Anna Appleby (born 1993)
Anna Appleby was born in Newcastle upon Tyne and is currently based in Manchester. She received a First-Class Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from St Hilda’s College, Oxford; a Masters in Composition from the Royal Northern College of Music; and is now working towards a PhD in Composition there.
This is Anna Appleby’s 2020 composition Uptake for alto saxophone, electric bass, and piano.
Uptake was composed as part of a program of eight collaborations between composers and scientists. The scientist in this case was Rachel Bearon, Professor of Mathematical Biology at the University of Liverpool, and one of the authors of a publication “Multiscale modelling of drug transport and metabolism in liver spheroids.” The music is divided into three miniatures, each of which is inspired by a spherical image in the paper, as described here
13.8 Billion Years for soprano saxophone was created in 2020 in a Zoom collaboartion with saxophonist Amy Green, who performs it hre: