“beguiling…” – The Scotsman (read full review)
“mesmerising…” – Presto Classical (read full review)
Riddle Songs
Stef’s debut album is released today, on Delphian Records!
Sumerian Opera Battle!
Check out Stef’s latest Covid-19 lockdown project, a musical reinterpretation of an ancient Sumerian ‘diatribe’ (basically a list of highly entertaining insults, inscribed in cuneiform script on a clay tablet, some time in the second millennium BCE) as an operatic Twitter troll battle!
Songs of Song
On Sunday 2nd June, Stef joins forces with Hanna Marti to give voice to some of the earliest song from the British Isles, with Barnaby Brown (triplepipe), in the Round Church, Cambridge, UK.
Collaboration with Sequentia
In March 2019 Stef joins the mighty medieval music ensemble Sequentia to work on a new programme, ‘Charms, Riddles, and Elegies of the Medieval Northlands.’ Having been an admirer of the group’s work for many years, she is hugely excited to begin this collaboration with director and performer Benjamin Bagby, […]
Welcome!
Born out of an unconventional collection of influences and a powerful imagination, Stef Conner’s music breathes new life into ancient texts and forges channels of empathy into the deep past. Although rooted in the classical tradition, her musical language is distorted into something utterly different through the vivid palette of sounds that have been absorbed into her style, from ancient Mesopotamian literature, medieval chant, English folksong and Anglo-Saxon poetry to Spectralism, free improvisation, experimental music and post-tonal harmony. A former member of The Unthanks and Royal Philharmonic Society Prize-winning composer, she comfortably inhabits the borderlands between the classical and traditional music worlds.