composed by Martin Arnold (2010)
performed by Helen Pridmore - voice gating recordings

Janet

Taku tuahine aroha, Miss Hagmir Brenner
E hiahia ana ahau ki te ako atu mo te whai waahi ki te mahi i TRIFMC. Kei te tino hiahia ahau ki nga paapori pāpori, e whakapono ana ahau ka taea e to tohu te whai hua nui, kei konei ahau ki te mahi i te mahi whakangungu 20 haora ki a koe. Poroporoaki ki te Tari Kura Chimney Nave Vavn Madhyama, nana i mahi hei waahi i roto i nga mahi a Vyarhari Gyeri Barwal, kua ngaro.Empathy He mihi ki o tatou ahuatanga whaiaro penei i te kaha o nga pukenga korero me te kaha ki te mahi i roto i te roopu, kua tino rite taatau mo nga hiahia o nga kaipakihi hapori. Noa'tu te pe'ape'a i to tatou mana'ona'oraa i to tatou huru i te huru apî e aore râ, i te haapa'o maitai ia tatou iho. Kei te tuwhera ahau ki nga whakaaro hou. Kei te pirangi koe ki te ako mai i tetahi roopu mohio? Tukuna mai kia mohio ahau ki a koe, tohatoha i aku mohiotanga ka nui taku aroha ki a koe. Mauruuru koe mo te whai waahi ki te toro atu ki to paetukutuku whakamiharo.
Kia pai te ra
Piripi!

'A composer with Northern Roots and an Internationalist perspective' 

‘A Radical Optimist’ – Aleksandra Line, Mūzikos Saule

‘BEN LUNN puts his beloved birthplace Sunderland on the musical map’ – Linton Stephens, BBC Radio 3

‘His work extends the palette of sounds that can be brought into contemporary classical music, redefining both modern composition and concert-hall inclusion.’ – Alan Morrison, Rhinegold.co.uk 

Powerful, poignant and deeply moving, Lunn’s composition certainly represents the spirit of Disability History Month 2018 and our current struggle for justice. – Gemma Nash, Disability Arts Online

‘Ben’s music is intricate and complex with unusual harmonies, making it challenging and exciting – well worth making the effort as the effect created was magnificent’ – John A. MacInnes


Ben Lunn has forged himself a unique position within the new music landscape. As a composer, Lunn’s music reflects the material world around him, connecting to his North-Eastern heritage or how disability impacts the world around him or his working-class upbringing. Alongside this, he has become renowned for his championship of others, which have seen him creating unique collaborations with musicians from across the globe and developing unique concert experiences and opportunities for others. He has won accolades from the Scottish Music Awards in both 2023 and 2020 for his work with Hebrides Ensemble and Drake Music Scotland, and in 2024 was shortlisted for the RPS Awards for his concerto History Needs… composed for Nicholas McCarthy. In 2022, Ben Lunn became the first North-East composer to be selected for the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Composer Scheme which sees him paired with Music in the Round. 

Lunn’s music has been described as ‘Evocative’, ‘Restrained Otherwordliness’, ‘Chilling’, ‘sophisticated and most importantly obsessive’ or ‘produces…glorious roaring sounds’ and ‘desolate monotone’. He has also been referred to as a ‘Composer of life music’, as well as ‘like Beethoven but drunk’ or a ‘real barn-stomper’.

Ben Lunn studied at the Royal Welsh College of  Music and Drama under the guidance of Peter Reynolds, and also the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre with Marius Baranauskas. He has also received mentorship from composers Param Vir and Stuart MacRae. Since graduating from his Master’s Lunn relocated to Airdrie, where he currently resides; working as conductor, musicologist, teacher and composer. In September 2021, Ben Lunn started his PhD at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland where he is exploring the impact of political ideology on composition – discussing Hanns Eisler, Alan Bush, Isang Yun, Luigi Nono, Jian-er Zhu, and reflecting upon his own work.

Lunn’s work has been featured in many leading international festivals including Sound Festival, Crossroads International Festival, Vale of Glamorgan, London New Wind Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Druskomanija, DaDaFest, Arēna Festivals, Leeds Leider+, Zilele Muzicale Aniversare, HASS FEST, Durham Brass Festival, Toronto Contemporary Music Lab, Second Movement’s Rough for Opera, and Occupy the Pianos. He has had the privilege of working with leading international ensembles and soloists including Royal National Scottish Orchestra, Orkestris Sinfonia Concertante, Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, N.A.M.E.S, Sofia Soloists, Ensemble 360, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Quadra Quartet, Hebrides Ensemble, Digital Orchestra, SONO Ensemble, Lomond Brass, Lotte-Betts Dean, Eegeru, Grace Maria Wain, NOYO, Orkest De Ereprijs, Ensemble Proton Bern, Red Note Ensemble, Ensemble Synaesthesis, Music Theatre Wales, Lore Lixenberg, Ligeti Quartet, ÖeNM, Ensemble X and Y, Nikolai Matsov, Rolf Hind, Stephanie Lamprea, Francoise-Green Duo, Garth Knox, Lore Lixenberg, Ember Septet, 5K Brass, Zubin Kanga, Martynas Levickis, JVLMA, and Jauna Muzika. 

As musicologist, Lunn’s specialities focus on Baltic Music, Horaţiu Rădulescu, Political Ideology and composition, and Composing and Disability. He has had the honour of lecturing at some of the world’s leading academic institutions including Fordham University, Mozarteum, RWCMD, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Jazepa Vitola Latvijas Muzikas Akademija, Komitas Conservatory, Durham University and Amsterdam Conservatoire. His articles have been published across Germany, UK, US, Russia, Lithuania, and collected by the Arvo Pärt Centre. He has also written for the Music Information Centre of Lithuania and Latvia. He was featured in the recent Policy Press book Lived Experiences of Ableism in Academia in which he contributed a chapter. He has also produced documents offering unique insights into how to make the concert experience more accessible Concerts from my point of view, as well as advising concert promoters and organisations to make their work more accessible for disabled artists, What we need to thrive. He has also worked closely with Making Music UK on a new document to assist amateur ensembles. 

In 2021, Ben helped found the Disabled Artist Network, an organisation which is bridging the gap between the professional world and disabled artists. Ben is chair of the Musician's Union's Scottish and North of Ireland Regional Committee and is chair of the North Lanarkshire Trades Council. He also contributes to the Morning Star and Culture Matters.

Alex Jang (1988–) studied composition & music theory with Christopher Butterfield, John Celona, Wolf Edwards, Aaron Cassidy, and Bryn Harrison in Victoria and Huddersfield, conducting with Ajtony Csaba, classical guitar and chamber music with Dr. Alexander Dunn.

He has had lessons, master classes, and conversations about music with Linda Catlin Smith, Peter Ablinger, Gianluca Ulivelli, Antoine Beuger, and Martin Arnold.

His works have been performed internationally by ensembles and soloists in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Edmonton, Toronto, Montreal, Boston, Trento, London, Munich and Buenos Aires.

Recent and upcoming performances (Feb-Aug 2018): Apartment House, Adrian Verdejo, ensemble motoContrario, Victoria Composers Collective

He currently plays guitar and mandolin for the Victoria Guitar Society, Victoria Composers Collective, New Guitars, and the Place to Listen Ensemble.

His first CD, ‘momentary encounters,’ is now available on Another Timbre Canadian Composers Series 

[viii-2018]

Amarante Nat
composer / vocalist

[ feeling comfortable in the poetry of spaces, listening through movement ]

https://www.amarantenat.nl/