Composer
Dee studied composition with Professor Nigel Osborne and 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.
“Collaboration is the essence of life, the wind, bees and flowers work together to spread the pollen.”
Amit Ray
COMPOSITIONS
COMING SOON
The Alphabet of Jasmine, 2021
A triptych for THE GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART CHOIR commissioned by the Composeher Project.
Nine Fathoms Deep
The alphabet of jasmine
The baker of Idlib
Project/ Creative Scotland, three songs exploring migration, words by Gerda Stevenson.
THE SKY HAS NO BORDERS
Commissioned by Dumbworld and Nerve Centre for Constellations of Noise. Part of Our Place in Space - Unboxed: Creativity in the UK. Premiere 25/3/23
A project devised by Dee Isaacs
Film maker - Ian Dodds
Cellos for Change Ensemble
"language is not just a means of communication, it is a reservoir of memory, heritage and tradition"
1.Barca
2.The Sky has no borders
3.Cetus
4.Mira – Waltz for Beritan
Botanics Promo Showreel
An overview of several productions at the Royal Botanic Garden, and Old College Quad produced and composed by Dee Isaacs
Watching
An opera about sleeplessness
Sunrise
String Ensemble
The Universal Soul
For the children in Ritsona Camp, Greece
Windows on the world 2023
You know how this is?
Dorchester Abbey
Schola Cantorum Oxford
Going Somewhere on Trains
String Ensemble extract from Musical Hats
Musical Hats in the Gambia
Gnawa
For mixed ensemble – pipes, 3 drum kits, string, trombone, piano
The Windmills of Leros
Cellos for Change
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Ancient mariner rough cut film
From the dead woman – Conference of the Birds
Dee Isaacs /Pablo Neruda
Festus - Chamber Opera- 10 minute promo