About

Dee has lived in Scotland all of her adult life. She studied composition with Professor Nigel Osborne. Her compositions are always informed, developed and created in collaboration with communities. Her many opportunities to meet with people across cultures and borders has enabled her to develop an eclectic compositional style which draws on the richness of these places and reflects on the stories people have shared along the way. Dee has been commissioned by a wide range of arts organisations including: Opera North, London Symphony Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Magnetic North, Scottish Ballet, LiveMusicNow, The Scottish Executive, Dumbworld, Creative Scotland and The Wellcome Trust.

She has been nominated by the British Academy of Composers (now the Ivors) for awards for Festus, Supposer Life, Watching and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. In 2012, she was awarded the Principal’s Medal for her work in music education and outreach. Between 2000 – 2005 she was the UK co-ordinator for War Child in the Caucasus, implementing a creative  arts training programme working with children suffering from trauma.

Dee continues to work across cultures and within marginalised communities both near and far. She set up a long term research project for primary aged children using immersive arts projects to improve literacy and language development in The Gambia, West Africa. Since 2016 Dee’s focus has been on working with children living in challenging circumstances as refugees. Windows on the World is the creative arts programme she now runs in collaboration with SolidarityNow/Unicef in Greece for children living in protracted displacement.

Download Dee’s CV here.