SOLO & CHAMBER MUSIC PERFORMANCES
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Riot Ensemble
Sonic Illusions
8pm 17 February 2022
Kings Place, London
Full details & tickets:
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Trish Clowes and guests
7.30pm Wed 1 March 2023
Wigmore Hall, London
Full details & tickets:
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LSO Soundhub Showcase
LSO St Luke’s, London
7.30pm Sat 15 April 2023
playing new music by Tonia Ko & Kate Milligan
Full details & tickets:
https://lso.co.uk/whats-on/icalrepeat.detail/2023/04/15/2425/85/soundhub-showcase.html
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Riot Ensemble
Nottingham Trent University
7.30pm 3 May 2023
including “Tuxedo: Hot Summer No Water” for solo cello by Hannah Kendall
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Royal Academy of Music
11am Fri 5 May 2023
Music for cello & electronics by Colin Riley
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Trish Clowes My Iris
Birmingham Jazz Festival
7.30pm Sat 13 May 2023
Full details & tickets
https://www.birminghamjazz.co.uk/gigs/2023-05-13/trish-clowes
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Riot Ensemble
Sonic Illusions
Arctic Arts Festival
8.30pm 28 June 2023
Tickets and more info:
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Riot Ensemble
Solstices
Arctic Arts Festival
8.30pm 29th June 2023
Tickets and more info:
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Riot Ensemble
Extinction Events
Time Of Music, Viitasaari
7pm 7 July 2023
Tickets and more info:
https://festivals.fi/en/festivals/time-of-music-viitasaari/
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Riot Ensemble
Solstices
Time Of Music, Viitasaari
10pm 8 July 2023
Tickets and more info:
https://festivals.fi/en/festivals/time-of-music-viitasaari/
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Sound And Music
Summer School
30 July – 4 August 2023
More info:
https://soundandmusic.org/about-us/
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Tangram/ Riot Ensemble
LSO St Luke’s
3pm 30 August 2023
3pm 1 September 2023
More info:
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Past performances
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Scottish Arts Club
Solo Cello Recital
2 December 2022
https://allevents.in/mobile/amp-event.php?event_id=10000469044252987
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HCMF
Riot Ensemble
5pm 20 November 2022
9pm 22 November 2022
Details:
https://www.riotensemble.com/performances#calendar-9b2a66af-39e8-4aaf-ac08-a4c1991d9e35
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London Jazz Festival
Trish Clowes My Iris
16 November 2022
Purcell Room Southbank
https://efglondonjazzfestival.org.uk/events/trish-clowes-my-iris
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Soundings 2022
Austrian Cultural Forum
7pm 1 November 2022
7pm 2 November 2022
Details:
https://www.acflondon.org/events/soundings-2022/
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From Dawn to Dusk
Riot Ensemble
Kings Place
14 October 2022
https://www.riotensemble.com/performances#calendar-7d05ea6b-0064-4f61-a9ea-fe91872132c5
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Solo Cello Lunchtime Recital
Reid Concert Hall Edinburgh
1.10pm 4 October 2022
Details:
https://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/event/lunchtime-concert-louise-mcmonagle
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Propellor – Flight
Brewery Arts Kendal
6.45pm 1 October 2022
Details:
https://www.breweryarts.co.uk/event/propellor-flight/
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Klangspuren Festival
Riot Ensemble
12 September 2022
https://klangspuren.at/en/festivals/2022/riot-ensemble
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The Festival of New – Britten Pears Arts
The Blue Woman
6-9 September 2022
Award winning director Katie Mitchell tackles the psychological impact of violence against women in this new opera by Laura Bowler and Laura Lomas.
Scored for 4 singers, 4 cellists, and percussion.
https://brittenpearsarts.org/take-part/artists/residencies/festival-of-new
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Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival
22 August 2022
Hannah Kendall portrait concert featuring:
Tuxedo: Hot Summer No Water for solo cello
https://www.shmf.de/en/veranstaltung/hindemith-prize-2022-for-hannah-kendall-1428
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The Blue Woman
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
6-11 July 2022
Award winning director Katie Mitchell tackles the psychological impact of violence against women in this new opera by Laura Bowler and Laura Lomas.
Scored for 4 singers, 4 cellists, and percussion.
https://www.roh.org.uk/tickets-and-events/the-blue-woman-by-katie-mitchell-details
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Aldeburgh Festival
3pm 19 June 2022 at Snape Maltings
Music by Zoe Martlew, Farzia Fallah, Soosan Lolovar, and Liza Lim.
