Ysanne Spevack (born 24 June 1972) is a British-American Jewish composer, conductor and arranger who plays violin, viola and cello, and assorted multi-instruments including mbira, keyboards and guitar. best known for her work recording and touring with the
Smashing Pumpkins
Smash may refer to:
People
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* Moondog Rex, another professional wrestler who briefly wrestled as the original Smash, before being replaced by the above.
* DJ Smash, DJ and music producer
Art, ...
,
David J
David John Haskins (born 24 April 1957, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England), better known as David J, is a British alternative rock musician, producer, and writer. He is the bassist for the gothic rock band Bauhaus and for Love and Rock ...
,
Michael Stipe
John Michael Stipe (; born January 4, 1960) is an American singer-songwriter and artist, best known as the lead singer and lyricist of alternative rock band R.E.M. He is known for his vocal quality, poetic lyrics and unique stage presence.
Poss ...
,
Tiesto,
Elton John
Sir Elton Hercules John (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is a British singer, pianist and composer. Commonly nicknamed the "Rocket Man" after his 1972 hit single of the same name, John has led a commercially successful career a ...
,
Christina Perri
Christina Judith Perri (born August 19, 1986) is an American singer and songwriter. After her debut single "Jar of Hearts" was featured on the television series ''So You Think You Can Dance'' in 2010, Perri signed with Atlantic Records and releas ...
,
Hawkwind
Hawkwind are an English rock band known as one of the earliest space rock groups. Since their formation in November 1969, Hawkwind have gone through many incarnations and have incorporated many different styles into their music, including hard ...
,
Psychic TV, and
Asian Dub Foundation
Asian Dub Foundation (ADF) is an English electronic music band that combines musical styles including rap rock, dub, dancehall, ragga, and South Asian music. The group also includes traditional rock instruments such as electric bass and gui ...
. In 2018 she announced that her name has changed to Meena Ysanne.
She has a dual career as a food writer. Her thirteen cookbooks have been published by
HarperCollins
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and other book publishers internationally, and have led to her writing about food for the
Los Angeles Times
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and other leading media outlets internationally.
She was based in Los Angeles from 2004-2015, where she shaped a career arranging strings and playing acoustic and electric violin, and composing original music for soundtracks, notably for two feature films: To Be Friends and The Owls. Her performance and arranging work for film, TV and multiple recording artists touches upon several genres, including
orchestral
An orchestra (; ) is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families.
There are typically four main sections of instruments:
* bowed string instruments, such as the violin, viola, ce ...
,
rock music
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,
pop music
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,
world music, and
film score
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s.
In 2014, she started designing multisensory, multimedia immersive experiences in New York based on her music compositions, food concepts, and emerging ideas from
neuroscience
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and
psychology
Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries betwe ...
. She did this leading a team of artists and scientists from many disciplines for each event. In May 2017, she presented a TEDx Talk about this work in Bend, Oregon.
She is based between New York, London, Austin TX, and Los Angeles.
Biography
Early life
Ysanne was raised in London, where she studied piano, violin and guitar. Her great uncle, Edward Summers, was a professional violinist who played for silent movies, and her cousin is classical violinist Geoffrey Trabichoff, formerly leader of the BBC Scottish
Symphony Orchestra
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There are typically four main sections of instruments:
* bowed string instruments, such as the violin, viola, ce ...
. She began touring Europe aged 13, playing classical repertoire including Mozart, Vivaldi and Haydn.
After studying composition and conducting with violin at The
Royal College of Music
The Royal College of Music is a music school, conservatoire established by royal charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, UK. It offers training from the Undergraduate education, undergraduate to the Doctorate, doctoral level in a ...
, London, and then later CuBase and Music Technology at Community Music, with teachers Aniruddha Das and
Steve Chandra Savale
Steve Chandra Savale is a British musician. He joined Asian Dub Foundation in 1994 and has been the band’s longest-serving member. He developed a guitar style that maintained a punk aggression but could work within a Dub/Jungle foundation, u ...
, she traveled to India, studying classical Indian music and sitar in the city of
Varanasi
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*
*
*
* The city has a syncretic t ...
. In 1995, Ysanne began to play electric violin with electronics for many producers and DJs in the underground
Acid House
Acid house (also simply known as just "acid") is a subgenre of house music developed around the mid-1980s by DJs from Chicago. The style is defined primarily by the squelching sounds and basslines of the Roland TB-303 electronic bass synthesiz ...
