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Go To The Limits Of Your Longing

Wave

My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock OST

Translucence

Gloriana

Cut

The Fold

The Swimming Diaries

Lux aeterna: A Sequence for the Souls ...

Coin Dance

Biography

Donna McKevitt is a British composer and producer of classical and electronic music. She was a member of Miranda Sex Garden between 1991 and 1994 recording Iris, Suspiria and Fairytales Of Slavery with them for Mute Records. She has worked as a singer and violist with artists including NickCave, Tricky, Moby and Michael Nyman. Donna worked with Derek Jarman on his final film ‘Blue’, and following his death set a number of poems from his diaries and scripts for voices, viola, and cello. The resulting album, Translucence, featured the talents of Michael Chance, Melanie Pappenheim and Caroline Dale, and was released in 2005 on Warner Classics to widespread critical acclaim. Her EP, Cut, a collection of modern orchestral pieces with solo violin, piano and voice, was released in 2015. Followed in 2016 by This Is What I Wanted to Give You… the setting of five poems by Jan Noble. In addition to her commercial releases Donna has a wealth of experience composing for contemporary dance, theatre and moving image. Her film work includes The Story of Looking and My Name is Alfred Hitchcock both directed by acclaimed film maker Mark Cousins. Donna has just completed work on the score for Susan Thomson's film The Swimming Diaries. She has written choral pieces for The Gesualdo Six , The Marian Consort, Voces8 and Apollo5. New works are featured on the Voces8 album Renewal? and Gesualdo Six - Lux Aeterna.