Robin Fiedler: Women Make Music
Development of new cross-genre chamber opera “Serenoid”
A graduate of Middlesex University, Robin Fiedler can look back on performances with the London Firebird Orchestra and Allegri String Quartet as well as a premiere at Cadogan Hall with the London Bel Canto Festival in 2018 and the premieres of interdisciplinary ensemble pieces with choreographers/dancers Destiny Bennett-Ellis and Sadler’s Wells alumna Cher Ho. She is amongst the Cheltenham Festival Composer Academy Alumni of ’22 and studied composition with James Francis Brown. Upcoming highlights include BCO’s Grime Orchestrated, premieres at Spitalfields and Clifton International Music Festival, the London Contemporary Chamber Orchestra and her participation in Adopt a Music Creator ’23.
Robin will use her Women Make Music Grant to develop her cross-genre chamber opera “Serenoid”, a queer romance arc between a synthetic life form and a blind engineer after an idea by Siouxie Gagné. The work is scheduled to be performed in summer 2024 and aims to bring a part electronic – part acoustic score to live in a Steampunk-laced ghost story. The libretto is being developed in collaboration with soprano Victoria Oruwari who will also feature as the lead-character. The work is attempting to bring fan-fiction culture and its inherent nature as a “safe space for everyone” into a classical genre to make it interesting for and representative of participants of either or both circles.
Her project aims to highlight intersectionality between classical music and fan-fiction culture and will hopefully contribute to opening opera as a genre to these audiences.