SOLO & CHAMBER MUSIC PERFORMANCES

Riot Ensemble

Sonic Illusions

8pm 17 February 2022

Kings Place, London

Full details & tickets:

https://www.riotensemble.com/#calendar-4cc7788e-2d6f-4e51-b9a8-9325369cbe89-event-bafd2bec-6811-420d-82d2-209c825a7f5c

Trish Clowes and guests

7.30pm Wed 1 March 2023

Wigmore Hall, London

Full details & tickets:

https://wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/trish-clowes-my-iris-cevanne-horrocks-hopayian-louise-mcmonagle-mandhira-de-saram-202303011930

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

Riot Ensemble

Nottingham Trent University

7.30pm 3 May 2023

including “Tuxedo: Hot Summer No Water” for solo cello by Hannah Kendall

Full details & tickets:

https://www.riotensemble.com/performances#calendar-4cc7788e-2d6f-4e51-b9a8-9325369cbe89-event-ldcvsedr

Royal Academy of Music

11am Fri 5 May 2023

Music for cello & electronics by Colin Riley

Trish Clowes My Iris

Birmingham Jazz Festival

7.30pm Sat 13 May 2023

https://youtu.be/LFOB5FSY_YQ

Full details & tickets

https://www.birminghamjazz.co.uk/gigs/2023-05-13/trish-clowes

Riot Ensemble

Sonic Illusions

Arctic Arts Festival

8.30pm 28 June 2023

Tickets and more info:

https://festspillnn.no/en

Riot Ensemble

Solstices

Arctic Arts Festival

8.30pm 29th June 2023

Tickets and more info:

https://festspillnn.no/en

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/

Riot Ensemble

Solstices

Time Of Music, Viitasaari

10pm 8 July 2023

Tickets and more info:

https://festivals.fi/en/festivals/time-of-music-viitasaari/

Sound And Music

Summer School

30 July – 4 August 2023

More info:

https://soundandmusic.org/about-us/

Tangram/ Riot Ensemble

LSO St Luke’s

3pm 30 August 2023

3pm 1 September 2023

More info:

https://www.riotensemble.com/performances#calendar-4cc7788e-2d6f-4e51-b9a8-9325369cbe89-event-ldsns3pi

Past performances

Scottish Arts Club

Solo Cello Recital

2 December 2022

https://allevents.in/mobile/amp-event.php?event_id=10000469044252987

HCMF

Riot Ensemble

5pm 20 November 2022

9pm 22 November 2022

Details:

https://www.riotensemble.com/performances#calendar-9b2a66af-39e8-4aaf-ac08-a4c1991d9e35

London Jazz Festival

Trish Clowes My Iris

16 November 2022

Purcell Room Southbank

https://efglondonjazzfestival.org.uk/events/trish-clowes-my-iris

Soundings 2022

Austrian Cultural Forum

7pm 1 November 2022

7pm 2 November 2022

Details:

https://www.acflondon.org/events/soundings-2022/

From Dawn to Dusk

Riot Ensemble

Kings Place

14 October 2022

https://www.riotensemble.com/performances#calendar-7d05ea6b-0064-4f61-a9ea-fe91872132c5

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

Propellor – Flight

Brewery Arts Kendal

6.45pm 1 October 2022

Details:

https://www.breweryarts.co.uk/event/propellor-flight/

Klangspuren Festival

Riot Ensemble

12 September 2022

https://klangspuren.at/en/festivals/2022/riot-ensemble

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

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

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

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

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

Brighton Festival

6pm 11 May 2022 at All Saints

Riot Ensemble programme to include:

Iannis Xenakis – Paille in the Wind for cello & piano

FOLKESTONE NEW MUSIC

Louise McMonagle & Rosie Middleton

7.30pm 15 April 2022 St Eanswythe’s Church, Folkestone

Tonia Ko – Between Us ( mezzo & cello)
Berio Sequenza XIV (cello solo)
Berio Sequenza III (vocal solo)
Annika Sokolofsky – Who am I to Say? (Mezzo & cello)
Sam Fernando – The Half Moon (mezzo & cello)
Phil Cashian – Madrigali *world premiere* (mezzo & cello)

https://www.folkestonenewmusic.com/programme/rosie-middleton-mezzo-and-louise-mcmonagle-cello

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)

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

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

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/

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/

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

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/

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

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

Lullabies and the Gods – Wigmore Hall

7.30pm 7 September 2021

Riot Ensemble programme to include:

Ailie Robertson – Skydance (2020) for solo cello

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

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

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

 

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

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

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/

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

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/

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

2019

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

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

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/

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)

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)

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

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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