LCMF was founded in 2013 to provide a home for the promiscuous music lover. Since then we’ve presented 10 critically-acclaimed multidisciplinary festivals and premiered over 100 works. Artists who we have commissioned and hosted, or whose works we’ve premiered, include: Cosey Fanni Tutti, Eliane Radigue, Julius Eastman, Cerith Wyn Evans, Roscoe Mitchell, Pauline Oliveros, Mica Levi, Lina Lapelyte, Tony Conrad, Klein, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Jennifer Walshe, Yvonne Rainer, Charlemagne Palestine, Elaine Mitchener, EVOL, Rebecca Saunders, Glenn Branca, Moor Mother, Ed Atkins, Annea Lockwood, John Giorno, Laraaji, Timothy Morton, Amalia Ulman, Bhanu Kapil, Toby Jones, Nkisi, Gábor Lázár, Maryanne Amacher, Laurence Crane, Cassandra Miller, CA Conrad, Christian Marclay, Joan La Barbara, Fatima Al Qadiri, Morton Subotnick, Maggie Nicols, Gerald Barry, Katalin Ladik, Rashad Becker, Tyshawn Sorey, James Ferraro, Anne Bean, Ragnar Kjartansson, Pan Daijing, Robert Ashley, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Sophia Al-Maria, Michael Finnissy, Mark Leckey. 

In 2016 we curated the world’s first retrospective dedicated to the work of composer Julius Eastman. In 2018 we founded the LCMF Orchestra, dedicated to commissioning work by composers who’d never written for the orchestra before, to those whose work rarely gets heard in Britain and to ambitious, spatialised orchestral pieces. 

In 2022 we became a charity and a biennial.

In 2025, at the Wigmore Hall, we will present one concert, exploring the history of algorithmic music.

Our next full-length festival will be in winter 2026.

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