Caroline Bordignon – composer

Caroline Bordignon is a Canadian composer and fine artist based in the UK.
Recently her work ‘Iridescent Flares III’ for orchestra and live painting was performed with the London Symphony as a composer on the 2019/2020 LSO Panufnik Composer’s Scheme. Currently she is a composer on the Psappha ‘Composing For,’ (viola) scheme 2020/2021. Significant commissions have included ‘Intertwined’ for singing solo viola by Katherine Clarke, appearing on Classic FM and TwoSet Violin; the second and third movements of ‘Incandescence’ for string quartet and live painting with the Equilibrium Ensemble at the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic; arrangements of Norwegian Folk Song for Susanna Solsrud, Soprano, in association with the Bergen National Opera, ‘Ultraviolet,’ for the 2020 Illuminate Women’s Music Series. She seeks to explore aspects of colour, light, space, time and ways in which these interrelate through visual and musical expression synaesthetically.

What has creating art meant to you over the last year?

Over the last year, creating art has been a wonderful way to express music through another medium while live performances came to a pause. I see many connections between the art forms and believe music and visual art can work together and influence one another. The artwork feeds creativity in different ways and this can only help bring fresh inspiration as a musician and or composer.