Jane Dickson is a Glasgow-based composer whose work questions notions of virtuosity and methods of production, particularly within the apparatus of opera. Questioning what constitutes the operatic voice and finding a virtuosity specific to the material is fundamental to her work. Her distilled musical language has involved developing distinctive approaches to modality and pitch inflection, and exploring microtonal possibilities; occasionally employing subtle live electronics and pure tones to unsettle and disrupt. Performances and broadcasts include BBC Tectonics, BBC Radio 4, ORF, LSO St. Luke’s and La Monnaie | De Munt.

Image: ‘Are These Waves’, Jane Dickson