Maria Lamburn (Madalena, Maria Madalena, Galé Ritonic; Born November 26th, 1960) is a British composer and multi-instrumentalist whose philosophy of "Living Art", endures through her music and poetry (represented by songs in English and Welsh) with larger scale instrumental scores.

Education

Royal Academy of Music The Royal Academy of Music (RAM) in London, England, is the oldest conservatoire in the UK, founded in 1822 by John Fane and Nicolas-Charles Bochsa. It received its royal charter in 1830 from King George IV with the support of the first Duke ...

1978–80 *

Goldsmiths College Goldsmiths, University of London, officially the Goldsmiths' College, is a constituent research university of the University of London in England. It was originally founded in 1891 as The Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute by the Wor ...

1980–83 *

Guildhall School of Music and Drama The Guildhall School of Music and Drama is a conservatoire and drama school located in the City of London, United Kingdom. Established in 1880, the school offers undergraduate and postgraduate training in all aspects of classical music and jaz ...

1983-84

Career

Maria Lamburn, also known as 'Madalena', is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and interdisciplinary artist. Her debut album Murmur, funded by the

Arts Council of England The arts are a very wide range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling and cultural participation. They encompass multiple diverse and plural modes of thinking, doing and being, in an extremely broad range of media. Both h ...

, was recorded for the jazz label

Babel Label Babel Label is a jazz record label founded in 1994 by Oliver Weindling. It released more than 130 recordings in its first 20 years, two of which were nominated for the Mercury Prize. Formation Weindling was a banker in England in the 1980s whe ...

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 The Arts Council of Wales (ACW; cy, Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru) is a Welsh Government-sponsored body, responsible for funding and developing the arts in Wales. Established within the Arts Council of Great Britain in 1946, as the Welsh Arts ...

to tour its repertoire of songs in Welsh with imagery by photographic journalist

Rhodri Jones Rhodri Jones (born 23 December 1991) is a Wales international rugby union player. Jones was born in Aberystwyth, and is a Welsh-speaker. He currently plays for the Dragons RFC, having previously played for Ospreys, Scarlets and Llanelli. His ...

. After graduating from

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and

, 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 sound world is 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

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anti-nuclear campaign (1986), setting up a women's radio station and street festival music in

Galway Galway ( ; ga, Gaillimh, ) is a city in the West of Ireland, in the province of Connacht, which is the county town of County Galway. It lies on the River Corrib between Lough Corrib and Galway Bay, and is the sixth most populous city ...

with radical playwright

Margaretta D'Arcy Margaretta Ruth D'Arcy (born 14 June 1934, London) is an Irish actress, writer, playwright, and activist. D'Arcy has been a member of Aosdána since its inauguration and is known for addressing Irish nationalism, civil liberties, and women's ...

(1988), music for Didn't she do well? by Valerie Walkerdine, assessing the loss of roots of academic working class women (1990), and Home Birth – Your Choice by Nicky Leap (1991). Commissioning bodies have included contemporary music group, Gemini,

Phoenix Arts Centre Sue Townsend Theatre (formerly the Phoenix Theatre, Phoenix Arts Centre and the Upper Brown Street Theatre) is a theatre in the city of Leicester, England. The centre hosts live shows and films of the arthouse and world cinema genres. Julian W ...

BBC Singers The BBC Singers are a British chamber choir, and the professional chamber choir of the BBC. One of the six BBC Performing Groups, the BBC Singers are based at the BBC's Maida Vale Studios in London. The only full-time professional British c ...

Women in Music Women in music include women as composers, songwriters, instrumental performers, singers, conductors, music scholars, music educators, music critics/ music journalists, and in other musical professions. Also, it describes music movements ...

. Her music has been played and broadcast worldwide, from

BBC Radio 3 BBC Radio 3 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC. It replaced the BBC Third Programme in 1967 and broadcasts classical music and opera, with jazz, world music, drama, culture and the arts also featuring. The st ...

St John's, Smith Square St John's Smith Square is a redundant church in the centre of Smith Square, Westminster, London. Sold to a charitable trust as a ruin following firebombing in the Second World War, it was restored as a concert hall. This Grade I listed churc ...

