Sara Mohr-Pietsch interviews today’s composers exploring the relationship between their immediate environment and the music they write. From BBC Radio 3’s Hear and Now, published on Sunday mornings.
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Chris Watson
For the last Composers’ Rooms in the series, Sara Mohr-Pietsch visits sound recordist Chris Watson in his workspace, not an indoors studio but the acoustically rich environment of…
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Hector Parra
Sara Mohr-Pietsch visits Hector Parra at IRCAM, the musical research centre in Paris established by Pierre Boulez, where he is composer in residence and teaches. In one of the famo…
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Betsy Jolas
In the first of two visits to composers based in Paris, Sara Mohr-Pietsch is in the home of Betsy Jolas. Jolas tells Sara what inspired her to buy the house where she lives and wor…
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Errollyn Wallen
Sara Mohr-Pietsch visits Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, where the composer Errollyn Wallen chooses to do much of her wr…
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Louis Andriessen
Sara Mohr-Pietsch visits the Dutch composer Louis Andriessen in the Amsterdam townhouse he's worked in for over 40 years. In rooms which overlook one of the city's canals, Andriess…
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Jennifer Walshe
Sara Mohr-Pietsch visits the North London workspace of Jennifer Walshe. Jennifer explains how she divides her composing time between her flat in London and a house in Ireland, and…
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Tom Rojo Poller
On the last of her visits to composers based in Berlin, Sara Mohr-Pietsch visits the home workspace of young German composer Tom Rojo Poller. In his quiet, clean room, Tom tells Sa…
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Rebecca Saunders
Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to Rebecca Saunders in the apartment she shares with her family in the Prenzlauer Berg district of Berlin. Rebecca tells Sara about experimenting with the i…
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Chris Newman
Sara Mohr-Pietsch visits the apartment of visual artist and composer Chris Newman, in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin. Chris takes Sara on a tour of his home where he works and li…
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Charlotte Bray
In the first of four visits to composers living and working in Berlin, Sara Mohr-Pietsch is in the apartment of Charlotte Bray, a young British composer who moved to the city a few…
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Liza Lim
Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to Liza Lim in her composing room at her home in Manchester. Liza explains the physicality of her music, how ideas come from the subconscious, and the inspi…
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Larry Goves
Sara Mohr-Pietsch visits Larry Goves in his flat in South Manchester, drawing analogies between cooking and composing, talking to him about the custom made green desk in his compos…
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George Benjamin
Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to George Benjamin in the kitchen at his home in West London. He explains why he chooses to keep his composing room at the top of the house private, how he…
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Emily Hall
Sara Mohr-Pietsch visits Emily Hall's shared workspace, part of a new build development of flats and commercial units in South East London which has provided a temporary home for a…
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Robin Holloway
Sara Mohr-Pietsch explores the Cambridge home and workspace of Robin Holloway, from the opulent living room where he holds informal concerts using his two grand pianos, through the…
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Howard Skempton
Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to Howard Skempton in his workspace, a spare bedroom in his 70s semi in Leamington Spa. Howard talks to Sara about the creative process in what is a clutter…
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Alexander Goehr
Sara Mohr-Pietsch visits Alexander Goehr's cottage in the Cambridgeshire Fens. Sandy, as he's known, guides Sara around his composing room, from an old writing desk fashioned out o…
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Claudia Molitor
Sara Mohr-Pietsch explores the Brighton flat and workspace of composer-artist Claudia Molitor. Claudia tells Sara about playing with sound, the continual flow between her life and…
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Judith Weir
Sara Mohr-Pietsch visits the home of recently appointed Master of the Queen's Music, Judith Weir, who talks to Sara about the effects of her environment on the creative process, fr…
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Laurence Crane
Sara Mohr-Pietsch follows Laurence Crane on a cycle tour around London, from the rehearsal room with grand piano in Bloomsbury, where he explains how he explores material when star…