Dustin O'Halloran

Dustin O’Halloran is an American pianist and composer with five acclaimed solo albums under his own name. He’s also a film composer, with his breakthrough coming on the Sofia Coppola film Marie Antoinette.

O’Halloran has also previously released music with dream pop band Devics – which he co-founded alongside Sara Lov in his late teens. His most recent album is Silfur, his first full-length outing in a decade. It contains reimagined versions of select songs from his catalogue and examines time and place. O’Halloran is also a member of the band A Winged Victory For The Sullen, who have previously released on Ninja Tune.

He’s supported for this performance by Clarice Jensen, a composer and cellist based in Brooklyn. As a solo artist, Jensen has developed a distinctive compositional approach, improvising and layering her cello through shifting loops and a chain of electronic effects to open out and explore a series of rich, drone-based sound fields. Pulsing, visceral and full of colour, her work is deeply immersive, marked by a wonderful sense of restraint and an almost hallucinatory clarity. A versatile collaborator, Jensen has recorded and performed with a host of stellar artists including Jóhann Jóhannsson, Max Richter, Björk, Stars of the Lid, Dustin O’Halloran, Nico Muhly, Taylor Swift, Michael Stipe and The National.