Four new Soundhub Members Announced

We are pleased to announce the four composers who have been appointed to the LSO Soundhub Scheme for 2023/24. Amy Crankshaw, Delyth Field, Luke Mombrea and Jasmine Morris will each undertake an initial project at LSO St Luke’s to explore and develop their practice. Each member will be allocated a mentor to support them as they develop their project, and will have access to support from industry professionals, the Soundhub Community, LSO members and staff. Learn more about each of them below. 

Amy Crankshaw is a composer and orchestrator from South Africa, based in London. Her music has been described as having ‘a real feeling of ecstasy’ (Planet Hugill); ‘carrying images and sensations’ (Ôlyrix); and as ‘an act of love’ (Opera Now).  

Amy’s compositions have been performed internationally, with commissions by Radio France, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, South African Music Rights Organisation, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Ensemble Matters, and performances at Barbican Hall, La Scala Paris, Centre in the Square, Silk Street Theatre, Vorarlberg Museum, Festival Présences, Aix en Juin, Grahamstown National Arts Festival, and Bloomsbury Festival. She has held residencies with Académie du Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and the London City Orchestra. She was awarded the Priaulx Rainier Composition Prize in 2015 and second prize in the South African Music Rights Organisation’s Overseas Scholarship Competition in 2014.  

Amy studied composition at the South African College of Music, and is a current doctoral candidate (DMus) at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, funded by the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust and the Guildhall School Trust. 

Delyth Maiya Field is a composer interested in both instrumental writing and electronic music. She won the NCEM Young Composer Award in 2021 for her recorder quartet piece. In October 2023, she was selected for a scheme to write for the Magnetic Resonator Piano, an electronically augmented acoustic piano. She has participated in masterclasses with Gabriel Prokofiev and Toshio Hosokawa. She has produced the visual installation for MusicFest Aberystwyth, and has scored the short film Portrait, which will be released in January 2024.

Luke Mombrea is a composer originally from Oakland, California, now based in London. His music ranges from concert works drawing from minimalism, folk music and electroacoustic music, to generative spatial sound works, to scores for film and television.  

Luke’s scores can be heard in a variety of mediums. He has scored numerous award-winning short films, features, documentaries, television series, dance performances and art installations. His concert work has been performed internationally including performances by the Carducci Quartet, Santa Fe Symphony and players from the Los Angeles Philharmonic. 

He recently composed the score and sound design for Culver Current, a digital light sculpture commissioned by Los Angeles County. Luke also scored the digital art installation Night Wave, which was featured at Art Basel. Luke graduated with distinction from the Royal College of Music, London with a MMus in Composition. 

Jasmine Morris is a British/Japanese musician and composer based in London. She is studying at the Royal College of Music supported by the Kirby Laing Foundation, under the tutelage of Kenneth Hesketh and Catherine Kontz. She has been awarded multiple residencies and workshops (JACK Studio, Britten-Pears Young Artist, Dartington Music Festival, Luxembourg Composition Fellow) and prizes (BBC Young Composer).

Her work has premiered at the Barbican, Tate Modern, Aldeburgh Music Festival and King’s Place. Further commissions have come from the Riot Ensemble, Solem Quartet, CoMA and the Viktoria Mullova Ensemble. In 2020 Jasmine collaborated with musician Per Runberg on the album Astrophilia, released by the label nonclassical. She performs frequently as an electronic artist and has played various live sets in the UK, including a performance at the State 51 conspiracy (collaboration with nonclassical) and at Village Underground. 

LSO Soundhub is generously supported by Susie Thomson.