Ep.1 The Anxiety of Representation: Artist, Identity

Do you, and should you, draw influences from your cultural heritage? Five UK-based composers discuss the relationship between their cultural backgrounds and artistic identity, and the extent to which their heritage and ethnicity manifest in their musical language. Film by composer Des Oliver created for the British Music Collection. Watch the full series here: https://britishmusiccollection.org.uk... Featured composers: Tunde Jegede – http://www.tundejegede.org/ Dominique Le Gendre – https://www.dominiquelegendre.com/ Daniel Kidane – http://www.rayfieldallied.com/artists... Philip Herbert – http://www.philipherbert.org/ Des Oliver – http://www.desoliver.com/ Featured works: Jairaby (Mandé Suite) – Tunde Jegede & NOK Orchestra Jab Molassie (lib. Caitlyn Kamminga http://www.caitlynkamminga.org/ ) – Calabash Foundation for the Arts My Secret Garden – Nika Shirocorad Pulsing – London Symphony Orchestra Elegy: In Memoriam – Stephen Lawrence – Chineke! Orchestra Foreign Tongues – London Symphony Orchestra Ballare to Dance – Timescale Ensemble Invocation (Mvt. II) Cello Concerto (arr. for string orchestra) – Tunde Jegede & NOK Orchestra Performers: Chineke! Orchestra London Symphony Orchestra Nika Shirocorad Timescale Ensemble Tunde Jegede & NOK Orchestra Films: "Ballare to Dance" provided courtesy of Philip Herbert / Serendipity (www.serendipity-uk.com) "Elegy: In memoriam - Stephen Lawrence" by the Chineke! Orchestra "Invocation II" by Sunara Begum / Tunde Jegede (XiomMusic) Cinematography: Yukitaka Amemiya / Yue Wang "Jab Molassie" by Maria Nunes "Jairaby (Mandé Suite)" by Sunara Begum / Tunde Jegede (XiomMusic) Cinematography: Yukitaka Amemiya / Yue Wang Film makers: Maria Nunes – https://www.marianunes.com Sunara Begum – http://www.sunarabegum.com Yukitaka Amemiya – http://yukitaka-amemiya.com/ Special Thanks: Angharad Cooper Alex Gowan-Webster Elizabeth Hannon Chi-chi Nwanoku Mario de Sa Natalia Franklin Pierce Shannon St. Luce Stephen Carpenter