Elspeth Brooke (b. 1981) is a London-based composer and animateur. She studied composition with Alexander Goehr at Cambridge and Simon Bainbridge at the Royal Academy of Music. Her music has been performed at the Wigmore Hall, the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Sadler’s Wells, the Aldeburgh Festival, the Spitalfields Festival and on BBC Radio 3; by performers including the LSO, Kuss Quartet, Britten Sinfonia, CoMA, The Clerks’, the BBC Singers, Colin Currie and Sarah Nicolls.

She is particularly interested in collaborative and multimedia work and is currently collaborating with cellist Oliver Coates to write a piece for cello and live electronics. In September she will be Composer in Residence at Aldeburgh, working with sculptor Owen Bullett to develop an interactive sound sculpture. She has recently been awarded a Jerwood Opera Writing Fellowship, in conjunction with Aldeburgh music, along with poet Jack Underwood and video artist Ellie Rees. They will work together over the next 24 months to develop a full length opera that will be showcased at the Britten-Pears School in Snape.

She is the recipient of numerous bursaries and awards including the Dip RAM, the Charles Lucas Prize and the Priaulx Rainier Award for her final portfolio at the RAM and a nomination for the 2005 British Composer Awards (among banged fragments).