Hi – I’m Kit.

I’m a composer and producer from Scotland. I make sounds and scores, often working collaboratively and across disciplines.

I’m currently writing for the London Symphony Orchestra as part of the 2025-26 Helen Hamlyn Panufnik Composers’ Scheme.

I write music about the natural world, landscapes, environments, echoes, nostalgia, light, memory, time, and also electronics and information and interconnectedness, but also—

—with an element of melting, morphing, sparking, glitching, dissolving, combined with a feeling of homesickness, displacement, recollection, but—

—it’s also faded, and glowing, and careful, but also kinda chaotic and wild and a bit of a scratchy mess, in a way that seems familiar and fragile (like a song you heard a long time ago), but also strange and distant, and sometimes a bit scary, alarming, disconcerting (like a horror film), and sometimes it’s all—

—very balanced and calm (like a radio crackling with white noise), and sometimes it’s almost falling apart, and it’s full of chords that feel just right, except they all seem to belong to different worlds.

Some of my recent work has been inspired by seagulls, séances, constellations, cassettes, tides, topological insulators, felt, film grain, fractals, geometry, glaciers, metamodernism, mania, the Overground, entropy, rosemary, rain, algae, birch trees, motion, botanical gardens, empty space, ghosts, white noise, folk songs, vocoders, materiality, stained glass, lobsters, ice crystals, Ordnance Survey maps, tape saturation, oatcakes, kaleidoscopes, dance, unrequited love, and radioactivity.

I’ve worked with, or written for, or made music that’s been played or conducted by the Ligeti Quartet, Antonio Pappano, EXAUDI, John Luther Adams, Erin Snape, the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, the Brompton Quartet, Ben Smith, Sophie Wright, Elisa Tombazi, Shaper/Caper, Richard Baker, Jack Sheen, Neil Luck, Audrey Wu, the Univ Players, and Yotham Ben Yami, amongst others.

I studied composition and electronic music as a scholar at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama; I graduated with a first class honours degree in 2024. I was taught composition by Hollie Harding, Laurence Crane, and Julian Philips, and electronic music by Elif Yalvaç and Ieva Vaiti.

In 2024, I was proud to win Guildhall’s Ian Horsburgh Memorial Prize for my orchestral piece, The Players Nearest The Fire Exist. In 2025, I won the National Centre for Early Music’s Young Composers Award; my piece Molten Kaleidoscope was performed at the love:Handel festival by the Brook Street Band and broadcast on BBC Radio 3.