Jessie Leov was the 2024 National Youth Orchestra's composer-in-residence. She is an award winning composer and musician based in Auckland.
Leov writes that collaboration is core to her practice, and she enjoys working with creators from musical theatre, stage, screen and poetry.
Her commission for the NYO, 'Speculations on a Rainbow' is inspired by an abstract painting, The Rainbow Loop, by Judy Millar. Leov’s music uses a pulsating, syncopated sound wall from which colourful textures emerge.
