BIOGRAPHY
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Lara Agar is a London-based composer and violinist writing music for concert halls, installations, contemporary dance and film. Her music blends electronic soundscapes and sampled material with acoustic instruments.
Described as “crackling like static” (The Times), her music thrives in abstraction, often embracing indeterminacy and vocality whilst allowing for a messiness and quiet chaos. She has worked with several artists and musicians forming close and ongoing collaborative relationships across dance, visual arts and film, with interests in the accidental, the found and not knowing. Lara released her debut EP Solstice with October House Records 2023, and was nominated for an Ivor Novello Award in 2022 for This Unquiet Autumn.
Recent performers who have played Lara’s music include Explore Ensemble, the London Symphony Orchestra, Juliet Fraser + Mark Knoop, the Plus-Minus Ensemble and Quatuor Bozzini. Upcoming commissions are from Patricia Aucherlonie + David Zucchi, and Zubin Kanga.
Her music has been played on BBC Radio 3 Night Tracks and New Music Show, NTS radio, as well as in venues such as Snape Maltings (Aldeburgh Festival), Wigmore Hall, the Barbican, Milton Court, Sadler’s Wells, Iklectik, and many more grassroots venues throughout the UK and Europe including Music We’d Like to Hear (London).
Lara is a frequent collaborator in cross-discipline art, working with choreographer Anthony Matsena since 2017, including Shades of Blue (commissioned by Dance East and Sadler's Wells), and features in the BAFTA winning BBC 4 Documentary 'Brothers in Dance’ as well as BBC Dancing Nation.
In 2023, she founded the Tantrum Experimental Music Series, and in 2025 released a collaborative album Fields Become Sky (Hyperdelia) under Monasunne with composer Louis d’Heudieres, described in The Quietus as a “supremely confident and conceptual album”.
Lara was Junior Composer in Association at the Purcell School (2024-25). She held a Junior Fellowship at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2019-20, following an Artist Master’s degree in composition. There, she studied with Paul Newland, Cassandra Miller and Laurence Crane.
Lara Agar is a London-based composer and violinist writing music for concert halls, installations, contemporary dance and film. Her music blends electronic soundscapes and sampled material with acoustic instruments.
Described as “crackling like static” (The Times), her music thrives in abstraction, often embracing indeterminacy and vocality whilst allowing for a messiness and quiet chaos. She has worked with several artists and musicians forming close and ongoing collaborative relationships across dance, visual arts and film, with interests in the accidental, the found and not knowing. Lara released her debut EP Solstice with October House Records 2023, and was nominated for an Ivor Novello Award in 2022 for This Unquiet Autumn.
Recent performers who have played Lara’s music include Explore Ensemble, the London Symphony Orchestra, Juliet Fraser + Mark Knoop, the Plus-Minus Ensemble and Quatuor Bozzini. Upcoming commissions are from Patricia Aucherlonie + David Zucchi, and Zubin Kanga.
Her music has been played on BBC Radio 3 Night Tracks and New Music Show, NTS radio, as well as in venues such as Snape Maltings (Aldeburgh Festival), Wigmore Hall, the Barbican, Milton Court, Sadler’s Wells, Iklectik, and many more grassroots venues throughout the UK and Europe including Music We’d Like to Hear (London).
Lara is a frequent collaborator in cross-discipline art, working with choreographer Anthony Matsena since 2017, including Shades of Blue (commissioned by Dance East and Sadler's Wells), and features in the BAFTA winning BBC 4 Documentary 'Brothers in Dance’ as well as BBC Dancing Nation.
In 2023, she founded the Tantrum Experimental Music Series, and in 2025 released a collaborative album Fields Become Sky (Hyperdelia) under Monasunne with composer Louis d’Heudieres, described in The Quietus as a “supremely confident and conceptual album”.
Lara was Junior Composer in Association at the Purcell School (2024-25). She held a Junior Fellowship at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2019-20, following an Artist Master’s degree in composition. There, she studied with Paul Newland, Cassandra Miller and Laurence Crane.