Solo Performances
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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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