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Lola Perrin

Lola Perrin is a London-based American composer & pianist performing to festivals, jazz and classical audiences on mainland Europe and in UK.

Lola has played live on Radio 3, FabTV (Berlin) and at the First International Conference of Minimalist Music.

Tracks from 'Fragile Light' CD appear on UK TV broadcasts and European & USA radio playlists. She has a writing credit on a Brian Eno album.

Following a period of creating piano music from work by Edward Hopper, Ansel Adams, Rachel Whiteread, Carsten Hoeller and Nazarin Montag, Lola has acquired an option on Hanif Kureishi's short story "The Flies" which she is currently adapting for the stage.

Enquiries on this project to [email protected] To book Lola for solo piano concerts email [email protected]

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Interview

Lola Perrin: Rave Music for Butterflies

Read "Lola Perrin: Rave Music for Butterflies" reviewed by John Eyles


Born in New York (with Ukrainian and Hungarian roots), and educated in Switzerland, pianist Lola Perrin is now based in London. Following an early career producing soundtracks for television she went into a period of musical isolation until she launched her solo career in 2003. Ever since, she has attracted increasing attention across Europe as a performer and composer

In the autumn of 2006, on a double bill with her brother Roland, she played at Spitz on the closing night ...

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Album Review

Lola Perrin: Fragile Light

Read "Fragile Light" reviewed by John Eyles


Lola Perrin's second album expands on the success of her debut, Perpetual Motion (Blue Planet, 2004), incorporating its Perpetual Motion Piano Suite III, plus two other suites. That use of “suites may suggest that Perrin's music has affinities with classical piano music, and indeed she has drawn comparisons with Schubert, Debussy and Ravel--comparisons which she gladly accepts--although I find Perpetual Motion most reminiscent of Erik Satie. But that is not the whole story; there are also close affinities with the ...

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What is the BBC Head of Sport, Mihir Bose, Doing in a Music Performance at the Design Museum?

What is the BBC Head of Sport, Mihir Bose, Doing in a Music Performance at the Design Museum?

Source: All About Jazz

Composer/Pianist Lola Perrin was asked to create a music performance from the work of designer/artist and Puma Creative Director, Hussein Chalayan, who is currently on exhibition at the Design Museum.

She devised a concept to integrate the issues of cultural migration & displacement that inform Chalayan’s work into her compositional process and ran a questionnaire about family histories amongst 300 anonymous Londoners. The answers form a patchwork of tales reflecting the cultural diversity that is London; these tales, and work ...

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Lola Perrin Interviewed at AAJ

Lola Perrin Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz

Born in New York (with Ukrainian and Hungarian roots), and educated in Switzerland, pianist Lola Perrin is now based in London. Following an early career producing soundtracks for television she went into a period of musical isolation until she launched her solo career in 2003. Ever since, she has attracted increasing attention across Europe as a performer and composer

In the autumn of 2006, on a double bill with her brother Roland, she played at Spitz on the closing night ...

"Lola Perrin does not necessarily identify herself with Jazz. She has invented the fantastical term "Rave Music for Butterflies"…achieves the gentleness of her playing by the very fact that she holds herself back, doesn't want too much…." (Kreuzer Magazine, Germany)

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Fragile Light

World Quarter Music
2006

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