Meet the composers

Yshani’s sound is an ever-evolving mash-up: contemporary classical music, dirty grooves, Sri Lankan parents, games, play, melancholy, and activism to list a few.

Alongside glimpses of her career as a pianist and music director, Yshani shares early drafts of new work, ideas and reflections, improvisations, and experimentation with her patrons.

Tom Coult is a composer born in London in 1988. Since 2021, he has been Composer-in-Association with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra which recorded a disc of his music in 2024, and most recently premiered ‘Monologues of the Curious’ at the BBC Proms.

His 2022 opera ‘Violet’ was described by The Telegraph as ‘the best new British opera in years’, and has had productions in the UK, Germany and France.

A versatile composer of concert music, Alice Beckwith’s music is lyrical and contemporary – her melodic sound firmly rooted in the British Isles – with an emphasis above all upon story-telling. Collaborations and commissions include Endelienta Baroque, The Carice Singers, AndPiano Festival (‘Five Armitage Songs’), and St Endellion Easter Festival.

Anna Anise brings a warm summer breeze of uplifting folk songs, folded into traditional jigs and reels from which she finds inspiration for her storytelling songwriting. She is a performing singer/songwriter with an infectious energy onstage and an ability to bring a whole room together with her relatable, heartfelt songcraft.