Playing guest principal viola for a programme of Martinu, Strauss and Gordon. Full details HERE.

Playing guest principal viola for a programme of Martinu, Strauss and Gordon. Full details HERE.

Playing guest principal viola for a programme of Martinu, Strauss and Gordon. Full details HERE.

“This event marks the start of Michael Betteridge, Leoni King and George Stevenson’s journey as 2025 Magnum Opus composers. Join us to hear their new pieces, written especially for this evening and performed by a septet of Britten Sinfonia musicians, alongside Master of the King’s Music Errollyn Wallen’s superb chamber work.”

Electroacoustic chamber music for violin, oboe and viola.

In a project with our Art Mentor Lucerne scholars at the Royal Academy of Music, we are joined by guitarist Yaron Deutsch for Klaus Lang's Diaphonia. Alongside this monumental electric guitar concerto, we present three new Duo Concerti by Academy composers Shin Kim, Andrea Balency Bearn and Alexander Papp

Playing music of Bosmans, Beethoven, Boulanger and Debussy in Penrith. Full details here.

Workshop with postgraduate composers from Trinity Laban.

Teaching at the University of Liverpool.

Exploring the connections between the USA and Europe, this lunchtime concert from the Solem Quartet features two key American works from the String Quartet canon.

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Chamber music masterclass for Cambridge Camerata Academy students.

Performing music of Beethoven, Debussy, Boulanger and Bosmans. Details HERE.

Workshop with postgraduate composers from Trinity Laban.

String Trio Concert in Harpa concert hall with Riot Ensemble. Full details HERE.

Performing music of Beethoven, Debussy, Boulanger and Bosmans. Full details HERE.

Playing guest principal viola with the Ulster Orchestra - full details here.

“In this program, Trinity Laban viola faculty Stephen Upshaw is joined by string, wind and piano students for a concert of chamber music exploring the links between sacred music and contemporary composition.”

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Performing viola quintets of Mendelssohn and Errollyn Wallen (written for Shiry and the Solem Quartet) alongside Henriette Bosmans’ lush Quartet.

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Performing as soloist with the Vaasa City Orchestra and Anna-Maria Helsing conducting Wilhelm Stenhammar songs arr. Emmy Lindström.

Performing Brahm’s Sextet in B-flat and the Finnish premiere of Albert Schnelzer’s ‘Aksak and Ciphers’ alongside the Vertavo Quartet and cellist Jonathan Roozeman.

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Performing the Finnish premiere of Errollyn Wallen’s ‘Lavinia’ for solo viola.

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Performing Max Bruch’s “Romanian Melody” alongside clarinettist Bjorn Nyman and pianist Mackenzie Melemed.

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Performing the world prmeiere of Emmy Lindström’s “To Be or Not to Be” alongside Jonathan Roozeman, cello and Rachel Breen, Piano.

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“This programme has been drawn from the repertoire which the Solem Quartet have recently recorded on their latest CD Painted Light. That project broadly explored the idea of ‘colour’ in music. The quartet is perhaps inviting the listener to consider whether for example the intense ‘colours’ of music written at the time of the French Impressionist art movement might well be correlated to that aesthetic.”

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Riot Ensemble make their Barcelona debut with a performance at MIXTUR featuring music from Chaya Czernowin, Irene Galindo, and one of our two '24 Call for Scores winners, Sofia Ouyang.