Laura Snowden

The Oscar-winning director of Wall Street offers a “crisply drawn portrait of the world’s most celebrated whistle-blower” in this original screenplay (The New York Times).

Two behind-the-scenes players in the edward snowden story reflect on the meaning of snowden's revelations in our age of surveillance

Il aura fallu la révolte du jeune Edward Snowden, informaticien travaillant pour la National Security Agency (NSA) américaine, pour que le monde entier découvre l’étendue de la surveillance menée en secret par les États-Unis.

Chris graduated from Cardiff University in 2017 with first-class honours and the Neville John String Prize. During his degree, he won the University concerto prize, and became the first soloist to perform with the Chamber Orchestra, under the baton of renowned conductor Andrea Quinn, for almost 10 years. He gained first place in the South Glamorgan Festival for Young Musicians ‘Young Adult Recital class’ and was additionally awarded The Diana Lock Memorial Rose Bowl for best overall performance and The George and Mary Mabbs Trophy for best guitar performance. He is currently studying for a Masters in performance at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, supported by Help Musicians UK. Since arriving in Birmingham, he has been awarded the Postgraduate Pedagogy Prize as well as grants from the Bullock fund and the Loan Fund for Musical Instruments.

Presented as a form of theme and variations on Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 (in a stunning new arrangement for four guitars by Mark Eden) VIDA’s new album presents music that takes its influence from Bach by composers such as Felix Mendelssohn and Heitor Villa Lobos. Also included are new works by Howard Skempton, who recently celebrated his 70th birthday, and talented young composer Laura Snowden. The Vida Guitar Quartet brings together four guitarists of exceptional artistry and “unerring musical instinct.” (Gramophone) Vida’s ability to “conjure up an orchestral palette of color and effects” (Classic FM) combined with their “exquisite tonal and dynamic control” has firmly established them as a passionate and masterful ensemble who sparkle with “vitality and spontaneity” (Acoustic)

Sally Potter has been composing music for her films since her Oscar-nominated ORLANDO in 1992. PINK BIKINI is her first studio album, a semi-autobiographical collection of songs about growing up female in London in the 1960s, as a young rebel and activist.

Luminous and daring, this celebration of Héloïse Werner’s multifaceted gifts is nourished by rich dualities. Phrases reveals Werner as both singer and composer, as an artist shaped by both her native France and her adopted UK, and as a soloist of captivating individuality who is also an intrepid collaborator.