An opportunity from our friends: apply to EMPOWER's OpusHER Award - a commissioning award for emerging women composers, supported by ABRSM 🌻 Deadline is 19 October 2025 - apply here: www.empowerwomenchangingmusic.com/opus-her

"I think I get easily overwhelmed. I like to focus when I’m listening. I like music which allows me to focus on it, and isn’t telling me how to listen to it; more offers something that you may engage with. I find that a really interesting stance." prxludes.net/2024/06/17/d...

"There were things said to me that I thought had only been said to me, but the exact same things were being said by the exact same teachers to several people. I had been treated like I was this angry, outspoken person — actually, I don’t think we’re angry enough." prxludes.net/2025/09/15/p...

💫 Maile Pacumio is a Filipino-Thai composer currently based in California working across concert music, film, and video games. Maile’s music explores themes of representation, identity, love, and lived experience through musical storytelling... prxludes.net/2025/09/15/m...

"I quite like when you can’t necessarily hear what the original sound source was. Sometimes it’s arbitrary, sometimes it’s really meaningful; but you might not necessarily have any idea what it was, and that’s fine." prxludes.net/2024/01/15/l...

⛰️ Luka Venter is a composer and conductor from Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa (Wellington, New Zealand). Luka’s work has a consistent and fundamental emphasis on weaving the ecological and the musical into a single voices... prxludes.net/2025/09/15/l...

Tonight, Maile Pacumio's ‘Zilal Fi Al-Noor’ receives its premiere in Long Beach, California, by the Alwani Middle Eastern Orchestra 🌟 learn more about Maile in our latest issue of PRXLUDES: prxludes.net/2025/09/15/m...

Gloria Xia is a Manchester-based composer originally from Shanghai, China. Her creative practice is rooted in humanity, relationships, and feminism; she creates music that embraces vulnerability and honesty, allowing space for discomfort and bizarreness... prxludes.net/2025/09/15/g...

𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙣 𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙮 𝙨𝙤 𝙤𝙗𝙨𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙫𝙤𝙞𝙘𝙚 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙞𝙩𝙨 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙤𝙣𝙚? PLASTIC BODIES explores this question through multi-faceted, darkly funny experimental music theatre that sheds light on hidden abuse behind the scenes in the opera industry... prxludes.net/2025/09/15/p...

ICYMI: Our September 2025 issue of PRXLUDES dropped yesterday - featuring four new interviews & features celebrating some of today's most exciting composers ✨ What are you waiting for? Check it all out here: prxludes.net

✨ NEW PRXLUDES - OUT NOW ✨ This month on PRXLUDES: four new interviews and features with some of the most cutting-edge music creators of today, exploring ecology, emotionality, and abuse in opera 🔥 Interested? Read now on PRXLUDES: prxludes.net

📆 Save the date, friends: our September issue of PRXLUDES drops on Monday 15th, featuring interviews and features with the most cutting-edge composers & new music practitioners of today ☀️ Want to be the first to know? Sign up to our mailing list and don’t miss out: eepurl.com/iiqyMP

🎻 Thrilled for the release of the premiere recording of Niamh J O'Donnell's spectacular 'LoveHate:Reminiscence', performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra! Watch it now on YouTube, or in our interview for PRXLUDES: prxludes.net/2025/08/18/n...

💿 From our friends at Birmingham Record Company - check out 'Quiet Wild', an album of trio music featuring PRXLUDES composers Aidan Teplitzky, Francesca Fargion, Chloe Knibbs, and James McIlwrath 💫 Stream and buy the album now: nmc-recordings.myshopify.com/products/qui...

👀 Composers, performers, organisations, music lovers: Who should we be aware of in 2025? Let's expand our horizons - tag your favourite artists we should listen to in the comments and we'll check them out 👇

👹 In our latest issue: LPO Young Composer Niamh J O'Donnell discusses "goblin energy" and incorporating feminine rage into her work - interested? Learn more about Niamh on PRXLUDES: prxludes.net/2025/08/18/n...

