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=Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian=

Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian is a British composer and performer (voice, harp, dance).

Education

Born in Suffolk, UK, to British-Armenian parents, she trained in composition at Junior | Guildhall School of Music and Drama, before gaining a first in Music from | Girton College, | Cambridge University. She attended the advanced New Music, New Media course at the | Britten-Pears School in Aldeburgh in 2006 and held a scholarship at | Trinity College of Music in London in 2006-7.

Awards

Cambridge University, Girton College, Rima Alamuddin Composition Prize 2004

Cambridge University, Girton College, Turle Scholarship for Music 2006

Cambridge University, Girton College, Gamble Prize for Research 2006

Leverhulme Trust award, New Music, New Media, Britten-Pears School 2006

Scholarship, Trinity College of Music 2006

Sound and Music (formerly spnm) & Artistic Director (| Kuljit Bhamra MBE) project: Bhangra Latina 2007

Nominations

| Royal Philharmonic Society Education Award as part of 'Orchestra in a Village' 2006, led by the London Mozart Players with Fraser Trainer ,

Individual nomination by Sound and Music (spnm), for the British Composer Awards 2009

Formal Commissions

Sophocles’ Women of Trachis, incidental music and chorus, Cambridge ADC at the Edinburgh Fringe, 2004

Cambridge Live Arts Exchange: Txt Cycle, graffitti with electronic soundtrack, 2006

City Tree: for a capella choir, Trinity College of Music Choir, | Blackheath Concert Halls, London 2006

spnm: Dark Garden: fusion of Bhangra and Latin music, Kuljit Bhamra MBE and | Alex Wilson, 2007 ,

Past/Future/Fracture electronics and chamber ensemble for contemporary dance group, | Café Gallery, with | Laban dancers and Tony Thatcher, London 2007

Record for orchestra with voice and recording, Trinity College of Music Symphony Orchestra, Blackheath Concert Halls, Prizewinners' concert, London 2007

Vocal Shore: for a capella choir and solo trumpet, London Festival Chorus, London, 2009

Even Lovers: Yeats' poem, The Mermaid, set for two voices and two harps, |the Out of Neverland Festival, Thorpeness 2009

Performance

With world music ensembles

— Kuljit Bhamra MBE and Alex Wilson's Bhangra Latina, voice and dance

— Ku-Da-Mix Orchestra, voice, dance, harp, composer

— Anna Mudeka Band, harp & dance

With large ensemble

— voice for Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Blackheath Concert Halls, 2008

— for Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian's composition Record, Blackheath Concert Halls, 2008

With experimental roots dance ensemble

— Terspikorie (harp, composition, voice, udu drum, and dance)

Jazz

— with Ronnie McCrea, Kit Downes and Freddie Gavita, 2004

With her sister, Nina Horrocks-Hopayian

Community and Arts projects

Horrocks-Hopayian was President of Cambridge Live Arts Exchange 2004-7 and is co-founder of the Out of Neverland Festival

Links

1 | Bhangra Latina in Matters Musical 2 Bhangra Latina at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank

3 KuDaMix, and their educational activities at The Stables, Wavendon

4 Terspikorie - Dance and Musikorie

5 Women of Water,

6 & 7 BBC report on 'Out of Neverland'

8 Internet personal pages of Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian

References