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Adrian Lee
Adrian Lee combines roles of composer, musician and creative music director in various spheres of work including media composition, concert music, community arts projects and improvised music. He has composed and directed music for numerous mainstream productions, including for Royal National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Young Vic and Royal Court including Robert Lepage’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Salman Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories for RNT and for RSC, Ted Hughes’ Tales from Ovid and Macbeth, Othello, Antony and Cleopatra and Canterbury Tales with Artistic Director Gregory Doran. His love for the gamelan music of Southeast Asia led him to create original compositions including ‘gamelan-theatre’ works Alicesongs and The Knight with the Lion (Southbank Centre), The Island Princess (RSC) and the song-cycle Hakikat Air (Rhythm in Bronze, Malaysia). His recent community projects include Scratch Electric electric guitar orchestra with over 100 young musicians from across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly and RNS Moves professional disabled-inclusive music ensemble (Royal Northern Sinfonia, Sage Gateshead).