Anna Meredith - inhale exhale, 2019

"London-based musician Anna Meredith had made her name as a composer of classical and electronic music before she ever wrote a pop song. But about 10 years ago, she decided she was interested in performing her own music, and was looking for a change. “I was honored and lucky to be making a living as a classical composer and writing orchestral pieces,” she said in a phone interview earlier this month. “But you write the score, you hand it over to the conductor, and your job is over. You’re not to have anything to do with the performance, and most of those pieces are played once, and not recorded, and never played again. And that’s just heartbreaking.”