Anna Meredith: ‘Is it classical, is it pop? I don’t really think about it that way’

The composer-performer on her spectacular new work launching this year’s Proms, her silver cape, and mastering electronicsLondon-born, Edinburgh-raised, Anna Meredith, 40, is a composer and performer across all genres, whose Five Telegrams, part of the first world war commemoration programme 14-18 NOW, will be performed outside London’s Royal Albert Hall at 10pm on 12 July before its official world premiere at the First Night of the Proms the following evening. It will also open the