London artist and composer Troy Banarzi creates conceptually inspired works that range from delicately entwined layers of sound to large scale, theatrical performance art events.

Inspired by human nature, memory and psychic fragility, his work centres around the unknown and the bizarre. He uses antiques, redundant musical instruments and forgotten texts, to create innovative, haunting, beautiful yet disturbing artworks. These have been performed and exhibited at venues from London Zoo to Tate Britain and broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Resonance FM and included as part of Waldemar Januszczak’s “The Sculpture Diaries” on Channel 4.

He also writes music for theatre and contemporary dance, collaborates with the Rambert Dance Company, and sound artist Scanner, and periodically lectures at Goldsmiths College. His scores feature regularly on television and radio productions, such as the BBC’s Horizon and Coast series, and Channel 4’s Dispatches.

“What I find compelling about Troy Banarzi’s music is that it is always highly organised but never abstract. I sense quiet obsessions at work.  He makes sound worlds that are both tender and dark, evoking the vulnerability of humanity with simplicity and restraint.  He treasures found objects - sounds or chords - placing them in time as though they were precious things - so that they become precious things, cool but not quite preserved, vulnerable, almost nostalgic.  But above all what I like about this music is that it is mysterious to me, withholding as much from me as it gives to me. It is elusive and engaging.”

Alwynne Pritchard

Composer, Journalist and BBC Radio 3 Presenter