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Kurboom Freestyle Music Design helps dressage riders make the best artistic impression possible in their freestyle tests by creating affordable, original kürs. Kurboom offers a variety of services from performing simple edits, to helping select music to suit horse and rider, to putting together music chosen by clients, to speeding up or slowing down music tempos to perfectly match the horse’s stride, to creating completely original music.

Kurboom’s freestyle designer Tamara Williamson is able to draw on her experiences as a lifelong horsewoman and music composer/producer who has released eight pop albums (her music has been likened to Feist and Sinead O’Connor) in Canada and toured all over the world.

In 2009, Williamson created an original Grand Prix kür, entitled “Sam’s Song,” for Jacqueline Brooks and Gran Gesto. The kür earned the pair scores in the 70’s, and many first places in Canada and the USA, and its versatility and strength have made it a substantial backbone in Brooks’s freestyle program. Brooks continues to use “Sam’s Song” with her current mount, D Niro, and has submitted it as her freestyle piece for the 2012 London Olympic Games.

Kurboom also edited the music from “How to Train Your Dragon” for the freestyle that Ashley Holzer has submitted to the 2012 Olympics.

For more information, please visit www.kurboom.com.

Photo courtesy of Tamara Williamson - Jacqueline Brooks is a long-time client of Kurboom.