Edmund Finnis appointed LCO’s new Composer-in-Association

We are pleased to announce Edmund Finnis as the LCO’s new Composer-in-Association. Edmund’s first work for the LCO will form part of the second ‘Imagined Occasions’ performance on Thursday 22 August.

LCO’s Imagined Occasions Series

LCO’s ‘Imagined Occasions’ Series presents three site-responsive, immersive performances focusing on the music of Claude Vivier (1948–1983). The series seeks to engage the audience in a participatory narrative, in which the audience are observers, creators, protagonists and the observed.

LCO on Foals’ new album ‘Holy Fire’

LCO’s strings feature on Foals’s third album ‘Holy Fire’. Produced by Flood and Alan Moulder (U2, The Killers, PJ Harvey), ‘Holy Fire’ includes the single ‘Inhaler’, currently nominated for Best Track at the NME Awards 2013.