Rylan Gleave
Rylan is a composer and vocalist working in experimental and divergent fields. His work has been praised as “haunting” by The Herald, and “rapturous” by The Scotsman, who named him ‘One to Watch’ 2021, describing him as “one of the brightest lights in Scotland’s new music scene”. He enjoys working across disciplines, most notably in dramatic live contexts, and explores a range of dark folk (EP Lawn Crypt), jazz-punk (class-work ensemble), avant-garde metal (Ashenspire), chamber music, and orchestral compositions. Under moniker All Men Unto Me, Rylan creates genre-merging work, with 2023 debut album release In Chemical Transit reviewed as ‘a brave, fascinating, and triumphant view of transition’ in The Wire.
His work with Paraorchestra (as a member, Musician in Residence 2022-23, and Trustee) has taken him to Abbey Road Studios with Oliver Vibrans and Pulled By Magnets, where his performance of Scott Walker’s The Drift was premiered on Sky Arts. His commission Straylight for The Anatomy of The Orchestra: Drone Refractions premiered at Bristol Beacon as part of the Association of British Orchestras Conference, with two repeat concerts at The Southbank Centre. Recent notable performances have been with Ashenspire at Supersonic Festival, Roadburn Festival, Islington Assembly Hall, Soulcrusher, Northern Winter Beat, Amplifest, and ArcTanGent, and with class-work ensemble at Leipziger Jazztage, Industriesalon Schöneweide, and Stadtgarten Köln. Rylan has written music recently for Hebrides Ensemble at The Night With…Festival, The Sunday Boys in collaboration with Jo Clifford at Manchester Cathedral, and FormidAbility Opera across UK conservatoires.
Photograph by Marilena Vlachopoulou