,
Techno
Techno is a genre of electronic dance music (EDM) which is generally produced for use in a continuous DJ set, with tempo often varying between 120 and 150 beats per minute (bpm). The central rhythm is typically in common time (4/4) and often ch ...
and
Drum and Bass
Drum and bass (also written as drum & bass or drum'n'bass and commonly abbreviated as D&B, DnB, or D'n'B) is a genre of electronic dance music characterized by fast breakbeats (typically 165–185 beats per minute) with heavy bass and sub-ba ...
music scenes of London, notably with
Sister Bliss
Ayalah Deborah Bentovim (born 30 December 1970), better known by her stage name Sister Bliss, is a British keyboardist, record producer, DJ and songwriter. In the studio, she is best known for her work with Rollo Armstrong as one half of the pr ...
from
Faithless
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,
Tiesto,
Talvin Singh
Talvin Singh OBE (born 1970) is an English musician, producer, and composer. A tabla player, he is known for creating an innovative fusion of Indian classical music and drum and bass. Singh is generally considered involved with an electronica ...
,
T Power
T Power (born Marc Royal) is an English drum and bass producer from Bow, London. Originally starting his production career in the UK hardcore scene, he moved into jungle. He was signed to drum and bass/jungle record label Botchit and Scarper. Wa ...
and
Tsuyoshi Suzuki
Tsuyoshi is a masculine Japanese given name.
Possible writings
Tsuyoshi can be written using different kanji characters. Here are some examples:
*剛, "sturdy"
*剛史, "sturdy, history"
*剛志, "sturdy, will"
*剛士, "sturdy, gentleman/samura ...
.
Rock, Pop and Soundtrack Composing Career
Ysanne began her recording career in 1996 by recording and releasing her first studio album, under the moniker Mee. Even in this first work, she relies heavily on
Extended technique
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while playing an acoustic violin made from aluminum alloy. In 1997 she began collaborating with
Philip Clemo
Philip Clemo is a British composer, musician, producer, sound artist, filmmaker and visual artist, described by Propermusic.com as one of contemporary music's most innovative artists.
Early life
Philip James Clemo was born on 3 August 1964 in In ...
and released the album ''Sound – Inhale the Colours'' with him. Later that year on 25 June, she played electric violin with
Laurie Anderson
Laurel Philips Anderson (born June 5, 1947), known as Laurie Anderson, is an American avant-garde artist, composer, musician, and film director whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects. Initially trained in violin and ...
at the
Queen Elizabeth Hall
The Queen Elizabeth Hall (QEH) is a music venue on the South Bank in London, England, that hosts classical, jazz, and avant-garde music, talks and dance performances. It was opened in 1967, with a concert conducted by Benjamin Britten.
The ...
as part of the South Bank
Meltdown Festival
Meltdown is an annual festival held in London, featuring a mix of music, art, performance and film. Meltdown is held in June at Southbank Centre, the arts complex covering and including the Royal Festival Hall, the Queen Elizabeth Hall and The ...
.
In 1999 she recorded another album with
Philip Clemo
Philip Clemo is a British composer, musician, producer, sound artist, filmmaker and visual artist, described by Propermusic.com as one of contemporary music's most innovative artists.
Early life
Philip James Clemo was born on 3 August 1964 in In ...
, ''Soundzero'', which was not released until 2008.
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Chain D.L.K. review
/ref> The same year she participated to various neofolk
Neofolk, also known as apocalyptic folk, is a form of experimental music blending elements of folk and industrial music, which emerged in punk rock circles in the 1980s. Neofolk may either be solely acoustic or combine acoustic folk instrumenta ...
compilations, notably ''The Pact ...Of the Gods'' (Fremdheit), ''Torture Garden – Bizarre & Eccentric'' (Torture Garden Records), and the split single with Death in June
Death in June are a neofolk group led by English musician Douglas P. (Douglas Pearce). The band was originally formed in the United Kingdom in 1981 as a trio, but after the other members left in 1984 and 1985 to work on other projects, the gro ...
''We Said Destroy'' as part of the band Fire + Ice
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Plot
In this novel, a Russian bu ...
. She also produced the music on the album ''Time Dragons'', a spoken word album.
In 2001, she composed soundtracks for the Discovery Channel's Lonely Planet
Lonely Planet is a travel guide book publisher. Founded in Australia in 1973, the company has printed over 150 million books.
