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.

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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