Germany-based Chinese composer and artist Minzuo Lu on beauty, calligraphy, fleeting moments, and Wolfgang Rihm
Laila Arafah
London-based composer Laila Arafah on Sibelius MIDI, repeat performances, chat bots, and unexpected combinations in texture
Luke Mombrea
California-born composer Luke Mombrea on Berlin techno, microtonality, body horror, and balancing a career in concert and film music
Phoenix Rousiamanis
UK-based Greek composer Phoenix Rousiamanis on queer Greek mythology, witchcraft, discovering material, and balancing creative practices
Sami Seif
Lebanese composer Sami Seif on collaboration, Middle Eastern poetry, duration in language, and the experience of musical time
Tayla-Leigh Payne
Welsh composer and sound artist Tayla-Leigh Payne on electronic music, dance, animation, landscapes, and continuously learning
Further Than Sound: a conversation with Komuna Collective
Contemporary music group discuss their debut album, performing music at raves, TikTok, online spaces, and curating an experience
Jorge Ramos
UK-based Portuguese composer Jorge Ramos on technology-assisted orchestration, deconstructing sound, and rethinking tradition
Space to Play: a conversation with Nonclassical’s 2023-25 Artists in Residence
Nonclassical Artists in Residence Nneka Cummins and Beatrice Ferreira on approaches to voice, improvisation, pseudonyms, and big-picture strategies
Blasio Kavuma
London-based composer Blasio Kavuma on Afro-diasporic traditions, cyclical time frameworks, signifying, and cultural associations
Lily Koslow
American composer Lily Koslow on noise, energetic forms, political agitation, Marxism, and creating alternate universes
Sam Rudd-Jones
British composer and electronic artist Sam Rudd-Jones on sonata form, comfort zones, music-as-itself, and pushing against genre expectations
Sofia Jen Ouyang
Chinese-American composer Sofia Jen Ouyang on working with text, positionality, dialectics, and the “impossibility of translation”
“It’s not about tipping the balance, it’s about wanting equality”: a conversation with Rose McLachlan and London Piano Festival composers
Pianist Rose McLachlan and composers Lucy Hackett and Charlotte Botterill on addressing classical music’s gender balance
Anna Semple
British composer and singer Anna Semple on writing for choir, aleatoric scoring, feminist music theory, and embracing physicality
William Gardner
Composer William Gardner on musical uncanniness, microtonality, metamodernism, and composing political opera
Rebecca Galian Castello
London-based French composer Rebecca Galian Castello on working with noise, distortion techniques, folk traditions, and DIY ethics
Operatic Ecosystems: a conversation with Infinite Opera
Infinite Opera discuss their upcoming performance at London’s Signature Brew, mythologising beer, egalitarian collaboration, and performing in unconventional spaces
Darius Paymai
Iranian-American composer Darius Paymai on handwritten scores, cycles and stasis, Howard Skempton, and the “right material”
From Indie Pop to Opera: a conversation with librettist Hannah Hayden
Librettist Hannah Hayden discusses her upcoming opera, fairy tales, stoner comedy, the “action” of libretto, and her transition from songwriting to libretto