Amy Crankshaw

Amy Crankshaw’s music has been described as having “a real feeling of ecstasy” (Planet Hugill); “carrying images and sensations” (Ôlyrix); and as “an act of love” (Opera Now). 

Amy has worked internationally with leading ensembles, festivals and organisations such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the Austrian Ensemble for New Music, Contemporary Music for All (CoMA), Deutsche Grammophon, Radio France, Festival Précences, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, ISCM World New Music Days and the South African Music Rights Organisation.

Amy was selected for the London Symphony Orchestra’s Soundhub scheme (2023-24) and is the recipient of the RCS Muriel Dawson Award, the Priaulx Rainier Composition Prize, and second prize in SAMRO’s Overseas Scholarship Competition. 

Following her participation in the London Symphony Orchestra’s Helen Hamlyn Panufnik Composers’ Scheme, Amy has been awarded a 10-minute commission by the LSO to be premiered at the Barbican in 2028.

Amy holds a DMus in Composition from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Her doctoral research explored ways of composing sensoria, embodiment, ecology, and other-than-human ways of thinking. She holds an MA in Opera Making and Writing from GSMD and previously studied composition at the South African College of Music (MMus, BMus).