Newcastle-based composer, performer, and choral conductor Eleanor Cully Boehringer on choral music, new trails, interlocking processes, and listening inside the sound
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
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
Vivek Haria
British composer Vivek Haria on breathing together, Jain spiritual traditions, qualia, recalibrating as a composer, and active listening
Ryan Morgan
UK-based composer Ryan Morgan on immediacy, transparency, passive resistance, and leading with compassion
Anibal Vidal
London-based Chilean composer Anibal Vidal on handheld instruments, tension and release, play, and composition as “intuitive abstract sudoku”
Hugo Bell
British composer Hugo Bell on heartbeats as musical time, DMX lighting, learning new skills, reworking pieces, and being “wired differently”
Emily Pedersen
Composer Emily Pedersen on storytelling, Darmstadt, tackling abuse through opera, and approaching composition through empathy
Anna-Louise Walton
American composer Anna-Louise Walton on defamiliarisation, writing for voice, PVC pipes, found objects, and complexities of intuition
Marisse Cato
London-born composer Marisse Cato on identity, installations, Julius Eastman, and the “ontology of Blackness”
Anna Semple
British composer and singer Anna Semple on writing for choir, aleatoric scoring, feminist music theory, and embracing physicality
Sam Buttler
Welsh composer Sam Buttler on mythology, fairies, Pierrot Lunaire, country music, and not taking yourself too seriously
Celebrate! A conversation with National Youth Choir’s Young Composers
National Youth Choir’s cohort of Young Composers speak about their album, Gen Z, modern madrigals, the physicality of choirs, and community
Anna Disley-Simpson
British composer Anna Disley-Simpson on opera, stylised reality, collage notation, and crafting vocal resonance
Lucy Armstrong
Composer Lucy Armstrong on Stephen Sondheim, capturing drama, and making text sing
Robin Fiedler
Composer Robin Fiedler on unbalanced ensembles, sentimentalism, organic processes, and the “everyday alien”
Emily Hazrati
Composer-performer Emily Hazrati on breath, heritage, performance as ritual, and collaboration as dialogue