Lola Perrin

live performances

2012

Sunday April 8th - 16.30
Duke of York Picturehouse, Brighton
"The Wind"
Piano accompaniment to Victor Sjöström’s 1928 silent film, starring Lilian Gish
Winner of Silent London’s Best Silent Film Soundtrack 2011

Thursday March 22nd - 13.00
City Hall, Plymouth
Lola performs "Piano Suite IV" (extracts 2005)
"Her Sisters’ Notebook" (Lola Perrin 2011) performed by Sarah Watts (live bass clarinet with multi-track bass clarinet recording)
Tickets: Peninsula Arts Box Office t: 01752 58 50 50 

Sunday 12th February
Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival
"Explore, Dream, Discover"
Theatre 1, Roland Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth

19.00 "Her Sisters’ Notebook"
Ten miniatures for bass clarinet ensemble (world premier)
Performed by Sarah Watts

18.30 Pre concert talk with Lola Perrin, Sarah Watts and artist David Oats
Free event

Lola Perrin has played at

BELGIUM
Motives Festival 2006

DENMARK
Rundertaarn, Copenhagen
Vanløse Kulturhus, Vanløse

FINLAND
Päivölän Virkistyskott, Nummela

GERMANY
alte kapelle, Hamburg
Jazzclub Neue Tonne, Dresden
Kunstfabrik Schlot, Berlin
Moritzbastei, Leipzig
Schloß Trebsen
theatrale, Halle
Vorpommersches Künstlerhaus, Heinrichsruh
Women in Jazz Festival 2006
Hoftheater, Dresden

UK
BFI Southbank
Bicha Arts Spring Show at Oxo Gallery, Southbank, London
Bonnington Café, London
Coleford Literary Festival, 2010, 2011
Crisis Fundraising, 291 Gallery, London
Design Museum, London
"First International Conference of Minimalism in Music" Wales
The Forge, London
The Gallery, Foyles Bookshop, London
Jazz Café, London
Latitude Festival, Henham Park, 2010
London Jazz FestivalMarkson Pianos Presents Lola Perrin’s Seven Fridays (7 date concert series, Central London)
"Music, Science and The Brain" University of Plymouth
News from Nowhere: Visions of Utopia, London
Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Concert
Peninsula Arts Romanian Festival
The Purcell Room, Southbank Centre
Ray's Jazz, London
Red Hedgehog, London
Rich Mix, London
Spice of Life, London
Spitz, London
Vortex, London

USA
Women in the Arts Conference, University of Missouri St Louis

Sept '09
Lola premiered a new set of pieces, "3 Studies after Hanif Kureishi", with Kureishi's story "The Dogs" read by Jonathan Bonnicci at The Gallery at Foyles, London.
The sheet music is published and forms part of Lola's book of nine piano pieces called "Standing Alone". At the same concert Mihir Bose (narration) and Lola gave the second performance of Suite VII "Collection" for Piano and 190 Anonymous Londoners.

March '09
Lola premiered Piano Suite VII "Collection" at London's Design Museum. The performance took the form of a live radio show with the broadcaster Mihir Bose.

April '09
Boosey & Hawkes published Lola's "Breakfast in Milestown" commissioned by Elena Riu.

April 24th 2009 Design Museum
Eureka Night

Lola Perrin (Piano) with Mihir Bose (Spoken Voice) in "Collection"; a new composition for Piano and Correspondent inspired by themes of cultural identity, migration and displacement that inform works by Hussein Chalayan as seen in a major new exhibition at the Design Museum: Hussein Chalayan Works: 1994-2009
Jan 21st – 17th May.

ROLAND PERRIN PODCAST
Lola was asked to interview Roland about his recent work and compositional method for Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival in advance of his appearance at the festival on March 1st 2009. Roland talks about his new choral work "Heaven on Earth" for Crouch End Festival Chorus and its premier in London on January 17th at Kings Place.

The interview is on the festival website and also at perrinsibling.blogspot.com

NEW RECORDING PIANO SUITE VI:
THEORY OF K

The pieces were written specifically for Music, Science and The Brain, Plymouth (Sept 08). 

Dr Martin Coath, a scientist presenting a paper at the symposium (who also happened to be one of the conference organisers) kindly corresponded with me while I was composing the new works.  That correspondence was one of my main sources for this composition; specifically about the speed of synapses throughout the brain. 

This chain of events where electrical impulses turn into chemical events and then pass from a nerve cell ending to leap over a space onto the beginning of the next nerve cell happen very fast, sometimes at more than 100 miles an hour.

I started to see these charges like the batons in a relay race; so I began passing ideas along the chain of pieces like batons being passed along the chain of runners.  In Part 5 "Drama at the axon terminal" I condensed the process - passing connections note on note, bar on bar.

At the time I was writing the music, a friend told me how her husband had woken from an exploratory brain operation with a vision in which he saw our civilisation as two humanities separated by a horizontal line he called K where K = Kindness.  Together they devised a formula where our future salvation could be defined by those who are above the line of Kindness pulling up those who are below it.  Thus they developed their "Theory of K" after which my new suite is named.

Click here to order recordings

Click here to listen to Theory of K

COLLABORATIVE WORK WITH COMPOSER ALEXIS KIRKE

A new composition is an interpretation of "My Continuum?" by Dr Alexis Kirke which I also performed at Music, Science and The Brain, Sept 08. Alexis composed "My Continuum?" with PerCom, an artificial composition and performance agent that attempts to extract emotional information from EEG brainwave data. Ten minutes of recordings of Alexis' brain listening to hardcore rock, ambient music and silence are represented in his piece.

My interpretation of Kirke's work continues a new compositional area in which I am working acoustically with this composer who utilises algorithmic techniques.

The original "My Continuum?" By Alexis Kirke can be heard at www.myspace.com/alexiskirke

USA
THE LÉGER BALLET
Rouses Point, New York State

Score by composer Paul Siskind with additional music by Lola Perrin and George Antheil.

GLEICH DANCES CONTEMPORARY BALLET/ London, UK under the artistic direction of Julia K. Gleich
16 August 2007 @ 7:30 pm
The Civic Center in Rouses Point
www.nortemaar.org

UK
Fragile Light was played at The Earl's Court Festival's exhibition ’07 by Bicha Arts

"CHELSEA PENSIONERS: ONCE A SOLDIER"
(BBC Four TV)

"SHIMADAI - WHEN ORCHIDS FLY"
(Film by Scarabeus Theatre)

"LITTLE STORIES ON SAVING THE ENVIRONMENT" (BBC World Service) click here for interview with leading environmental designer, Annie Sherburne.

PORTUGAL
"Repertoire of the Community 1", composed by Computer Music Composer Alexis Kirke & Lola Perrin has been selected to be performed at the international contemporary music festival "Musica Viva" in Lisbon, on a 50-speaker system on 12th September 2007.