https://brittenpearsarts.org/events/riot-ensemble
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KM28 Berlin
Piano Trio
7.30pm 27 May 2022 KM28 Berlin
Sarah Saviet (violin), Louise McMonagle (cello), and Joseph Houston (piano) present a programme to include:
Enno Poppe – Trauben
Shostakovich – Piano Trio No.2
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Brighton Festival
6pm 11 May 2022 at All Saints
Riot Ensemble programme to include:
Iannis Xenakis – Paille in the Wind for cello & piano
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FOLKESTONE NEW MUSIC
Louise McMonagle & Rosie Middleton
7.30pm 15 April 2022 St Eanswythe’s Church, Folkestone
https://www.folkestonenewmusic.com/programme/rosie-middleton-mezzo-and-louise-mcmonagle-cello
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DUO CONCERT
Louise McMonagle & Neil Georgeson
7.30pm 1 April 2022 – Music and Wine at St Luke’s, Brighton
Reiko Futing – Kaddish: The Art of Losing (2008)
Eric Wubbels – Gretchen Am Spinnrade (2016)
Ann Cleare – Inner (2009)
Shruthi Rajasakar – I Saw You And I Danced (2020)
Dai Fujikura – Flicker (2011)
Claude Debussy – Sonata for cello and piano (1915)
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Fear.less Songs
7pm 22 March 2022 at Nottingham Trent University
This programme involves an ever shifting mixture of chamber music which includes or emulates the voice. Ranging from the wild, rambunctious music of Mirela Ivičević and Ashkan Behzadi to reflective and mysterious music from masters such as Lutyens and the quickly emerging Michaela Catranis
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This Lunar Beauty
7.30pm 16 March 2022 – Kings Place, London
Riot Ensemble programme to include:
Alex Groves – Linear Construction (No.5) (2020) for solo cello
https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/classical/riot-ensemble-this-lunar-beauty/
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This Lunar Beauty
7.30pm 23 February 2022 – Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham
Programme to include:
Alex Groves – Linear Construction (No.5) (2020) for solo cello
https://barber.org.uk/events/riot-ensemble/
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Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
7pm 22 November 2021 – St Paul’s Hall, Huddersfield
Riot Ensemble programme to include:
Hannah Kendall – Tuxedo: Hot Summer No Water (2020) for solo cello
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FIZZLE
8pm 25 November 2021 – The Hexagon, Birmingham
New music for cello and saxophone
Saxophonist Trish Clowes and cellist Louise McMonagle escape genre to bring a soundscape of creativity, exploring their respective jazz and experimental backgrounds
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Open Music Graz
7.30pm 30 October 2021 – Schaumbad Graz, Austria
Riot Ensemble programme to include:
Hannah Kendall – Tuxedo: Hot Summer No Water (2020) for solo cello
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Lecture Recital – Writing for cello
Royal Academy of Music, London
2pm 8 October 2021
Lecture recital focusing on:
Luciano Berio Sequenza XIV (2002) for solo cello
Performance: https://youtu.be/yEMQ4jSPDOc
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Lullabies and the Gods – Wigmore Hall
7.30pm 7 September 2021
Riot Ensemble programme to include:
Ailie Robertson – Skydance (2020) for solo cello
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Riot Ensemble PRiSM at RNCM
8pm 28 June 2021
Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
Riot ensemble programme including:
Xia Leone Sloane – In Peals of Æther (2021) for solo cello
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St Ann’s Kew – Summer Concert Series
3.30pm 30 May 2021
St. Anne’s Church, Kew Green, TW9 3AA
S T R A T H A I L – the duo comprising Louise McMonagle and Neil Georgeson – aims to bring a new identity to cello & piano concert repertoire, championing new compositions, experimental sounds, and exploring different ways of improvising.
In this concert they present three pieces which reflect their experiences of isolation this year. In the first, composer Reiko Füting creates a musical meditation where fragments of folk songs, Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Mahler, and Schönberg are hinted at, enveloped in the warmth of resonant open strings and natural harmonics. Ann Cleare uses the two instruments uniquely to probe the relation between inner and outer worlds of soun, and Eric Wubbels’ frenetic piece alternates compulsive loops of thought and repetitive behaviour with plateaus of regular, “idling” motion….
Tickets available now https://saintanne-kew.org.uk/kew-green/?p=12882
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Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
23 November 2020
An HCMF / Riot Ensemble co-commission premiered at the 2020 online edition of Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Hannah Kendall – Tuxedo: Hot Summer No Water (2020) for solo cello, music box, and police whistle
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Living Room Live
Wednesday 5 August 2020
Lutoslawski – Sacher Variation
Ailie Roberson – Skydance
Samantha Fernando – Fault Line
Trish Clowes – Round by The Ness (world premiere)
Zoe Martlew – Salat Babilya
https://www.livingroom-live.com/calendar/louise-mcmonagle
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Zeitgeist Gallery / Riot Ensemble World Premiere
23 June 2020
In these restricted times, performances move online, and new work continues.
Ailie Robertson – Skydance (2020) for solo cello
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Strathail at Listen! Cambridge *POSTPONED*
Doors 7.30pm Friday 26 June 2020
Unitarian Church, 5 Emmanuel Road, Cambridge CB1 1JW
Strathail is a new project from Scottish cellist Louise McMonagle and pianist Neil Georgeson from the Shetland Islands. Together they aim to bring a new identity to cello and piano concert repertoire, championing new compositions, experimental sounds and exploring different ways of improvising.
