Calendar
Public performances, premieres, exhibitions, installations, residencies, talks and sharings
27/02/2025 Performance
Trio Improvisation performance with Joe Brooks and Tom Hawkins @ Noise Upstairs (Todmorden). 8:00pm.
24/01/2025 Workshop
“We are all part of it together”: Improvisation, relational dynamics, and dementia. Workshop at Imagining Dementia Futures Conference. University of Manchester. 1:30 - 2:30pm.
14/01/2025 Performance
Improvisation with Raymond MacDonald, Maria Sappho, Colin Frank @ Old Postal Depot (Natural Endings), Todmorden. 7:00pm - 9:00pm. £5 (PWYC)
11/01/2025 Performance
'How to play mariana' performed by the Eugene Difficult Music Ensemble at Emmaus Lutheran Church. Eugene, Oregon. 7pm PST.
15/12/2024 Performance
Trio improvisation performance at 'Cafe Sessions' with Tom Hawkins and Joe Brooks, in collaboration with Company of Artistic Inventions. Holding Patterns, Leeds. 6-8pm.
04/12/2024 Presentation
'Practising Ecological Improvisation'. Presentation at RMA Practice Research Study Day, University of Leeds, School of Music. 10:15am
30/11/2024 Workshop
Sound and movement improvisation workshop GIOBabies, as part of GIOFest 2024. CCA, Glasgow. 10:30am.
22/11/2024 - 02/12/2024 Exhibition
How to be a Forest (audiovisual version) exhibited at Fox Yard Studios, Stowmarket, as part of VISIONS exhibition. https://www.foxyardstudio.co.uk/visionsartexhibition
23/11/2024 Performance
Performance at New Xpectations Audio Camp, Aberystwyth Band Stand. 11am - 5pm
04/10/2024 Premiere
'How to play mariana' performed by the Eugene Difficult Music Ensemble at the EDME festival. Eugene, Oregon.
27/09/2024 Performance
'How to be a forest' premiere at Bonjour Claude Scratch Night, Levenshulme Old Library, Manchester. 7:30pm
20/09/2024 Workshop
Creative Healthy Brain event at So Many Beauties dementia friendly music festival. Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. 9:30am onwards.
10/09/2024 Presentation
11am. Lightning talk as part of “Tackling Interdisciplinarity in Research: a cross-platform workshop”. Engineering Building A, University of Manchester.
08/08/2024 Performance
Post-Pollination (Henry McPherson, Maria Sappho, Colin Frank) Guest set @ The Noise Upstairs. Fuel Café, Manchester, from 9pm.
09/07/2024 Presentation
Panel discussion as part of Creative Communities: Artistic Methods in Participatory Research. Contact Theatre Space 0, 12pm.
06/07/2024 Performance
Curious Ear Improvisers’ Orchestra @ St Margaret’s Church (Whalley Range), 2pm
04/07/2024 Presentation
Symposium - Care aesthetics in dementia care: learning from the art of care and the care in art. 16:30. British Society of Gerontology Conference. University of Newcastle.
03/07/2024 Performance/Presentation
“Ecological Improvisation”, Performance and Presentation at Ecopedagogies Symposium. Firs Botanical Research Centre, Fallowfield, Manchester. 11am.
16/06/2024 Presentation
Panel discussion on Free Improvisation at Vocal Improvisation Symposium. The library at Deptford Lounge. 2pm.
15/06/2024 Performance
Performance with Ansuman Biswas, Beibei Wang, Faradena Afifi, Rowland Sutherland. Hundred Years Gallery, London. 7:30pm.
01/06/2024 Workshop
Transdisciplinary Sounding-Moving Workshop @ Glitter Party: a Queer Research Symposium (Centre for Experimental Practice, University of Huddersfield). Bidston Observatory Research Centre, Liverpool.
01/06/2024 Presentation
A Queer Way to Sound: Corporeality, Instruments, and Social Identity in Transdisciplinary Free Improvisation. AJIRN Conference 2024. Monash University (AU).
09/05/2024 Presentation
Presentation at Trinity College Dublin: "Remember, you have a body - developing presence for instrumental musicians through choreographic methods in higher education improvisation pedagogy"
12/04/2024 Presentation
Presentation at IMPRO2024 - Improvisation in Music Therapy Conference - LUCA, Leuven, BE. "Shaping the Moment Together: Training Residential Care Home Staff in Improvisation-Based Therapeutic Music-Making for Older Adults Living with Dementia."
28/03/2024 Performance
Many people felt present when they were there #3, performance with Una MacGlone, Raymond MacDonald, Maria Sappho + more. Ushi's coffee corner, Glasgow. 7pm.
25/03/2024 Workshop
Sonic Improvisation intensive workshops. Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. (places open to public, see rcs.ac.uk)
23/03/2024 Performance
"if i were a cat i would play feminist experimental avant noise" - performance with Maria Sappho and friends, Waverley Bar, Edinburgh. 7:30pm
19/03/2024 Performance
This, Here, Now (text scores) performed by Edges Ensemble @ Bathhouse Galleries, Huddersfield. 6:40pm
18/03/2024 Performance
Performance w/ Maria Sappho, Virtual Brice Catherin, Tom Hawkins @ Curious Ear. Peer Hat, Manchester. 7:30pm
17/03/2024 Performance/Workshop
Herbarium, workshop @ Conservatoire de Musique de Gatineau (CA).
