Reuben Esterhuizen is a composer and performer hailing from Guernsey, Channel Islands, currently based in London. Reuben’s work utilises minimal materials and intuitive systems, exploring reiteration and sound, and the effects of layering and ambiguity... prxludes.net/2025/10/20/r...

Super excited about Chloe Knibbs' upcoming performance of 'Mass in 48C' at BEAST, Birmingham, this Saturday 25th ✨ Learn more about the concert: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/beast... Learn more about Chloe on PRXLUDES: prxludes.net/2025/06/16/c...

🔥 Kollektiv UNRUHE, the 13-member Berlin-based group, says loud and clear: 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘺. Kollektiv UNRUHE are a group of composers and performers bringing freshness to contemporary music in Berlin and Europe... prxludes.net/2025/10/20/k...

⚡ ICYMI ~ Yesterday, we published four new articles, promoting and celebrating some of the most cutting-edge composers & new music practitioners of today - including conversations with Kollektiv Unruhe, Reuben Esterhuizen, Kay Rowan, and Jim Osman - check it all out on PRXLUDES: prxludes.net/2025/10

☀️ We're thrilled to celebrate the announcement of the 2026 cohort of @royalphilsoc composers - a group of artists at the forefront of contemporary music - featuring five @prxludes artists! Congratulations to all the selected composers - we're so excited to see what you create over the next year 🔥

📆 SAVE THE DATE, FRIENDS: our October issue drops this Monday 20th - featuring interviews, features, and articles with some of the most cutting-edge composers of today ✨ This is gonna be a big one... Hyped? Sign up to our mailing list and be the FIRST to know: eepurl.com/iiqyMP

"Decolonisation isn’t just a human thing, but also a question going back to the original language of the land, ecologically; the original rhythms, cycles, and species, which human colonial actions have often disrupted, or eradicated..." prxludes.net/2025/09/15/l...

Did you miss last month's performance of PLASTIC BODIES? Catch the watch party with Tête-à-Tête - this evening at 6:30pm! www.tete-a-tete.org.uk/event/watch-... Learn more about the incredible team behind PLASTIC BODIES: prxludes.net/plastic-bodies

Super excited for Eternal Series, curated by Sasha Elina, to return in November - at The Swiss Church, London on 15/11 ✨ Learn about Sasha and her curatorial ethos for Eternal Series on PRXLUDES: prxludes.net/2025/05/19/s...

💫 Have you checked out our interview with composer Maile Pacumio? Out now on our latest issue of PRXLUDES - have a read now: prxludes.net/2025/09/15/m...

✨ Learn about composer and conductor Luka Venter's stunning orchestral work 'Glacier', commissioned and performed by NZSO National Youth Orchestra, in our latest issue of PRXLUDES - read the interview now: prxludes.net/2025/09/15/l...

"You know, last week, I walked out of Lucia di Lammermoor halfway... Obviously, I love music theatre and opera; but I was worried about experiences like that, where I’m going to be thrust into a situation where that’s 'the' standard, and I’m expected to connect to that?" prxludes.net/2024/06/17/h...

⚡ Have you checked out our recent interview with Manchester-based composer Gloria Xia - out now in our latest issue of PRXLUDES? Have a read here: prxludes.net/2025/09/15/g...

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

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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...