Public Research Seminar: Marie Jaëll
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire - Workshop 2
200 Jennens Road, B4 7XR
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Prism: A Dialogue with Marie Jaëll
Chloe Knibbs and Melissa Morris (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire)
This lecture recital shares the composition process of Prism, a music theatre work for piano(s), electronics and lighting design - inspired by the 19th-century French composer Marie Jaëll and her solo piano work Prisme (1888).
Premiered at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in January 2025, this piece of practice-based research considered how a contemporary creative practice can be placed in dialogue with a historical woman composer, and what arises from that process.
Chloe Knibbs is a composer, songwriter, and practice-based researcher at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Described as having “an anguished tender quality” (The Telegraph), her work spans opera, music theatre, songwriting, choral and chamber music, sound art, and electroacoustic composition.
Melissa Morris is a freelance pianist from Somerset, based in Birmingham. Her most recent projects involve creative collaborations and compositional commissions bringing together classical and neo-classical piano, working with electronica artists EIF and contemporary dance, Vanhulle Dance Theatre, for their most recent release, Half Light.
* If you wish to join us online, please register and you shall be sent Zoom codes by email shortly before the seminar. It is not necessary to register in advance for in-person attendance.
Running time approx. 90 minutes