Dani Howard | PROFILE | The basketball player-turned-composer on her modern musical retelling of Robin Hood
By Sam Taylor ‘I was winging it,’ admits Dani Howard, reflecting on her first full-length opera. Most of the 25 year-old composer’s music lasts less…
Hotel Paradiso | GALLERY | A performance merging storytelling and circus
Scroll down for pictures from Hotel Paradiso, the new show for all the family from ‘good old fashioned contemporary circus’ company Lost in Translation,…
Stockhausen’s Stimmung | REVIEW | A 51 ‘moment’ work combined with perfume
Barts Pathology Museum, London By Harry Burgess The performance space was awash in a soft light. The gathered audience maintained a bated vigil. Perhaps…
Judy Dunaway | PODCAST | An interview with the artist who makes music out of balloons
The American balloon musician explains to Hannah Nepil how you make music using only a balloon and why she would describe her work as…
Navigate the Blood | REVIEW | a new opera by indie folk-rock band Admiral Fallow and Gareth Williams
By Brianna Robertson-Kirkland Summerhall, Edinburgh The subject and venue choice of this newly composed opera by indie folk-rock band Admiral Fallow and Gareth Williams…
PROFILE | Philip Venables | The young composer turns his hand to reinventing Bartók
By Simon Fearn Philip Venables is now considered one of the UK’s most exciting young composers after his revelatory operatic adaptation of Sarah Kane’s…