Athena Aperta (also known as Casey Tufnell) has a first class honours in Popular Music as well as many other qualifications. They have experience in live and recorded sound engineering, mixing and vocal recording. As well as songwriting, events organisation, promotion and social media marketing.
2023 Achievements:
Played at Out & Wild festival
Recorded at Abbey Road Studios
Organised shows and played at CLF Art Lounge
BACP accredited LGBT+ Affirmative counselling skills qualification
TQUK Level 2 Counselling Skills
2022 Achievements:
Bachelors degree in Popular Music (first class)
Played at Pr!de in London 2022
HEAR Scheme (experience recording bands and solo artists in a professional studio, using LogicProX and Pro Tools)
Singe release: Here Now (recorded, mixed and mastered all by Athena Aperta)
Rock the Pigeon review (click on link below)
Backing vocalist for artists: Matilda and the mannequins and Nia
2021 Achievements:
9 EP releases for the #EPaweek challenge (I wrote, recorded, mixed & mastered an EP a week for 2 months during lockdown. A lot of these songs were written on the spot/improvised)
Runner up for the Nicholas Daley x Fred Perry award 2021
Founded Queer Off - a platform to uplift LGBTQ+ creatives in SE London (this ended in 2022).
Was appointed to be an events assistant at Goodtown Promotions / Fox & Firkin (2021 - 2022).
13.6K streams on Spotify over 89 countries and 4.2K listeners
Single release: Treading Waters
Achievements before the dates listed:
EP release: Peculiar Desire (2020)
Coming Out Staying In online festival
Hosted a radio show via AAJA
Single release: I Just Though (2020)
Live show with Nova Presents
Got involved in 3 different Amsterdam Jazz Venues jam nights
Played at Readipop Festival (2019)
Played at IARC in Luxembourg (2019)
Played at BoomTown Festival (2017)
Played at YODEL, Berlin (2017)
Played at Ely Folk Festival (2016)
Athena Aperta
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