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BIOGRAPHY
"She can silence a crowd with little more than a whisper.” - Daily Record
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Siobhan Wilson Biography
Scoring
Composer, songwriter, soundtrack producer, and multi-instrumentalist Siobhan Wilson grew up in Elgin, Scotland. A trained cellist, singer, and pianist from St Mary's Music School of Edinburgh, and Edinburgh University. She is currently scoring her first full videogame score for "The Heirloom" from her home studio.
In 2021 Siobhan composed her first short documentary score for "Miann Na Mara/Wish for the Waves" available on BBC iplayer. Her second documentary score is now also available on iPlayer "Clo beag Chirsty Bella". Both documentaries are shortlisted for RTS awards.
In 2023 Siobhan Wilson co-wrote tracks and is the singing voice on hotly tipped new indie puzzle adventure game Planet Of Lana (Xbox Pass, Wishfully). Soundtrack released by Takeshi Furukawa/Sony Classical available on Spotify. The song "Horizons" has earned a nomination for the coveted "Best Original Song" award by the Game Audio Network Guild (G.A.N.G) at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco.
Songwriting
The Scottish composer-songwriter has toured the USA and Canada supporting the likes of Suzanne Vega and The Proclaimers and as well as her own headline shows. She has collaborated with numerous artists, such as Kathryn Williams, Clementine March, Le Noiseur/Simon Campocasso, Takeshi Furukawa, and Rachel Sermanni, and in the UK has toured live on stage with bands such as Van Morrison, Roddy Frame, Arab Strap's Aidan Moffat, Idlewild, and more.
Siobhan has 15 years of international studio production experience including as far as Paris where she resided for 5 years, New York, Budapest and Scotland. Her albums have been played extensively across national and international radio, shortlisted for the Scottish Album of the Year and drew attention from the likes of Rolling Stone and BBC6 Radio Lauren Laverne who listed her music as 'album of the day'. Wilson is a regular live performer at BBC Scotland and BBC6 radio stations and was also shortlisted for "Best Musician" in The Sunday Herald Culture Awards.​
Wilson runs her own indie record label “Sufrecs” which saw her highly-acclaimed album 'The Departure', from which the lead single 'Marry You' featured in September 2019 on Saturday night's BBC Frankie Boyle's 'New World Order’. Siobhan Wilson's song 'Terrible Woman' featured on the UK BBC Drama "Back To Life" from the producers of Fleabag, and is being aired currently on the Showtime, and Netflix. The song "Say It's True" featured on a French TV advert.
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More about this artist
She performs live-stream shows and behind the scenes news on Patreon.com/fanspace £2/month where she engages with her loyal fanbase.​​​​​
Siobhan was an assistant writer for the prolific composer Takeshi Furukawa at Noise Refinery. A high-end production music label based in L.A crafted for trailers, films, television, video games, and beyond for whom she created two library production albums.
In 2013, Siobhan's music was used in a French play by Nicolas Bedos starring Melanie Laurent (Inglorius Bastards) https://vimeo.com/channels/siobhanwilson/9642638
This artist is gratefully funded by Creative Scotland, PRS Foundation, HMUK, and more. The partnerships with Sufrecs are built carefully, over years.
Siobhan recently completed a masters degree in music composition at Edinburgh University after open study at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Siobhan holds a certificate in Mental Health First aid, and has a Level 3 Award in Education and Training in City & Guilds.
Photos by Gemma Dagger and Craig R McIntosh
"We played this very track on Monday and, to be honest, the reaction to it was huge. Her voice, that instrumentation, those melodies!" -
Lauren Laverne’s BBC 6Music Blog
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Rolling Stone
This Scottish-born prodigy's debut opens with a fever-dream where her voice, sylphlike and airy, is multiplied into a choir, a loping piano guiding along her harmonic cascades and flights of countermelody.
2023 The List Magazine UK
"a soothing slice of ethereal bliss that’ll ease you into the new year... Wilson’s voice is always goose pimple-inducing, and here she’s made the aural equivalent of a warm bath, equal parts relaxing and meditative."
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“Dear God had us hang on every syllable” - The Herald
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"" ..personal, touching lyrics.. " Vic Galloway, BBC Scotland
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Testimonials: (scoring)
1) Transcription from filmed interview when working on award nominated highly acclaimed game 'Planet Of Lana' (xbox, ) : "She immediately wrote the topline, the lyrics and the melody and sent it back to me the next day. Working with Siobhan's great. She's an artist. You always want to be associated and surround yourself with people like that who are going to elevate you, pull you up to a higher degree, and Siobhan's definitely one of them", Takeshi Furukawa, filmed in Pannonia studios, Budapest, film by Wishfully Game Studio. "Horizons" was nominated for GANG GDC and several other awards.
2) 'Siobhan was recommended by our sound recordist as a composer for our WWII short fantasy short film 'The Elementals'. We came to Siobhan with a finished piece and after just one conversation on what we wanted to achieve with the film, she delivered something that completely elevated the piece as a whole, giving it subtle layered meaning.
Siobhan is completely professional, delivered on time given a very short timeframe and limitations and she was a complete joy to work with. I look forward to seeing what comes next from Siobhan and I would happily work with her again in a heartbeat!'
Maureen Hascoet, director, Firewalker Pictures. "The Elementals", currently on Seattle Film Festival. I can produce instrumental scores easily from home studio.
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"One of the most stunning collections of songs to be released in a long time" - Drowned in Sound
"A sparse, tender record tying English indie-folk with European classical music to spellbinding effect. - The Skinny
“Absolutely stunning” Michelle McManus BBC Radio Afternoon Show
