Kiera Vaclavik is Professor of Children’s Literature & Childhood Culture at Queen Mary University of London. She is the author of Fashioning Alice: The Career of Lewis Carroll’s Icon 1860-1901 (Bloomsbury 2019) and curated ‘The Alice Look’ at the V&A Museum of Childhood in 2015.

Paul Rissmann is an award-winning composer who specialises in transforming children’s literature into symphonic scores. His creative projects have received awards from the Royal Philharmonic Society and Royal Television Society. He won a British Composer’s Award in 2012 and was nominated for an Ivor Novello Composer Award in 2020.

Victor Craven is an animator and director with a passion for classical music, theatre and film. He has 20 years of experience producing work for the creative arts. He specialises in working with world-class orchestras and ensembles, stage directing and producing educational animations and films for live concert performances and internet delivery.

Lee Reynolds is an RPS Award-winning, Sky Arts Award-winning and Critics’ Circle Award-winning conductor with a reputation for bringing intensity and exceptional detail to his performances.

Emily Dickens is an internationally established soprano and choir director. She read music at Trinity College, Cambridge and has performed music from Renaissance England to contemporary commissions all over the world in many of the world’s leading concert halls both as a soloist and a consort singer.

Born in New Zealand and raised in Wales, mezzo-soprano Joanna Harries is a 2021/22 Young Artist at the National Opera Studio in London. She was a choral scholar at Cambridge University and trained at the Royal Northern College of Music and Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (Alexander Gibson Opera Studio).

Born in Northumberland, Richard Pinkstone studied at the University of York, and with Timothy Evans-Jones at the Royal College of Music International Opera School.

Indian-Scottish Neil Balfour is a graduate of Leeds College of Music, the Royal Northern College of Music and the National Opera Studio.

The London Symphony Orchestra strives to inspire hearts and minds through world-leading music-making, from performing on stage, in recordings, digitally and on film, to reaching tens of thousands each year through our learning and community programme.

LSO Discovery brings the Orchestra and its music to everybody, through a year-round programme of workshops and events for performers, creators and listeners of all ages and backgrounds, enriching lives through the transformative power of music.