Deborah Pritchard was awarded a British Composer Award for her solo violin piece Inside Colour in 2017. Her music has been performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Philharmonia, Royal Northern Sinfonia, BBC Singers and the Choir of New College Oxford. She has been broadcast by BBC Radio 3, Radio 4 and commercially released by NMC, Signum, Nimbus, BIS, Hyperion, Orchid Classics and Linn Records.
As a synaesthetic composer Pritchard has worked with numerous visual artists including Maggi Hambling, Hughie O’Donoghue and Icelandic sculptor Steinunn Thorarinsdottir. Her violin concerto Wall of Water, after the paintings by Maggi Hambling, was performed by Harriet Mackenzie and the English String Orchestra at the National Gallery in 2015, reviewed by Gramophone as a ‘work that will take one’s breath away’. She also paints music and created a series of music maps for the London Sinfonietta, described in The Times as ‘beautifully illustrated...paying visual homage to those wonderful medieval maps of the world’.
Deborah completed her MMus in composition with Simon Bainbridge at the Academy and was awarded her DPhil from Worcester College, Oxford where she studied with Robert Saxton. She is Visiting Research Fellow at Keble College, Oxford and Associate of both the Academy and the Faculty of Music, Oxford.