Sarah Nicolls

Co-commission from OCM & Ashmolean Museum

I spent several months imagining a piece for the 6-floor atrium of Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum (see this post. I’m going to write a bigger blog soon but here, for now, is a beautiful film of…Read more

Jan ’17 Southbank Centre residency

Some exciting news: I’m off to live at the Southbank Centre for a week! This is a residency called Collision which is part of the Southbank Centre’s Nordic Matters Festival. I am paired with ANNA THORVALDSDOTTIR, a composer from…Read more

Oct ’16 Lilja’s Internship 1: Sheep, Oxford & ribbons…

I am currently extremely lucky at the moment on two counts (well, lots more but I’m just talking about work here!). 1) I am on OCM’s BOOM scheme, to encourage musicians to make first steps…Read more

Jan ’16 Podcast from BBC Radio 3

Here’s the podcast of my January In Tune appearance on BBC Radio 3 with Sarah Walker.

Moments of Weightlessness trailer

Take a look at the trailer for Moments of Weightlessness, Sarah’s first solo show (with the immense Inside-Out Piano) which kicks off in Oxford on 28 Nov. We then head to Canterbury and Reading this…Read more

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Why my piano is special

I’ve designed the ‘Inside-Out Piano’ to make playing the inside of a piano easier. This means doing things like plucking a string, knocking on the wood and playing harmonics by pressing lightly on a string…Read more