GALINA JURITZ
MUSICIAN | COMPOSER
PRE-ORDER NEW ALBUM 'ONE WEIRD TRICK' ON BANDCAMP!〰️
PRE-ORDER NEW ALBUM 'ONE WEIRD TRICK' ON BANDCAMP!〰️
about
Galina Juritz is a composer/producer/violin-user, working between London and South Africa. Her music uses both instrumental and electronic textures and thrives on collaboration. She is a sucker for melancholy and marmite.
Photo: André Baumecker
Galina’s composing credits include short films, animations, documentaries, commercials, dance pieces, scored works for instrumental and vocal ensembles, audiovisual compositions and extensive studio work. She performs in ensembles, bands and as an improvising musician and is a founding member of the ShhArt Ensemble, a flexible configuration of players of diverse instruments who focus their energy on the composition and promotion of new South African works, and innovative collaborations.
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She holds a BMus in Violin Performance from the University of Cape Town, and an MMus in Creative Practice from Goldsmiths University of London, where she has recently started her doctoral research. Her PhD will explore methodologies in participant-composed soundtracks within documentary storytelling.
Photo: André Baumecker
In 2017 her first cantata ‘Madness: Songs of Hope and Despair’ in collaboration with Dizu Plaatjies and with a libretto by psychiatrist Dr Sean Baumann, had a two week run at the Baxter theatre, and went on to form part of the MOOC Humanising Healthcare online course. Since then she has released music as a solo artist and as part of various ensembles with NX Records, Kit records, Platoon and the Africa Open Institute.
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During her time at Goldsmiths she started exploring filmmaking and released a short documentary about the South African Jazz big band The Brotherhood of Breath and an audiovisual work called Dionysus Dies which explores themes of grief and post digital aesthetics.
Her solo album ‘One Weird Trick’ will be released in November 2025 on Kit records.
Photo: Still from Dionysus Dies