Jessie Maryon Davies
Composer/Music director
Jessie Maryon Davies is a pianist, composer and musical director. Recent commissions include music and lyrics for Mrs Armitage on Wheels - a children’s musical that premiered at the Purcell Room, Southbank Centre and a song cycle for 100 voices: Herring Girls: greater than we are alone for High Tide Theatre and Britten Pears Arts.
Jessie is a composer/performer with independent theatre company Hooligan Art Community (O Festival Rotterdam, Somerset House, Mahogany Opera) and duo Ghouls Aloud whose award-winning show Elysium sold out shows at the Gilded Balloon (Edinburgh Fringe 25) and Pleasance London.
Jessie is musical director of feminist pop choir LIPS (Royal Festival Hall, Royal Albert Hall) and co-founder of award-winning charity Spark the Noise supporting girls, trans and non-binary youth to build confidence and self esteem through making music. Last year, she conducted the world premiere of choral anthem REIGN by Errollyn Wallen at the Royal Albert Hall bringing together an inter-generational community choir of singers aged 8-80 as part of the Women of the World Festival.
Jessie is keys player and arranger for Kate Nash (Glastonbury, Kentish Town Forum) and recently orchestrated Nash’s set for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra to perform at Mighty Hoopla Festival. She runs music education projects for organisations such as English National Opera, Wigmore Hall and City of London Sinfonia. She trains musicians to work in community settings at the Royal Academy of Music, where she was recently made an Associate, and is workshop leader in residence at Aurora Orchestra where she co-devises orchestral theatre for family audiences.
For Mahogany Opera: Various Stages Festival 2020, Hooligan 2022, Ecstasy of the Virtues