History Early years
Lonely Planet was founded by married couple Maureen and Tony Wheeler. In 1972, they embarked ...
travel series. In 2003, Ysanne was invited to perform electric violin for Peter Sellars
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at the Venice Biennale
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. This led her to being invited to arrange strings and record electric violin for a new work for the English National Opera
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.[''English National Opera''](_blank)
/ref> She moved to America the year after.
In 2008, she played violin, viola and electric violin for visual artist Doug Aitken
Doug Aitken (born 1968) is an American artist. Aitken's body of work ranges from photography, print media, sculpture, and architectural interventions, to narrative films, sound, single and multi-channel video works, installations, and live perf ...
's work ''sleepwalkers''. The film featured Tilda Swinton
Katherine Matilda Swinton (born 5 November 1960) is a British actress. Known for her roles in independent films and blockbusters, she has received various accolades, including an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award, in addition to ...
, Donald Sutherland
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and Cat Power
Charlyn Marie "Chan" Marshall ( ; born January 21, 1972), better known by her stage name Cat Power, is an American singer-songwriter, musician and model. Cat Power was originally the name of her first band, but has become her stage name as a ...
, and premiered at MoMA
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People
* Moma Clarke (1869–1958), British journalist
* Moma Marković (1912–1992), Serbian politician
* Momčilo Rajin (born 1954), Serbian art and music critic, theorist and historian, artist and publisher
Places
; Ang ...
in New York.
In 2009, Ysanne recorded the track ''Salahadeen'' with the Master Musicians of Joujouka
The Master Musicians of Joujouka are a collective of Jbala Sufi trance musicians, serving as a modern representation of a centuries-old music tradition. The collective was first documented by Western journalists in the early 1950s, and was b ...
, David J
David John Haskins (born 24 April 1957, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England), better known as David J, is a British alternative rock musician, producer, and writer. He is the bassist for the gothic rock band Bauhaus and for Love and Rock ...
and Dub Gabriel.[Track description](_blank)
on bandcamp. The same year she was also the string contractor for Ray Bradbury
Ray Douglas Bradbury (; August 22, 1920June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of modes, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and r ...
's 'Chrysalis' and toured with David J
David John Haskins (born 24 April 1957, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England), better known as David J, is a British alternative rock musician, producer, and writer. He is the bassist for the gothic rock band Bauhaus and for Love and Rock ...
.
In 2010 she directed the music and sang live at the Frankfurt Museum of Modern Art for visual performance artist Vanessa Beecroft
Vanessa Beecroft (born April 25, 1969) is an Italian-born American contemporary performance artist; she also works with photography, video art, sculpture, and painting. Many of her works have made use of professional models, sometimes in large nu ...
's work ''VB68''. It was the 68th work where Beecroft arranged nude women as art, but the 1st work where any of the women have made a noise of any kind. The performance lasted for two hours, with Ysanne singing and vocalising Beecroft's manifesto. The same year she composed the soundtracks to two full-length feature films: To Be Friends for brothers Jim and Aaron Eckhart
Aaron Edward Eckhart (born March 12, 1968) is an American actor. Born in Cupertino, California, Eckhart moved to the United Kingdom at an early age. He began his acting career by performing in school plays, before moving to Australia for his hi ...
, and The Owls for Cheryl Dunye
Cheryl Dunye (; born May 13, 1966) is a Liberian-American film director, producer, screenwriter, editor and actress. Dunye's work often concerns themes of race, sexuality, and gender, particularly issues relating to black lesbians. She is known ...
and her strings were commissioned for HBO's Big Love
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. She also played strings on the Smashing Pumpkins
Smash may refer to:
People
* Smash (wrestler) (born 1959), professional wrestler
* Moondog Rex, another professional wrestler who briefly wrestled as the original Smash, before being replaced by the above.
* DJ Smash, DJ and music producer
Art, ...
''Teargarden by Kaleidyscope'' EP series that featured Billy Corgan
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, Kerry Brown and Linda Strawberry
Linda Strawberry is an American artist, director, editor and musician, best known for her work on tours and music videos.
Career
Initially working under her birth name Linda Rowberry, Strawberry collaborated with Especially For Youth on ''I Kno ...
.
