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LYDIA GARDINER
COMPOSER & MUSICIAN
Lydia Gardiner is a composer and singer from Perth, Australia. Her work as a composer focuses on developing a harmonic language that uses tonality in a novel and distinctive way, combined with careful manipulation of timbre to evoke image to create a communicative link between herself, the performer, and the listener. She holds a bachelor’s degree with first class honours in Music Composition from the University of Western Australia and is currently based in The Hague, where she commenced a Master of composition at the Royal Conservatoire in 2023 and is the recipient of the Holland and Excellence Scholarships from the Conservatoire.
“To Gardiner’s A New Ceremony of Carols, Sonus Angelorum brought the same stylistic versatility and beauty of sound to the new work as they had to its elder. In composing for the choir, Gardiner—who also doubled (tripled!) as choral singer and soloist in the work—more than equalled the work of her predecessor, building on and expanding the harmonic language and stylistic diversity set before her.”
Limelight Magazine on A New Ceremony of Carols