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News, samples of, and links to, some of my music and information about me are below.
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A partial list of my compositions is here. Sheet music for some of them can be purchased from my shop.
News
May 2024 - Shortlisted for Sci-Fi London 48 hour Film Challenge
A First Move, a short film written by Danielle Spontak, scored by me and brought to life by an amazing crew across 48 hours in April 2024 has been shortlisted for Sci-Fi London 48 hour Film Challenge. You can watch the film here: A First Move
February 2024 - Longest Acoustic Music Live-Streamed Concert - Guinness World Record attempt
On the 23rd February, I joined several other musicians at the Brazilian Embassy in London in an event organised by the Donne Foundation to set a Guinness World Record™ for the “Longest Acoustic Music Live-Streamed Concert”. Collectively we played music by women and non-binary composers for a total of just over 26 hours. My set mainly featured my piano works (including two from Trinity’s piano syllabus) along with works from ABRSM’s piano syllabus by other female composers.
January - March 2024 Connect The Dots workshops, CoMA
I was selected to take part in CoMA’s Connect The Dots workshops. In early spring 2024, I learnt about writing for inclusive music groups and disabled musicians and I very much hope to be able to put what I learn into practice in the future.
December 2023 - Unfinished Business included on podcast and playlist
Track 5 of Perspectives has been selected to appear on the podcast Music, Music, Music. Additionally, will be featured on Spotify playlist Relaxing Piano Music created by Digitality Records for the next two months.
November 2023 - new piano music and release of scores
Perspectives, an album of 19 piano miniatures, was released to streaming platforms and Bandcamp on 23/11/23. Scores of the works are available to purchase from this website via my shop. Listen to the music here: Perspectives
October 2023 - Unfinished Business included on BBC Sounds The Sleeping Forecast
Track 5 of my forthcoming album, Perspectives, has been picked up by BBC Introducing and included on BBC Sounds The Sleeping Forecast, guided by Krishnan Guru-Murthy, 24.10.23.
September 2023 - Publication by Trinity College London
Two piano pieces, “Push Pull” and “Something For The Weekend” have been published by Trinity College London as part of their new Grade 6 and 7 piano syllabus.
July 2023 - Winner of the Renee B. Fisher Composer Award
My piano piece, “Bright Lights, Big City”, has won the high school category of the Renee B. Fisher Composer Award. In May 2025, I hope to travel to Connecticut, USA, to attend the piano competition and judge performances of my own work.
April 2023 - Premiere of The Other Side (film music short, orchestral)
My scoring of a short film by Kish Daniels has been selected to be shown and played with a live orchestra at Film Score Fest 2023 in St Paul, Minnesota, USA on 10th June 2023.
March 2023 - Premiere of Backwards Through Time (soprano and piano)
My settings of four Emily Dickinson poems for soprano and piano will be performed publicly for the first time by Lucy-Elston (soprano) and Laurence Panter in Warwick on Saturday 11th March. A recording of these works, along with other chamber music I have written, will be part of an album release at the end of 2023.
March 2023 - Playlisting of lullaby arrangements of Goldfinger and James Bond Theme Tune by BabyGoodnight
Two of my arrangements of James Bond music have been selected to appear on an album of lullabies released by BabyGoodnight. They can be found on Spotify and other streaming platforms. As of June 2023, they also appear on a DashGo playlist of pop songs as lullabies on Apple.
December 2022 - Shibil (film music short, orchestral)
3rd prize in the FFM Scoring Contest 2022 with music written for an excerpt of the Bulgarian film ‘Shibil’.
July 2022 - Noble Spirit (orchestral)
A winning entry in the Spirit competition run by The People’s Orchestra as part of their Commonwealth Community Music Initiative. Premiered in the Spirit Medley on Sunday 24th July 2022 at Birmingham’s 2022 Commonwealth Games Festival.
October 2021 - Happy Go Lucky (piano)
Selected by BBC Introducing and played on BBC Radio 3 on 25th October 2021 during an In Tune broadcast.
December 2019 - Summer Is Coming (song)
Chosen as a Fresh Fave by The Listening Post and reviewed by Mark and Louise Toal on Fresh On The Net.
December 2019 - True Love/Something Magical (song)
Airplay on Radio 1 Czechoslovakia.
The Other Side - selected for live premiere, Film Score Fest Minnesota 2023
Music To Picture
Shibil - Classical/ethnic 3rd prize winner, FFM Scoring Competition 2022
Songs, instrumentals, a chiptune musical and house music
Red As Ruby
Songs influenced by pop, jazz, folk, ambient and house including ‘Something Else’, finalist in Eon One-Take’s songwriting competition.
Alexandra Skevington
A growing catalogue of a range of compositions including ‘Happy Go Lucky’, a piano instrumental, which received airplay on BBC Radio 3 in October 2021.
lady sar5by
For lovers of house music and/or running.
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About me
Alexandra is an English composer writing music for a variety of musicians across several genres. Her works are illustrative and emotional with lyrical melodies being a key element.
Alexandra’s musical education focussed on performance. Writing was, if anything, discouraged. Not realising composition could be her career, she left music for several years but continued to write for herself. In 2017, Alexandra began sharing songs and house music under pseudonyms (Red As Ruby, lady sar5by) before finally starting to release instrumental music in her own name.
Since September 2023, two of Alexandra’s piano pieces have been on Trinity College London’s piano exam syllabus. Earlier in the year, Alexandra collaborated with filmmaker Kish Daniels to score his film ‘The Other Side’ which was selected for live performance at the Minnesotan Film Score Fest. In 2022, she received 3rd prize in FFM’s international film scoring competition and another work was selected for performance in the Spirit Medley at Birmingham’s 2022 Commonwealth Games Festival. Alexandra has been a finalist in the UKSC and Eon One-Take’s songwriting competitions and her music has been played on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 1 Czechoslovakia.
Alexandra is currently preparing several pieces for publication alongside writing new music.