Experimental composer-performers Bastard Assignments prepare for two music theatre commissions exploring family, Dorset farmers, and haunted houses
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
Emily Pedersen
Composer Emily Pedersen on storytelling, Darmstadt, tackling abuse through opera, and approaching composition through empathy
Phoenix Rousiamanis
UK-based Greek composer Phoenix Rousiamanis on queer Greek mythology, witchcraft, discovering material, and balancing creative practices
Things I Learned In the Liner Notes
Matthew Gilley writes on how album booklets taught him to be a composer
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
Marisse Cato
London-born composer Marisse Cato on identity, installations, Julius Eastman, and the “ontology of Blackness”
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
Joanna Ward
British composer Joanna Ward on graphic notation, field recordings, “bean” pieces, composing for friends, and financial inequality in classical music
Blasio Kavuma
London-based composer Blasio Kavuma on Afro-diasporic traditions, cyclical time frameworks, signifying, and cultural associations
LIVE. WORK. COMPOSE: A composer’s experience of the work-life balance
Composer Robert Crehan writes on balancing a composition career with a full-time job
Curating a Technological Repertoire: a conversation with Zubin Kanga
Pianist and technologist Zubin Kanga discusses composer-performer collaborations, new technologies, brain sensors, and building shared knowledge
Sam Rudd-Jones
British composer and electronic artist Sam Rudd-Jones on sonata form, comfort zones, music-as-itself, and pushing against genre expectations
Robert Nettleship
British composer Robert Nettleship on Sibelius MIDI, scratch lyrics, and enjoying the process
“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
Bobbie-Jane Gardner
Birmingham-based composer Bobbie-Jane Gardner on community-building through music, DJing, visual artists, and arranging for Netflix