Christine Caulfield

Classical / Experimental

Leeds, United Kingdom

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About

Chrissie is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, working on Linux clustering and storage technologies. She has has been playing violin since the age of 7 but gave up in her teens (to a lasting regret) and didn’t restart until her early 20s. She currently plays violin with the Sinfonia of Leeds, CoMA Yorkshire Ensemble and the progressive post rock band "We Sell Seashells".

As a composer, Chrissie is largely self-taught, but has taken tuition and advice from Ben Oliver, John Habron, Scott McLaughlin and anyone else who will listen. Her compositional style is eclectic and takes in a number of diverse influences from the baroque masters to Schnittke, Swedish folk music, Pink Floyd and silly noises you can make by hitting a cheap fiddle with a paint brush. She is, as Douglas Adams would have it, “a great fan of science” and frequently uses scientific and mathematical themes in her music, though is not above tweaking mathematical systems for musical effect.

Although highly technically literate (see job description above) she prefers to compose sat in a comfortable arm-chair using a pencil and manuscript paper. Oh, and a calculator ... and maybe a martini. She lives in Leeds with a large number of cats, some strange instruments, and possibly too many microphones.