Vortex Jazz Club The Vortex Jazz Club is a music venue in London, England. It was founded by David Mossman in the 1988. Background The Vortex started as a jazz club in 1988 and was located in Stoke Newington Church Street, north London. But after the acquisit ...

Bloomsbury Theatre The Bloomsbury Theatre is a theatre on Gordon Street, Bloomsbury, in the London Borough of Camden, owned by University College London. The Theatre has a seating capacity of 547 and offers a professional programme of innovative music, drama, come ...

, London to

Radio Canada The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (french: Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian public broadcaster for both radio and television. It is a federal Crown corporation that receives funding from the government. ...

. In 1993, Maria, her husband

Huw Warren Huw Warren is a Welsh jazz pianist and composer whose work crosses several genres. He is known as co-leader and founder of the jazz quartet Perfect Houseplants. Career Huw Warren was the co-leader and founder of the jazz quartet Perfect Ho ...

and children left London, returning to Wales where they both had family roots. Educational work as a conductor and instrumental tutor (woodwind, strings, piano, guitar) for the local

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Tremadog Tremadog (formerly Tremadoc) is a village in the community of Porthmadog, in Gwynedd, north west Wales; about north of Porthmadog town-centre. It was a planned settlement, founded by William Madocks, who bought the land in 1798. The centre of ...

, the

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music service (Ysgolion Gwasanaeth William Mathias) and her own ventures, Maizeh Music music publishing (1998-) and galeriTONIC Arts-Healing-Education (born 2009), produced a portfolio of educational compositions and arrangements. Maria's interdisciplinary projects involve written and improvised music and visual art - including fine art, sculpture, blacksmithing, photography, film, scent and bodywork. In 2013 she began to document a new tune every day, which led to her posting a daily publication Play On on Instagram (2016-). Investing in an historic life drawing group at The Institwt,

Caernarfon Caernarfon (; ) is a royal town, community and port in Gwynedd, Wales, with a population of 9,852 (with Caeathro). It lies along the A487 road, on the eastern shore of the Menai Strait, opposite the Isle of Anglesey. The city of Bangor i ...

, she saved it from collapse when

Bangor University , former_names = University College of North Wales (1884–1996) University of Wales, Bangor (1996–2007) , image = File:Arms_of_Bangor_University.svg , image_size = 250px , caption = Arms ...

axed its Fine Art courses in 2017; she had already established the online ''Welsh Art Thread'' AGORA ''Edau Celf Cymraeg''.

Collaborations

Dragon Tongue Trio (2011) with

Fred Thelonious Baker Fred Thelonious Baker (born 4 June 1960) is an English guitarist and jazz bass guitarist from Tibshelf, Derbyshire. He is known for playing in Phil Miller's Canterbury scene band In Cahoots. Baker played the guitar until his mid-teens, at wh ...

& Zoot Warren; A Hedgerow Song (2009) with

Mark Lockheart Mark Lockheart (born 31 March 1961) is a British jazz tenor saxophonist who was a member of the Loose Tubes big band during the 1980s. Career After the demise of Loose Tubes, Lockheart formed jazz/folk quartet Perfect Houseplants with Huw War ...

- medieval tunes with contemporary improvised experimental explorations;

's Tails for Wales UK tour/ Brecon Jazz Festival 2015, This is Now (Welsh Tour 2005), 100s of things a boy can make (2003 Babel Label), A Barrel Organ Far From Home (1997)

BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC that replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. It broadcasts a wide variety of Talk radio, spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history fro ...

& European festivals);

Caroline Kraabel Caroline Kraabel (born 1961 in Torrance, California) is an American saxophonist. Career After living in Seattle, Kraabel moved to London while in her teenage years. She started playing saxophone and became active in London's improvised music sce ...

Mass Producers 1998,

June Tabor June Tabor (born 31 December 1947 in Warwick, England) is an English folk singer known for her solo work and her earlier collaborations with Maddy Prior and with Oysterband. Early life June Tabor was born and grew up in Warwick, England. ...

