Sarah Lianne Lewis is a Welsh composer whose music has received awards and commendations and beenfeatured in several British and European classical music festivals, and been performed by ensembles such as the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Gemini, and PianoCircus. One of Sound and Music’s ‘New Voices’ composers of 2014, she has recently worked with Silbersee opera
(ex vocaallab) and LOD Theatre in Ghent through the European Network of Opera Academies, and was commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society in 2014 to create a film interpreting her chamber work Shadow Play with filmmaker Christopher Lutterodt-Quarcoo, which was premiered at the British Film Institute, London in January 2015.

Sarah’s first chamber opera, »A Son to the Slaughter«, with librettist and director Max Hoehn, was premiered in Aldeburgh in September 2015 as the culmination of the Jerwood Opera Writing Course 2014-15. Earlier in the year, her song cycle »Relativity and Revelation for soprano voice, piano and singing bowls«, was premiered at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, having been commissioned by the Festival Académie. The beginning of 2016 sees her new work for symphony orchestra, »Is there no seeker of dreams that were?«, will be premiered by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in March, and a new work for string trio will be premiered in the Heidelberg Music Festival, Germany, as well as a new work, commissioned by the Festival, for soprano voice and percussion.