Genevieve Murphy

Genevieve Murphy is a composer, performer, and interdisciplinary artist whose work explores sound as an embodied, spatial, and dramaturgical experience. Her practice moves fluidly between immersive concerts, performance, installation, and contemporary composition, often reconfiguring the relationship between audience, environment, and listening. Her work frequently draws on psychological states, personal experience, and emotional intensity as compositional material, using sound to probe vulnerability, control, intimacy, and transformation. She composes for ensembles and performers across the contemporary classical field, with commissions and collaborations including the Paris-based ensemble ONCEIM, the Netherlands Violin Competition, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and piper Brìghde Chaimbeul. She is the lead artist of the band Genevieve and works in an ongoing duo with guitarist Andy Moor, developing collaborative projects that sit between music, theatre, and visual art, and that often challenge conventional concert hierarchies. Her artistic research is driven by long-term inquiry and international collaboration, including work with producer John Parish and institutions such as the Neuköllner Oper in Berlin. Across these contexts, her work investigates how sound can operate as a psychological, social, and physical force, shaping perception, risk, and collective experience.