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Projects

Upcoming & Ongoing
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This Machine

A new monodrama for Mezzo-Soprano Rosie Middleton and chamber ensemble: This Machine is women’s bodies, their bodies of knowledge, the mechanisms of medicine, and tools made to treat and teach. World premiere February 2027.

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An ongoing collaboration with astrophysicist Roger Davies, particle physicist Brian Foster & author Andrew Robinson. Including works developed with violinist Linda Jankowska, exploring the legacy of Einstein's ideas, current research, and his time in Oxford.

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Onomatopoedia Vol.1

A collaboration with voice artist Emma Clarke exploring what happens when our embodied experiences and human sensory experience of sound and language come in contact with AI and virtual space. New work in development.

Previous Projects
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A new opera based on the life and work of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, pioneering advocate of preventative medicine and inoculation in England. Part of a 3-year collaboration with Immunologist Professor Paul Klenerman, funded by the Wellcome Trust.

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A composition project and public workshop performance with members of an inflammatory bowel disease patient group and immunological researchers at the University of Oxford.

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A surrealist response to increasing anxieties about emerging technologies, with new realtime machine listening tool PRiSM Musical Audio Gesture Recogniser (AGR). In an imagined future, the runaway effects of AI combine with advances in nanotechnology and gene modification to produce a truly different generation of children. But whose responsibility is it? And what should be done?

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A work inspired by the movement and iconography of circus arts following a year-long programme with the London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO). Commissioned by the London Philharmonic Orchestra Young Composer Programme.

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Written for and performed by the doctors and researchers who led the pandemic consortium ISARIC4C during COVID-19. Following a series of interviews about their musical history and experience of being at the frontline of pandemic research, the work for bagpipes, voice, piano and strings was performed and recorded by the doctors and researchers.

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#MusicSaysDataSavesLives brought together 5 composers with health research projects in the North of England. The collaborative teams presented works written about a new stroke classification tool for paramedics, data flow for family support workers, ambulatory care experiences, patient data readability across different software, and the hub itself. 

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A 3-year collaborative project with Oxford University Professor in Immunology Paul Klenerman, involving a schools project, opera, and public programme. Participants and audiences explored the science and history of immunology through creativity, music and play.

©2026 by Zakiya Leeming

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