Greg Harradine
Composer
I am a composer and musician with a passion for working creatively with others.
I work mainly with theatre productions and vocalists, but also with dance companies, choirs, festivals, community groups, film-makers and instrumental ensembles. I compose in a variety of styles, from folk to orchestral to electronic, writing both instrumental music and songs (including lyrics). I sometimes perform live on piano or guitar in theatre productions and with choirs and singers at venues across the UK. Have a listen to some of my music or check out some scores to get a better idea of what I do.
I recently wrote the libretto and music for a new promenade opera, Drifting Dragons, performed around various high streets in South London and also at Arcola Theatre’s Grimeborn opera festival. Earlier this year I created an audio tour of Treorchy, South Wales, with Theatr Iolo, and I worked with Soho Theatre on their fantastic Soho Young Playwrights project. I created the music and sound design for You, Me and Everything Else by Camisado Club which toured across the UK in 2015/16.
I was Resident Composer at Soho Theatre throughout 2014, after winning the Cameron Mackintosh Resident Composer Award. My work at Soho included composing for and performing in I Kiss Your Heart with Grammy Award-winning singer Lady Rizo. I was a finalist in the 2015 RSC songwriting competition and have recently composed music for Baseless Fabric, Camisado Club, Whispering Beasts, Theatre Uncut and Look Left Look Right. I graduated from Kingston University in 2010 with an MMus in Composing for Film and TV and a BMus (Hons) in Music Technology, First Class.
I’m always interested to discuss ideas and collaborations, so do get in touch.
Selected credits
SOLO PIANO WORKS
2022 The Library of Des Esseintes (video / score)
2022 Capriccio No. 1 (video / score)
2022 Winter Landscape (video / score)
2021 An Aggregate of Last Moments (video / score)
2021 Delete the Adjectives (video / score)
2021 The Moons of Pluto — V. Hydra (video / score)
2021 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (video / score)
2021 Oxen of the Sun (video / score)
2021 Nocturne for Oppenheimer (video / score)
2021 The Moons of Pluto — IV. Nix (video / score)
2021 Three ‘Profession’ Pieces (videos 1, 2 & 3 / score)
2021 The Moons of Pluto — III. Styx (video / score)
2021 Sub Specie Aeternitatis (video / score)
2020 The Moons of Pluto — II. Kerberos (video / score)
2020 The Moons of Pluto — I. Charon (video / score)
2020 In Search of Elphinstone (video / score)
2020 City of Regret: John Proctor’s Inevitable Demise (video / score)
2020 Praeludium Pentagonus (video / score)
2020 The curse is come upon me (video / score)
2020 The Standing Stones of Brodgar (video / score)
2020 The Aleph (video / score)
2020 Midnight in Argentina (video / score)
2020 Conflagration in D# minor (video / score)
2019 Mercury (as seen from a Bamboo Grove) (video / score)
2019 As My Beloved Writes Two Rooms Away (video / score / mp3)
2019 Triads (video / score / mp3)
2019 The Lassitude of Hal Incandenza (video / score)
2019 Canon No. 1, “Heat Death of the Universe” (video / score / mp3)
2019 The Muted Nostalgia… (video / score)
2019 Isle of the Dead (video / score)
2019 Elegy for a Rehearsal Room I Once Knew (video / score)
2019 Monomania (video / score)
2016 Three Chords for Calliope (video / score)
COMMISSIONS
2021 Waltz for Lyra (for flute & piano) (video)
2021 Last Journey to the Greensward (for flute & piano) (video)
2019 Incandenza Variations Kingston U3A Orchestra (orchestral piece)
2018 The Story of Henry Wicker MGSO4 Festival (suite for cello & piano)
2014 Letters to the Frontline Tacchi-Morris Arts Centre (dance work)
2014 Greet Again the Mountain Sing For Our Planet (2-part song)
2014 By Your Side Military Wives Choirs (SSA + piano)
FILM & ANIMATION
2010 Tribal Art: Ancient Tattoos in the Modern World Julie Bates
2010 Sliding Identities Alexandra Lerman
2010 Yaramayawho Blanca Martinez de Rituerto
CONCERT WORKS FOR ENSEMBLE
2020 Cloud, Castle, Lake for flute & piano (video / score)
THEATRE PRODUCTIONS
2016 Drifting Dragons Baseless Fabric
2016 Soho Young Playwrights Soho Theatre
2016 Dare to Reimagine Theatr Iolo
2015 You, Me & Everything Else Camisado Club
2015 King Mackerel Swanage Fish Festival
2015 Three Short Beckett Plays Whispering Beasts
2014 Rivers of London Look Left Look Right
2014 Theatre Uncut 2014 Tour Theatre Uncut
2014 I Kiss Your Heart Soho Theatre
2013 The Pardoner’s Tale By Moonlight Theatre
2013 East By Moonlight Theatre
2012 Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Never Heard Of It Productions
2012 The Taming of the Shrew By Moonlight Theatre
2012 Gormenghast: Titus Groan Blackshaw Theatre
2011 An Anthology of Images See It In Your Head
2010 Serendipity Cottage M.A.D.E Theatre
2010 Trojan Women Kingston University Theatre
2009 The Tempest Gap Rep Theatre
2009 Cabaret Voltaire Kingston University Theatre