Scottish harpist Ruth Wall specializes in the development and performance of new music. She performs on lever harp, Renaissance bray harp, Gaelic wire strung harp and concert harp and often uses live electronics in performance.

She performs as a soloist and in chamber ensembles as well as collaborating with other musicians, artists and dancers on new commissions. Recent performances include those at Monza Milan, Spiral Hall Tokyo, Liquid Rooms Edinburgh, The Sage Gateshead and Union Chapel in London.

Ruth has won several prizes including the John Ireland Prize and the Laurence Davies Memorial Award. She has worked alongside several celebrated British composers such as Howard Skempton, Laurence Crane, Gabriel Jackson and Peter Maxwell Davies, building up a repertoire of new works for the lever harp. Her first solo album The Uncommon Harp was released in December 2004.

Ruth composes and performs her own works on harp - broadcasts include Radio 3 commission Packet of Seeds and Radio 4 Classic Serial. She has worked with theatre director Cal McCrystal and in 2003 wrote the music for a new film The Freak which won Best Silent Film prize in the First Light Film awards. Away from the harp she has composed for the BBC Singers, the Philharmonia Orchestra and the Cheltenham and Spitalfields Festivals and worked as a presenter on BBC Radio 3.

She performs on piano with her partner Graham Fitkin in Kaplan - a live performance project involving sampling keyboards and film (available on CD from fitkin.com). In 2005 she was involved in a premiere performance at Bath Festival for nine mono-synths composed by Will Gregory with visuals of Tim Henman’s massively slowed down serve.