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L'Île des jamais Trop Tard

"LEWIS’ MUSIC NEVER FALLS INTO THE OBVIOUS LITERAL ILLUSTRATIONS; ALTERNATING TONALITY, ATONALITY, POLYTONALITY, RHYTHMIC PASSAGES AND EVANESCENT EPISODES, IT CREATES GRACEFUL MOMENTS FOR VANESSA WAGNER’S PIANO, BOTH ALONE AND WITH THE ORCHESTRA, WITHOUT GIVING INTO THE TEMPTATION OF THE TRADITIONAL CONCERTO STYLE."

- RESMUSICA

TOURMALINE

"STRING TECHNQIUES WERE CLEVERLY AND ECLECTICALLY APPROPRIATED IN AN ENGAGING AND IMMEDIATELY ATTRACTIVE MANNER... IT WAS POSITIVELY CATCHY."

- SEEN AND HEARD INTERNATIONAL

CREATURES OF DUST AND DREAMS

"BRASH AND BUOYANT... HER ASSURANCE IN HANDLING THE TEXTURES WAS MORE THAN EVIDENT"

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- THE GUARDIAN

A SOUL IS MORE THAN A BODY IS MORE THAN A NUMBER IS MORE THAN

"A DAZZLING START [WITH] ITS MENACING PERCUSSION AND DOUBLE BASS OSTINATO... THE LAST NOTES EXPLOIT UNEXPECTED TIMBRES TO EVOKE WITH ARRESTING REALISM..."

- ZEBELINE

SUNFLOWERS IN AUTUMN

"THERE WAS A POISED, FORMAL BEAUTY IN THE REPEATED PHRASES AND FRAGILE TEXTURES. THE INVENTIVE USE OF WHISTLING AND HUMMING BROUGHT THE PIECE TO AN ETHEREAL AND HAUNTING CONCLUSION."

- MUSICAL OPINION

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A B O U T

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Please note: The Press Pack is a .zip download, and contains a full biography, social media links, and hi-res photos for promotional use. 

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 is currently Composer Affiliate with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales; the youngest, and the first ever woman, to hold such a residency with the orchestra.  

 

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 and Ty Cerdd records.

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U P C O M I N G

Saturday

Until the thread breaks

Mark Fewer & Huw Watkins

All Saints Church, Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, UK

Vale of Glamorgan Festival 2023

Tuesday

Four Bird Songs

Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone) & Timothy Todd Simmons (piano)

Dixon Annex Recital Hall, 58 Newcomb Circle, New Orleans, LA, USA

World Premiere

Spectri Sonori

Thursday

The sky didn't fall

BBC National Orchestra of Wales (Cond. Emilie Godden)

BBC Hoddinott Hall, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, UK

World Premiere

BBC NOW concert season 2023-24

Friday

letting the light in

Siwan Rhys (piano)

Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, UK

World Premiere

Beyond Borders/Beyond Barriers

Friday

Tourmaline

Azusa Pacific University Symphony Orchestra (cond. Christopher Russell)

Munson Recital Hall, Azusa, California, USA

US Premiere

Saturday

In the shadow of giants

Aberystwyth Philomusica (cond. Iwan T. Davies)

The Great Hall, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, UK

World Premiere

upcoming
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