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Anna Meredith
Composer in the House

Anna Meredith - sinfonia ViVA's Composer in the House: a Royal Philharmonic Society and PRS for Music Foundation initiative

Anna Meredith is a composer of acoustic and electronic music as well as a performer, curator and animateur.

Anna has recently been appointed as the third PRS for Music Foundation/Royal Philharmonic Society Composer in the House and will be working with André de Ridder and sinfonia ViVA from 2010-2012. Plans for the residency include a large scale work with visuals by Eleanor Meredith, performances and curation.

As a concert composer she has written for Ensemble Modern, the LSO, the London Sinfonietta, the BBC Philharmonic, the SCO, the Smith Quartet, orkest de ereprijs and Horses Brawl amongst many others, and was Resident Composer of the BBC SSO between 2004-2007.

In 2008, Anna wrote froms for the 2008 Last Night of the Proms which used live elements from the various Last Night of the Proms and Proms in the Park concerts and was televised to over 40 million people. Anna's first opera, Tarantula in Petrol Blue, with libretto by Philip Ridley, was recently premiered at Aldeburgh Music.

Projects during 2009 included mentoring Goldie for the documentary Classic Goldie for his Prom commission, her own new Prom Commission - a Double Piano Concerto Left Light for Philip Moore and Simon Crawford-Phillips and the Britten Sinfonia, and orchestral arrangements for electronica artists Matmos and the LCO.

Her Concerto for Beatboxer and Orchestra with the beatboxer Shlomo was premiered at the Southbank Centre in Feb 2010. She is currently working on a trumpet concerto for the LSO.

Anna frequently works with visual artists, especially her sister Eleanor Meredith and has performed her electronic pieces at Ether, Faster than Sound, Barbican Cinema, KOKO, Bongo Club, and the Luminaire. She plans to put together an album of her electronic pieces during the coming year.

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