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Tara Creme is a composer working across several genres, primarily concert and film/television.

Her own music for concert is direct and evocative, and is often inspired by other art forms — particularly visual art and poetry —, nature and spiritual/philosophical concepts. She has composed for musicians and ensembles of various sizes including Britten Sinfonia, Hebrides Ensemble, Voces8, Charles Owen and Onyx Brass.

Many of the films she has scored — drama, documentary and animation — have won awards and been broadcast on major television networks. Recent film work includes feature documentaries Your Fat Friend (2023) Seahorse, the Man who Gave Birth  (2019) and March for Dignity (2020) feature fiction My Friend the Polish Girl, (2019) and short Phyllida (2019). Last year BIFA named her in their Top Five Female Composers. Tara specialises in recording with live musicians, but has also written many electronic and sample-based scores, and often combines the two. She also created, performed and conducted a live ensemble score for Lotte Reiniger’s Cinderella animation, for an event in Nunhead Cemetery for Nunhead Film Festival in 2012.

Tara has had her music played on BBC Radio 3, Scala Radio and Soho Radio.

As a concert composer, Tara has written for small and large-scale ensembles, working recently with Voces8, Britten Sinfonia and Hebrides Ensemble. Her piano suite Approach (2019) was premiered by Charles Owen at New Walk Museum, in a commission for Leicester International Lunchtime Concert Series. She recently won the JAM Presidents Commission for her choral piece Gold from the Stone, following participation in their Masterclass Series with Voces8. This led to a premiere of The Song I Came to Sing in March 2023 for The Choir of Selwyn Chapel, Cambridge, Simon Hogan and Onyx Brass, conducted by Michael Bawtree. In August 2019 she was selected by Wild Plum Arts for a Made at the Red House residency at the Britten-Pears Foundation.

Her theatre work includes the music and sound design for Something Somatic, written by Simon Turley and directed by Jeff Teare for TheatreScience, People are Messy by Theatre of Debate as co-composer, and King Charles III for Tower Theatre. She has also created several music/visual art crossover pieces, as well as provided string arrangements for other artists.

Tara has sat on the Ivors Academy jury adjudicating music for television, is a BIFA voter and has taken part on panels / masterclasses for BFI, WFTV and ThinkSpace Education.

She is supported by Help Musicians and Vaughan Williams Foundation, and this year has received a DYCP grant from the Arts Council for ‘Developing an Oratorio’, leading to a large-scale oratorio about Joan of Arc with Britten Sinfonia and Helen Charlston. .