Shirley Thompson
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Shirley Thompson is an English composer, conductor and violinist of Jamaican descent.Her output as a composer encompasses symphonies, ballets, operas, concertos, and other works for ensembles, as well as music for TV, film, and theatre.With her New Nation Rising, A 21st Century Symphony, composed in 2002 and debuted in 2004, Thompson became the first woman in Europe to have composed and conducted a symphony within the past 40 years.Also an academic, she is currently Reader and Head of Composition and Performance at the University of Westminster.