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SARAH LIANNE LEWIS

Bold. Imaginative. Evocative.

Sarah Lianne Lewis is a Welsh composer crafting vivid and inventive music that bridges tradition and innovation. Working in both concert hall and stage, her music weaves unexpected sonorities - acoustic and electronic - into bold soundscapes that captivate and challenge in equal measure.

 

Described as 'charming', 'haunting' and 'imaginative', Sarah's work often explores themes of connection, climate change, and the natural world, embracing music’s power to create a space for discovery and thoughtful dialogue.  Former Composer Affiliate with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales (2020–24) and current Composer Fellow with the Philharmonia’s Composers’ Academy (2024–25), Sarah is dedicated to shaping conversations through sound; embracing the beauty of the familiar whilst seeking to reveal the unexpected.

LATEST NEWS

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Eisteddfod Wrecsam 2025:​

Sarah wins Medal y Cyfansoddwr Award

The winner of the Composer’s Medal at the 2025 Wrecsam National Eisteddfod is Sarah Lianne Lewis.  She received her award during a special ceremony at the Eisteddfod Pavilion in Is-y-Coed near Wrecsam on Saturday night.

 

The Composer’s Medal is awarded to the most promising composer for a chamber ensemble composition.  The project is a partnership between the Eisteddfod, Tŷ Cerdd, Sinfonia Cymru, and the Welsh Music Society, with this year’s mentor-composer being Professor Pwyll ap Siôn.

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REVIEWS

The island of never too late

"Sarah Lianne Lewis’s inventive and fluently unfolding score embraced a variety of moods, from the enigmatic, spacious opening paragraphs to delicate, sparely scored episodes, contrasted with urgent, menacing full orchestral statements and finally attaining tender optimism in the closing pages. 
 
'The Island of Never Too Late' is surely [Lewis's] most impressive large-scale utterance to date, offering an absorbing and winning introduction to the orchestra for audiences of all ages."

- Musical Opinion

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A B O U T

A photo of the composer Sarah Lianne Lewis; she has long curly hair, and is smiling at the camera.

PHOTOGRAPH © YUSEF BASTAWY

Sarah Lianne Lewis is a Welsh composer of bold and imaginative contemporary classical music that blurs the boundary between acoustic and electronic sound. Described as “quiet and delicate” and “full of imaginative sonorities", her music explores subtle intricacies of texture, engaging audiences in unique soundscapes and sonic atmospheres.  She often writes about connection, climate change and the natural world, informed by a female disabled perspective.

 

Sarah was Composer Affiliate with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales 2020-2024; the youngest, and the first ever woman, to hold such a residency with the orchestra.  Her work for solo piano, 'letting the light in', written for Siwan Rhys as part of Drake Music Scotland's 'Beyond Borders, Beyond Barriers' project won the Royal Philharmonic Society's Chamber-Scale Composition Award in 2025.

 

She has worked with a variety of performers, audiences and spaces; from textural orchestral works in concert halls, to contemplative chamber ensemble works in a late-night gin bar, to creating expansive storytelling soundscapes through silent disco headphones under the stars.  She has worked with a range of ensembles such as the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Quatuor Bozzini, the Royal Opera House, soprano Sarah Maria Sun, Blank Space Ensemble, UPROAR ensemble, and Nevis Ensemble.  Her music has been commissioned by and performed in several UK and European music festivals including the Cowbridge Music Festival, Heidelberg Festival, CNCM gmem’s ‘Les Musiques’, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Archipel Festival, and the Lucerne Festival.

 

Sarah’s music has been performed in the UK, Europe, Canada, & Australia, and featured on UK, US, and European radio stations. Recordings of her music are available through the Birmingham Record Company, Ty Cerdd records and NMC Recordings.

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U P C O M I N G

18 Oct 2025

Saturday

18:00

Goleuni'r Dyffryn

Despina Homatidou

St Mary's Church, Hay-on-Wye, UK

World Premiere

Inventions: The Harpsichord across Time and Borders

17 Feb 2026

Tuesday

19:00

Goleuni'r Dyffryn

Despina Homatidou

Cardiff University Concert Hall, Cardiff, UK

Inventions: The Harpsichord across Time and Borders

Available soon

21 Mar 2026

Saturday

19:30

Stars and their Consolations

Daniel Morden & Hugh Lupton

Ffwrnes Theatre, Llanelli, UK

Available soon

24 Mar 2026

Tuesday

19:30

Stars and their Consolations

Daniel Morden & Hugh Lupton

Torch Theatre, Milford Haven, UK

Available soon

25 Mar 2026

Wednesday

20:00

Stars and their Consolations

Daniel Morden & Hugh Lupton

Riverfront Studio, Newport, UK

26 Mar 2026

Thursday

19:30

Stars and their Consolations

Daniel Morden & Hugh Lupton

Borough Theatre, Abergavenny, UK

Available soon
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C O N T A C T

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