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Louise Rossiter - Composer
Louise Rossiter is a British electroacoustic composer. She was born in 1986. She took her undergraduate music degree at the University of Aberdeen specialising in acousmatic music and her masters degree at the University of Edinburgh.

She is currently studying towards a PhD under the supervision of John Young and Simon Emmerson at the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre (De Montfort University, UK) with the support of an AHRC Doctoral Studentship.

Instrument and Electronics
Title Length Year Notes Skello for Cello and tape 12′ 2011 Written for and performed by Chandra Chapman Out of the Woodwork for String Quartet, tape and live processing 8′ 2012 Written for and performed McFalls Chamber as part of Electronic Music Week Omens for Piano and tape 5′ 2012 Performed by Lauren Sarah Hayes

Awards
2012 2011
 * Awarded AHRC  PhD Studentship to study with Profs John Young and Simon Emmerson at De Montfort University.
 * Awarded Fife Council Maxton Bequest 2012
 * October 2011, awarded The Roger and Sarah Bancroft Clark Charitable Trust scholarship 2011/12.


 * October 2011, Black Velvet reaches shortlist (final five) in Electronic Music Week, Shanghai.


 * September 2011, awarded the the Thomas Laing-Reilly Bequest from the University of Edinburgh.
 * September 2011, ‘Black Velvet’ announced as a finalist in the Shanghai Conservatory of Music International Electronic Music Week.
 * August 2011, awarded The Seary Scholarship 2011/12.
 * August 2011, awarded  funding from Creative Scotland Professional Development fund to enable attendance at Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium and Composition intensive.
 * June 2011, awarded £700 from the University of Edinburgh to enable attendance and performance at the Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium.

2010
 * March 2011 awarded a Maxton Bequest from Fife Council as contribution to my tuition fees.
 * November 2010 awarded a Seary Scholarship (2010/11) as contribution to my tuition fees.
 * November 2010, ‘Black Velvet’ was a finalist at the Musica Nova International Composition Competition

2009
 * July 2010, awarded the Chris Cadwur James Award for Composition, (University of Aberdeen).
 * June 2009, Alfie Tough Music Prize from the University of Aberdeen in order to undertake my research project, ‘Projekt Berlin’.
 * August 2009, Small Grants award from University of Aberdeen in order to undertake ‘Projekt Berlin’.

Publications
2011 Acoustic Ecology as Therapy in Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, Vol 11, No 1

2013 The Role and Definition of Expectation in Acousmatic Music... Some Starting Points... in David Holland, Louise Rossiter (Eds.) Proceedings of Sound, Sight, Space and Play

2013 Postgraduate Symposium for the Creative Sonic Arts De Montfort University Leicester, United Kingdom, 5-7 June 2013