Caroline Bordignon

Biography

Caroline Bordignon is a modern-day, female composer and fine artist.She explores aspects of colour, light, space, time and ways these interrelate in visual and musical expression through synaesthesia.  Hailing from Canada she is now based in the UK.  Her music has been performed internationally and she has collaborated with acclaimed artists around the world.  Recently she composed a series of solo violin works for the new painting series Mamlakah by Filipino artist Mart Henry Bongabong, premiered in Singapore.  Desert Rose, a series of musical compositions and paintings was first premiered in a sea-side village on the Island Garden City of Samal, Philippines.   She is currently composing and painting new works for Desert Rose which will receive further premieres in Asia later this year.

Caroline's piece Iridescent Flares III for orchestra and live painting was performed by the London Symphony Orchestra on the 2019/2020 LSO Panufnik Composer’s Scheme.  In 2020 First Light was commissioned and premiered by Ovidiu Marinescu in America and most recently Diane Chaplin of the Portland Cello Project.Her works have been performed in the U.K. and abroad including the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Music Room, the Illuminate Women's Music Series also broadcast on BBC Radio 3, the Equator Festival at King’s Place London, the Northern Chords Festival and the International Sound in the Land Music Festival.  Her artwork has been exhibited in Italy, Canada, the U.K. and the Philippines.

 

Significant commissions have included Intertwined for singing solo viola by Katherine Clarke, appearing on Classic FM and TwoSet Violin,the second and third movements of Incandescence for string quartet and live painting with the Equilibrium Ensemble at the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, arrangements of Norwegian Folk Song for Susanna Solsrud, Soprano, in association with the Bergen National Opera, 'Ultraviolet,' for the 2020 Illuminate Women's Music Series and 5 miniatures for Solo Bassoon and Painting with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, ‘Next’ project performed by Edoardo Casali.Upcoming works include piano pieces commissioned by the German pianist Alexey Pudinov, Israeli pianist Nadav Hertzka and Italian pianist Giulia Contaldo.