Four new Soundhub Members Announced

We are pleased to announce the four composers who have been appointed to the LSO Soundhub for 2025/26. Cameron Graham, Connie Harris, Sam Longbottom and Xenia Pestova Bennett will each undertake an initial project at LSO St Luke’s to explore and develop their practice. Each member will be allocated a mentor to support them as they develop their project, and will have access to support from industry professionals, the Soundhub Community, LSO members and staff. Learn more about each of them below. 

Cameron Graham is a composer, artist and sensory percussionist whose work unsettles and reorients sonic experience through intermedia, parafiction, and simulation. Projects unfold across installation, electronic music, hybrid performance, intermedia and interaction design. Recent work explores the role of the voice in histories of automation, capture, synthesis and AI-mediation––the emergent social and ethical ambiguities that surround contemporary vocal agency and authenticity.

His music and art have been commissioned and presented at the Guggenheim Museum NYC, IRCAM Paris, FACT Liverpool, Schallfeld Ensemble Graz, Cyborg Soloists, along with numerous orchestras and ensembles globally. Awards include a 2020 British Council Grant for his solo exhibition Contact Results in Contagion, PRS Grants, and the 2020-21 Styria Artist Fellowship. His electronic music is released on Phantom Limb, with a forthcoming album in 2026. He has held professorial roles at Ithaca College and Dulwich College, and lectureships at Surrey University and City St George’s, University of London.

Connie Harris is a published composer and writer based in London.  

She wrote both the music and script for the dark comedy CAT, which was praised by the Gonzo Magazine as ‘up there with the best plays I’ve ever seen’. Her recent projects include elegy for my teeth, written for the United Instruments of Lucilin for its international premiere in the Rainy Days Festival in the Luxembourg Philharmonie, The Drifterman, a horror opera produced in association with Tête à Tête Opera Company (‘honed to perfection’, OperaNow), and squid, performed by Ensemble Modern in Ticino, Switzerland.  

She recently finished an award-winning US run of Baby Baby Baby, her latest play that she composed and recorded the music for, and is now completing an orchestral commission for the LSSO for its upcoming premiere in the Barbican. 

Sam Longbottom is a Manchester-based composer making experimental music with found, homemade, and traditional instruments. Much of his work explores the imperfect, unusual and unexpected sounds of automated systems and acoustic instruments, of mechanising glitches and peripheral noises. It is tactile, with physical things producing physical sounds encouraging physical movement of listeners. 

His music has been featured at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Aldeburgh Festival, in Nonclassical concerts at the Southbank Centre and St John’s Church (London), Manchester Art Gallery, and broadcast on BBC’s New Music Show. He has previously been a Britten Pears Young Artist, a Manchester Camerata Ruth Sutton Fellow, a resident at Villa Ruffieux (Switzerland), and worked with artists and groups including Angarhad Davies, The House of Bedlam, and CoMA. 

Pianist and composer Xenia Pestova Bennett works in a wide range of sound worlds from classical and contemporary art music to free improvisation, electronica, multimedia and avant pop. Her music is available on Diatribe Records, TakuRoku and NMC Records. Her portrait release Atomic Legacies features Ligeti Quartet and the Magnetic Resonator Piano. Highlighted in Bandcamp’s ‘Best of Contemporary Classical’, the album was reviewed as ‘boldly conceived and brilliantly realised… a foretaste of things to come’ (Julian Cowley, The Wire), ‘intoxicating, extraordinarily eerie and evocative’ (Bernard Clarke, RTE LyricFM), ‘melancholy… heart-swells and proper feelings’ (Jennifer Lucy Allan, The Quietus) and ‘a nuclear musical reaction that produces great, irradiated beauty’ (Tom Service, BBC Radio 3).

Xenia was featured in the PRS Foundation New Music Biennial 2025 with GLOW, described as ‘a shimmering, spooky set of movements woven through with spine-tingling narration about weird light phenomena in Danish, Welsh and Turkish’ (The Guardian). 

LSO Soundhub is generously supported by Susie Thomson with additional support from the Hinrichsen Foundation.