Cassie Kinoshi is a Mercury Prize-nominated (2019) and Ivors Academy Award-winning (2018) Berlin/London-based composer, arranger and alto-saxophonist with a focus on creating multidisciplinary and genre-blending performance work across contemporary classical music, jazz/improvised music, film, television and visual-art contexts. As a bandleader, she writes for and performs with her eleven-piece ensemble seed., featuring many of London’s leading improvising musicians. She is a composition graduate of Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, where she studied with Andrew Poppy and Stephen Montague.

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