Lara Agar

Lara Agar is a London-based composer and violinist writing music for concert halls, installations, contemporary dance and film. Her music blends electronic soundscapes and sampled material with acoustic instruments.

Described as “crackling like static” (The Times), her music thrives in abstraction, often embracing indeterminacy and vocality whilst allowing for a messiness and quiet chaos. She has worked with several artists and musicians forming close and ongoing collaborative relationships across dance, visual arts and film, with interests in the accidental, the found and not knowing. Lara released her debut EP Solstice with October House Records 2023, and was nominated for an Ivor Novello Award in 2022 for This Unquiet Autumn.

Recent performers who have played Lara’s music include Explore Ensemble, the London Symphony Orchestra, Juliet Fraser + Mark Knoop, the Plus-Minus Ensemble and Quatuor Bozzini. Upcoming commissions are from Patricia Aucherlonie + David Zucchi, and Zubin Kanga.

Her music has been played on BBC Radio 3 Night Tracks and New Music Show, NTS radio, as well as in venues such as Snape Maltings (Aldeburgh Festival), Wigmore Hall, the Barbican, Milton Court, Sadler’s Wells, Iklectik, and many more grassroots venues throughout the UK and Europe including Music We’d Like to Hear (London).

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Photograph by Fred Thomas