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Amber Priestley serves as Visiting Tutor in Composition at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, specializing in collaborative intersections between music and theatre. Her practice employs open-form scores to deconstruct fixed temporal structures, emphasizing performer-composer dialogues where musicians simultaneously engage in theatrical and musical execution.
Research focuses on experimental notation systems, visual score design, and material interactions between hand-drawn staves and symbolic markings. She treats paper as an active component in compositional processes, transforming scores into visual artifacts that directly influence performative interpretation. Recent works explore fluid temporal frameworks through collaborations with ensembles like Bozzini Quartet, London Sinfonietta, and EXAUDI.
Priestley's current film project 21,000 miles of searching (funded by PRS Foundation's The Open Fund) represents her fixed-media debut, developed with filmmaker David Lefeber and musicians Mira Benjamin and Beavan Flanagan. Recent commissions include works for LCO Soloists and performances at hcmf// and Tectonics Festival, demonstrating consistent engagement with leading contemporary music ensembles.
