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Lana Bode appears alongside tenor Alessandro Fisher and an array of featured artists on composer Zoë Martlew's debut Album Z (NMC Records). Described as “the great and good of the UK music scene today” (Classical Explorer), Album Z features tracks performed by Ben Goldscheider (horn), Lucy Schaufer (mezzo), Huw Watkins (piano), Mark Simpson (clarinet), Alessandro Fisher (tenor), Lana Bode (piano) and Nicholas Daniel (oboe).
Tenor Alessandro Fisher and pianist Lana Bode’s recording of ‘In the Kyoto Garden’ by Zoë Martlew has been released to critical acclaim.
In a Classical Explorer preview, critic Colin Clarke wrote: ‘The singer here is the miraculous Alessandro Fisher, whose purity of tone is perfect for the opening words, "Still pool." against piano droplets from the ever-musical Lana Bode (one of the finest collaborative pianists around today).’
The F-List Directory of UK Female & Gender Diverse Musicians featured Lana’s work on women in music for their Women’s History Month blog.
Initial reviews are in for Le vase brisé which Lana Bode and tenor Thomas Elwin released last month with Voces8 Records.
Voces8 Records has released Lana Bode’s latest album Le vase brisé, a collaboration with tenor Thomas Elwin.
Voces8 Records has released the world premiere recording of a song by Irish-French composer Augusta Holmès, performed by Lana Bode and tenor Thomas Elwin for their upcoming album Le vase brisé.
Presto Music has selected dream.risk.sing: elevating women’s voices for this month’s Editor’s Choice. In her review, editor Katherine Cooper describes the album as a “formidable” depiction of women’s stories.
Mezzo-soprano Lucy Schaufer, a shortlisted nominee for the Royal Philharmonic Society Singer of the Year award, invited Lana Bode to join her for a live broadcast on BBC Radio 3 InTune.
Lana joined Amy Harman (bassoon) and Will Duerden (double bass) to film educational videos for Aurora Orchestra. Keep a look out for the release later this year.
Lana Bode has recorded her 2nd album with Delphian Records, this time joining soprano Samantha Crawford in a recital programme which gives voice to women’s experiences which are rarely heard in song. Due for release in August 2023, dream.risk.sing features the first ever recordings of Charlotte Bray’s new song cycle Crossing Faultlines, Libby Larsen’s songs from her The Birth Project and two new piano and voice arrangements of songs from Judith Weir’s woman.life.song.
Lana Bode appeared at Opera Holland Park to perform the world premiere of three song cycles commissioned by Hannah Sandison for Green Spaces: A Celebration in Song, a response to the experience of lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic. Lana joined tenor Alessandro Fisher for Zoë Martlew’s In the Park; soprano Alison Langer for Amelia Clarkson’s Run With Me; and mezzo soprano Hannah Sandison for Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Of Nature’s Light.
Lana Bode appears on the Tailleferre Ensemble’s upcoming new release. The album features Germaine Tailleferre’s previously unrecorded Sonate champêtre, Ingrid Stölzel’s There Are Things to Be Said (2009) and Jenni Brandon’s Metamorphosis (2018).
Following a series of collaborative workshops with Judith Weir, Lana Bode has premiered a new piano arrangement of the song ‘Edge’ from the orchestral song cycle woman.life.song, with soprano Samantha Crawford. Lana says, “Judith Weir’s woman.life.song is not only a splendid piece, but a historic one, and one that has been sadly underperformed. I’m so pleased to see a recent revival of interest in this groundbreaking work, and I’m delighted to be a small part of that by campaigning for the creation of its new voice/piano version.”
Lana Bode joined soprano Samantha Crawford to perform the world premiere of a groundbreaking new song cycle by Charlotte Bray and writer Nicki Jackowska. Lana and Samantha said, “When we began our research for dream.risk.sing, the lack of existing art song repertoire that explored women's professional lives was a big disappointment. We found plenty of repertoire that objectified women or that described domestic situations but, unable to identify anything that we could relate to as working women, we decided that it was something that we could ‘fix’. Once we started to look for appropriate composers, Charlotte Bray was an obvious choice. An eminent mid-career composer and a working mother, she had an innate understanding of the complexities of women’s professional lives. Rather than work with existing texts, we decided to commission Nicki Jackowska, a seasoned poet with a particular understanding of contemporary music who had previously worked with Charlotte and whose poetry we all loved. It has been a real privilege to be part of bringing this cycle to life.”
Lana Bode and soprano Samantha Crawford performed extracts from Charlotte Bray’s new song cycle Crossing Faultlines on Woman’s Hour.
Reader’s Digest has published Lana Bode’s introduction to “5 female composers you need to listen to”. Read more here. Link: https://www.readersdigest.co.uk/
Tailleferre Ensemble has invited pianist Lana Bode to join the collective ensemble, beginning with a series of concerts and CD recording in the 2021-22 concert season. The Tailleferre Ensemble promotes women in music, with a special interest in redressing the balance of works performed by male and female composers, and in performing new works. For her first concert with the Tailleferre Ensemble, Lana will perform Louise Farrenc’s Sextet in C Minor, Rimsky-Korsakov’s Quintet in Bb Major and Germaine Tailleferre’s Sonate champêtre.
Lana Bode and soprano Samantha Crawford have been awarded a grant by the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust to record their new song recital dream.risk.sing: elevating women’s voices with Delphian Records.
To celebrate the anniversary of the world premiere of his Two Pierrot Songs, Terence Allbright has released a new video of the performance, featuring pianist Lana Bode and soprano Irene Hoogveld.
In this feature programme marking the ninetieth anniversary of the publication of The Waves, artists reflect on the ways this novel has inspired their own creative work and practice. Pianist Lana Bode, Artistic Director of the Virginia Woolf & Music project, reflects on the musicality of Woolf's language. She reflects on Woolf as a feminist icon and the source of inspiration for her acclaimed album I and Silence.
Lana Bode has won an award from Arts Council England to fund her new project dream.risk.sing: elevating women’s voices, with soprano Samantha Crawford. The project will include the curation and performance of a new recital programme which gives voice to women’s experiences which are rarely heard in song. The project will also feature the commission of a new song cycle exploring women’s experiences in the workplace, and a CD recording.