LATEST NEWS
August 2017
Kate Ledger premieres Hidden Ceremonies 1 at Late Music York
September 2017
Diana Mathews performs Allah hu! at St. John’s, Wimbledon
September 2017
Bingham Quartet give world premiere of Geda’s Weavings at Late Music York
July 2017
Karen Wimhurst at Shaftesbury Fringe Festival
June 2017
As-salāmu ʿalaykum Bethlehem recording for Prima Facie
June 2017
Gulistan-e Nur featured on Australian documentary soundtrack
June 2017
Katherine Clarke performs Three Dances for Diana Nemorensis
June 2017
Premiere of ‘mimih’ at Kunstler Bei Wu Sculpture Park, Wessenberg
May 2017
SQUISH! at Greater Hartford Arts Council Panel Discussion
May 2017
Peter Sheppard Skaerved in Moretonhampstead Church & on TEDxBergen
May 2017
Lecture at Florida State University Centre, London
May 2017
Goldfield Ensemble Celebrate Nicola Lefanu’s 70th Birthday
April 2017
…ballare una passacaglia di ombre…on Lefanu’s BBC3 Composer of the Week
April 2017
Madeleine Mitchell and Nigel Clayton record Aurea Luce for Divine Art
April 2017
Gallery in the Arctic and Baltimore
April 2017
Extracts from The Rosegarden of Light on Channel 4 News
April 2017
Recording solo piano disc for Prima Facie
April 2017
Squish! at Columbia University, New York
March 2017
Dr K. Sextet performs Bell Music for St. Casimir at Late Music York
March 2017
BBC Radio 3 broadcast of Gulistan-e Nur: The Rosegarden of Light
March 2017
Squish! at Big Red for the Arts Gala, Infinity Theater, Hartford
March 2017
Contributor to PRSF Women Make Music Evaluation 2011-2016
March 2017
Squish! Three performances with students from the American uDeaf School in Connecticut
January 2017
NMSW ‘Angela Carter’ Commission at the Royal West of England Academy
January 2017
Afghanistan’s first women conductors lead performances from Gulistan-e Nur
January 2017
December 2016
November 2016
Squish! performed with ASL interpreter in Storrs, Connecticut
October 2016
Broken Wing performed in Tianjin, China
December 2016
Rusnė Mataitytė performs Songs for Rusnė in London
December 2016
Hällristningsområdet for Dan Styffe and Prima Facie
December 2016
SQUISH! Premiere in association with The American Deaf School
November 2016
Theo’s Lullaby for cor anglais and harp premieres in Salisbury
September 2016
Gallery broadcast on Radio 3 Breakfast Show
September 2016
September 2016
Peter Sheppard Skaerved plays Gallery in Vermont and New York
August 2016
British Music Collection Spotlight Article
August 2016
Rosegarden of Light on BBC Radio 3 Record Review
July 2016
Toccata Classics CDs receive excellent reviews
June 2016
Report from the British Museum
June 2016
The Rosegarden of Light European Tour
June 2016
Peter Shepperd Skaerved performs Bavad khair baqi! at the British Museum
May 2016
The Rosegarden of Light European Tour 2016
May 2016
PRSF Women Make Music Award for The Rosegarden
May 2016
Collaboration with artist Brian Graham
April 2016
Aster with Jenny Duck-Chong in Sydney
April 2016
Aurea Luce in Bristol and Stroud
April 2016
Frano Kakarigi performs A Not-So-Sonatine in Spain
April 2016
Four Jazz Portraits at Late Music York
March 2016
Lecture at the London College of Music
March 2016
Performances at the Women Composers Festival USA
February 2016
SCAW perform Owl of the Hazels in Buxton
January 2016
Excellent review of Toccata CD in Fanfare
January 2016
Finzi Trust Scholarship for Afghan orchestral work
January 2016
Ian Pace & Madeleine Mitchell at City University
January 2016
Cuatro Puntos perform Gulistan & Allah hu in Connecticut
January 2016
Sadie was born in 1965 in Adelaide, Australia.
Now based in Dorset, she works as a freelance composer across the UK and abroad. Her music has been performed internationally by some of the world’s top musicians with numerous radio and television broadcasts. Several CDs of her music (NMC, METIER, Sargasso, Toccata Classics, BML, Cadenza, Clarinet Classics) have been released to critical acclaim. Her works are published by UYMP, ABRSM and Recital Music.
Sadie is currently Composer-in-Residence with the American ensemble Cuatro Puntos. During 2015-16, she is working with them and the Afghanistan National Institute of Music on a ground-breaking collaboration - Gulistan-e Nur: The Rosegarden of Light Project.
Welcome to her website.
