Jobina Tinnemans
composer
January 20, 2026
Seven Sisters (2020-21)
City St George’s, London
December 5, 2025
Panoramic Books VII: Whitesands (2025)
Kultursalon, Leipzig
October 26, 2025
Songs That Never Come Ashore (2024)
Wexford Opera Festival, Ireland
September 26, 2025
Seven Sisters (2020)
Bridges 2 Festival, Luxembourg
paintings by Kristín Gunnlaugsdóttir
Vanitas & Seven Sisters album
available on Spotify, Bandcamp or any of your preferred platforms
On the album you will find Vanitas (2024) for string quartet, and Seven Sisters (2020), for piano, performed by Fidan Aghayeva-Edler and the Frankland Quartet.
“This album represents an exciting new departure for Jobina Tinnemans. Having gained a reputation as a composer of spectacular interdisciplinary works, Vanitas and Seven Sisters are the first works in which she has made an extended exploration of purely instrumental sonorities. But these new pieces for string quartet and solo piano have much in common with her earlier works, the same bold juxtapositions of ideas, the same sense that new perspectives on familiar objects can make them magical again.” Christopher Fox
A limited run of signed CDs is available on Bandcamp. Sheet music of Seven Sisters, for piano, and Vanitas for string quartet is available at Donemus Publishing. A special Seven Sisters Yamaha Disklavier edition released by Article Music you can order on Bandcamp.
New opera set on the Atlantic ocean based upon letters from the Prize Papers archive
Prize Papers Opera
The Prize Papers Project archive is the home of a cacophony of voices in silent ink on paper. Composer and transcriber Jobina Tinnemans is bringing these first-hand accounts back to life in our exciting new Prize Paper Opera production. Tinnemans’ chamber opera will be set in 17th century New Netherland and at sea, with a libretto in English created from personal letters sourced from the Prize Papers Project and planned to be staged in 2026.
The Prize Papers Project is part of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony, Germany @akademienunion.
For the development of the Prize Paper Opera, Jobina Tinnemans is transcribing and translating 17th century Dutch letters from our archive, as well as researching the environment and soundscape when the very first Dutch settlers set foot on the shore, to create a historical world that will resonate with us today.
Á [Au] (2016)
for voice and substantially cascading waterfall
performed by Kammerkór Sudurlands, Iceland
News
January 20, 2026
Seven Sisters (2020)
Performance Space of City University of London, 19:00-21:00
Ian Pace (piano) performing the programme Christopher Fox at 70 Tickets and more info.
December 5, 2025
Panoramic Books VII: Whitesands (2025)
Kultursalon, Großer Saal, Hochschule für Theatre Und Musik, Leipzig, 19:30-21:00. Klang | Schrift: Perspektiven auf Notation – Konzert zum Kultursalon 2025. Full programme and more info.
October 26, 2025
Songs That Never Come Ashore (2024)
Wexford International Opera Festival. Performed by the Simffoni Mara Trio, Georgina Stalbow (soprano), David Pepper (piano), Nia Harries (cello).
September 26, 2025
Seven Sisters (2020)
Adenauer Saal Bridges 2 Festival, Luxembourg, 11:00-17:00. Fidan Aghayeva-Edler (piano) performing a 6 hour piano marathon with music by female composers.
September 13, 2025
Seven Sisters (2020)
Weißenseer Kultur Sommer, Musikschule Béla Bartók. Performed by Fidan Aghayeva-Edler (piano).
June 15, 2025
Songs That Never Come Ashore (2024)
Christ Church Waterford, International Organ Festival. Performed by the Simffoni Mara Trio, Georgina Stalbow (soprano), David Pepper (piano), Nia Harries (cello).
June 14, 2025
Songs That Never Come Ashore (2024)
St. Iberius Church, Wexford. Performed by the Simffoni Mara Trio, Georgina Stalbow (soprano), David Pepper (piano), Nia Harries (cello).
May 31, 2025
Panoramic Book VIII: Undertow (2025)
Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 16:30. Welcome in event starting from 11:00. Performance by Kathryn Williams , part of #comingupforair
May 29, 2025
Lowlines
Via @socialbrdcsts: Lowlines received a silver Aria in the creative and technical innovation category! So proud of our small but powerful team @petrabarran @scenerystudiosltd @jobinatinnemans Hannah Marshall.
May 17, 2025
Salomé (2019)
German première, St. Elisabeth Kirche, Berlin, at 17:00 during 24-hour “Komponistinnen” Piano Marathon Vol. 2: “A Room Full of Voices”, performed by Fidan Aghayeva-Edler.
