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Anna Meredith (born 1978) is a Scottish composer and performer of electronic and acoustic music. She is a former composer-in-residence with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and former PRS/RPS Composer in the House with Sinfonia ViVA. ==Career== Meredith was born and brought up in South Queensferry, Edinburgh, Scotland. She read for a degree in Music at York University, where she was awarded first class honours, and gained her master's degree from the Royal College of Music.〔 In 2003, aged 24, she was made the Constant and Kit Lambert junior fellow of the Royal College of Music.〔 Meredith first came to widespread public attention through her work ''froms'' created for the 2008 BBC Last Night of the Proms which was broadcast to 40 million people.〔 She has since written another BBC Prom commission, her first opera (''Tarantula in Petrol Blue'' – with libretto by Philip Ridley) and collaborated with the beatboxer Shlomo – writing the ''Concerto for Beatboxer and Orchestra''.〔 Meredith has been a judge for BBC Young Musician of the Year, a mentor to Goldie for the TV show ''Classical Goldie''〔 and is a frequent guest and commentator for the BBC Proms and other BBC Radio 3 and 4 shows. She was the classical music nominee for the 2009 Times Breakthrough Award and won the 2010 Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Composers.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.phf.org.uk/artists/landing.asp?id=284 )〕 Meredith's recent pieces include ''Four Tributes to 4am'' for orchestra, electronics and visuals by Eleanor Meredith,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.vivaorch.co.uk/staff-ameredith.shtml )〕 and ''HandsFree'', a PRS NewMusic20x12 Commission for the National Youth Orchestra, which received warm reviews after being performed as part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad in the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool.〔 Alongside her acoustic work, Meredith has made forays into electronic music,〔 which she has performed throughout Europe alongside a diverse range of artists including supporting These New Puritans in Berlin, James Blake, Seb Rochford and Max de Wardener at Ether 2011〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/sites/default/files/press_releases/Ether_2011_-_8_Feb_2011.pdf )〕 and a solo set at La Carrière de Normandoux.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.vivaorch.co.uk/pdf%20docs/Anna%20Meredith%20biography.pdf )〕 In 2012 Meredith released her debut EP, ''Black Prince Fury,'' on Moshi Moshi Records, which a reviewer compared favourably to the work of the avant-garde jazz composer Moondog. In August 2013, Moshi Moshi Records and VF Editions released Meredith's second EP, ''Jet Black Raider''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.thevinylfactory.com/vinyl-factory-news/electronic-composer-anna-meredith-returns-with-striking-second-ep-jet-black-raider/ )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://moshimoshimusic.com/portfolio/anna-meredith-jet-black-raider-ep/ )〕 In an interview with Pitchfork, Meredith noted that her second EP featured "clarinets, singing, glocks, drums, lots of cello," unlike ''Black Prince Fury'', which was entirely synthesised.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anna Meredith」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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