SOLO & CHAMBER MUSIC PERFORMANCES

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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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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Fear.less Songs

7pm 22 March 2022 at Nottingham Trent University

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)

Franz Schubert – Gretchen Am Spinnrade Op.2 D118 (1814)

Eric Wubbels – Gretchen Am Spinnrade (2016)

Claude Debussy – Scherzo (1882)

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Ann Cleare – Inner (2009)

John Cage – Harmonies 12-18 (1976) arr. Leo Chadburn

Shruthi Rajasakar – I Saw You And I Danced (2020)

Dai Fujikura – Flicker (2011)

Claude Debussy – Sonata for cello and piano (1915)

https://musicandwineatstlukes.com/friday-1st-april-2022-louise-mcmonagle-cello-and-neil-georgeson-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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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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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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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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Past performances

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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

https://tdepromotions.wordpress.com/2021/11/16/trish-clowes-and-louise-mcmonagle-present-their-punkt-project/

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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

https://youtu.be/YAUrBAWzXYU

 

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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

https://youtu.be/-RAvSrnJZco

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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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