Majella Clarke is an conductor, oboist, pianist, and sound artist that works at the
intersection of music, science and technology. She holds a Master of Music in New
Audiences and Innovative Practice (2024) from the Iceland University of the Arts / Sibelius
Academy, and a Post-Diploma Certificate in Contemporary Repertoire Conducting (2021)
from the Swiss Italian Conservatory in Lugano. Her interdisciplinary background also
includes a Master of Business Administration (Innovation) from Aalto University (2019), a
Master of Science from the University of Helsinki, as well as a bachelor degree in Economics
and Music Performance (Oboe) from the University of Sydney. She is currently a lecturer at
SAE University College, affiliate researcher at Iceland University of the Arts, and sessional
lecturer at the University of the Arts Helsinki.
As a conductor, her practice focuses on both experimental conducting with technology, as
well as traditional conducting of classical music and contemporary ensembles. Her latest
composition and new media projects include: Conducting Water (2025–), an experimental
exploration of the material agency of water through embodied conducting, using computer
vision, multimodal synthesis, and improvisation for new media, composition, sound art, and
performance; The Sonic Baton Project (2023), a gesture-controlled neural audio synthesis
tool developed with the Intelligent Instruments Lab Iceland , spanning performances,
compositions, sculpture, and dataset albums; and Aromasonics (2025), a system of olfactory
notation and aromatic scoring that translates scent properties into musical compositions,
premiered on a Magnetic Resonator Piano, integrating improvisation, sound art, and
chemical principles.
Website: www.majella-clarke.com