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, composed original music for nine short films and several Oxford theatre productions, and has released several Original Soundtrack Albums.
She composed the Shakespeare Anthem 2023 commissioned by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and was commissioned to compose and perform her piano quintet ‘The Dance of Persephone’ with the Villiers Quartet in January 2025.
Ariana has collaborated with the Ruskin School of Art, writing the music for a film screened at the Art Film and Music Event 2025 and she was also commissioned to compose the podcast theme tune for the Oxford Media Society.
She has performed several solo recitals of her own compositions at the Jacqueline du Pré Music Building.
Ariana is a passionate composer, pianist and singer who has performed at the Royal Albert Hall.
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), Lullaby O’ The Ruin (Eunjo Lee), and theatre productions such as Hippolytus (Amy Griffiths) and Anna Karenina (James Hunter).