Manchester Collective co-director Jasmin Kent Rodgman discusses commissioning, “casting” composers, drawing in audiences, and advice about authenticity
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Anian Wiedner
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Sonia Lozina
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Threads of Transformation: Olivia Murphy on her debut orchestral album
Composer Olivia Murphy writes on her debut orchestral album, discussing Greek myth, Little Women, and weaving threads of transformation
“Something out of the ordinary”: a conversation with LSO’s Soundhub composers
London Symphony Orchestra’s 2025-26 Soundhub composers discuss endangered languages, cybernetic instruments, intermediality, and the physicality of sound
Eleanor Cully Boehringer
Newcastle-based composer, performer, and choral conductor Eleanor Cully Boehringer on choral music, new trails, interlocking processes, and listening inside the sound
Ollie Hawker
Glasgow-based composer Ollie Hawker explores the lines between classical and pop music, consonance and dissonance, and pleasant and interesting sounds
Luis Fernando Amaya
Mexican-born composer Luis Fernando Amaya on activism, accessible experimentation, and why we make music
Amy Crankshaw
UK-based South African composer Amy Crankshaw on sensoria, ritual, eco-emotions, and empathy for nature
Ty Bloomfield
Michigan-based composer Ty Bloomfield on worldbuilding, notation, programme notes, and creating vivid connections
David Balica
Composer and bass-baritone David Balica on technology, vocal performance, postmodernism, politics, and “controlled chance”
Losing my Mind at BOUNDARIES Fest
Composer and cellist Toby Anderson writes on how an experimental music festival shifted his perspective as an artist
Carmel Smickersgill
Manchester-based composer and performer Carmel Smickersgill on grassroots spaces, the Beach Boys, and being yourself
Omri Kochavi
London-based composer and guitarist Omri Kochavi on community gardens, jazz guitar, ancient text, and intuitive decision-making
Yan Ee Toh
Singaporean composer Yan Ee Toh on ritual, choreography, dichotomies, and working with non-Western instruments
Samuel D Loveless
Interdisciplinary composer Samuel D Loveless on referentiality, notation, accessibility, and daily life as art practice
Nurturing Patience: catching up with “5 for 5” commissioned composer Millicent B James
PRXLUDES’ first commissioned composer Millicent B James discusses The Legend of Zelda, folk traditions, the value of patience, and getting closer to nature
Claire Cope
Composer and bandleader Claire Cope on groove, emotional connections, becoming a mother, and “writing from the heart”
Vivek Haria
British composer Vivek Haria on breathing together, Jain spiritual traditions, qualia, recalibrating as a composer, and active listening
Train Travel, Voicenotes, and Working with Friends: Zahrah Hutton’s ‘here I am briefly’
Guitarist and composer Zahrah Hutton writes on her latest album, train travel, voicenotes, Joni Mitchell and working with friends