a larger work commissioned by the Picture Gallery Residency. Additionally, I am working to have some of my other vocal and instrumental music recorded later in the year. 

I am very interested in interdisciplinary work and have written music in conjunction with the Student Workshop. As part of their Collaborative Film Festival, I was awarded the prize for ‘Best Original Song’, which lead to my work being set to film. More recently I have written trailer music for an upcoming screening of a theatre production – The Forgetful Mind. 

When not writing for commission, the music I write tends to centre around people’s stories and their relationship to the world around them. I have an affinity with themes that transcend time and define the human condition; for me they are some of the most rewarding topics to grapple with. In everything I write I try to keep the performers at the centre of the endeavour, trusting that if the performers can find something in the music then it will come through to whomever is listening. The most rewarding part of being a composer is being able to create connections between people, whether it be in a live concert space or at home through a pair of headphones." 

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