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Anna Meredith (MBE) is a composer, producer and performer of both acoustic and electronic music. Her sound is frequently described as ‘uncategorisable’ and ‘genre-defying’ (the Guardian went with “majestic bangers”…) and straddles the different worlds of contemporary classical, art pop, techno, large-scale installations and experimental rock.
Anno is a collaboration between composer Anna Meredith and string orchestra Scottish Ensemble, featuring Vivaldi's Four Seasons. Anno is a collaboration between composer Anna Meredith and string orchestra Scottish Ensemble, featuring Vivaldi's Four Seasons. The latest tweets from @AnnaHMeredith. Anno written for the scottish ensemble placing vivaldi's four seasons next to my own material for surround electronics, string orchestra and harpsichord - all accompanied by surround visuals by eleanor meredith premiereD as part of spitalfields festival June 2016 with scottish performances November 2016.
Her music has been performed everywhere from the BBC Last Night of the Proms to flashmob body-percussion performances at the M6 Services, PRADA, Chloe & Fendi fashion campaigns, Apple adverts, films, TV shows, installations and documentaries, pop festivals, clubs and classical concert halls worldwide and is regularly broadcast on BBC Radio 1, 2, 3, 4 & 6.
Anna has been Composer in Residence with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the RPS/PRS Composer in the House with Sinfonia ViVA. She has presented for BBC Radio3 and 6Music and is a regular radio and TV guest, judge and panel member.
She is published by a new partnership between Warp Publishing & Faber Music Publishing, and is one of the first Somerset House Studios Residents. She was voted Number One in The List's Hot100 (of Cultural Contributors to 2016), made the 2018 BBC Women’s Hour Power List and won the 2019 Ivor Novello Composer Award for Innovation.
She was awarded an MBE for Services to Music in the 2019 Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
Her debut album, Varmints was released in March 2016 on Moshi Moshi/PIAS to huge critical acclaim with 4 and 5 star reviews from press and media around the world including Pitchfork’s coveted Best New Music. Varmints was Loud & Quiet's Album of the Year 2016 & won the 2016 Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) Award.
Her second album, FIBS, was shortlisted for the 2020 Hyundai Mercury Prize and was released on Moshi Moshi/Black Prince Fury in October 2019. It also scooped up the accolade of Electronic Sound’s Album of the Year 2019 as well as being featured in numerous End of Year lists amidst a wealth of 4 and 5 star reviews.
Anna collaborates and tours extensively with her band which features Anna on clarinet and electronics, Maddie Cutter on cello, Tom Kelly on tuba, Jack Ross on electric guitar, and Sam Wilson on drums. The band have toured Varmints to festivals and venues around the world including the legendary NPR Tiny Desk – described by Bob Boilen as “the most exhilarating Tiny Desk I’ve ever experienced”. The band subsequently toured a new show of Varmints with Orchestra featuring orchestral arrangements for band and orchestra, partnering with youth orchestras around the UK, Netherlands and Georgia.
Early 2020 saw the band tour new album FIBS around the UK with sold out shows in London, Leeds, Bristol, Glasgow and Brighton.
The band are planning re-scheduled performances for late 2021 after their pandemic-cancelled festival appearances and tours around UK, Europe, US, Canada and Australia.
Anna recently composed Five Telegrams, a large scale orchestral piece written in collaboration with Tony Award-winning visuals company 59 Productions and co-commissioned by the BBC Proms, Edinburgh International Festival and 14-18 Now. Five Telegrams was performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Proms Youth Ensemble and the National Youth Choir of Great Britain both inside and outside the Royal Albert Hall at the First Night of the Proms and outside the Usher Hall as the opening night of the Edinburgh International Festival.
Anno, which features both Anna's music and Vivaldi's Four Seasons and visuals by her sister, illustrator Eleanor Meredith, has been performed extensively by the Scottish Ensemble including performances in The Netherlands, Japan and around the UK. A 10-date tour of Anno with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Anna performing electronics is scheduled for June 2020. A recording of Anno was released in summer 2018 on Moshi Moshi Records.
Her body percussion pieces, HandsFree and Connect It (written with choreographer David Ogle) were featured in the BBC’s award winning Ten Pieces scheme which saw half of all UK Primary school children perform Connect It alongside Anna leading broadcasts, workshops and performances. Anna and David have taught HandsFree to youth orchestras around the World from Germany to Iceland and the USA.
