2010-09-06T11:38:00.000-07:00

Short Bio

Anna Meredith is one of the UK's most in-demand young composers. Her music is widely performed around the world and she is a regular judge, guest and commentator on BBC Television and Radio 3 and 4.
Her most recently piece - HandsFree - a no-instruments piece for the National Youth Orchestra has been called "mesmerising" and "exhilarating" by The Times, "a tour de force" by the Guardian and "wicked" by the Independent and will continue to be performed by NYO throughout 2012 as part of the 20x12 Cultural Olympiad commissions.

As well as her acoustic commissions, Anna has recently turned her focus to performing her eclectic electronic music and has already supported These New Puritans, James Blake, Shlomo, Broadcast and Mira Calix, performing material from her debut EP – Black Prince Fury.

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Press:

"Something unusual in the jaded landscape of new music"
The Guardian

"Meredith's music sounds like bang smash crunch - but she doesn't demand you treat it as the pronouncements of a guru. It's only sounds - enjoy it!"
Reader comment on www.timesonline.co.uk

"dishy"
Sunday Mirror

"In the sedate classical world she’s a blast of fresh air"
The Times

"...thundering, post-industrial electronics {evoking} the harsher end of Hyperdub while demonstrating admirable chutzpah in her juxtaposition of pipe samples from Scotland and Morocco, complemented by projected images of horses shooting death rays from their eyes"
The Wire

Anna Meredith - About