ABOUT RUFUS
Rufus Isabel Elliot is a composer living in Skye.
Rufus has written funerary music for doomed spaceships and orchestral music about rotting seaweed. It cares about honesty and openness. Its work is concerned with testimony, the conditions in which one speaks out, and how those stories are passed on.
It has recently enjoyed composing a new work for Tectonics Festival, collaborative work with KNOCKvologan Studies, Isle of Mull, and new works commissioned by the LSO for performance at LSO St Luke’s. Its two albums, A/am/ams (come ashore; turn over), and Three sexual pieces for solo violin were listed in the Top 50 Albums of the Year by The Quietus and The Wire.
Its music is ‘fluid and ambitious’ (The Wire), ‘stunningly intimate’ (The Quietus), and 'achingly fragile' (The Scotsman).
Rufus has worked with the likes of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, The Riot Ensemble, The Night With…, sound festival scotland, Red Note Ensemble, Magnetic North, Knockvologan Studies, ATLAS Arts, Drake Music, and the Nevis Ensemble. Rufus was a Sound and Music Composer-Curator in 2020, and trained in workshop facilitation with Tempting Failure during the coronavirus lockdown.
Photo by Jordan Young
