Lara Poe‘s music is rapidly gaining ground. Her Laulut maaseudulta (Songs from the Countryside) for voice and orchestra is to be premiered on 25 August at the 2024 London Proms by the orchestras of the Sibelius Academy and the Royal College of Music conducted by Sakari Oramo. The soprano soloist is Anu Komsi. After the Proms, the work…
Lara Poe’s energetic Divergence (2015-2016) for string quartet was conceived cyclically: the four movements explore drifting in and out of focus between different materials. A light ditty of the second movement diverges to the third movement’s overtone derived chords. Duration c. 25 minutes. Buy now
Bouncy and brisk – but also expressive and super lyrical – Lara Poe’s Mainspring for alto saxophone and piano (2020) makes the most of the two instruments. Duration 4’30 Buy now
