LSO Discovery Showcase

Jack Miguel
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Jack Miguel is an artist and facilitator from London working creatively across the mediums of audio documentary, film, performance and immersive installation. His work has been featured in The Telegraph, Noisy (Vice), Classic FM, M Magazine, Sabotage Times, Dummy Mag, NTS and on BBC Radio London and BBC Radio One. He has performed and exhibited his work both solo and collaboratively at venues and festivals across England and Europe and has been commissioned to create original work by The Union Chapel, the YMCA and the Barbican Centre among others. His most recent project, ‘The Turning of the Leaves’, is a multi-screen audio visual installation and accompanying chapbook concerned with the challenges facing men today amidst inherited narratives of power, violence and invulnerability.

Detta Danford
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Detta is a composer, flautist and coach whose practice spans Western and Japanese traditions, drawing on folk music, contemporary music and improvisation. Detta plays western flutes, shakuhachi and shinobue and has performed at the Barbican Centre, Japan Matsuri festival and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. She has worked collaboratively with the National Theatre of Scotland and the Greek National Opera and plays with drumming ensemble Taiko Meantime. Detta works in partnership with charities, ensembles and arts organisations to facilitate music-making projects and creative music ensembles. Over the last few years Detta’s work has often focused on working with women, including with Women For Refugee Women (London) and Melissa Network for Migrant Women (Athens). With Wigmore Hall Learning, she leads Come and Create, an ensemble for autistic young people, and she is currently co-developing Wigmore’s work with Solace Women’s Aid, providing music sessions for women and families in refuges across London. Detta is a coaching associate for Guildhall Ignite and is currently developing a project exploring the intersection between coaching and arts practice in partnership with The Magpie Project in Newham. 

Natasha Zielazinski
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Natasha is a composer, artist and cellist whose work draws on improvisation, folk traditions, experimental music making and a love of early and contemporary repertoire. As a composer she works with and alongside other artists, performers, communities and places. Natasha has also worked collaboratively with artists from a range of backgrounds, including poets, choreographers and filmmakers such as Kae Tempest, Hofesh Shechter and Eelyn Lee and has performed at major festivals and venues both in the UK and internationally. Her work as a facilitator has involved projects with organisations like Women for Refugee Women, Melisa Network for Migrant Women and the Magpie Project. In addition to her work as an artist, Natasha is a coach and educator. At the Guildhall School she is the programme leader for the Ignite Coaching and Mentoring training courses, and is also involved in teacher training for teachers working within performance-based contexts. In her spare time Natasha is learning to play the banjo. 

Rhia Parker
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Rhia Parker is a recorder player, composer, facilitator and teacher. Her work encompasses a diverse range of settings and contexts with a focus on agency, community and self-expression. Rhia’s passion for working in healthcare includes delivering an award-winning project taking post-graduate Guildhall School musicians into University Collage London Hospital (UCLH) and Royal Free Hospital, specialising in working in the Care for the Elderly wards. She has also worked within the post-natal ward at UCLH and ran music sessions for mothers and babies under six months.

With her quartet Breakfast Club, Rhia partners with organisations supporting refugee woman and mother’s, delivering music and mentoring projects. She has worked with the LSO on a number of community projects, as well the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Drumworks and Aldeburgh Young Musicians. Alongside her role as a tutor at the Guildhall School of Music, Rhia records and performs her own work and has a released two albums.

Tim Travers Hawkins
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Tim Travers Hawkins is known for cinematic documentaries, that tell human stories that grapple with the most pressing issues of our times. His work has been shown on streamers like Netflix, HBO Max and Showtime and premiered at some of the worlds best film festivals such as Tribeca, BFI London Film Festival, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam and South by South West.​He began filmmaking in Latin America where he was mentored by auteurs Fernando Birri and Pino Solanas in Argentina and studied at the international film school in Cuba.

His debut feature XY Chelsea (Tribeca 2019. Showtime) followed transgender Wikileaks source Chelsea Manning who leaked over 300,000 US Military documents. It was nominated for two Documentary Emmy Awards and the United Nations Cinema for Peace Award. He has since made Persona (HBO Max. 2020), Burn it Down! (Paramount. 2021) and Capturing the Killer Nurse (Netflix. 2022). He is currently developing his next feature film with Dorothy St Pictures.

John Aulich
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John Aulich is a British composer whose works are performed internationally, including in the United Kingdom, United States, Israel, Thailand, Australia and Italy, by world-renowned performers such as ELISION Ensemble and International Contemporary Ensemble. His work has been performed at MATA Festival, CEME and June in Buffalo. John’s work is characterised by evocative, highly-charged and volatile sound-worlds stemming from the physicality of performance, and often inspired by surrealist art and literature, science fiction and ancient mythology. His oeuvre as a whole takes as its first principle the idea that composing, performing and listening is a lived, embodied and physical experience. A particular focus of his latest work is abject, disgusting and surreal sound-worlds, conveyed in part through a contortion of the listener’s sense of space and perspective. In March 2023, John was selected for the ISCM British Section’s shortlist of composers submitted to the ISCM World New Music Days Festival.