Calendar
Public performances, premieres, exhibitions, installations, residencies, talks and sharings
02/12/2025 Performance
Empty Dreaming: Contemporary Piano Nocturnes. Recital at Anthony Burgess International Centre. Henry performs co-compositions, newly composed works, and experimental improvisations - with contributions from Joshua Brown, Stanford Cheung, Maria Sappho, Gregor Forbes, Duncan Krummel, and more TBC. 7:30pm - 8:30pm.
07/11/2025 Presentation + Performance
The Noisy Women Present at Goldsmiths, as part of the Royal Musicological Association Study Day. With presentations from Maureen Wolloshin and Henry McPherson, followed by group performance in collaboration withThe Noisy Women.
2/11 - 3/11/2-25 Performance
Performance of Microfauna II (2025) at MANTIS Festival, Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama. Time TBC
22/10/2025 Exhibition/Installation
Opening of Moss Worlds Exhibition at Castlefield Viaduct (National Trust), featuring 'Scores for Moss Listening' (2025), and various compositions. Running until February 2026.
31/09/2025 Performance
Performance with Maria Sappho + Colin Frank + Joe Brooks @ The University Arms, Sheffield. time TBC
22/09/2025 Album Release
The Noise of Music (The Noisebringers, Raymond MacDonald, Jessica Argo) released on Pan y Rosas Records (Chicago, USA).
31/07/2025 Performance
Solo performance at Weirdshire (Jam Factory, Hereford). time TBC
8 - 11/07/2025 Presentation
Listening-with Mosses, presentation at The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Conference 2025 (USA)
14/06/2025 Presentation
Interactive presentation on aesthetics and everyday moments Beauty and the Brain at Universally Manchester Festival, with Dr Sarah Fox.
06/06/2025 Presentation
Presentation at UK Participatory Research Network Conference. Cambridge, UK.
9/05/2025 Performance
ecollage_03 premieres alongside works by Lauren Redhead, Alistair Zaldua, and BonjourClaude @ Levenshulme Old Library. 7:15pm
01/05/2025 Podcast
Part 3 of interview with Henry on Eugene Difficult Music Ensemble's The Sound of Curiosity podcast.
30/04/2025 Panel Discussion
Henry joins panel discussion for film-screening of Emily Munro's Living Proof: A Climate Story. John Thaw studio theatre, Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama, University of Manchester. 2pm - 6pm
19/04/2025 Performance
Noisebringers Resurrection Multiverse Tour performance w/ guests @ The Roundy, Cork, IE. 5pm.
19/04/2025 Performance
Noisebringers Resurrection Multiverse Tour performance w/ guests @ Maureens, Cork, IE. 3pm
13/04/2025 Podcast
Part 2 of interview with Henry on Eugene Difficult Music Ensemble's The Sound of Curiosity podcast.
04/04/2025 Podcast
Part 1 of interview with Henry on Eugene Difficult Music Ensemble's The Sound of Curiosity podcast.
25/02/2025 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.
17/01/2025 Performance
Scores from 'This, Here, Now' performed by students on the Contemporary and Experimental Music programme at the University of Manchester. Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama. 4:30pm
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