Composer Residency with the RSC
I’m delighted that Sarah is the chosen candidate. Sarah is an exciting composer who has the experience and theatrical instinct to gain a huge amount from this residency
Bruce O'Neil, Head of Music RSC
Sarah Llewellyn was the Cameron Mackintosh Composer in Residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company 2017-2019. In 2022 her music featured in the RSC’s 37 Plays project and in 2023 she was invited as a representative of the company to Winsdor Castle for a reception with the King and Queen celebrating Shakespeare.
Highlights at the RSC
A Royal Invitaion
Sarah's visit to Windsor Castle with the RSC
The Earthworks
An exciting and pulsating score created for RSC's commissioned play by Tom Morton
Musical Theatre: The Wind Singer
Jan 2019 a week of development on a new musical, an adaptation of William Nicholson's The Wind Singer, direction by Lotte Wakeham and musical direction Bruce O’Neil. Music by Sarah and lyrics by Teresa Howard
37 Plays
Music for RSC's 37 plays podcast
Transformations
A specially composed concert work inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses for the ‘Musical Transformations’ event. Performed with players from The Orchestra of the Swan and in house RSC musicians. It premiered in October in the beautiful Swan Theatre.
Myth
Original score contrasting jazzy transitions with deeper expansive themes. Kirsty Housley's play about the things we don’t want to see or say.
Music for RSC's film A Stitch in Time
Listen
Slow Transition extract from The Earthworks
Transformations - extract from concert piece - Piano & String fragments
Bed Scene extracts The Earthworks
Custard experiment extracts - The Earthworks -
Fast Transition - Earthworks
Myth Big Transitions Extracts
Transformations concert piece vocal extract
Jazzy transitions extracts - Myth
Sarah's blogs for the RSC
For a deeper insight into the residency so far do check out Sarah’s blogs on the RSC website:
Photo by Ian Jones
Three Tales From Ovid
Retold by Amber Hsu.
These tragicomic retellings of classic myths introduce young audiences to timeless tales of pride, unrequited love, and regret.
Sarah composed music and songs for the staged readings in The Swan in October. Directed by Alex Thorpe.
Sarah also worked with the Education and Literary departments and projects and she collaborated with the composer Mira Calix and director Angus Jackson on Coriolanus for the Royal Shakespeare Theatre.
The Cameron Mackintosh Resident Composer scheme is run by Mercury Musical Developments and the Musical Theatre Network.
R and D ‘Three Tales from Ovid’ Workshop June 2107 Photo by Sam Allard © RSC