Deborah Pritchard

Deborah Pritchard is currently studying for a D.Phil. in composition and critical writing with Robert Saxton at Worcester College, Oxford. She was awarded her M.Mus. degree in Composition at the Royal Academy of Music where she studied with Simon Bainbridge and subsequently held the position of Manson Fellow in Composition.  She was awarded her undergraduate degree from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Her work has been performed by the Christ Church Cathedral Choir, the BBC Singers, the Allegri String Quartet, the Kreisler Ensemble, the Composer’s Ensemble at the Warehouse (BMIC's Cutting Edge Series), the Philharmonia Chamber Orchestra (Music of Today Series at the Queen Elizabeth Hall), the RAM Manson Ensemble (Spitalfield's Festival), CHROMA (Music Past and Present Series) and the Oxford Philomusica (Sheldonian Theatre).  She has collaborated with London Contemporary Dance, the Lilyan Baylis Dance Company, the National Theatre Studios and has written the score to a production of Wilde Tales  at the Southward Playhouse.  She has also been broadcast by BBC Radio Three.

Prizes include the 2009 Orlando Prize (Christ Church College, Oxford), the Provost’s Prize for the anthem setting of the Worcester College Grace (Worcester College, Oxford), the John Lowell Osgood Memorial Prize for Composition (Oxford University), the Evan Senior Scholarship, the Charles Lucas Composition Prize, the Margit and Benjamin Dale Award, the Mosco Carner Award, the Leverhulme Award for Composition (Royal Academy of Music) and the Wolfson Foundation Award (Guildhall School of Music and Drama).

Deborah is currently composition tutor for Christ Church, University College, Jesus College and St. Hugh's College at the University of Oxford.  She was composition tutor at Worcester College, Oxford for Hilary Term 2011 and held the position of composition tutor for the University of Oxford's UniQ Summer School.  She has been composer-in-residence for King's School Canterbury (Sounds New Festival), Croydon Music Service (where she led a six-week composition workshop) and the Folkestone School for Girls (where she was commissioned to write a work to celebrate their centenary).  She has also led composition workshops for the charity 'Changing Tunes' who rehabilitate prisoners through music.  She is also a professional double bass player.