Joyce Lam

Tag: Soundhub

  • LSO Soundhub 2026

    All world premieres

    Composers in conversation (moderated by Zygmund De Somogyi, Founder and Artistic Director of PRXLUDES)
    Sam Longbottom Apricot Green Slip
    Xenia Pestova Bennett Light Echos / Dasson ar gouloù

    Interval

    Cameron Graham Sweet People
    Connie Harris Elegy for my hair

    Xenia Pestova Bennet’s Light Echoes tells an audiovisual story of a dying star through the endangered French Celtic language of Breton. Cameron Graham’s Sweet People unveils the tapestry of cinema, flickering through history from the nickelodeon to today’s modern media. 

    Connie Harris’ Elegy for my hair intertwines dance and the sound-world of shaving, from the bristling to the silky smooth, to address modern beauty standards. Finally Sam Longbottom presents a cybernetic performance in a work for electromechanical clarinets and organ pipes. 

    Michelle Hormin clarinet
    Oliver Pashley clarinet
    Heather Roche clarinet
    Alexander Roberts clarinet
    Chihiro Ono violin
    Colin Alexander cello
    Evangeline Tang double bass
    Sue Blair harp
    Ruth Wall harp
    Sana Abu-Jabir percussion
    Matthew Farthing percussion
    Xenia Pestova Bennett piano
    Cameron Graham sensory percussion / electronics
    Eliza McCarthy keyboard
    Emrys van Seventer narrator
    Ka Ki Christina Lai dancer / choreographer
    Steve Lee video artist

  • LSO Soundhub @ Barbican Conservatory

    Omri Kochavi shablulim
    Amy Crankshaw Moonflower (world premiere)
    Nico de Benito No abras nunca esa puerta (world premiere)
    George Frideric Handel Sonatine
    Brian Lynn Posh Duet No 14
    Luke Mombrea Redwood Hymn (world premiere)

    A one-hour lunchtime concert featuring a few works by LSO Soundhub Associates. Audiences were guided by the music as they walked through the Barbican Conservatory.

    Olivia Gandee horn
    Holly Clark     trumpet
    Ben Jarvis trumpet
    Gemma Riley     trombone
    Stuart Beard     tuba
    Jacob Brown     percussion
    Karen Hutt     percussion
    Rachel Leach     presenter

  • LSO Soundhub 2025


    All world premieres

    Hugo Bell Black Box Communion
    Joseph Howard Strobe

    Interval

    Rachael Gibson Into My Heart an Air That Kills
    Sze Ying Chan Love in a fallen city

    This year’s LSO Soundhub Showcase presents a quadruple bill of world premieres exploring the aspects of human experience. Hugo Bell’s Black Box Communion tracks the musician’s heartbeat to create a unique performance exploring the limits of acoustic instruments. Rachael Gibson’s Into My Heart an Air That Kills examines intimacy, connection and voyeurism in a performance that bends and breaks a cello.

    Joseph Howard’s Strobe recreates the emotion spectrum of a nightclub experience; a distillation of contemporary lived experience in the 21st century, when life can be restless, thrilling and overwhelming. Finally, inspired by essays from Xiao Si’s Hong Kong Stories, Sze Ying Chan’s Love in a fallen city immerses audiences in the nostalgic memories and stories of Hong Kong, alongside live drawing and animations.

    Henrietta Cooke oboe / cor anglais
    Michelle Hormin clarinet
    Lois Au bassoon
    Chihiro Ono violin / viola
    Colin Alexander cello
    Gemma Riley trombone
    Jacob Brown percussion
    Darren Bloom conductor
    Sandy Leong live drawing / animation

  • LSO Soundhub 2024

    All world premieres

    Conversation: Striking Sounds, New Synergies moderated by Jasmin Kent Rodgman
    Jasmine Morris Ca’
    Amy Crankshaw November moon readings

    Interval

    Delyth Field Shoegaze Capsule
    Luke Mombrea Black Gold (Winner – Best Small Chamber Composition, Ivor Novello Award 2025)

    In Amy Crankshaw’s November moon readings, three percussionists explore their entanglement in sound and spirit. Delyth Field blends a cacophony of noise and dreamy texture in her shoegaze-inspired work.

    Luke Mombrea’s audiovisual work Black Gold see’s four players depict Sante Fe Spring’s 1928 oil fire which burned for over two months. We listen between the lines in Jasmine Morris’ Ca’ which explores the noisiness in archival recordings with musical snapshots from an old Celtic folk song.

    Leah Hallinon flute
    Clare Findlater flute
    Colin Alexander cello
    Tom Goodman double bass
    Josie Ellis double bass
    William Puhr double bass
    Helen Tunstall harp
    Laura Bradford percussion
    Jacob Brown percussion
    Matt Farthing percussion
    Darren Bloom conductor

  • LSO Soundhub 2023

    All world premieres

    Tonia Ko Held
    Liam Dougherty Hymn to God…In My Sickness 

    Interval

    Kate Milligan Visions | Vestiges
    John Aulich in hollows spilled thin 

    Fragility is uncertain, but it contains all the possibility of the unknown. At the same time fragility is beautiful, in the way that we resist and appreciate it. To have faith in fragility means that the boundaries between things are tenuous at best. The passing of time is uncontrollable, but music can provide a pathway to mark the moment. With every fracture, a new idea emerges.

    Enjoy sounds from the cutting-edge of contemporary as Kate Milligan blends time and temporality with an active sculptural work. Feel sound course through your bones with John Aulich’s intense piece of music that exists at the edges of human experience. Discover a desert love story as Tonia Ko explores the dichotomy of intimacy and distance. And feel the magnitude of Liam Dougherty’s abstract and psychoacoustic phenomena on destruction.

    Miya Väisänen violin
    Mira Benjamin violin
    Louise McMonagle cello
    Heather Roche clarinet
    Sam Walton percussion
    Jacob Brown percussion
    Matthew Farthing percussion
    Helen Tunstall harp
    Darren Bloom conductor

  • LSO Soundhub 2022

    All world premieres

    Marilyn Herman 100 Full Moons of Autumn
    Arthur Keegan Dorian Suite

    Interval

    Alex Groves Four Forms (Horizon)
    Joe Bates Straight Line Through A Landscape

    Come with curiosity and an open ear. Plunge into the smoothly altering pitches of Joe Bates’ composition, exploring the sounds of water through siphon-based percussion instruments. Meander through a sonic sculpture garden produced by Alex Groves, zooming in on individual voices and out to reveal the full picture.

    Meanwhile Marilyn Herman crosses genres, fusing folk music and classical styles, and Arthur Keegan-Bole crosses artforms, taking inspiration from Oscar Wilde’s infamous character Dorian Gray while exploring the role of dance in music.

    Colin Alexander cello
    Pasha Mansurov flute
    Heather Roche clarinet
    Jacob Brown percussion
    Angle Wai-Nok Hui percussion
    Lucy Knight soprano
    Juliet Kelly jazz singer
    Daniel Bloom conductor