This concert will include pieces by contemporary composers with whom Louise has had the pleasure of working with in the past, including Trish Clowes, Kit Downes, Nikki Iles, Gwylym Simcock, Euan Stephenson and Joe Cutler. They have commissioned a number of brand new compositions for performances in 2020.
https://www.listencambridge.com/strathail/
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PUNKT Birmingham *POSTPONED*
8.30pm 19 March 2020
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
Saxophonist Trish Clowes and cellist Louise McMonagle escape genre to bring a soundscape of creativity, exploring their respective jazz and experimental backgrounds.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rbc-punkt-birmingham-tickets-86478717171
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VANTAGE POINT *POSTPONED*
7pm 17th March 2020
Cardiff University Concert Hall, Cardiff CF10 3EB
Riot Ensemble concert, programme to include:
Luciano Berio – Sequenza XIV (2002) for solo cello
http://riotensemble.com/vantage-point/
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Fenella Humphreys & Louise McMonagle
7pm 5th March 2020
91-95 Clerkenwell Rd
London
EC1R 5BX
Violinist Fenella Humphreys and cellist Louise McMonagle join forces to bring you a spectacular evening of virtuosic solos and duos, full of terrifying feats of virtuosity. Alongside works by Ravel, Bartok, Berio and Saariaho, the programme will include world premieres of new Caprices for solo violin by Freya Waley-Cohen, Laurence Osborn and Oliver Leith, and a new set of variations on Paganini’s 24th Caprice by composers including Sally Beamish, Tom Coult, James Joslin, Heloise Werner and Seonaid Aitken.
Programme includes:
Luciano Berio – Sequenza XIV (2002)
Kaija Saariaho – Spins and Spells (1997)
Aaron Holloway-Nahum – For Reasons, Perhaps To Do With Sorrow (2006)
Tickets: https://fideliorchestra.art/whats-on/fenella-humphreys-and-louise-mcmonagie
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2019
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ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC: CLOSE UP CONCERT
8pm Monday 25 November 2019
Music Room, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, L1 9BP
Riot Ensemble concert, programme to include:
Luciano Berio – Sequenza XIV for solo cello (2002)
http://riotensemble.com/close-up-concert/#more-2862
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OI KUU
1.10pm Thursday 24 October 2019
Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, University of Manchester, M13 9PL
Riot Ensemble concert, programme to include:
Luciano Berio – Sequenza XIV for solo cello (2002)
http://riotensemble.com/oi-kuu-manchester/#more-2997
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EMULSION FESTIVAL
8pm 12th October 2019
The Vortex Jazz Club, 11 Gillett Square, Dalston N16 8AZ
Eclectic music and performers join forces again for the eighth edition of the Emulsion Festival, co-curated by Trish Clowes and Tom Harrison.
Programme to include:
Josephine Stephenson – Anamnesis (2012) for solo cello
http://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/emulsion-viii/
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LUNCHTIME CONCERT
1.05pm 13th July 2019
St Alfege Church, Greenwich Church Street, London SE10 9BJ
Scottish musicians Louise McMonagle and Neil Georgeson return to their roots in a programme for cello and piano exploring Scottish composers.
Kenneth Leighton – Elegy (1980)
Sally Beamish – Gala Water (1994)
James MacMillan – Sonata no.1 for Cello & Piano (2000)
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SEQUENCE BERLIN
26 June 2019
KM28, Karl Marx Str 28, 12043 Berlin
https://www.km28.de/home
MUSIC FOR SOLO CELLO
Elliot Carter – Figment for Cello Alone (1994)
Anna Thorvaldsdottir – Transitions (2014)
Aaron Holloway-Nahum – For Reasons, Perhaps to do with Sorrow (2006)
Laurence Osborn – Pteranodon (2012)
Luciano Berio – Sequenza XIV (2002)
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SPEAK, BE SILENT
7.30 8th April 2019
Crypt on the Green, London EC1R 0EA
Programme to include:
Anna Thorvaldsdottir – Transitions for solo cello (2014)
Celebrate the release of Riot Ensemble’s latest CD, SPEAK, BE SILENT, out on HCR/NMC Recordings. In lieu of tickets we will collect funds to support Play for Progress, a charity that delivers therapeutic and educational music programmes for traumatised and socially isolated unaccompanied minor refugees.
Full event details here: http://riotensemble.com/cd-release-concert-2019/#more-2591
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THREE LABYRINTHS
7.30pm 2nd April 2019
City University of London, EC1V 4PB
Riot Ensemble programme including:
Benedikt Schiefer Kanon for cello and live electronics (2007)
John Cage Harmonies 12-18 of 44 Harmonies from Apartment House 1776 (1976) (arranged for cello & piano by Leo Chadburn) with pianist Neil Georgeson
Full event details: http://riotensemble.com/three-labyrinths-2019/#more-2533
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