Ellen Arkbro
GOETHE-INSTITUT X SOMERSET HOUSE STUDIOS RESIDENCY 2025

Somerset House Studios continue its annual collaboration with Goethe-Institut London on an international residency programme to support a Germany-based female or non-binary artist working with music and sound, in partnership with CTM, Berlin’s festival for adventurous music and art.

From January 2025, composer musician sound-artist Ellen Arkbro joins the community for a three-month residency. This residency supports the presentation of a new work commissioned by Somerset House Studios in collaboration with Goethe-Institut London and CTM Festival in Assembly 2026, Somerset House Studios’ experimental sound, music and performance series.

Returning for its fifth edition, Assembly continues its focus on producing original live works developed in residence and through partnerships. A multi-day programme will feature a series of new commissions, putting sound and music in dialogue with a variety of disciplines.

Ellen Arkbro's new work will also be presented at CTM Festival in 2026.

BIO

Ellen Arkbro (b. 1990) is a composer musician sound-artist working with precision-tuned intervallic harmony. Her work includes compositions for acoustic instruments and for synthetic sound, and for combinations of both, as well as installation work.

She has presented her site-specific work at Barbican in London, Kölner Philharmonie, Serralves in Porto, Issue Project Room in New York, Oude Kerk in Amsterdam, Silent Green in Berlin, Ina GRM in Paris and Tempelaukkio Kirke in Helsinki.

In all of her work, Arkbro focuses on the qualities of harmonic sound that reveal listening as an active process of creative participation, inviting the listener to gradually transform into the sound itself.