Kerry is a freelance composer, performer and educator based in London. She specialises in contemporary vocal music and music-theatre with a twist of pop, jazz, folk, world music and everything in between...

Her choral music is published by Oxford University Press and Faber Music and is released on Boreas Music. She has a PhD in Composition from the University of York. Her vocal trio The Song of Doves ended the national memorial service to commemorate the victims of London's July 7th 2005 bombings and went out live on the BBC as well as being heard on all national news stations and featuring on Radio 4's Today Programme. Her music has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Classic FM, and BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, and has been heard at LSO St Luke's, the Royal Academy of Art, York Minster, Westminster Cathedral, Wigmore Hall and the South Bank. In 2009 she wrote and directed a large-scale music-story-theatre work for children with disabilities, performed at the V&A Museum of Childhood. She has also worked in theatre music with Kazzum and Authentic Artist Collective.

Kerry was one of ten UK artists selected this year to participate in the PRSF's New Music Incubator, a creative exchange with ten Swedish musicians.

Performers of her work include juice, Halcyon, Nicholas Clapton, Psappha, Black Hair, Joyful Company of Singers, Jane Manning and the Hilliard Ensemble. Her music has been performed nationally and in Australia, Germany, Japan and Portugal. In 2005 she premiered a large-scale visual-music-theatre work, sedna stories, which was a collaboration with a visual artist and electronica artist.

Kerry is a member of the Music Orbit team, and curates mO's Gobsmack, an experimental vocal night in London.

Performing work

Kerry is also a member of the a cappella trio juice, who perform funky, vibrant new music drawing on world music, jazz, folk and pop. They have performed internationally and been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4. Her work for juice has been heard at the ENO, fuseleeds, York Spring Festival, Latitude Festival, the Huddersfield Festival of Contemporary Music, the Spitz and Cargo.

She also co-founded the chamber-jazz/classical collective DOLLYman, sings dark jazz with Metamorphic and has recently launched her solo looped-based alt-folk solo project, You Are Wolf.

Education

Kerry is heavily involved in music education, outreach and teacher-training: she teaches composition and singing at Junior Trinity, and works regularly for Live Music Now and Wigmore Hall. She has done much academic work inspiring students in the fields of experimental vocal music and composition, led large-scale projects for Drake Music and Aldeburgh Young Musicians, is a Key Tutor on the Sound and Music Composition Summer School, and has also animateured for English Pocket Opera, Isle of Dogs Music, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival Education, Sing Up and more.