May 17, 2025
Point. Line. Plane. And JoJo (the Cat). (2025)
Première performance, St. Elisabeth Kirche, Berlin, at 16:00 during 24-hour “Komponistinnen” Piano Marathon Vol. 2: “A Room Full of Voices”, performed by Fidan Aghayeva-Edler.
April 04, 2025
Panoramic Book VIII:Undertow (2025)
Premiere performance on May 31, Welcome in Festival at Akademie der Künste, Berlin, performed by Kathryn Williams.
posted 19/04/2025 in mastering
Dissenting Voices, album, by Christopher Fox
Recording and Mastering engineer. Released on HatHut Records, with performances by Elizabeth Flunger, Dominic Lash and Kathryn Williams.
posted 10/06/2025 in Concerts
Songs That Never Come Ashore (2024), for soprano, cello and piano
June 14, 2025 National Opera House Wexford. Performed by Georgina Stalbow, David Pepper and Daniel Davies.
posted 19/04/2025 in concerts
Point. Line. Plane. And JoJo (the Cat). – première Salomé (2019), for piano – German première
May 17-18 from 11am-11am 24 Stunden Komponistinnen Piano Marathon, Vol. 2: “A Room Full of Voices” St. Elisabeth Kirche Invalidenstr. 3 – 10115 Berlin.
posted 17/04/2025 in mastering
Unmeasured, album by Christopher Fox
Mastering engineer on this HCR album with works for piano performed by Kate Ledger.
posted 25/02/2025 in concerts
On March 7, Fidan Aghayeva-Edler will be performing ‘Seven Sisters‘, for piano, at Mississippi University, MS
More info: Music By Women Festival, March 6-8 2025 https://www.muw.edu/musicbywomen/
posted 10/02/2025 in concerts
Fidan Aghayeva-Edler is touring the US and ‘Seven Sisters‘, for piano, is part of her programme of music by women.
posted 06/02/2025 in chamber opera
Fresh from the printer: 288 pages of transcribed Dutch Prize Papers Project letters dating from 1664 that have been keeping me busy last 18 months. Highlighter ready for action, let the libretto writing commence! #prizepapersopera The National Archives @prizepapersproject Oldenburg University and University of Göttingen
posted 18/01/2025 in album
Thanks for recommending my new album ‘Vanitas & Seven Sisters‘ to your readers, Prospect Magazine!
posted 05/01/2025 in music production
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation selected Rachel Musson as their 2024 winning composer with her album ‘Ashes and Dust, Earth and Sky‘ which was mentored and produced by Jobina Tinnemans. Enquire for your music production project here.
posted 21/12/2024 in music production
Lowlines Petra Barran’s Lowlines podcast series with the fantastic Da Truth Brass Band receiving some wonderful accolades! I did the post-production and mastering, read “auditory orgasm”… I’ll take that 😉! https://low-lines.com/
posted 22/09/2024 in concerts
Songs That Never Come Ashore commission for Simffoni Mara received a memorable première performance in Theatr Gwaun, Fishguard, by Georgina Stalbow (soprano), David Pepper (piano) and Daniel Davies (cello).
posted 12/08/2024 in concerts
Fidan Aghayeva-Edler performing Seven Sisters in Germany and UK. Supported by the Berlin Senate Department for Cultural and Social Cohesion.
posted 01/05/2024 in album
Frankland Quartet recording new work Vanitas. Supported by Hinrichsen Foundation and the Vaughan Williams Foundation.
posted 10/05/2024 in TV/Film/Media music
Classical:NEXT Berlin session as part of PRS New Streams, with Daniel Lewis (PRS) and Jacob Wilshire (Pusher).
posted 21/12/2024 in music production
Lowlines Petra Barran’s Lowlines podcast series with post-production and mastering by Jobina Tinnemans. https://low-lines.com/
posted 01/06/2023 in TV/Film/Media music
Riot ensemble to record Sub Strata for Pusher Music as part of PRS New Streams.
posted 03/04/2023 in Radio/Broadcast/Podcast
Dingus nominated for Best Drama at the ARIAS!
At the Next Port of Call (2021)
for trumpet, tuba, lighthouse and soundscape
commissioned by On Land’s Edge Festival
Jobina Tinnemans
Five Thoughts on Everything (2020)
“It’s a disc to die for, in which Tinnemans’ universe – and ours – is described with ethereal beauty from end to end.”
Raul Da Gama in The Whole Note
Five Thoughts on Everything
album
Five Thoughts on Everything (2020) on any of your preferred platforms and on Bright Shiny Things
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