Anna Meredith is a London-born Scottish musician and composer who works in electronic, experimental electronic and modern classical music, with a practice that combines electronic and acoustic writing.

Career

She comes to public attention through froms, a 2008 work for the BBC Last Night of the Proms that reaches a broadcast audience of 40 million. She also writes another BBC Proms commission and her first opera, Tarantula in Petrol Blue, with a libretto by Philip Ridley.

Meredith serves as composer in residence with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and as the PRS/RPS Composer in the House with Sinfonia ViVA. She is also a judge for the BBC Young Musician of the Year, a mentor to Goldie for the television programme Classic Goldie, and a frequent guest and commentator on BBC Proms coverage and other Radio 3 and Radio 4 programmes.

Collaborations and commissions

She collaborates with the beatboxer Shlomo on the Concerto for Beatboxer and Orchestra. Other notable work includes Four Tributes to 4am for orchestra, electronics and visuals by Eleanor Meredith, and HandsFree, a PRS NewMusic20x12 commission for the National Youth Orchestra.

HandsFree is described by reviewers as “mesmerising”, “exhilarating”, “a tour de force” and “wicked”, and it is performed at the Proms to strong response.

Recognition and performances

Meredith is the classical music representative for the 2009 South Bank Show Breakthrough Award and wins the 2010 Paul Hamlyn Award for Composers.

Alongside her acoustic work, she builds a reputation for her electronic music through performances across Europe. These include supporting These New Puritans in Berlin, playing with James Blake, Seb Rochford and Max de Wardener at Ether 2011, a solo set at La Carrière de Normandoux, and appearances at Soundwave Festival in Croatia and Ether Festival.

Recordings

Her debut EP, Black Prince Fury, is released on Moshi Moshi Records.