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P r o j e c t s
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 Delia collaborates with BBC Folk Musician of the Year triple nominee, harmonica virtuoso Will Pound for a new duo reimagining the folk music which inspires classical composers |  Aurora Percussion Duo "superb" **** The Financial Times Winners of Royal Over-Seas League 2012 and Park Lane Group Artists, the Aurora Percussion Duo is an award-winning chamber ensemble; performance highlights include 3 concert tours to China including Beijing's Forbidden Concert Hall plus UK appearances at Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Purcell Room and Cambridge International Music Festival. |  ConunDrums “A toe-tapping challenge to the unthinking extension of artificial intelligence running our lives” Evan Davis, BBC R4 Delia is the founder and Artistic Director of ConunDrums: interactive counter-concerts embedded in conversation, curated for percussion and centred around big questions: AlgoRhythms explores music and AI in concert. |
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 Kabantu "immaculate five-part harmonies...a rousing display of fine musicianship" **** The Guardian Kabantu hails from Manchester, unraveling new marriages of music from around the globe. Highlights include winning the Royal Over-Seas League Competition 2017, BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, BBC Free Thinking Festival, Lucerne Festival, Cambridge Folk Festival and collaborations with Manchester Camerata, BBC Singers and Sinfonia Cymru. |  Propellor Ensemble “An ensemble who cross the worlds of folk, classical, electronic and experimental music. It twists and turns through different sound worlds. An intriguing project.” Aidan O'Rourke (LAU) Propellor are a twelve-piece daring, cross-genre ensemble of multi-instrumentalists from a variety of musical backgrounds who create audio-visual performances mapping our collective experience of the natural world. |
SOLO
 2023: Delia is Co-Guest Director with Sinfonia Cymru and violinist Simmy Singh for a reimagination of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons as a double concerto with improvised percussion |  2022: Delia is Artist-in-Residence at Leeds University where she has been commissioned to curate 3 concerts/web-talks in tandem with academics in the music, science and tech departments to celebrate the opening of the Bragg Centre for Materials Research Building. Concert 1: Metals Commission composer Damien Harron plus Aurora Percussion Duo feat. guest percussionist Jason Huxtable Concert 2: Multiscale Modelling Commission folk harmonica player Will Pound & Kabantu Concert 3: AlgoRhythms |  2019: 5-date Germany Concerto Tour - Lausitzer Philharmonie/Ewa Struinska (Dorman) |
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 2016: Krakow Last Night of the Proms: Concerto Soloist - Beethoven Academy Orchestra/Daniel Smith (Dorman/Rimsky-Korsakov/Anderson) |  2014: RNCM Gold Medal Winner/Solo Wigmore Hall Recital |  2012: RNCM Concerto Competition Winner: (Dorman) RNCM Symphony Orchestra, RNCM Concert Hall/Carlos Del Cueto |
 2008 & 2010: BBC Young Musician of the Year Category Finalist |
Contemporary
 2021 BBC Proms at Royal Albert Hall: House Band |  Regular guest percussionist for leading Manchester-based contemporary music ensemble Psappha |  Delia is the Principal Percussionist of York-based new ensemble, Dark Inventions. She regularly records and performs with the group, championing new music and commissions, particularly from British composers, recording 3 albums to date with them |
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 Manchester International Festival 2017 Delia collaborated with composer Samson Young in a performance residency at the Manchester International Festival in a live radio broadcast alongside actors, foley artists and ensemble |  London Sinfonietta Academy: Principal Percussion |
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Outreach & Education
 Senior Lecturer in Percussion & Module Coordinator/Lecturer: Classical Reflective Practice Module |  UK Guest Panellist for Youth Dialogue - II International Seminar of Music and Social Transformation organised by Filarmónica Joven de Colombia. Innovation in music and the creation of new experiences for the public. Musicians as Creative Entrepreneurs. |  Postgraduate Classical Percussion External Examiner, Masterclass, guest panel speaker, specialist rhythm workshops |
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 Guest lecturer on the PGCE Music course |  Guest Lecturer: Orchestral Artistry Series |  Creativity in collective musical composition workshops |
 Percussion tutor since 2017 |  Creative Tutor |  Guest Speaker |
 3-year Musician-in-Residence specialising on Oncology ward (children with cancer) plus Paediatric Neurology Ward (brain injuries) and the Orthopaedic Ward |  DaDa Fest, Pupil referral units, special needs schools, care homes, mental health wards, youth centres |  Courses: Music & Poetry, Creative Rearrangements, Re-imagining Folk Music, Advanced Rhythm, Steve Reich |
 Yolanda Brown's Band Jam - Guest Artist with Kabantu |
ARTISTS
 Portico Quartet |  Rioghnach Connolly |  New Order |
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 Tim Burgess (The Charlatans) |  Gaz Coombes (Supergrass) |  Maddy Prior MBE (Steeleye Span) |
 Cathal Smyth (Madness) |  Beth Orton |  Daughter |
 James |  Dutch Uncles |  Temples |
 Hannah James |  Sura Susso |  Rae Morris |
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