"That Kusama piece really changed how I thought about space. Even though it was physically small, it felt infinite. It’s the same with the internet; it’s just a device in your hand, but it contains this vast, intangible world. I wanted to explore that paradox." prxludes.net/2025/05/19/d...

⚡ ICYMI: read about Amsterdam-based composer Boris Bezemer, ahead of his commission for Gaudeamus Muziekweek and Orkest de Ereprijs on 12 September - out now on PRXLUDES: prxludes.net/2025/08/18/b...

🦋🕯️ Learn about Ellie Wilson's work 'Moth X Human', developed in collaboration with Jenna Lawson, the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, and moths - read now on PRXLUDES: prxludes.net/2025/08/18/e...

✨ We're thrilled to revisit Jess McNulty and Sorena Sabah's opera 'Alexander and the Tree' - now available to watch on YouTube - learn more about Jess, Sorena, and the Guildhall Opera Makers on PRXLUDES, in conversation with Georgie West: prxludes.net/2025/06/16/g...

💫 Niamh J O’Donnell is a Welsh-Australian composer and artist from Aberystwyth. Inspired by literature, artwork and moving picture, she creates notational and electronic compositions for the concert hall, film, stage and immersive audio installation... prxludes.net/2025/08/18/n...

💫 Boris Bezemer is a composer based in Amsterdam whose work spans orchestral and ensemble music, electronics, and interdisciplinary collaborations. Boris's latest opera 'Bring Me a Storm' was commissioned by the Dutch National Opera... prxludes.net/2025/08/18/b...

🎵 ICYMI: Our latest issue of PRXLUDES dropped this Monday - featuring three interviews with some of the most cutting-edge composers of today - have a read now: prxludes.net

🌙 MOTH X HUMAN — created by composer and violinist Ellie Wilson, in collaboration with Dr Jenna Lawson, the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, and moths — is a sonic journey into the world as it comes alive after dark... prxludes.net/2025/08/18/e...

🌙 NEW PRXLUDES - OUT NOW 🌙 Three new interviews with the most cutting-edge composers of today, discussing biodiversity, cinematic sound systems, and childhood nostalgia - read now 🔥 prxludes.net

📆 18/08/25 - Our next issue of PRXLUDES drops on Monday 18th August, featuring new features and interviews with the most cutting-edge composers of today ‼️ Are you signed up to our mailing list? Make sure you don't miss out 👇 eepurl.com/iiqyMP 📸 Emily Pedersen

🔥 Have you checked out cellist and composer Alfian Emir Adytia's latest album? Fusing contemporary classical, folk metal, and keroncong style with decolonial themes - learn more about Alfian's latest record on PRXLUDES: prxludes.net/2025/07/21/d...

🌻 Learn more about Manchester-based composer Joy Ingle, and their relationship to system-derived and conceptual compositional processes - read now on PRXLUDES: prxludes.net/2025/07/21/j...

🥁 We're absolutely thrilled to be entering a Multi-Year Partnership with The Hinrichsen Foundation, over the course of 2025-28! More information below...

From our April issue: New York-based composer Arjan Singh Dogra speaks with new contributor Sofia Jen Ouyang about Hindustani traditions, cyclical structures, and ideas of oneness - read more on PRXLUDES: prxludes.net/2025/04/21/a...

🌻 Learn about composer Ryan Morgan and how his practice as an educator has informed his composition outlook - have a read on PRXLUDES: prxludes.net/2025/07/21/r...

🌻 Learn about Turkish/British composer Elif Karlidag's upcoming commission for CoMA, taking place at their Summer School at Keele University later this month - have a read on PRXLUDES: prxludes.net/2025/07/21/e...

