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"Lola Perrin does not necessarily identify herself with Jazz. She has invented the fantastical term "Rave Music for Butterflies"…achieves the gentleness of her playing by the very fact that she holds herself back, doesn't want too much…." (Kreuzer Magazine, Germany)
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BBC3 (TV)
BBC RadioBBC World Service
BFI (Cinema & TV)
Channel 4 TV
Classic FM
Classic FM TV
Danmarks Radio
Deutschlandradio Kultur
FAB TV Berlin
France Musique
Jazz Aktuells NDR
Jazz FM
ITV Networks
TV Halle (Germany)
XFM Satellite Radio
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Lola Perrin is a London-based American composer & pianist performing to festivals, jazz and classical audiences on mainland Europe and in UK.
Lola has played live on Radio 3, FabTV (Berlin) and at the First International Conference of Minimalist Music.
Tracks from 'Fragile Light' CD appear on UK TV broadcasts and European & USA radio playlists. She has a writing credit on a Brian Eno album.
Following a period of creating piano music from work by Edward Hopper, Ansel Adams, Rachel Whiteread, Carsten Hoeller and Nazarin Montag, Lola is now composing piano, orchestral and choral music from contemporary fiction. |
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February 22nd at 18.30
- Film, free event
Jill Craigie Cinema, Roland Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth
Sound and Film
Lola Perrin & Alexis Kirke
(with films by Phil Maxwell & Hazuan Hashim and Paul Hearn)
Dominic Murcott
David Prior and Larry Lynch
February 23rd at 7.30 – 10.30
- Concert, free event organized by members of ICCMR and University of Plymouth (Exmouth)
Café, Roland Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth
Interface
bringing together traditional musicians with technology;
Performers include
Alexis Kirke, Lola Perrin, Marcelo Gimenes, Joao Martins, Leandro Costalonga, Hilary Mullaney, Andrew Brouse |
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NEW RECORDING FOR STRING QUARTET, SAX, VOICE AND PIANO FOUR HANDS
During late 2007 Lola went into the studio to record her new pieces with Roland Perrin, Carlos Lopez-Real, Elysian Quartet and Estelle Kokot.
The new recordings are DEAR AUNT EVA (string quartet and soprano saxophone), AQUARIUS (Songs from The Zodiac #2), AN EAR MOVIE FOR A MINUTE OR SO (piano and string quartet, and incorporating electroacoustic work by Alexis Kirke), G MASS (for four hands featuring improvisation by Roland Perrin) and IRIS (solo piano).
Click here to listen to samples from this recording. |
LOLASPACE
Read Cuban writer Ernesto Juan Castellanos's contribution to a collective stream of consciousness at LolaSpace on this site.
There’s also a new poem by Jonathan Boak.
Previous contributors are composer Roland Perrin, artist John Kennedy, and writer /broadcaster Jon Ronson.
TV MUSIC CHANNELS SHOWING LOLA’S VIDEOS:
Classic FM TV. MusFlash TV Sky Music.
SHEET MUSIC & NEW RECORDINGS:
please visit Shop on this site.
LOLA PERRIN INTERVIEW
BBC Radio 3. Click hear to listen |
| 2007 PROJECTS USING LOLA’S MUSIC: |
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. |
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Fragile Light : works for solo piano and for six pianos is on release.
To order directly from the artist please visit Shop at this site |
The Perrin Siblings with visuals by The Gray Circle
at the South Bank Centre March ’07 (photo: Thomas Gray) |
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The exhibition
"12 works inspired by Lola Perrin’s music"
by award winning Australian artist, John Kennedy, was mounted in March ’07 at London’s South Bank Centre. |
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