Deborah Pritchard is an award-winning British composer whose music has been performed worldwide by ensembles including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, London Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Philharmonia, BBC Singers, Gesualdo Six, the Choir of New College Oxford and soloists including Natalie Clein OBE, Nicola Benedetti CBE and Tina Thing Helseth. She has been commercially released by NMC, Signum, BIS, Nimbus, Hyperion, Orchid Classics and Linn Records. As a synaesthetic composer her violin concerto Wall of Water, after paintings by Maggi Hambling, was performed at the National Gallery in 2015 by violinist Harriet Mackenzie and the English String Orchestra as Hambling exhibited, described by Gramophone as a ‘work that will take one’s breath away’. She also paints music and created a series of music maps for the London Sinfonietta, described in The Times as ‘beautifully illustrated…paying visual homage to those wonderful medieval maps of the world.’ Her new work Kandinsky Songs was premiered at the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing, China in 2024, and in 2026 trombonist Peter Moore will premiere her new trombone concerto Light Circle with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Deborah received her DPhil from Worcester College, University of Oxford, holding the tenure of Visiting Fellow at Keble College, Oxford from 2022-2023. She has spoken at both the RA and the United Nations, New York and received a British Composer Award in 2017.