Fiona Rutherford: Music BA(Hons) graduate
Fiona studied Music Composition with Community Practices at Dartington College of Arts and graduated with a First this year. She plays the harp which she learnt in her native Edinburgh, studying with top tutors Isobel Mieras and Savourna Stevenson.
Fiona quickly discovered a love of composing for the instrument and her recent pieces represent an eclectic musical taste which has been well nurtured whilst studying at Dartington. For her Contextual Enquiry Project, at the start of her third year, Fiona interviewed a number of Scottish writers, including author and poet Janet Paisley, with a view to setting some their work to music, and she subsequently composed music for a number of poems.
Since completing her course, Fiona returned to Edinburgh and immediately started composing music for harp for a new production of ‘Romeo and Juliet' which is being performed by ‘Nonsense Room Productions' now, for three weeks, at the Rosslyn Chapel, as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Fiona is also performing the music each night.
Fiona will continue to teach the harp and perform as well as composing. In 2007 she composed the music for the film ‘The Inheritance', a short Scottish ‘road movie' and the first film written by the actor/writer Tim Barrow; and made with a budget of £5,000. The film received a BIFA Raindance award and much other critical acclaim. Fiona has been commissioned to write the music for Tim's second film which is due to be shot in May 2009.
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