Lola Perrin has performed in European and UK venues including : Kunstfabrik Schlot (Berlin), Tour & Taxis (Brussels), Purcell Room Southbank Centre (London), Prieuré D'ambialet (France), Rundertaarn (Copenhagen), Mimos (Zurich), Markson Pianos Concert Series (London), Päivölän Virkistyskott (Finland), Jazzclub Neue Tonne (Dresden), Motives Jazz Festival (Belgium), Women In Jazz (Halle).
Performances of Lola Perrin music include: Kevin Robert Orr (Kopec Festival Croatia), LP Duo (Kennedy Centre, Washington) Nada Kolundžija (Serbia), Anna Sutyagina (Germany), Ivory Duo Piano Ensemble (UK).
Lola is a self-taught composer and classically-trained pianist who has has performed 300+ concerts of her own works internationally including works for multiple pianos at ‘Lang Lang Inspires’ (Southbank Centre), for two pianos (Women of the World), specially written scores for silent film (including BFI, Barbican Cinema, Bristol Watershed).
She is published by Hal Leonard, Boosey & Hawkes and Lola Perrin Sheet Music. She has recorded and released two CDs and also two new 2022 albums released on all the usual digital platforms.She performs live with artists/thinkers including author Hanif Kureishi (Latitude), broadcaster and author Mihir Bose (Design Museum), ecological economist Kate Raworth (Oxford Festival of Music) and War on Want Director Asad Rehman (Sheffield Festival of Debate). Live appearances on BBC include BBC R3 Jazz Line-Up, Science Matters and InTune. She gives talk, most recently online at ‘Responses in Music to Climate Change’ (New York City University Graduate Centre) and at the 4th International Peace Colloquium (Finland). The Guardian described her work as ‘hauntingly compelling’.
She initiated the revival of the only extant work by early 20th century African-American Helen Hagan, the first movement from her Piano Concerto scored for two pianos. She worked with Ivory Duo Piano Ensemble to transcribe the work directly from the composer’s hand.
She’s been in residence with Naim Audio and Markson Pianos. Commissions include her score for Lilian Gish’s The Wind (Bird’s Eye View), Boosey & Hawkes Piano Collection and artist Eleonore Pirroneau’s ‘Change of Signature’. Her collaborators include artists and filmmakers Phil Maxwell & Hazuan Hashim, The Gray Circle, John Kennedy, Nazarin Montag, Roberto Battista, Eleonore Pironneau and Daniel Ranalli.
Inspired initially by Rachel Whiteread, she developed a focus on raising climate engagement in a series of works 2005 onwards. One such work, ‘Now You See It’ integrates specially recorded interviews with international activists within a piano score. Her ninth piano suite ‘Significantus’ (2015) provokes audience discussion within the music, inviting climate experts to join her in concert. This led to her founding of ClimateKeys, a global initiative with a no-fly policy for other musicians to use the same concert formula, triggering over seventy concerts in sixteen countries to date. Her last tour before the pandemic was between October 2019 and February 2020 performing her 11th piano suite ‘Music from our Times’ in which she collaborated with climate activists in the North of England, Switzerland, Germany and Belgium.
‘Cloud Sky Fade’ (Piano suite IV: part 7) sees a re-release June 2022 on Hostal La Torre Recordings.
2024
Composition in-progress:
Solarpunk Symphony for multiple pianos and citizen voices.
News:
22nd February, Ivory Duo Piano Ensemble performed a half-hour concert of Lola's music at Let Her Music Play, a 26-hour livestream concert of music by women and non-binary composers.
Live performance:
Lola is performing her works in France, Anna Heller in Germany and Ivory Duo Piano Ensemble in the UK.
