Francesca Le Lohé (she/her) is a British composer, and creative producer active in Japan and the UK. ​She strives to make ambitious music-based projects which provoke awareness and open discussion, bringing together the experience and skills of multiple people across varied disciplines and cultures. 

Major projects include: "On an Endless Road" concert & talk featuring new piece for satsuma biwa & voice about feminist anarchist Itō Noe (Performances: Japan 2023 + UK tour 2024); "Who is Molly Leigh?" community opera exploring the story of accused witch Molly Leigh (R&D: 2024. Performances: July 2025 in partnership with B-arts); "THE鍵KEY": an immersive, site-specific opera inspired by Tanizaki's novella, featuring a mixture of Japanese and Western artforms (2019 “Keizo Saji Prize”. Tokyo & London, 2018 & 2019).

Her work has been performed by Ensemble Zar, GBSR duo, Psappha, and Red Note ensemble, and featured in Sonorities, Tete-a-Tete Opera and the London Festival of Architecture. In 2020, she co-founded the “Sound & Word Network”, an international collective of composers and writers featured in Tama Music and Arts Festival (Japan) and The Arc Project Festival (UK). She has held artist residencies at Elektronmusikstudion (Sweden) Hospitalfield and NOVARS (UK) and Co.iki (Japan). Francesca was a LSO Soundhub Associate 2022-2024, and has been Project Manager at Contemporary Music for All (CoMA) since 2023.