Supriya Nagarajan

Supriya Nagarajan is a South Indian classical Carnatic vocalist/composer based in the UK who has performed inter-nationally. She collaborates with artists from other genres creating new musical vocabulary & constantly widening musical boundaries.

Key successes:

Nov 2006: Commissioned by Yorkshire Sculpture Park to create music responses to sculptors Andy Goldsworthy, David Nash & Peter Randall-Page.

2009:  Cultural Olympiad project exploring the poetry of Simon Armitage through Indian classical music.

2011: “Shivoham” a multi-sensory experimental music work in collaboration with acclaimed artists Shri Sriram and Ben Castle.

2015 : Multi-faceted exploration of the theme “Lullaby” initially funded by PRS Foundation later working with Ultima Festival, Norway; Metropolia University of Applied Sciences Helsinki , Vuotalo Cultural centre Helsinki, Casa Da Musica Portugal, Riverside theatres Sydney and Jaipur literature festival, India.

Nov 2016:  Composed an evensong for the prestigious choir at York Minster using Indian music which is a first for the Minster resulting in an invited performance at Lambeth Palace in the presence of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

April 2017: Commissioned to compose & perform two lullabies by the Iceland Symphony Orchestra.

Aug 2017:  Invited to a residency at New Brunswick, Canada as part of an exploratory Project working with bees and artificial intelligence.

Sep 2017: Devised a participative installation using human voices titled “Festival of Conversations” which toured at the BEAST Festival in Birmingham.

Oct 2017: toured a brand new music work fusing Bollywood and Jazz which was a resounding success with appearances on BBC Look North and received several accolades from music critics.

Nov 2018: Composed a large scale experimental choir work presented at the prestigious Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.

June 2019:  Commissioned by Jarvis Cocker and Jeremy Deller to compose a piece to launch their National Trust “Be Kinder” project.

2020: Currently touring a large immersive music performance/.installation “Sound of Tea” across the UK.

2020: Album release Dusk Notes  working with sound artist Duncan Chapman.

Supriya also is a keen mentor of emerging musicians and one of the directors of the Yorkshire Sound Women Network. She was nominated for the Diversity award by Microsoft in 2012.Supriya is currently a PRSF Jerwood composer and an alumni of New Voices Sound and Music.