Miriam Mackie has focussed on composition in the last fifteen years. In that time she has produced work for voices, organ, piano, chamber ensembles and orchestra, which have been performed at venues including St Brides, Fleet Street; St James’s, Piccadilly; Southwark and Hereford Cathedrals; Morley College; Selwyn College, Cambridge; Trinity Laban Conservatoire, and Kings Place.

In 2005 she began chamber choir Illumination with Kerry Prest, who recorded some of her work, And we rejoiced. The choir was also conducted by Janette Ruocco, and most recently by Alexander Campkin. In 2013 Miriam and Priya Bose formed Collaborations, an informal network of composers and performers, promoting concerts spotlighting new work alongside established repertoire.

Performances include:

  • Anybody there for piano, part of a lockdown project, was performed by Rolf Hind at Kings Place in October 2020.
  • Same Place for flute, cello and piano, performed by the Marsyas Trio at the 1901 Arts Club, Waterloo, 2019
  • Preces and Responses commissioned by the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music for Choral Evensong, broadcast live on Radio 3, 2018
  • Sappho Fragments for six sopranos, commissioned by Philomel and given several performances by them, 2017 – 18
  • Modern Times: the life and death of Simone Weil Jillian Bain-Christie (soprano), Rosie Bergonzi and Catherine Herriott (percussion) at Morley College, 2017
  • Piano concerto Lurches Away, selected and performed by Rolf Hind with CoMA London Ensemble, directed by Gregory Rose, 2015
  • Kept Burning for organ, with Thomas Trotter at St George’s, Hanover Square, 2015
  • Still in this world Jan Goodkin (soprano), Vincent Lawlor (baritone), Catherine Herriott (piano) at St James’s Piccadilly, 2014

Miriam studies with Ed Nesbit, and has attended courses with Gerald Barry, Stephen Montague and Simon Holt.

Latest:

Elevation, for chamber orchestra, is to be performed by the London Contemporary Chamber Orchestra on Saturday 3rd July, 2021. See Concerts for details.


Piano miniature Anybody There, played by Rolf Hind on Facebook, in response to his lockdown project inviting composers to write short pieces for him, arising from their time at home.
https://www.facebook.com/rolf.hind/videos/10158951338359410/