(trio tour with Huw Warren 1988; Always (

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); Billy Jenkins' VOGC; Hot Club of Hackney Gypsy Orchestra 1991-3; Charles Hayward's Camberwell Now cult experimental rock band, touring Europe (mid 1980s) & recording

Greenfingers ''Greenfingers'' is a 2000 British comedy film directed and written by Joel Hershman. It is loosely based on the true story about the award-winning prisoners of HMP Leyhill, a minimum-security prison in the Cotswolds, England, a story publishe ...

1986 (

RecRec RecRec Music was a Swiss independent record label created in 1983 by Daniel Waldner. The label was modeled on, and affiliated to, the British independent record label Recommended Records, but remained financially independent. The label went bankr ...

);

Shelleyan Orphan Shelleyan Orphan were a British alternative music group that peaked during the 1980s and early 1990s. They played a style of pop influenced by chamber music, and which featured dual male-female vocals. Career In 1980, Caroline Crawley and Jem ...

(signed

Rough Trade Records Rough Trade Records is an independent record label based in London, England. It was formed in 1976 by Geoff Travis who had opened a record store off Ladbroke Grove. Having successfully promoted and sold records by punk rock and early post-pu ...

); Regular Music systems-rock band (Jeremy Peyton Jones), Regular Music LP (

1985); John Cage at 70 in London with the composer – performance of Music Walk filmed by

Peter Greenaway Peter Greenaway, (born 5 April 1942) is a Welsh film director, screenwriter and artist. His films are noted for the distinct influence of Renaissance and Baroque painting, and Flemish painting in particular. Common traits in his films are t ...

(1982).

Commissions

* Taith Amser

* Murmur

* Celebration 1st Celebration of Women in Music and the Arts,

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(

) * Iduna and the golden apples Snowdonia Steiner School * Calling Kids and Cooching Gemini – Chard Festival of Women in Music * As many women as evolve

* Chant

– St John's Smith Square, London (Radio 3 broadcast) * Selected Songs 1986-8 from opera material sourced at

and

* The Wake Regular Music – Bloomsbury Theatre, London * Dance piece

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Videos – * On the other Side 2016 a musical swim across the River Ribble, symbolically reaching to the other side of the water * Home Birth – Your Choice 1991 Nicky Leap * Didn't she do well? 1990 Valerie Walkerdine

Awards

* Winner of Cornelius Cardew Prize for Composition 1982 * ACW Creative Wales Award 2005

Discography

* Murmur –

Babel Babel is a name used in the Hebrew Bible for the city of Babylon and may refer to: Arts and media Written works Books *Babel (book), ''Babel'' (book), by Patti Smith * Babel (2012 manga), ''Babel'' (2012 manga), by Narumi Shigematsu * Babel (20 ...

– 1999 * Heaven on Earth – Maizeh Music 2006 * Taith Amser – Maizeh Music 2006

galeriTONIC Arts-Healing-Education

Maria founded the arts-healing-education forum galeriTONIC, in 2009, a hub for her sonic, visual, and olfactory arts expression using complementary therapy, teaching, modelling, and performance genres, engaging with audiences, private and public portfolios, books, and journals.

Maizeh Music

Maria Lamburn founded music publishing company Maizeh Music in 1998.

References

*''Who's Who in Music and Musician's Directory'', 15th ed. Cambridge: Melrose Press Ltd., 1996 *''The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers'', Edited by

Julie Anne Sadie Stanley John Sadie (; 30 October 1930 – 21 March 2005) was an influential and prolific British musicologist, music critic, and editor. He was editor of the sixth edition of the ''Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' (1980), which was publi ...

and

Rhian Samuel Rhian Samuel (born Aberdare, Wales, 1944) is a Welsh woman composer who resided in the USA for many years. She has composed over 140 published works, including orchestral, chamber, vocal, and choral music. She now divides her time between mid-Wa ...

. London and Basingstoke, UK:

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Press, 1994 *''Contemporary Music Review (Vol 11: Reclaiming the Muse)''

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*''Women Composers: An Historical Anthology'' (GK Hall) 1997

External links

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GaleriTonic

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