Bio
Rebecca Sneddon is a saxophonist and composer specialising in music for film and television
from Carluke, Scotland.
Rebecca's musical career began at the age of ten, when she began saxophone lessons at primary school. She quickly developed a passion for the instrument and went on to study jazz saxophone under renowned saxophonist Laura Macdonald. At school, Rebecca played in various ensembles and was principle alto saxophone of the Artsnet Jazz Orchestra.
She attended the University of Edinburgh, where she read music and graduated in 2013 with a BMus (Hons) degree. During her time at the university, Rebecca studied composition under Prof. Peter Nelson and film music history under Dr. Annette Davison. Her final year dissertation focussed on the use of music in film remakes.
Rebecca is a recent graduate of the University of Bristol, where she gained her Masters degree in Composing for Film and Television under the tutelage of renowned media and contemporary composers Martin Kiszko, William Goodchild and John Pickard.
In addition to composition, Rebecca performs regularly with various groups. Most notably, she plays saxophones in experimental trio Free Nelson Mandoomjazz. Signed to RareNoise Records, she has toured internationally and performed in festivals including the Berlin Jazz Festival (Berlin, Germany), Match & Fuse (London, U.K.) and White Noise/Black Silence (Munich, Germany). The group's debut double EP album The Shape of Doomjazz to Come/Saxophone Giganticus was released in 2014 and follow-up album Awakening of a Capital was released February 2015 to positive critical reception (featuring on The New York Jazz Record's Best Albums of 2015 and Jazz Journal's Best Albums of 2015, among others). Rebecca performs with electric bassit Colin Stewart (The Blueswater), and drummer Paul Archibald (Rob Heron and the Teapad Orchestra, TJ Müller and the Dixie Six).
More information about Free Nelson Mandoomjazz can be found on the Performance page.
from Carluke, Scotland.
Rebecca's musical career began at the age of ten, when she began saxophone lessons at primary school. She quickly developed a passion for the instrument and went on to study jazz saxophone under renowned saxophonist Laura Macdonald. At school, Rebecca played in various ensembles and was principle alto saxophone of the Artsnet Jazz Orchestra.
She attended the University of Edinburgh, where she read music and graduated in 2013 with a BMus (Hons) degree. During her time at the university, Rebecca studied composition under Prof. Peter Nelson and film music history under Dr. Annette Davison. Her final year dissertation focussed on the use of music in film remakes.
Rebecca is a recent graduate of the University of Bristol, where she gained her Masters degree in Composing for Film and Television under the tutelage of renowned media and contemporary composers Martin Kiszko, William Goodchild and John Pickard.
In addition to composition, Rebecca performs regularly with various groups. Most notably, she plays saxophones in experimental trio Free Nelson Mandoomjazz. Signed to RareNoise Records, she has toured internationally and performed in festivals including the Berlin Jazz Festival (Berlin, Germany), Match & Fuse (London, U.K.) and White Noise/Black Silence (Munich, Germany). The group's debut double EP album The Shape of Doomjazz to Come/Saxophone Giganticus was released in 2014 and follow-up album Awakening of a Capital was released February 2015 to positive critical reception (featuring on The New York Jazz Record's Best Albums of 2015 and Jazz Journal's Best Albums of 2015, among others). Rebecca performs with electric bassit Colin Stewart (The Blueswater), and drummer Paul Archibald (Rob Heron and the Teapad Orchestra, TJ Müller and the Dixie Six).
More information about Free Nelson Mandoomjazz can be found on the Performance page.