Selected collaboration for the 2022 Picture Gallery Composer-in-Residence Scheme
About the music creator
Asia Bonuccelli is a classical pianist, singer, composer, and conductor. She was born in Pietrasanta (Tuscany) and began studying music at the age of eight, thanks to her Grandmother Anna, a classical pianist and her first teacher. Asia began her piano studies with Lavinia Biagini and later with Riccardo Peruzzi at the Conservatoire Luigi Boccherini (Lucca). She also began taking singing lessons and sang soprano in a local choir, occasionally accompanying them with the piano. During summer 2020 she had an internship as an opera assistant at Fondazione Festival Pucciniano (Torre del Lago), in which she had to support both opera singers and directors. She is currently a third-year music student at Royal Holloway. She performs as a soprano with Jane Holloway and Founders Choir, Raven Opera, and Egham Choral. She is the brass band's deputy conductor, a member of the Conductor Collective, and a member of the Orchestra committee as assistant librarian and assistant stage manager. As a composer she is involved in the projects New Music Collective and Picture Gallery Composer in Residence Scheme at Royal Holloway. She is also a piano and vocal teacher at School of Mindful Music.
About the creative writer
Originally from East Anglia, Tabby Carless-Frost graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a 1st class honours degree in History of Art and English Literature. They are currently studying for an MA in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, University of London, and is supervised by William Boast and Professor Lavinia Greenlaw.
Their writing has been stocked at Treadwell’s Books in Bloomsbury and has appeared in t’ART magaznie, Crumble, Horizon Magazine, The Fence, and Mxogyny online. They also recently co-curated the ‘Haunted Feminine’ exhibiton for the Museum of Sex Objects.
Image of Asia Bonuccelli & Tabby Carless-Frost
