Jasmin Kent Rodgman

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Jasmin Kent Rodgman
Origin Manchester, England
Genres Classical, experimental
OccupationComposer
Instruments
Years active2011-Present
Labels NMC Recordings
Member of Manchester Collective
Website https://www.jkr-music.com/

Jasmin Kent Rodgman is a British-Malaysian composer based in London. She is the current Co-Artistic Director of the contemporary music ensemble Manchester Collective. [1]

Education and career

Rodgman studied music composition at the University of Manchester receiving a BMus and MMus. [2]

In 2018 she was appointed as a British Council + PRS Foundation Musician-in-Residence: China, where she lived and composed in Lanzhou, China. [3] In 2018 she was also selected as a Jerwood Composer for the London Symphony Orchestra. [4] Her piece Idol Lost was performed by the orchestra later on October 6th 2018. [5]

She has scored numerous theatre productions including Olivier Award-nominated Paradise Now! (Bush Theatre) [6] , Julius Caesar (Royal Shakespeare Company) [7] and Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare's Globe Theatre). [8]

Rodgman is active in music for film, having worked on Prisoner C33 [9] and Harm [10] which were both produced by the BBC. [11]

She first worked with Manchester Collective composing the piece four-person simulation to be performed alongside Steve Reich's Different Trains. On June 12 2024, she was announced has the Co-Artistic Director of the chamber ensemble Manchester Collective. [12]

She releases music under the classical music label NMC Recordings [13] .

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  3. ↑ "Jasmin Kent Rodgman: Musicians in Residence China". PRS for Music Foundation. Retrieved 2024-11-03.
  4. ↑ "Jerwood awards funding to LSO Jerwood Composer+". Jerwood. Retrieved 2024-11-03.
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  7. ↑ "Latest Press Releases | Royal Shakespeare Company". www.rsc.org.uk. Retrieved 2024-11-03.
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  9. ↑ Nicholson, Rebecca (2022-05-01). "Prisoner C33 review – Trevor Nunn directs a wretched, wonderful Wilde". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2024-11-02.
  10. ↑ Akbar, Arifa (2021-05-24). "Harm review – savage brilliance and envy in an Instagram blizzard". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2024-11-02.
  11. ↑ "Jasmin Kent Rodgman | Composer, Producer, Music Department". IMDb. Retrieved 2024-11-02.
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