Francesca is a composer/performer currently doing a PhD at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, funded by Midlands4Cities. She studied the piano at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, before doing a Masters in Creative Practice at Goldsmiths University. She works with song form, naivety, humour and aesthetics of failure. In addition to her solo work, she writes for her sibling duo collaboration, The Fargions, who have also recently begun curating an experimental performance event series, Good Company. She also collaborates and performs with several dance and theatre practitioners, for example, with Burrows&Fargion on their project 52 Portraits, and ongoing series Music For Lectures.