Pernille is a Norwegian/Irish composer based in London. Her music explores a diverse range of musical styles, often inspired by the vivid landscapes of rural Norway and other natural images. She has previously drawn upon the vocal traditions of the Sami as inspiration for her cello solo, Shadows which was performed live on air for Unity 101 Radio. Pernille has experimented with the natural music of gibbon song alongside ‘human’ music in her piece Rhapsody for Gibbons, a collaborative project with Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre.
The winner of the GCNA Franco Proposal Contest, her two pieces for solo carillon Moonglades were premiered at the GCNA annual congress in Massachusetts and are being toured across the USA by Joey Brink. Pernille’s other notable prizes include the British Double Reed Society Composition Competition Under-19 Prize for which she was commissioned to write a cor anglais solo (Embers) for Henry Clay. Her Jazz Sextet Responsibility received an Honourable Mention in the Composers Concordance Annual Composition Competition and she was a three time Martin Read Foundation Young Composer, receiving commissions for their Festival of Contemporary Music. She has recently been commissioned to write music for the Budleigh Salterton Music Festival.
Pernille is currently in her final year at the Royal Academy of Music where she has a scholarship to study composition with Helen Grime. She is a former pupil of Morgan Hayes and Dr Pande Shahov and studied with James MacMillan and Oscar Bettison at the first Cumnock Tryst Summer School.