About Galina Juritz
Galina Juritz is a composer, producer, violinist and more recently filmmaker, having completed her MMus in Creative Practice at Goldsmiths University. Since studying violin performance at the University of Cape Town under Prof. Farida Bacharova in 2007, she has been working across diverse genres, in collaboration with multiple disciplines. Her composing credits include short films, commercials, dance pieces, scored works for ensembles, animations, audiovisual compositions and extensive studio work. In 2017 she premiered her first full-length cantata, ‘Madness: Songs of Hope and Despair’, in collaboration with psychiatrist Dr. Sean Baumann and Professor of African Music Performance and cultural historian, Dizu Plaatjies. The cantata ran at
the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town and subsequently featured as part of the MOOC course ‘Medicine and the Arts: Humanising Healthcare.’ Her recent releases include NX14X (NX Records), Like the Grass and Triple Bluff (both Kit Records). Musically, she finds inspiration in both humans and machines, the majority of her work blending synthetic electronic textures with live instruments and voices. In the past year she has turned her attention to ethnographic film making, and her current focus is on navigating the creative intersections between fact and fiction.