In September 2011, Ysanne joined David J
David John Haskins (born 24 April 1957, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England), better known as David J, is a British alternative rock musician, producer, and writer. He is the bassist for the gothic rock band Bauhaus and for Love and Rock ...
and Ego Plum
Ego Plum (born February 27, 1975) is an American film composer, musician, and performer. He is best known for his work on ''The Cuphead Show!,'' ''The Patrick Star Show,'' '' Kamp Koral,'' ''SpongeBob SquarePants,'' ''Jellystone!,'' '' Making Fi ...
to play music for the Los Angeles stage production of ''The Chanteuse and the Devil's Muse'',[an article about ''The Chanteuse and the Devil’s Muse''](_blank)
/ref> and in November 2011, she joined David for the Los Angeles stage production of ''Silver for Gold'' and the Redcat Theater.[''Silver for Gold'' event description](_blank)
on th
Redcat Theater website
/ref> David J
David John Haskins (born 24 April 1957, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England), better known as David J, is a British alternative rock musician, producer, and writer. He is the bassist for the gothic rock band Bauhaus and for Love and Rock ...
played bass guitar on her new album, ''Coldwater'', which was released in 2013.[The ''Coldwater']
album blog
/ref>
In 2013, Ysanne's song and film, ''The Mermaid Song'', sold 24,000 copies, released in collaboration with Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) is a non-profit, marine conservation activism organization based in Friday Harbor, Washington, Friday Harbor on San Juan Island, Washington, in the United States. Sea Shepherd employs direct action t ...
and LUSH (company)
Lush Retail Ltd. is a British cosmetics retailer which is headquartered in Poole, Dorset, United Kingdom. It was founded in 1995 by trichologist Mark Constantine, his wife Mo Constantine and five other founders. Lush has 951 stores globally.
...
, as featured in the Los Angeles Times
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and internationally.
In 2016, Ysanne created a multisensory performance with music, food, technology, video and other modalities, as featured in The Huffington Post and widely reported internationally. She was interviewed about this for Future Human from Nokia Bell Labs
Nokia Bell Labs, originally named Bell Telephone Laboratories (1925–1984),
then AT&T Bell Laboratories (1984–1996)
and Bell Labs Innovations (1996–2007),
is an American industrial research and scientific development company owned by mult ...
In 2017, she presented a TED Talk
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about creating multi-sensory, multidisciplinary work that is Crossmodal Crossmodal perception or cross-modal perception is perception that involves interactions between two or more different sensory modalities. Examples include synesthesia, sensory substitution and the McGurk effect, in which vision and hearing interac ...
. She also wrote orchestral arrangements and recordings that were released on the Psychic TV album, Fishscales Falling.
She primarily composes soundtracks for film, commercials, and documentaries, including her original music for ads for Vans
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, Chanel
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, and Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System, only being larger than Mercury (planet), Mercury. In the English language, Mars is named for the Mars (mythology), Roman god of war. Mars is a terr ...
.
Food Writing Career
Ysanne has a dual career as a cookbook author and food writer. Her first cookbook, ''Organic Cookbook'', was published in 1996. She has continued to write cookbooks during the many spaces in the musical creative day, for example on the back of tour buses. As such, she has had thirteen cookbooks published including ''Fresh & Wild - A Real Food Adventure'' which was commissioned by Whole Foods Market
Whole Foods Market IP, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon, is an upscale American multinational supermarket chain headquartered in Austin, Texas, which sells products free from hydrogenated fats and artificial colors, flavors, and preservatives. A US ...
and published by HarperCollins
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in 2003. In 2015, Rizzoli Bookstore
Rizzoli Bookstore is a general interest bookstore, located in the St. James Building, 1133 Broadway in New York City, that primarily specializes in illustrated books and foreign language titles. Its previous location at 31 W. 57th Street was no ...
published a cookbook she co-wrote ''The Ranch at Live Oak Cookbook'' and the book was praised by The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...
and Vogue
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Business
* ''Vogue'' (magazine), a US fashion magazine
** British ''Vogue'', a British fashion magazine
** ''Vogue Arabia'', an Arab fashion magazine
** ''Vogue Australia'', an Australian fashion magazine
** ''Vogue China'', ...
, Harper's Bazaar
''Harper's Bazaar'' is an American monthly women's fashion magazine. It was first published in New York City on November 2, 1867, as the weekly ''Harper's Bazar''. ''Harper's Bazaar'' is published by Hearst and considers itself to be the st ...
alongside other leading press.
In September 2018, her cookbook ''Vegetable Cakes'' was published by Lorenz Books.
