About Ariana May
British film composer Ariana May won Best Original Score at the Oxford University Short Film Festival Awards 2024.
Ariana has released several albums of her own compositions which have been featured on BBC Introducing, as well as Original Soundtrack Albums for the short films and Oxford theatre productions that she has composed original music for.
She composed the Shakespeare Anthem 2023 commissioned by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
Ariana was commissioned to compose and perform her piano quintet ‘The Dance of Persephone’ with the Villiers Quartet in January 2025.
Ariana is a passionate composer, pianist and singer who has performed at the Royal Albert Hall.
She has performed several solo recitals of her own compositions at the Jacqueline du Pré Music Building.
MUSIC FOR FILM AND THEATRE
Ariana has written scores for released and upcoming short films such as Windows (Natalie Tiede), Crescendo (Luther Recido), Reckoning (Luther Recido), Soror (Niamh Campbell), Miracle Nag (Yusuf Luqman and Matthew Temple), Hand to Heart (Rauni Barros Da Silva), It’s My Party (Rosie Robinson), The Dragons at Lindisfarne (Natalie Tiede), and theatre productions such as Hippolytus (Amy Griffiths) and Anna Karenina (James Hunter). She has also composed the theme tune for the Oxford Media Society.