08/02/2024 Workshop
Sounding Care: Workshop with Henry McPherson and Shawn Stephen. Care Lab, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester. 5:30pm
04/02/2024 Presentation
Presentation at Exploratorium Berlin (DE) at Musicians' Perspectives on Improvisation Conference. "Where in the world is the improviser?: transdisciplinarity, ecology, and new ways of dreaming in contemporary free improvisation practice"
01/01/2024 Residency/Performance
Noisebringers Residency @ Galérie Analix Forever, Geneva (CH). Installations, Performances, and Publications.
17/12/2023 Performance
Performance w/ MOPOMOSO @ Vortex Jazz Club, London. 12pm onwards.
24/11/2023 Workshop
Towards Ecological Improvisation: Listening with the Body. Beyond Listening Symposium, MOME, Budapest, Hungary. 10am - 12pm
05/11/2023 Workshop
Listening Bodies - Workshop and Jam @ Improvisation Exchange, Leeds. Northern School of Contemporary Dance. 11am - 2pm
25/10/2023 Presentation
Embedding music in care home contexts through staff carer training. Liverpool Dementia and Ageing Conference. Liverpool.
30/07/2023 Performance
Maud (rev. 2023), performed by Scottish Opera Young Company. Albert Halls, Stirling. 6pm
29/07/2023 Performance
Maud (rev. 2023), performed by Scottish Opera Young Company. Barrfields Theatre, Largs. 6pm
28/07/2023 Performance
Maud (rev. 2023), performed by Scottish Opera Young Company. Scottish Opera Production Studios, Glasgow. 6pm
27/07/2023 Performance
Maud (rev. 2023), performed by Scottish Opera Young Company. Scottish Opera Production Studios, Glasgow. 6pm
19/07/2023 Release
Herbarium (2023), collaborative composition with Florijan Lörnizo.
05/06/2023 Workshop
Artist talk at Crossley Gallery, Halifax. 7-8pm
05/04/2023 Performance
Interlunar (2022) for solo cello. Recording premiere (online), performed by Brian Bromberg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfFAB9dkxiA
10/03/2023 Broadcast
capella_dream (from INTIMACIES) broadcast on Resonance FM/Sampler Mixtape
https://thesampler.org/features/the-sampler-mixtape-40/
18/01/2023 Broadcast
Noise at the death of one beloved (part IV) on Freeness, BBC Radio 3, 12:00am
19/01/2023 Performance
many people felt present when they were there #2, DAI Hall, Huddersfield, 1pm - late. A celebration of improvised and experimental music from musicians: Henry McPherson, Maria Sappho, Colin Frank, Stanford Cheung, Linda Jankowska, Alessia Anastassopoulos, Anthony Stillabower, Milly Fisher, Tom Hawkins, and more!
18/01/2023 Performance
Stanford Cheung and Henry McPherson @ IKLECTIK, London (evening) https://iklectikartlab.com/crossviews-a-sonic-experiment-london-edition/
02/12/2022 Performance
GIOFest, Glasgow (Virtual)
Virtual Orchestra Performance at GIOFest 2022! https://www.glasgowimprovisersorchestra.com/giofest/xv/programme/
02/12/2022 Performance
Dancing with Colours | Mind the Gap, Bradford
Performance of artist JoAnne Haines' 'Dancing with Colours' (Venue TBC) featuring improvised music
23/10/2022 Performance
The Vortex Jazz Club, London
Performance at the Vortex Jazz Club | https://www.thewire.co.uk/events/mopomoso-2022
09/10/2022 Performance
Solo Performance opening for The FriendShip is Sailing (Maggie Nicols, David Birchall, Sam Andreae, Odie Jighast) and group improvisations
26/08/2022 Performance
Glad Cafe, Glasgow
Solo Performance at Glad Cafe (Glasgow, Southside), fundraising for the Glasgow Zen Centre Retreat Centre Fund
13/08/2022 Performance
Baggage (Dir. Connor Elliman) at Chester Pride, Chester
Performance of dance-music work 'Bagagge', with Chloe Robinson and Jack Hilton
17/07/2022 Performance
INTIMACIES | Audiovisual version premiere
Premiere of INTIMACIES - lockdown portraits film @ https://youtu.be/SIcsJG-rJH0
INTIMACES (2020) broadcast on radiophrenia. Schedule at radiophrenia.scot
15/07/2022 Performance
The Noisy People's Improvising Orchestra, Cambridge
Concert with the Noisy People's Improvising Orchestra | St Paul's Church, Hill Road, Cambridge
07/07/2022 Broadcast
Colagens//Collages | Radiophrenia (broadcast)
Colagens//Collages (2018-19) broadcast on radiophrenia. Schedule at radiophrenia.scot
04/04/2022 Residency
IMMERSIONS Residency, funded by Four Nations International Fund, with Kirstie Simson and Michael Schumacher
23/03/2022 Performance
many people felt present when they were there #1 | Old Hairdressers, Glasgow
An evening of improvised music and movement, featuring incarnations of: Maria Sappho, Raymond MacDonald, pancakesandplutonium, Jessica Argo, Sky Su, Henry McPherson, incorporeapermeability, KUI, Theatre of Home
19/03/2022 Performance
snow-constellation (2017, guitar duo) | The 21st Century Guitar Conference (IN, USA)
Performance by Orestis Tsekouras & Haris Kanellidis at The 21st Century Guitar Conference, Muncie (IN)
19/12/2021 Performance
Sharing of Sigil (2019) for solo cello, by Yiyang Zhao, followed by Q&A discussion