In addition, she has managed edible estates for William Shatner
William Shatner (born March 22, 1931) is a Canadian actor. In a career spanning seven decades, he is best known for his portrayal of James T. Kirk in the ''Star Trek'' franchise, from his 1965 debut as the captain of the starship USS Enterpri ...
, Patrick Dempsey
Patrick Galen Dempsey (born January 13, 1966) is an American actor and race car driver. He is best known for his role as neurosurgeon Derek "McDreamy" Shepherd in ''Grey's Anatomy''. He had early success as an actor, starring in a number of fil ...
and Angela Lindvall
Angela Lindvall (born January 14, 1979) is an American model and actress. She was first discovered by an IMG scout when she was 14 years old, and was immediately signed with IMG New York. She took a brief break from modeling but returned when sh ...
and cooked for members of the entertainment and wellness community, including Joshua Bell
Joshua David Bell (born December 9, 1967) is an American violinist and conductor. He plays the Gibson Stradivarius.
Early life and education
Bell was born in Bloomington, Indiana, to Shirley Bell, a therapist, and Alan P. Bell, a psychologis ...
and Sharon Salzberg
Sharon Salzberg (born August 5, 1952) is a ''New York Times'' bestselling author and teacher of Buddhist meditation practices in the West. In 1974, she co-founded the Insight Meditation Society at Barre, Massachusetts, with Jack Kornfield and Jos ...
.
Sensory Experience Design Career
Since 2014, Ysanne has combined her knowledge of music and food by creating immersive experiences based on emerging crossmodal Crossmodal perception or cross-modal perception is perception that involves interactions between two or more different sensory modalities. Examples include synesthesia, sensory substitution and the McGurk effect, in which vision and hearing interac ...
scientific understanding of how the sense perceptions are inter-related and integrated.
In September 2016, Ysanne's multisensory experiences were praised in Yahoo! News
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, Huffington Post
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, and The Express Tribune
''The Express Tribune'' is a daily English-language newspaper based in Pakistan. It is the flagship publication of the '' Daily Express'' media group. It is Pakistan's only internationally affiliated newspaper in a partnership with the ''Interna ...
.
Discography
Ysanne has produced music under her birth name, and under the aliases Meena Ysanne, Mee, and Soror U.
* ''Mee'',[this is the title given in ''The Pact ...Of the Gods'' compilation and on the spine of the CD] 1997',[As named by th]
distributor Tesco Distribution
an
discogs.com
/ref> credited to Mee (Mee Music)
* ''Sound – Inhale the colours'', 1997, credited to Mee and Philip Clemo
Philip Clemo is a British composer, musician, producer, sound artist, filmmaker and visual artist, described by Propermusic.com as one of contemporary music's most innovative artists.
Early life
Philip James Clemo was born on 3 August 1964 in In ...
(Mee Music)
* ''Time Dragons: Poems, Pathworkings and Pataphysical Patter'', 1999, from the box set ''The Chaos Magick Audio CDs Volume 5 – The Galafron Rite & Timedragons, An Astral Working of Illumination'',[Th]
exact reference
from Falcon Press. credited to Dave Lee, Soror U and Dr. Natan Satan and edited by Peter J. Carroll
Peter James Carroll (born 8 January 1953) is an English occultist, writer, and physics graduate. He is one of the originators of chaos magic theory and a cofounder of the Illuminates of Thanateros.
Career
In the late 1970s, Peter Carroll and ...
(Falcon Press)
* ''The Sound of Fashion'', 2004, credited to Ysanne Spevack and Carl Ryden (Standard Music)
* ''Soundzero'', 2008, credited to Ysanne Spevack and Philip Clemo
Philip Clemo is a British composer, musician, producer, sound artist, filmmaker and visual artist, described by Propermusic.com as one of contemporary music's most innovative artists.
Early life
Philip James Clemo was born on 3 August 1964 in In ...
(Koch / Cadiz)
* ''The Mermaid Song'', 2013, credited to Ysanne (LUSH Cosmetics / Sea Shepherd Conservation Society) Music for Good 29 April 2013
/ref>
Incomplete bibliography
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References
External links
Official site
The Huffington Post, 2016
Interview in Inhabit Magazine, 2016
Interview in Cool Hunting, 2016
Music for Good
Consequence of Sound
Singapore Today
The Express Tribune
All About Jazz magazine
Wallpaper magazine
LA Weekly
The Guardian
Vogue
TEDx Talk
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British violinists
British composers
1972 births
Living people
21st-century British conductors (music)
21st-century violinists