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Zoë hosts “Shorts”: London Sinfonietta’s fabulous LIVE lockdown series each Wednesday at 3pm in which a Sinfonietta player premieres new solo works, and chats with Zoë and composers about the music live on YouTube. The audience is able to take part via a live chatroom during the event, and participate in a Q&A session after the performances. 

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Introducing London Sinfonietta’s new series online series Lockdown Live

We are excited to announce the launch of a new series of live digital content especially for the period of the Coronavirus lockdown. Over the coming weeks, Lockdown Live will include concerts and performance guides given by London Sinfonietta Principal Players, as well as composition challenges aimed at young people.

To begin, join us on our Youtube channel for Sinfonietta Shorts Live, in which short five-minute solo works will be performed, followed by discussions with the composer and performer, where you can ask questions and hear insights in real time. The weekly series will begin at 3 pm on Wednesday 15 April 2020 with a live performance by cellist Tim Gill of Edmund Finnis’ Three Solos and Emma-Ruth Richards’ Dark Radiance.

Later in April we will launch Postcard Pieces – the chance to send your short compositions on the back of a postcard and hear it interpreted by one of our principal musicians. Our Introduction to Contemporary Instruments, where you can find out more about the unusual demands 21st century music can make on the instrument and the performer, will also be launching in April.

In this uncertain time, the London Sinfonietta continues to produce inspiring live events and to support musicians and composers in the production of new music. We hope you will join us.

More information about further events in the series will be published here.

On Living Room Live, Zoë channels her alter egos Margery Fosdike, principal of the 3rd desk of the Woking Philharmonic, and Nefari, both who have messages for the nation in lockdown.

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In January 2020 London Sinfonietta launched their new digital channel – a dedicated platform to present specially curated new music content and online concerts including a new podcast series The Music That Made Me, hosted by cellist Zoë Martlew, a series exploring six key pieces of music that have influenced and inspired composers and artists, from Tansy Davies and Anna Meredith to Georg Friedrich Haas.

Join us for a live podcast recording of The Music that Made Me with discussion from musicians and composers Matthew Herbert and Anna Meredith, hosted by Zoe. Within the intimate space of the music-lovers café, Spiritland Royal Festival Hall, this live recording will include extracts from the artist’s selection of key pieces played on the venue’s extraordinary sound-system.

Time: 8pm, 17th February 2020

Place: Spiritland, Southbank Centre, London.

About the artists
Matthew Herbert is an award-winning composer, artist, producer and writer whose range of innovative works extends from more than 30 albums to scores for Oscar-winning films (A Fantastic Woman) as well as music for the National Theatre, Broadway, TV series, games and radio.

Anna Meredith’s music has been performed everywhere from the BBC Last Night of the Proms to campaigns for PRADA and Apple. Other projects have included orchestral arrangements for Laura Marling, The Stranglers, the David Bowie prom and Sigur Ros, and the highly regarded film score for Sundance award-winning Eight Grade. Her music was also recently heard on the soundtrack of Netflix’s show Living with Myself, starring Paul Rudd and Aisling Bea.

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Zoë is host of London Sinfonietta’s brand new podcast series “The Music That Made Me”, featuring interviews and live podcast presentations with composers talking about their favourite music. Including Tansy Davies, Hannah Kendall, Marius Neset, Georg Friedrich Haas, Anna Meredith, Matthew Herbert.

Sinfonietta’s new digital channel will be launched Jan 12th 2020 at Spiritland, Southbank Centre, with Zoë hosting composer panel discussions, the first podcast interviews to be released shortly afterwards.

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Following critical success of her song cycle “Musae” for mezzo Lucy Schaufer and pianist Huw Watkins, here’s the YouTube film of the London premiere at 1901 Arts Club last November. The piece was commissioned by Wild Plum Arts for the Wild Plum Songbook and premiered at Cheltenham Festival 2019.