After expanding into writing for film and TV, Anna scored her first soundtrack for Bo Burnham’s hugely successful debut feature Eighth Grade and followed with her first TV score for Netflix’s Living With Yourself. Her music features in numerous other films and shows including Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite.
Other recent projects have included an installation piece for the Zamboni machine at Somerset House Ice Rink, numerous works for the Ligeti Quartet, the world's first Concerto for Beatboxer and Orchestra, orchestral arrangements for Laura Marling, The Stranglers, and Sigur Ros,remixes, and a four part Bach-inspired electronic installation for the shopping centre lifts in between M&S and Selfridges for Manchester International Festival.
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She is currently working on an installation piece for dodgems (Bumps Per Minute) which will be in the courtyard of Somerset House during Summer 2021.
WORLD PREMIERE AT SPITALFIELDS MUSIC SUMMER FESTIVAL 2016
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A year in an hour… Anno is Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons interspersed with newly written sounds; a year of music, condensed into an hour; a sensory experience of the passing of time; a brand new context for an old, beloved piece.
Commissioned by Spitalfields Music and Scottish Ensemble, Anno is a brand new composition by one of the most inventive composers writing today. Combining and intertwining Vivaldi’s four extremely well-known seasonal concerti, The Four Seasons, with her own new electronic compositions, Anna Meredith has created one continuous, hour-long, fresh experience of the original Baroque masterpiece for string orchestra and electronics.
The world premiere will add an extra dimension. Stepping into a dark, transformed world, the audience will experience a year in an hour, surrounded by musicians and projections as a circle of powerful sound and light merges, collides, intersplices and cocoons. The result will be one continuous, hour-long, live experience for the ears and the eyes.
Anna Meredith is one of the most exciting compositional talents in both new classical and electronic music. Straddling the worlds of contemporary classical, avant pop, electronica and experimental rock, her music has been broadcast on Radios 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6. Whilst her classical accolades include Composer in Residence with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, RPS/PRS Composer in the House with Sinfonia ViVA, classical music representative for the 2009 South Bank Show Breakthrough Award and winner of the 2010 Paul Hamlyn Award for Composers, she has recently caused ripples of excitement amongst national music press, peers and fans over her debut album,Varmints – released on Moshi Moshi Records on 4 March to instant critical and cult acclaim.
Her works have been performed by leading orchestras and ensembles at an impressive range of events, from the Last Night of the Proms to Latitude Festival, PRADA fashion campaigns and a flash mob performances at motorway service stations.
Eleanor Meredith is an artist and illustrator. She is co-founder and an art director of The Loop, a magazine for curious, creative children aged 8-12. Eleanor also teaches, leads workshops, and works on commissions, with clients ranging from The Skinny Magazine to Sinfonia ViVa to Moshi Moshi Records. Cubase 9 torrent pirate bay.
Currently based in Hackney (in a studio hidden at the top of a cinema), she grew up in Scotland, studying Illustration at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art before an MA in Communication Design from Central Saint Martins.
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Known for their visceral, energetic performance style, Scottish Ensemble’s performance of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons adds a distinctive and welcome intimacy to the pieces. As Gramophone magazine said of the 2011 live recording: “The playing standard is excellent, with the strings of Scottish Ensemble finding a light and suitably transparent texture in the Vivaldi, matched by bright, stylish solos from Jonathan Morton…”. Listen to the album on Spotify here.
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Music: Vivaldi and Anna Meredith
Live performance: Scottish Ensemble and Anna Meredith
Visuals: Eleanor Meredith
Lighting and environment design:DO Architecture
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“Vibrant and kaleidoscopic in a way few musicians could ever muster, Varmints provides a jolt of energy and inspiration to both the pop and classical inflections of Anna Meredith’s personality, bridging the two worlds like never before and marking her out as a talent like no other.”
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Cockayne – Grants for the Arts, John S. Cohen Foundation, Hinrichsen Foundation, The Leche Trust, The London Community Foundation, Lord Phillimore’s Charitable Trust, Radcliffe Trust, RVW Trust and an anonymous donor.