Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian

Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian’s multifaceted works ignore the boundaries between art-forms and artistic cultures. An award-winning composer and performer, her ‘stand-out’ gig at the BBC Proms led to her description in the international media as a “21st-century diva” (in the original sense of the word). She writes for and performs with wide-ranging ensembles, acoustic and electronic, eastern and western, leaping from one project to another. On the surface, they seem to contrast sharply — her Ivors-nominated folk-electronica album BRACE (Crewdson & Cevanne, Accidental), seems at once more intimate and surreal than her large-scale orchestral work for the Royal Ballet, Seasons In Our World. But through everything runs a strong sense of line, rhythm, storytelling, and a voice that can only be hers.