Ruth Lee Martin

I'm a Scottish born singer/songwriter/lecturer/composer/researcher living in Australia. My whole life revolves around music - yay! I have a passion for Celtic music - especially music from the Highlands and Islands of Scotland and I love the Gaelic language which I'm slowly learning (it's difficult, OK?). I'm in a great band called Eilean Mòr and we tour around Australia and overseas. We're just back from an 18 concert tour of Hong Kong and the UK which went really well. At the moment I'm writing a lot of folk tunes to some very early Gaelic songs written by immigrants to Australia in the 1800s. I also like to compose in a more minimalist style for piano, flute, percussion, string quartet, clarinet quartet, etc. and I've even done a few orchestral scores. I've written music for documentaries including 'A House for a Nation' a four-part series on the House of Representatives at Parliament House. I've also written music for a dance piece choreographed by Australian choreographer and dancer Solon Ulbrich, with beats by Arran Boomstix called 'Circadian Rhythm'. That's all I can think of for now...