“brutal but harmonically radiant…” – The Guardian (read more)
“beguiling…” – The Scotsman (read more)
“mesmerising…” – Presto Classical (read more)
“an extraordinary sound, unlike almost anything…” – Allaboutjazz.com (read more)
“beautifully dissonant… appealingly imaginative…” – Gramophone (read more)
“songs of romance, eros, lullaby calm, insults, come-ons and darkness… probably unlike anything you’ve heard before…” – Newsweek (read more)
Stef Conner gratefully acknowledges support from the PRS Foundation.
Welcome!
Born of intoxicatingly unusual influences and potent imagination, Stef Conner’s music infuses ancient texts with new energy, forging channels of empathy into the deep past. Part singer/composer, part researcher, and part fantasy-weaver, she combines scholarly interpretation of historical materials with sonic reveries shaped by her deep knowledge of contemporary classical music, folksong, and ancient poetry. Although rooted in the classical tradition, her musical style is distorted into something uniquely her own through the vivid palette of sounds she absorbs into it, from Mesopotamian lyres, medieval chant, and Old English poetry to Spectralism, death metal, and experimental choral music. A performer with Kathryn Tickell and the Darkening, former member of The Unthanks, singer with Sequentia, and Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize-winning composer, she moves in mysterious borderlands between the contemporary classical, (Very) Early, and traditional music worlds.