Lola Perrin is a minimalist composer and pianist with jazz influences. She is American (with roots in the Ukraine and Hungary) and lives in London. She is the sister of jazz and world music composer and pianist Roland Perrin. Lola says she takes her inspiration from artists such as Edward Hopper

Edward Hopper

Edward Hopper was a prominent American realist painter and printmaker. While most popularly known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching...

, Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams

Ansel Easton Adams was an American photographer and environmentalist, best known for his black-and-white photographs of the American West, especially in Yosemite National Park....

, Rachel Whiteread

Rachel Whiteread

Rachel Whiteread, CBE is an English artist, best known for her sculptures, which typically take the form of casts. She won the annual Turner Prize in 1993—the first woman to win the prize....

, Carsten Hoeller and the Irish author Christopher Nolan

Christopher Nolan

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. Her debut album is titled Fragile Light.

Recent performances include playing live at the First International Conference of Minimalist Music in Bangor, UK. Piano Suite VI: Theory of K was premiered at Music, Science and The Brain, an academic symposium in Plymouth, UK in September 2008. In April 2009 Lola premiered a new commission for the London Design Museum

Design Museum

Design Museum is a museum by the River Thames near Tower Bridge in central London, England. The museum covers product, industrial, graphic, fashion and architectural design. It was founded in 1989 and claims to be the first museum of modern design...

 - Suite VII for Piano & Correspondent. This was performed live with the BBC Correspondent Mihir Bose

Mihir Bose

Mihir Bose also referred to as Spermy ,is a British Indian sportswriter and journalist, who was the BBC's sports editor until 4 August 2009.-Early life:...

 live in the museum.

Current projects include an opera Hanif Kureishi

Hanif Kureishi

Hanif Kureishi CBE is an English playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker, novelist and short story writer. The themes of his work have touched on topics of race, nationalism, immigration, and sexuality...

's The Flies. Lola regularly collaborates with composers and artists such as Thomas Gray, John Kennedy, Alexis Kirke

Alexis Kirke

Alexis Kirke is a composer known for his interdisciplinary practice. He has been called "the Philip K. Dick of contemporary music." Alexis is British and lives in Plymouth, in South West England. Alexis says he takes his inspiration from both the arts and science/engineering - and has completed two...

, and Roland Perrin.