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 STEVENS & POUND 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. Stevens & Pound have appeared as concerto soloists with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Northern College of Music and Sinfonia Cymru. |  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.” 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. Collaborations include Robert Macfarlane, Leafcutter John, Hayden Thorpe and Mark Cocker. |
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 2023: SEASONS FOR CHANGE 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 - Seasons for Change - with improvised percussion commissioned by Sky Arts |  2022: LEEDS UNIVERSITY ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Delia curated 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: FROZEN IN TIME 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 |
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Outreach & Education
 RNCMASSOCIATE ARTIST Postgraduate Classical Percussion External Examiner, Masterclass, guest panel speaker |  University of LeedsPERCUSSION TEACHER University of Leeds (current) |  Leeds ConservatoireSENIOR LECTURER (2018-2022) Classical Percussion Reflective Practice Module |
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 NYOCREATIVE LEAD AND CURATOR |  NCOCREATIVE LEAD / PERCUSSION TUTOR |  Live Music NowMUSIC IN THE COMMUNITY Pupil referral units, special needs schools, care homes, mental health wards, youth centres |
 Alder HeyMUSICIAN IN RESIDENCE 3 years specialising on Oncology ward plus the Paediatric Neurology and Orthopaedic Wards |  British CouncilUK GUEST PANELLIST Youth Dialogue - II International Seminar of Music and Social Transformation (Columbia) |  MMUGUEST LECTURER PGCE Music course |
 Guildhall School of Music and DramaGUEST LECTURER Orchestral Artistry Series |  Sound and Music Summer SchoolCREATIVE TUTOR Creativity in collective musical composition workshops |  YCATGUEST SPEAKER |
 Aldeburgh Young MusiciansCREATIVE COURSE LEADER Courses: Music & Poetry, Re-imagining Folk Music, Advanced Rhythm, Steve Reich |  CBeebiesGUEST ARTIST Yolanda Brown's Band Jam - Kabantu episode |
aRTISTS
 Leafcutter John |  Hayden Thorpe |  Portico Quartet |
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 Rioghnach Connolly |  New Order |  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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