sound: Free Online Composer Support Calls
From sound Scotland:
Call our Composers' Helpline if you are a composer looking for general advice, compositional support, help with funding or budgets, project ideas, partnerships, confidential wellbeing support.
Every Wednesday between 1-2pm Pete Stollery, Fiona Robertson, Lisa Robertson or Emily Doolittle will be available for a chat. They have a wide-range of experience between them (see below for details) and are happy to support you in any way they can. However if it is compositional support you are looking for, you should opt for Pete, Emily or Lisa.
Sign up for your 20 min Zoom call by clicking on one of the offered days and selecting your preferred date and time. Make sure that you are able to attend the session in person as the slots are limited.
Please note: The Composer’s Helpline is designed to give as many composers as possible time to discuss individual needs. Although it is of course possible for attendees to come back for additional help or with new topics, if we are over-booked we may have to give preference to new attendees.
Please also note that these aren’t teaching sessions, but rather advice sessions.
Please select your session carefully and ensure you can attend the chosen slot. Feel free to email info@sound-scotland.co.uk if you have any questions or want to check which member of the Team would be most suited to your inquiry prior to booking. Thank you for your understanding.
Mentors:
Emily Doolittle
Emily Doolittle is a composer and music researcher, originally from Canada, and now living in Glasgow, where she is a Research Fellow and Lecturer in Composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Areas in which she can provide mentorship include (but are not limited to) composition, instrumentation, finding musical community, pursuing further education in music, career development, getting your music out there, and general support and encouragement!
Lisa Robertson
https://www.lisarobertsonmusic.com/
Lisa Robertson is a composer and violinist from the West Highlands of Scotland. She is a tutor in composition and instrumentation at the University of Edinburgh. She can provide mentorship on composition, instrumentation, notation, string writing and techniques, career development, working with musicians, the landscape for emerging composers in the UK, promoting your work and other general support.
Rūta Vitkauskaitė
Rūta Vitkauskaitė is a composer, violinist, a lecturer in Composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and producer of new music events in the UK and in Europe. Rūta has won numerous awards including multiple winner of the Best Composition of the Year award in Lithuania and the prestigious Golden Stage Cross for the collaborative opera ‘Confessions’.
Pete Stollery
Pete Stollery is a composer, recently retired from the University of Aberdeen. Back in the early 2000s, he helped to set up sound. He also conducts ANy Enemy, a new music ensemble based in NE Scotland. Areas in which he can provide mentorship include (but are not limited to) composition (both acoustic and electroacoustic), opportunities, courses and programmes in UK, getting your work out there, promotion and publicity, general support.
Fiona Robertson
https://sound-scotland.co.uk/about/our-people
Fiona Robertson is the Director of sound. She has a post-graduate degree in Arts Administration (Dauphine University, Paris), and has worked in the arts both in France and the UK. She has extensive project management experience. She can provide help and advise on anything to do with project management, collaboration and partnerships, funding and budgets, setting up organisations, and much more. She is also happy to just be a friendly ear if needed. But please note she is not a composer!
TEAM AVAILABILITY:
15th April 2026 - Pete Stollery
22nd April 2026 - Fiona Robertson
29th April 2026 - Lisa Robertson
6th May 2026 - Rūta Vitkauskaitė
13th May 2026 - Emily Doolittle
20th May 2026 - Lisa Robertson
27th May 2026 - Fiona Robertson
3rd June 2026 - Emily Doolittle
10th June 2026 - Pete Stollery
17th June 2026 - Rūta Vitkauskaitė
24th June 2026 - Lisa Robertson
You can let us know in advance what you'd like to talk about and discuss by emailing info@sound-scotland.co.uk
