P r o j e c t s

Chamber Music 

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	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.
Percussionist for Supriya Nagarajan Founder and CEO of Manasamitra, a UK-based arts organisation with global reach. She is one of the most sought-after Carnatic vocalists in the UK and has performed around the world in India, Thailand, Cambodia and cities across Europe and the UK.	Propellor Ensemble 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. “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)

SOLO

2019: 5-date Germany Concerto Tour - Lausitzer Philharmonie/Ewa Struinska (Dorman)	Delia is the 2022 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	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 Music

Album recording - excerpts from BBC Prom	Guest Percussionist for leading Manchester-based contemporary music ensemble Psappha	BBC Singers Prom 2021 Delia joins as the Percussionist for a 4-piece "House Band" at the Royal Albert Hall alongside Experimental composer and turntablist Shiva Feshareki and the BBC Singers for a choral playlist colliding the Renaissance with the present day
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	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

Orchestral music

Outreach and 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
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
Masterclasses	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	Will Pound
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