Carmel is a Manchester based composer working predominantly within electronic DIY, classical and theatre music. She is currently working on a second EP to be released with PRAH in 2025 as well as a Chamber Opera for Buxton International Festival 2025. She is also one half of Bothy: a Manchester based organisation providing free rehearsal space and support for classical and art music in Manchester.
She released her debut EP We Get What We Get and We Don’t Get Upset in 2022 with PRAH recordings. She was a 2021 recipient of the Jerwood Live Art Award, a 2020 nominee for the Ivor Novello Rising Star Award and a 2019 recipient of the Rushworth Composing Prize with the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
She has performed on Elizabeth Alker’s Northern Drift Radio 3 show in June 2022 as well as supporting Anna Meredith on her November 2021 UK tour and at the Barbican at the end of April 2022. Her music has regularly been played on BBC radio 6 music and BBC radio 3.
Carmel also performs with other artists with mostly backing vocals, live electronics, guitar and keys. She is currently playing with She Drew the Gun and Marco Woolf. She has previously performed as part of Bunny Hoova’s band, including a live session on Marc Riley’s radio 6 show and multiple European and UK tours.
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Carmel studied composition with Gary Carpenter at the RNCM in Manchester, and is now an associate member of the college. Outside of electronic music she has written concert hall commissions for ensembles including Liverpool Philharmonic ensemble 10/10, Manchester Camerata, Laura Bowler, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Das Neue Ensemble, Galvanize Ensemble, Equilibrium Quartet and more.
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Carmel is also one half of Bothy, a group looking to create sustainable working and rehearsal spaces for musicians in Manchester. (Please do get in touch if you would like to know more. Musicians / space owners / developers / anyone who’s interested.)
Projects:
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Inevitable (Opera)
(Jul 2025, composer)
Buxton International Festival
Director - Marcus Desando
Librettist - Josh Overton
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She Drew the Gun: Album Tour UK
(Feb 2025, Keys+BVs)
Three Sisters (theatre)
(Feb - April 2025, rehearsal MD)
Sam Wanamaker theatre
Director - Caroline Steinbeis
Writer - Anton Chekhov
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She Drew the Gun
Instore tour Nov 2024
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Nation (theatre)
(Aug 2024, composer)
Roundabout at Summerhall
Director - Sam Ward
Writer - Sam ward
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Actions Speak Louder
(May 2024)
Orchestra + electronics commission from Manchester Camerata as part of their Disruptors concert. Received a 5* review in Guardian Observer.
SHED: Exploded View (theatre)
(Feb-March 2024, composer)
Royal Exchange Theatre
Director - Atri Banerjee
Writer - Phoebe Eclair-Powell
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Enter Vivian
Part of the Phillip Glass Referactions EP released by Orange Mountain Music and commissioned by PRS, this track takes inspiration from the Phillip Glass piece of the same name. (Composer)
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Supremati Surf
(Dec 2023, producer)
Remix for the Band Inigo Montoya.
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MIF Dream Space Podcast theme music commission
(Jun 2023, composer)
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The Knotted Project: Forge Festival
(Jan-Feb 2023)
Composer for 4 short youth led theatre pieces performed as part of a weekend festival at Windermere Jetty Museum.
We Were Promised Honey
Sam Ward’s thought provoking solo show that takes a realistic approach to the future is touring in Spring 2023 having had a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe in and Soho Theatre in 2022. (Composer)
SWIM
Liz Richardson’s heartfelt show about loss and wild swimming will be touring again in Spring 2023 with live score. (Composer / Performer)
Birthday Card For A Stranger
Joint commission from Manchester Camerata and RNCM to mark the 50th anniversary of both institutions. (Composer)
Nwando Ebizie - The Swan
Keys and BVs for the HCMF performance of Nwando Ebizie’s The Swan. (Instrumentalist)
motherEarth International: Better Late Than Never
An international collaboration led by ThisEgg creating a dance film that highlights specific effects of the climate emergency which was screened at COP27. (Composition Lead)
Bunny Hoova tour (France - Oct 2022)
(Instrumentalist)
Marco Woolf tour (UK - Sept 2022)
(Instrumentalist)
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