Gwyneth Herbert is an award-winning composer and lyricist, strikingly original performer, sound designer, producer, passionate workshop facilitator and versatile musical adventurer who loves to make things.

Things she has made to date – in collaboration with writers, musicians, directors, choreographers, visual artists, academics, young people and clowns – include: six albums on major, independent and self-owned labels (including the first UK release on legendary Blue Note Records in 30 years); four musicals, including “The A – Z of Mrs P” with playwright Diane Samuels [Southwark Playhouse, March 2014]; a live toy orchestra film score for the BFI silent film festival; and various radio series for the BBC as a performer and presenter. She recently spent a month in Kenya collecting lullabies, sharing songs in shanty-town schools and staging large multi-tribe storytelling happenings under the Mombasa stars. Gwyn’s latest critically acclaimed album “The Sea Cabinet” was developed during an artist residency for Aldeburgh Music, and enjoyed a national tour involving prose, live water sculpture projections and pirate flashmob choruses recruited from local communities.

Recent months have seen the development of many projects, including: her Note to the New Government commissioned by The London Sinfonietta and The Royal Philharmonic Society for performance at The Southbank; two musical / film / art installation collaborations with artist Mel Brimfield – “The Palace that Joan Built”, an Art on the Underground / Theatre Royal Stratford East commission celebrating revolutionary director Joan Littlewood, and “Henry and Barbara – the Musical” – a multi-phase project exploring the real and imagined relationship between sculptors Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth; a new theatrical song cycle The Rhythm Method with Diane Samuels, and composer/sound design credits for her play Poppy + George; and her full-album debut as producer – Frances Ruffelle‘s ’60s French pop-influenced album “I Say Yeh-Yeh’.