Kenyan composer/performer, currently based in the USA.
piano, vocals, mbira.

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composer and vocalist. choral music, vocal music, music with sound palettes and fun noises. moments of unexpected beauty. will sing anything from bach to beached whale sounds.

The Grammy-winning Brooklyn Youth Chorus is a collective of young singers and vocal ensembles reimagining choral performance through artistic innovation, collaboration, and an incredibly versatile range and repertoire. Named WQXR’s 2016-17 Artists-in-Residence, the Chorus combines intensive voice and musicianship training with exceptional performance experiences. Acclaimed for their distinctively beautiful sound, the Chorus has appeared with world-class orchestras and conductors, including the New York & Los Angeles Philharmonics and under the batons of Alan Gilbert, Gustavo Dudamel, and others. Additionally, the Chorus has performed or recorded with major artists such as Barbra Streisand, Arcade Fire, Elton John, The National, and Grizzly Bear. Recordings of the Chorus have been featured in major motion pictures, commercials, and live events, including Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s OTR II World Tour. The Chorus released its first solo album, Black Mountain Songs, in 2017, and its second album, Silent Voices, will be available in October 2018. As a bold commissioner and producer of new music, the Chorus has introduced over 100 new works by contemporary composers into the repertoire, including several evening-length productions such as its Silent Voices series, Black Mountain Songs, and Tell the Way. Brooklyn Youth Chorus serves over 600 students in its core after-school and public school outreach programs throughout Brooklyn. brooklynyouthchorus.org

Alev Lenz is a is a German-Turkish singer, songwriter, composer and producer. Lenz's rich catalog of compositions fuse distinctive musical worlds into something that is authentically hers - compelling songs for both record and screen.

While working on material for her latest record '3', Alev composed her breakthrough track 'Fall Into Me' for Charlie Brooker's Netflix series 'Black Mirror'. Her s single 'May the Angels' from '3' featured on season two of critically-acclaimed Netflix series 'Dark'. 'Splendid Soldiers', Fall Into Me's album version, has also been featured on the third season of 'The Rain' (Netflix) while 'Pieces' of the same record has even been prominently featured twice on SKY's brand-new series 'Funeral For A Dog'.

'3' was released 2019 on the label arm of music tech company Spitfire Audio, SA Recordings, alongside a 20 patch Alev Lenz - '3' best selling and five star reviewed sample library, the first in the acclaimed music tech company whole new series of artist-led sample libraries.

Since 'Fall Into Me', her voice and writing have been in steady demand. Alev recently finished work on her debut feature film score, a commissioned piece for Grammy-award winning Brooklyn Youth Chorus and contributing vocals to Oscar nominated composer Volker Bertelmann's scores for the US-drama 'Downhill' and Netflix-blockbusters like 'The Old Guard', 'Stowaway' and 'Against The Ice'. Alev is frequently working in close collaboration with other artists, most famously with Martin Phipps who called her in to write the original song for "Black Mirror" and renowned sitarist and 7-time Grammy-Nominee Anoushka Shankar, with whom Alev co-wrote the title track for the Grammy-nominated album 'Land of Gold' as well as co-writing and co-producing Shankar's latest album 'Love Letters' - which culminated in three sold out shows with Shankar at London's Southbank Centre in December 2019 and a Grammy-nomination for the 63rd GRAMMY Awards in 2020. In 2021, on occasion of the gala concert at Krakow Film Music Festival, her composition for the Netflix-series Black Mirror was performed.

Awards & Nominations:

2020 Love Letters Grammy Nomination (role: producer, songwriter, vocalist, musician, engineer)
2017 Land Of Gold Grammy Nomination (role: songwriter, vocalist)

A London-based record label dedicated to songs and sounds by contemporary composers.

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Circassian-Turkish electronica producer from Istanbul.  Releases on Ki, Universal, Lost Tribe, Armada, FatCat...Remixes for Christian Löffler, Jan Blomqvist, Hauschka, Ambassadeurs...Support slots for John Talabot, Christian Löffler, Gidge, Weval, the XX, Jan Blomqvist, Digitalism...

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