Ella Jarman-Pinto (Composer) is a critically acclaimed composer, described by Classic FM as ‘one of the UK’s most exciting music-makers’ and recognised by the Women of the Year Lunch 2021. Ella focuses on positive-change storytelling, exploring: themes of claiming radical softness while Black, female/politically feminised and neurodivergent (opera belly/back with Jennifer Farmer, 2025); experiences of women and caregivers in the pandemic (Plango: A Cure Lament, poet Jo Brandon, BBC Radio 3 2021); rage and grief on men’s violence against women (Girls Are Coming Out Of The Woods, poet Tishani Doshi, Donne, Women In Music 2022); explorations of Black awakening and introspection (Lucky, BBC Radio 3 2020 & :Insert Expletive Here: East London Music Group 2022). Ella released her debut album with Jo Brandon, Lemon Verbena in 2024. Ella’s film work includes: Raising Aniya (Dir. John Fiege 2025); AstraZeneca - The Attack, (Havas Lynx 2018); and The Fell We Climb (Anti-Racist Cumbria 2023). Ella has had works performed at the Royal Albert Hall, Lilian Baylis and the Barbican Centre. This Little Rose is included in Trinity College London’s Grade 8 Singing syllabus.

Ella will be performing her album Lemon Verbena on Sunday. The album explores the lives of legendary women throughout history who used various eccentricities to escape the confines of society. When I was initially responding to Jo Brandon’s words, my connection to the women and their stories was very much around freedom and escape. But this year, I have had to develop my relationship with grief; whether from losing loved ones, significant life changes, watching children grow, late in life queer-awakening and building lasting connections to the world and it’s inhabitants… and now I feel so much more understanding of the grief that will have accompanied them in their lives. We can celebrate them and their achievements now, but the grief of living the fight is one not to be forgotten.