💃 We're still buzzing after last month's performance of DANCE SUITE at PRS Foundation's #NewMusicBiennial! Can't get enough? It's coming out on NMC Recordings on Friday 15th August - pre-save here: nmcrecs.lnk.to/DANCESUITE 📸 Victor Frankowski

Be honest: have you signed up to our mailing list yet? 💌 No? Sign up now and get interviews with the most cutting-edge composers of today - sent monthly to your inbox: eepurl.com/iiqyMP

Combining contemporary music, folk metal, and Indonesian keroncong style, cellist and composer Alfian Emir Adytia's latest album Decolmuseum is a mesmerising and high-octane listen, seething against the Netherlands’ history of colonial violence in Indonesia... prxludes.net/2025/07/21/d...

We're so excited that the video recording of Angela Slater's incredible harp and percussion concerto 'Mountains Become Oceans' is now online ⛰️ ✨ Interested? Watch the video and learn more about Angela in our interview - now available to read on PRXLUDES 📰 prxludes.net/2025/05/19/a...

🌻 Joy Ingle is a composer and sound artist currently based in Manchester. They are interested in melding oral history practices and cartography with composition, ecomusicology, and exploring concepts of decay through sound... prxludes.net/2025/07/21/j...

🌻 Ryan Morgan is a composer, performer, and educator currently based in London, renowned for his commitment to pushing musical boundaries. Ryan’s work questions traditional notions of virtuosity and established Western compositional frameworks... prxludes.net/2025/07/21/r...

🌻 Elif Karlıdağ is a composer who works with acoustic and electronic mediums within orchestral, media and stage work settings. Her work explores non-standard instrumentation, the interweaving of electronic elements into operatic works, and graphic notation... prxludes.net/2025/07/21/e...

🌻 NEW PRXLUDES - OUT NOW 🌻 📰 We're so excited to share this month's interviews and articles with four of today's most cutting-edge composers - check them out now: prxludes.net

📅 You readyyyyy? PRXLUDES' July issue publishes THIS MONDAY 21st 🔥 featuring interviews and features with some of the most cutting-edge composers of today~ Wanna be the first to know? Sign up to our mailing list at the link in our bio 💌 📸 Marisse Cato - prxludes.net/marisse-cato

🎧 We can't stop listening to Simon Knighton's phenomenal record 'Sound Sculptures, Dynamical Systems, Natural Environments' - released last year on Nonclassical - interested? Read Simon's article for PRXLUDES about his compositional process, out now: prxludes.net/2025/06/16/s...

💃 Can't get enough of Alex Groves after #NewMusicBiennial? Learn more about the inspiration behind DANCE SUITE, in our interview on PRXLUDES - published last year: prxludes.net/2024/07/15/a...

☀️ Learn more about composer Chloe Knibbs' process, and how she turns an idea into a "living and breathing" piece - read more on PRXLUDES: prxludes.net/2025/06/16/c...

👑 Jess McNulty and Sorena Sabah's genre-defying and bitingly-relevant opera 'Alexander and the Tree' - part of Guildhall Opera Makers' sold out production: prxludes.net/2025/06/16/g...

🔮 DANCE SUITE - SOUTHBANK CENTRE, 5 JULY 🔮 New Music Biennial - PRS Foundation and Southbank Centre's new music festival in partnership with Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture and BBC Radio 3 and NMC Recordings. 📸 Victor Frankowski

💃 Tonight's the night! Catch Alex Groves' DANCE SUITE at 9pm at the Southbank Centre, as part of PRS Foundation's #NewMusicBiennial - and it's sold out! R U GONNA come? ✨

👻 Learn more about Gef! - an opera by Sophia Trewick and Sam Meredith, based on a true story from the Isle of Man - which SOLD OUT Guildhall's Opera Makers earlier this week 🔥 Read more on PRXLUDES: prxludes.net/2025/06/16/g...

🗣 It was a privilege to experience the premiere of Anibal Vidal's 'Theatre of Origins' last night, with The Carice Singers and Spitalfields Music - learn more about Anibal's practice in our most recent issue of PRXLUDES: prxludes.net/2025/06/16/a...

👀 T-4 DAYS until DANCE SUITE hits @southbankcentre as part of PRS Foundation and Southbank Centre's #NewMusicBiennial, this Saturday at 9pm... got yr free tix yet? they're flying out hotttttt 🔥 www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/ale...