Dee Isaacs

Dee works throughout Scotland and internationally as a composer,Epdeinrfbourmrgehr, music animateur, and lecturer. She has established strong links with a wide range of professional arts bodies throughout the UK, including Opera North, London Symphony Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Scottish Ballet, Share Music UK and Creative Scotland. Her work in Scotland has led to a number of long term developmental projects with a diverse range of socially excluded client groups, particularly in the areas of mental and physical disability, elderly care, cross generational awareness and educational support through music for children and parents in socially and economically deprived communities. Dee is passionate about the creation of music and its wider value. . Between 2000 – 2003 she was the UK co-ordinator for War Child in the Caucasus, implementing a creative arts training programme for social workers and psychologists working with children suffering from trauma. She has been nominated for awards for participatory projects by the British Academy of Composers most recently in 2018.

• Creative output includes orchestral, chamber, choral composition, as well as music theatre with commissions from major arts organisations. [see list of works]

• Compositional research into the musical and social practices within traditional song in the cultures of West Africa, the Republic of Georgia and other Eastern European traditions.

• Recent collaborations have involved the implementation of multi-disciplinary arts projects within communities, aimed at encouraging cohesion in a diverse society primarily involving children.

• the study of indigenous vocal styles in The Gambia, in particular, female singers from the Bambara, Malinke and Wassoulou people.

investingating  the impact of creative arts interventions for children living in protracted displacement (focusing on Greece) _ windows on the world 2016 - present

• Senior Lecturer- Music UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH 2001 –

• ECA Senior Tutor – 2019 – 2022
• Director of Undergraduate Studies – 2014 -2018
• Head of the Bmus – 2014 – 2018

• Staff student liaison officer 2013 – 2018
• International officer – 2018 – 2019
• Consultant on redraft of Music Benchmark statement 2016
• Board member of Puppet Animation Scotland – specific role Equality and

Diversity 2014 – 2018
• The Gambia Project - 2004 – 2019
• Windows on the world –displaced children in Greece 2016 –

ongoing
• War child in the Caucasus – UK co-ordinator-2000 – 2005