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...
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!...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Library of Water, Iceland: a residency
Freezing to boiling, falling, melting and everything in between, Iceland is about water. Looking at it, being in it, being awestruck by its many magical and hugely powerful...
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...
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...
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...