Francesca Le Lohé

Francesca Le Lohé is a composer & community musician active in the UK and Japan. She strives to make ambitious music-based projects which provoke awareness and discussion, bringing together the experience and skills of multiple people across disciplines and cultures. Operas include: “How Was It For You?”, exploring themes of Relationship and Sex Education within Japan and the UK (Tokyo, May 2022); “THE鍵KEY“: an immersive, site-specific opera inspired by Tanizaki’s novella, featuring a mixture of Japanese and Western artforms (2019 “Keizo Saji Prize”. Tokyo & London, 2018 & 2019). Francesca’s work has been performed by ensembles including Ensemble Zar, GBSR duo, Psappha, and Red Note ensemble, and featured in Tama Music and Arts Festival, Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival and the London Festival of Architecture. She has held artist residencies at Elektronmusikstudion (Sweden) Hospitalfield and NOVARS (UK), and is a LSO Soundhub Associate 2022-2024. In 2020, Francesca co-founded the “Sound & Word Network”, an international collective of composers and writers.