Anna Lapwood - Luna (2023)

With English charm, exceptional talent and creative openness, the young British musician Anna Lapwood not only inspires critics, but also an audience of millions on social media. On her Sony Classical debut album "Luna", which will be released on September 29, she gives an insight into her extensive musical cosmos.

The album's fifteen tracks illuminate her versatility, combining traditional repertoire by Johann Sebastian Bach, Claude Debussy and Philip Glass with contemporary compositions by Max Richter, Ludovico Einaudi and Hans Zimmer. On "Luna" Anna Lapwood is primarily featured as an organist, but other facets of her musical life also come to the fore when she conducts the Pembroke College Chapel Choir on two tracks.

Anna Lapwood plays organ, violin and harp and is active as a conductor and orchestra leader. born in Oxfordshire in 1995, she was the first woman in the history of Magdalen College Oxford to receive an organ scholarship. in 2016, she became Cambridge's youngest female musical director and has since led Pembroke College's choirs and ensembles. After hours and after dark, she is given special access to the majestic instrument at the Royal Albert Hall as an Associate Artist of the Royal Albert Hall. This has led to some spectacular collaborations. The most famous of which is with electronic musician Bonobo. On TikTok, she reaches more than 550,000 followers with such equally casual and spectacular musical outings.

Anna Lapwood uses the mechanisms of social media specifically to inspire a young audience for the organ and classical music. Another of Anna Lapwood's concerns is to inspire young women to play her instrument. Therefore, she regularly leads organ workshops and organizes the "Cambridge Organ Experience for Girls" as well as the annual 24-hour "Bachathon" to raise money for musicians in Zambia. Her anthology of 12 new organ pieces by female composers, called "Gregoriana," curated and edited for Stainer & Bell, was named "Release of the Year" by Presto Music in 2022. After being encouraged to "play like a man" as a young organ student, Anna Lapwood created the now popular hashtag #playlikeagirl. For her social commitment, she received the prestigious "Gamechanger" award from the Royal Philharmonic Society in 2023

Anna Lapwood made her soloist debut at the BBC Proms in 2021, performing Saint-Saëns' Organ Symphony, and regularly appears as a soloist with leading symphony orchestras and conductors, has been a guest on Classic FM Live, and has collaborated with artists including Alison Balsom, Bonobo, and Benedict Cumberbatch. Highlights of the 2023 / 24 season include concerts on both the East and West Coasts of the United States, including her debut at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.

TRACKLIST

1. Anna Lapwood - Flying (From "Peter Pan" Soundtrack)
2. Anna Lapwood Feat. Olivia Belli - Grain Moon
3. Anna Lapwood - Nocturne, Op. 9, No. 2
4. Anna Lapwood - Dreamland
5. Anna Lapwood - Dawn (From "Pride and Prejudice" Soundtrack)
6. Anna Lapwood - Stay (From "Interstellar" Soundtrack)
7. Anna Lapwood - Ave Maria
8. Anna Lapwood - Mad Rush
9. Anna Lapwood - In Paradisum
10. Anna Lapwood - Stars
11. Anna Lapwood - Star Fantasy
12. Anna Lapwood & The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College - On the Nature of Daylight
13. Anna Lapwood - An Elf on a Moonbeam
14. Anna Lapwood - Experience
15. Anna Lapwood - Clair de Lune, L. 75