Biography
Irish musician sølstrek is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and conductor living in Galway, West of Ireland.
She completed her BMus in violin and composition at City University, London and her MMus in conducting at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester. Before moving back to Ireland in 2018, she lived in London, Manchester and Berlin. Experiencing the cultural life of these cities shaped her musical aesthetic forever!
Fusing live elements of piano/keyboard/fiddle/whistles with contemporary sounds and beats, sølstrek has been honing a contemporary sound, which draws on the orchestral, ensemble and operatic music she has conducted over the years, as well as her deep roots in Irish traditional music.
Through her collaborations with noted theatre/opera directors such as Caitriona McLaughlin (The Chronic Identity Crisis of Pamplemousse, This Hostel Life ), Ben Barnes (Vagabones, Madama Butterfly), Walter Sutcliffe (Sweeney Todd, Threepenny Opera) and Enda Walsh (Bluebeard's Castle, The Second Violinist) sølstrek has honed her instinctive feel for how music underpins visual drama.
She brings this experience to her compositional work, and draws on her extensive first-hand knowledge of orchestral, contemporary and folk music to craft the perfect music for the project in hand.