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.

“Established as one of the most innovative and adventurous quartets of its generation, and praised for their “immaculate precision and spirit” (The Strad) and “cultured tone” (Arts Desk), the Solem Quartet brings a progamme awash with light and colour to the beautiful norman church of St. Andrew's in Fingringhoe.”

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“A Feast of Strings offers a rare opportunity to hear Mendelssohn's String Octet in E-flat major, Op. 20, as the prize-winning Solem Quartet joins forces with our own Festival String Quartet in an exclusive collaboration conceived specially for this concert.

In the first half, the Solem Quartet presents Claude Debussy's only string quartet, a wonderful work composed in the early days of his impressionistic style, full of ravishing chordal shifts and sensuous melodies, as well as their own arrangement of Nadia Boulanger's Trois Pièces, originally for cello & piano.”

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“Experimental songs of the '80s: Kate Bush as you've never heard her before and a minimalist masterpiece by Steve Reich, performed by one of the UK's most adventurous string quartets.”

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Performing with pianist Simon Callaghan and saxophonist Dominic Childs in Bruch’s 8 Pieces and Schumann’s Märchenerzählungen (Fairy Tales), Op. 132. Details HERE.

Opening the Barbican’s 24/25 season performing Rolf Hind’s new opera based on the life of Rumi with Riot Ensemnble, Elaine Mitchner and Lore Lixenberg. Full details here.

“Ensemble-in-residence Riot Ensemble present brand-new works by University of Liverpool staff and researchers alongside Philip Cashian’s folk tales (told by the ensemble’s soprano Sarah Dacey) and a meteorologically themed cello solo by Liza Lim (performed by the ensemble’s cellist Louise McMonagle).”

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Playing music of Boulanger, Beethoven and Mozart at the Royal Overseas League in London. Full details here.

“Classical Pride presents Julius Eastman’s Gay Guerilla, a free performance in the Level G foyer with an ensemble put together by violist Stephen Upshaw.”

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“Among the lasting fruits of the lockdown period is a series of works commissioned by the Hall which are now ready for performance, and which will be threaded throughout the next four seasons.

'f o r e v e r 1 9 9 0 is a fluid collage of musical fragments from different pieces and songs written across my life; all heard softly in a lucid dream. One, unbroken, shapeshifting, soft, serpentine, liquid monolith in sound.' - Jocelyn Campbell”

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Working with Riot Ensemble on postgraduate student compositions.

“Beethoven Bartók Now: Courage features new work from British-Lebanese composer Bushra El-Turk, composed for string quartet and kamancheh, alongside great works of the past.”

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“The ground-breaking Scottish composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist shares his buried album, unearthed and performed live for the first time, exactly as it sounds from the earth.”

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Performing music of Edmund Finnis, Nadia and Lili Boulanger and Janacek. Full details HERE.