Anna Meredith is a composer, producer and performer of both acoustic and electronic music
Her sound straddles the worlds of contemporary classical, art pop, soundtracks, electronica, installations and experimental rock.
Anna has been Composer in Residence at the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, commissions for the First and Last night of the BBC Proms and countless performances and commissions with leading orchestras and ensembles across the globe.
Her installation pieces include interactive works for dodgems, lifts, sleep pods and a zamboni ice clearing machine.
Notable releases include: Varmints (SAY Award winner); FIBS, which was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize and named Electronic Sound’s Album of the Year; ANNO, featuring Anna’s music and Vivaldi’s Four Seasons; Bumps Per Minute, the soundtrack to her installation project for dodgems; NUC, an album of string quartet works performed by the Ligeti Quartet listed as one of the Guardian’s Ten Best Contemporary Albums of 2023.
The Anna Meredith band live show has been described as ‘sheer exhilaration’ by the New York Times, and as ‘a stormy, ecstatic, endlessly danceable thrill to behold’ by NPR’s Bob Boilen. They have collaborated with multiple orchestras to perform arrangements of Anna’s material for band and orchestra.
Anna's other projects include Five Telegrams, a large-scale orchestral piece written in collaboration with Tony Award-winning visuals company 59 Productions; HandsFree and Connect It, two body percussion pieces written with choreographer David Ogle.
Anna is a sought-after composer for film and television, having written original scores for Eighth Grade, Living With Yourself, HELP, the BIFA-nominated The End We Start From and TUESDAY.