About/Press
Lola is a self-taught composer and classically trained pianist. Please visit her Substack magazine The Low Wall for biography, live concerts, and blog.
SOME REVIEWS
"Lola Perrin is a fine, original composer and I really enjoyed browsing among her works. None of it is easy. Many individual movements are challenging, long and complex. It is enormously resourceful and pianistic, attractive and lucid, worthy of a champion to bring it to a wide audience. Someone could have a big success with these suites. I’ll happily send the scores to someone truly interested.” (John York - Piano Magazine)
“Lettres d'amour dans le parc, an homage to Debussy, lingering faraway possibly in the subconscious as if on the outer limits of our awareness” (David Green)
"Lola's solo piano set held the audience spellbound, and you could have heard a pin drop in Spitz. Lola's music is as much ambient as it is jazz; tellingly, her set opened with Brian Eno's "Forced to Choose", and her own "Perpetual Motion" suite has many of the same qualities, radiating a mesmeric sense of peace and calm. Parts of "Perpetual Motion" were accompanied by visuals by Thomas Gray, abstract images derived from natural forms such as animal fur, running water or grass blowing in the wind. This marriage of sound and visuals was as good as any I have seen, even the works of Philip Glass and Godfrey Reggio - praise indeed. (John Eyles)
"Perrin's music is an immersive and meditative experience. Utterly spellbinding and without a doubt one of my highlights of the year." (Simon Wright MK Gallery) "The Wind was an exhilarating event and I - along with the rest of the audience - was truly engrossed in the film and Lola Perrin's wonderful music." (Alistair Goolden, Bath Film Festival)
"I saw the 1927 silent classic, Wind at the weekend. It was showing as part of the Bath Film Festival and came with a wonderful live accompaniment by Lola Perrin. It was tremendously intense, the piano carrying us through the screen into the faces of the characters; the troubed Letty, the heartbroken Lige and the predatory Wirt. There was such momentum in the playing that it made it a real journey into the desperate heart of Letty who was played by Lillian Gish. In Bath, we don't often get the chance to see silent classics on the big screen (maybe the Bath Film Festival is the only time), so this was a real treat, especially with the fantastic score." (Colin Pantall)
"Hauntingly compelling” (John Fordham, The Guardian)
