Anna Meredith

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Anna Meredith
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Background information
Born 1978
Tufnell Park, North London, United Kingdom
Labels Moshi Moshi
Website annameredith.com

Anna Meredith (born 1978)[1] is a British composer and performer of electronic and acoustic music. She is a former composer-in-residence with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra[2] and former PRS/RPS Composer in the House with Sinfonia ViVA.[3][4]

Career

Meredith was born in Tufnell Park, North London and moved to South Queensferry, Edinburgh, Scotland[5] at the age of two. She read for a degree in Music at York University, where she was awarded first class honours, and gained her master's degree from the Royal College of Music.[5] In 2003, aged 24, she was made the Constant and Kit Lambert junior fellow of the Royal College of Music.[5]

Meredith first came to widespread public attention through her work froms created for the 2008 BBC Last Night of the Proms which was broadcast to 40 million people.[4][6] She has since written another BBC Prom commission, her first opera (Tarantula in Petrol Blue – with libretto by Philip Ridley) and collaborated with the beatboxer Shlomo – writing the Concerto for Beatboxer and Orchestra.[1] Meredith has been a judge for BBC Young Musician of the Year, a mentor to Goldie for the TV show Classical Goldie[4] and is a frequent guest and commentator for the BBC Proms and other BBC Radio 3 and 4 shows.

She was the classical music nominee for the 2009 Times Breakthrough Award[7] and won the 2010 Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Composers.[8]

Meredith's pieces include Four Tributes to 4am for orchestra, electronics and visuals by Eleanor Meredith,[9] and HandsFree, a PRS NewMusic20x12 Commission for the National Youth Orchestra, which received warm reviews after being performed as part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad in the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool.[1][10]

Alongside her acoustic work, Meredith has made forays into electronic music,[2] which she has performed throughout Europe alongside a diverse range of artists including supporting These New Puritans in Berlin, James Blake, Seb Rochford and Max de Wardener at Ether 2011[11] and a solo set at La Carrière de Normandoux.[12]

In 2012 Meredith released her debut EP, Black Prince Fury, on Moshi Moshi Records,[13] which a reviewer compared favourably to the work of the avant-garde jazz composer Moondog.[14]

In August 2013, Moshi Moshi Records and VF Editions released Meredith's second EP, Jet Black Raider.[15][16] In an interview with Pitchfork, Meredith noted that her second EP featured "clarinets, singing, glocks, drums, lots of cello," unlike Black Prince Fury, which was entirely synthesised.[2]

In November 2015, Moshi Moshi Records announced they would be releasing Meredith's debut album, entitled Varmints, in March 2016.[17]

Discography

  • Black Prince Fury, EP, 2012
  • Jet Black Raider, EP, August 2013
  • Varmints, album, March 2016

References

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