‘Nicolls is a genuinely “edgy Brit”, and what she does should be happening every week of the year.’ Guardian
Sarah Nicolls and her Inside-Out Piano
pianist | performer | inventor | mum |
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2019 begins
This is a quick update to say Happy New Year 2019!! I am currently working on an entirely new ‘eco-recital’ which will hope to address climate change through the fictionalising of the real news…Read more
JANUARY 2018
So much going on. Just spent a buzzy day looking at over a hundred scores with stimulating fellows and then bumped into the legendary artist Christian Marclay! Before Christmas, two disparate and unusual things happened:…Read more
Designing a Future Piano
October 2017: Exciting news! Ten years after having the idea, I’ve got funding from the UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK, to undertake detailed design/engineering work on a really new kind of piano. My project will…Read more
Library of Water, Iceland: a residency
I had an amazing artistic residency in Iceland with my 5-year-old son this summer, 2017. We were invited to stay at the incredible Library of Water in Stykkisholmur, a building transformed by artist Roni…Read more
Co-commission from OCM & Ashmolean Museum
I spent several months imagining a piece for the 6-floor atrium of Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum in March 2017. Becca Ellson was my collaborator for the piece, which we called ‘Belonging Here’. Here is a beautiful…Read more
Jan ’17 Southbank Centre residency
I was absolutely thrilled to have a residency at the Southbank Centre in January 2017. This group residency is called Collision and was part of the Southbank Centre’s Nordic Matters Festival. I was paired with ANNA THORVALDSDOTTIR,…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), my theatre show which toured in 2016-17 to Oxford’s North Wall Arts Centre, the Universities of…Read more
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
