Tutors
Carla Rees is an alto and bass flute and contemporary music specialist. She is artistic director of rarescale and has performed as a recitalist throughout the UK, including at the Edinburgh Festival, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, and Proms Composer Portraits, and in several tours to Europe and the USA. Recent performances include a recital at the British Flute Society Convention in Manchester, and with rarescale at the Sonic Circuits Festival in Washington DC, Spark Festival in Minneapolis, San Francisco Chamber Wind Festival and in recitals in London and France. She works with composers to develop new alto and bass flute repertoire, and has given over 200 premiere performances. She has recorded for EMI, Capstone, rarescale records and Metier, in addition to soundtracks for films shown on British and International television. Carla teaches the flute at Royal Holloway, University of London, and has given masterclasses and workshops at many of the world’s leading universities and conservatoires, including the Royal Academy of Music in London, The Juilliard School in New York and UCLA, CalArts and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She is assistant editor of Pan, the Journal of the British Flute Society, and also works as a photographer, with work published in Europe, New Zealand and the USA.
Originally trained as a biochemist, Michael Oliva is now a composer, with a fondness for writing operas and music for electronics and woodwind. He is rarescale’s composer in residence and performs regularly with them in the UK and the United States, and also runs madestrange opera, a company dedicated to producing new forms of the genre for modern audiences. With madestrange he has premiered his multimedia operas Black & Blue at BAC in 2004 and Midsummer in 2005, and The Girl Who Liked to be Thrown Around, presented as a work in progress in Scotland in 2006 and in full production in London at the Tęte a Tęte opera Festival in 2007, and at the Grimeborn Festival at the Arcola Theatre in 2008. As well as over 40 theatre scores, Michael’s works include Xas-Orion for oboe/cor anglais and electronics, Into the Light for oboe/cor anglais and piano (both recorded by Paul Goodey on his CD New Ground), Torso for wind orchestra, Cyclone for wind quintet with piano, a piece for large ensemble and electronics The Speed of Metals, Night Crossing for wind trio with computer and Apparition and Release for quartertone alto flute and electronics. Michael also teaches composition with electronics at the Royal College of Music, where he is Area Leader for Electroacoustic Music, lectures in music technology at Imperial College, London and researches and publishes on the use of interactive video systems in opera.
Originally trained as a biochemist, Michael Oliva is now a composer, with a fondness for writing operas and music for electronics and woodwind. He is rarescale’s composer in residence and performs regularly with them in the UK and the United States, and also runs madestrange opera, a company dedicated to producing new forms of the genre for modern audiences. With madestrange he has premiered his multimedia operas Black & Blue at BAC in 2004 and Midsummer in 2005, and The Girl Who Liked to be Thrown Around, presented as a work in progress in Scotland in 2006 and in full production in London at the Tęte a Tęte opera Festival in 2007, and at the Grimeborn Festival at the Arcola Theatre in 2008. As well as over 40 theatre scores, Michael’s works include Xas-Orion for oboe/cor anglais and electronics, Into the Light for oboe/cor anglais and piano (both recorded by Paul Goodey on his CD New Ground), Torso for wind orchestra, Cyclone for wind quintet with piano, a piece for large ensemble and electronics The Speed of Metals, Night Crossing for wind trio with computer and Apparition and Release for quartertone alto flute and electronics. Michael also teaches composition with electronics at the Royal College of Music, where he is Area Leader for Electroacoustic Music, lectures in music technology at Imperial College, London and researches and publishes on the use of interactive video systems in opera.