Sally Beamish has been played on NTS in shows including Tafelmusik w/ Francesco Fusaro, featured first on 28 September 2024. Songs played include Callisto, Flute Concerto.

Sally Beamish (born 26 August 1956, London) is a British composer of chamber, vocal, choral and orchestral music. Beamish studied the viola at the Royal Northern College of Music, where she received lessons from Anthony Gilbert and Lennox Berkeley. She later studied in Germany with the Italian violinist Bruno Giuranna.

As a violist in the Raphael Ensemble, she recorded four discs of string sextets. However, it was as a composer that she made her mark, particularly after moving from London to Scotland. She has written a large amount of music for orchestra, including two symphonies and several concertos (for violin, viola, cello, oboe, saxophone, trumpet, percussion, flute and accordion). She has also written chamber and instrumental music, film scores, theatre music, and music for amateurs.

In September 1993 Beamish received the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for outstanding achievement in composition. In 1994 and 1995 she co-hosted the Scottish Chamber Orchestra (SCO) composers' course in Hoy with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.

From 1998 to 2002 she was composer in residence with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra and the SCO, for whom she wrote four major works.

Forthcoming projects include concertos for the Rascher saxophone quartet, and cellist Steven Isserlis. She lives in Gartmore, Stirling with her cellist husband Robert Irvine and their children.

A detailed biography for Sally Beamish is available at the Scottish Music Centre http://scottishmusiccentre.com/sally_beamish/