Innovation in Music
Sarah Nicolls
Nicolls is a genuinely “edgy Brit”, and what she does should be happening every week of the year.
– The Guardian
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Latest Blog Posts
Snape Maltings: Festival of New
I’m just back from another very intense experience at Snape Maltings: a residency with Maja Bugge leading to the Festival of New. While I was there I found myself looking back over the times I’d been previously and was amazed to discover I’d been going there to make...
Back to Chetham’s
After reading, please view Sarah's Kickstarter to help her build a new piano. Arriving in Manchester for the Chetham’s International Summer School and Festival for Pianists 2019 was a surreal experience. It felt like I hadn’t been back to Chetham’s since my...
Upcoming gig dates: 2019
I have a fantastic string of gigs coming up in the next months and very excitingly, they are ALL with my Inside-Out Piano! Thursday 18th July: First up, there's LATITUDE FESTIVAL. I'll be playing my '12 Years' recital there at the Lavish Lounge on Thursday evening...
12 Years
My new recital '12 Years' is now ready for touring and I'd like to send it as far and wide as possible. Please get in touch if you know where I could perform or show it near you! Read more here: sarahnicolls.com/the-musical-activist
Petitioning in Brighton
Well, yesterday was an exciting and tiring day! I had to present a petition signed by 3,700 people about getting major public events in Brighton and Hove to go Single-Use Plastic (SUP) free by 2020. Watch my speech here, I'm on at 1'12:26 or read...
Belonging in Parliament?
Yesterday I went to the Houses of Parliament (HoP), for the first time in my life. I’m nearly 45. I was totally excited about going, both for the sake of it and also because it was to see whether I could bring my music installation piece ‘Belonging Here’...
Talking to climate scientists
So, it's 10.20pm in January 2019 and I'm sitting checking my recording of a conversation I've just had with the brilliant Professor Julia Steinberger and I'm reflecting on a couple of things she said. It is pretty humbling to be told by a climate scientist that one...
2019 begins
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 we're all hearing, to get to the emotional core of how this might be affecting all of us (or some of...
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: I reconvened with my band from 2005 - the...
Designing a Future Piano
I am looking at how the piano, a historic and iconic instrument, can be made to fit more appropriately into our modern lives. It seeks to retain the acoustic grand piano with all of its richness of sound and its impressive, monumental stance, whilst also making it a...
Snape Maltings: Festival of New
I’m just back from another very intense experience at Snape Maltings: a residency with Maja Bugge leading to the Festival of New. While I was there I found myself looking back over the times I’d been previously and was amazed to discover I’d been going there to make...
Back to Chetham’s
After reading, please view Sarah's Kickstarter to help her build a new piano. Arriving in Manchester for the Chetham’s International Summer School and Festival for Pianists 2019 was a surreal experience. It felt like I hadn’t been back to Chetham’s since my...
Upcoming gig dates: 2019
I have a fantastic string of gigs coming up in the next months and very excitingly, they are ALL with my Inside-Out Piano! Thursday 18th July: First up, there's LATITUDE FESTIVAL. I'll be playing my '12 Years' recital there at the Lavish Lounge on Thursday evening...
12 Years
My new recital '12 Years' is now ready for touring and I'd like to send it as far and wide as possible. Please get in touch if you know where I could perform or show it near you! Read more here: sarahnicolls.com/the-musical-activist
Petitioning in Brighton
Well, yesterday was an exciting and tiring day! I had to present a petition signed by 3,700 people about getting major public events in Brighton and Hove to go Single-Use Plastic (SUP) free by 2020. Watch my speech here, I'm on at 1'12:26 or read...
Belonging in Parliament?
Yesterday I went to the Houses of Parliament (HoP), for the first time in my life. I’m nearly 45. I was totally excited about going, both for the sake of it and also because it was to see whether I could bring my music installation piece ‘Belonging Here’...
Talking to climate scientists
So, it's 10.20pm in January 2019 and I'm sitting checking my recording of a conversation I've just had with the brilliant Professor Julia Steinberger and I'm reflecting on a couple of things she said. It is pretty humbling to be told by a climate scientist that one...
2019 begins
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 we're all hearing, to get to the emotional core of how this might be affecting all of us (or some of...
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: I reconvened with my band from 2005 - the...
Designing a Future Piano
I am looking at how the piano, a historic and iconic instrument, can be made to fit more appropriately into our modern lives. It seeks to retain the acoustic grand piano with all of its richness of sound and its impressive, monumental stance, whilst also making it a...
Snape Maltings: Festival of New
I’m just back from another very intense experience at Snape Maltings: a residency with Maja Bugge leading to the Festival of New. While I was there I found myself looking back over the times I’d been previously and was amazed to discover I’d been going there to make...
Back to Chetham’s
After reading, please view Sarah's Kickstarter to help her build a new piano. Arriving in Manchester for the Chetham’s International Summer School and Festival for Pianists 2019 was a surreal experience. It felt like I hadn’t been back to Chetham’s since my...
Upcoming gig dates: 2019
I have a fantastic string of gigs coming up in the next months and very excitingly, they are ALL with my Inside-Out Piano! Thursday 18th July: First up, there's LATITUDE FESTIVAL. I'll be playing my '12 Years' recital there at the Lavish Lounge on Thursday evening...
12 Years
My new recital '12 Years' is now ready for touring and I'd like to send it as far and wide as possible. Please get in touch if you know where I could perform or show it near you! Read more here: sarahnicolls.com/the-musical-activist
Petitioning in Brighton
Well, yesterday was an exciting and tiring day! I had to present a petition signed by 3,700 people about getting major public events in Brighton and Hove to go Single-Use Plastic (SUP) free by 2020. Watch my speech here, I'm on at 1'12:26 or read...
Belonging in Parliament?
Yesterday I went to the Houses of Parliament (HoP), for the first time in my life. I’m nearly 45. I was totally excited about going, both for the sake of it and also because it was to see whether I could bring my music installation piece ‘Belonging Here’...
Talking to climate scientists
So, it's 10.20pm in January 2019 and I'm sitting checking my recording of a conversation I've just had with the brilliant Professor Julia Steinberger and I'm reflecting on a couple of things she said. It is pretty humbling to be told by a climate scientist that one...
2019 begins
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 we're all hearing, to get to the emotional core of how this might be affecting all of us (or some of...
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: I reconvened with my band from 2005 - the...
Designing a Future Piano
I am looking at how the piano, a historic and iconic instrument, can be made to fit more appropriately into our modern lives. It seeks to retain the acoustic grand piano with all of its richness of sound and its impressive, monumental stance, whilst also making it a...