“Lisa Logan’s score is a remarkable musical tour de force, intricate, mesmerising and absorbing.”

Her first opera A Silver Spoon (the love story of Princess Diana and Dodi) premiered at the Beaumaris Festival in Wales July 2022, cond. Anthony Hose with WCO. Bronte the Opera her second opera based upon an acclaimed play by leading female playwright Polly Teale was given initial support by Britten Pears Arts at Snape Maltings via its composer creative retreat scheme and an Arts Council England DYCP Award. Bronte the Opera premiered fully staged in London at the Grimeborn Festival September 2023, cond. Alex Ingram, dir. Katharina Kastening with Docklands Sinfonia.

Her quintet Journey of a War Child premiered with Hackney Proms 2023.

She is currently composing her third opera based upon an acclaimed play and her first symphony.

Ligeti Quartet have also just chosen her piece Hope to record as part of their Workout Sessions scheme https://ligetiquartet.com/workout/sessions/lisa-logan-hope.

Her quintet Unrequited Love was performed and recorded by the Lontano Ensemble (cond: Odaline de la Martinez).

She also composed a children’s piece The Magical Fish for narrator/orchestra illustrated by Rosie Brooks which premiered as part of the Jubilee celebrations with Docklands Sinfonia, cond. Spencer Down.

Lisa completed her Masters in Composition at King’s College London 2020-22. Her much valued composition teachers include: Michael Csanyi-Wills, Dominic Sewell (Trinity Laban), Enrica Sciandrone (RCM) and Ed Nesbitt and Silvina Milstein (KCL). She was a choral scholar at Caius College, Cambridge, and was subsequently taught singing by Sally Burgess (mainly operatic repertoire) for many years. 

She is currently on the Board of Tara Theatre, the ENO Insights Council and is an Ambassador at ENO. She was on the Advisory Board at ENO (2019-21) a trustee for Unexpected Opera for ten years. She discovered and started composing later in life, aged 45, so she is proudly an emerging composer later in life. To support her two teenage children she maintains a day job as an entertainment lawyer. Lisa promotes diversity in all she does via Keynote Music, an East London music charity she established in 2019, and as an older emerging composer she particularly supports the needs of older creatives.

Her educational and community work includes (1) music workshops at THAMES/SMC in Tower Hamlets, (2) work with disabled group Soundbox in East London, and (3) devising music with school children in Hackney with Suzuki Hub all in 2022.