Also included in this months’ edition, @zdscomposer.bsky.social interviews Ellie Wilson about her work ‘Moth x Human’ as well as 2024-5 London Philharmonic Cohort composer Niamh J O’Donnell.

Both of those can be read here: prxludes.net/2025/08/18/e...

And here: prxludes.net/2025/08/18/n...

Lovely feature in The Strad of my video of Zoe Martlew’s Salat Babilya - a solo cello piece that is entirely pizzicato. Great questions here as we get a discussion going on the technique we all forget to practice! #cello #stringplayers #pizz #musicvideo

www.thestrad.com/video/perfec...

You can read the full article here:

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Lovely write up of Ancient Modernity, my Scotland Unwrapped gig at @kingsplacelondon.bsky.social - thank you @carolinefrmus.bsky.social
The concert featured much of the music on my new album of the same name, which was released on @delphianrecords.com last month - now available on all platforms! 💫

My album of solo cello music Ancient Modernity @delphianrecords.com is out now! 🎉

It’s currently in Gramophone Magazine’s Top 5 Unmissable New Releases, and was featured on Saturday’s BBC Radio 3 Record Review! 🎊

Give it a whirl! 🎧
music.apple.com/gb/album/anc...

Fantastic few days at Deutschlandfunk Köln, recording a new Riot Ensemble album… 👀 Now hoping for no rail replacement buses as I retrace my steps home ✈️🚂🏡🎻

Rail replacement bus to Stansted Airport.
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How’s your Sunday going?

⏰ Countdown

On 25•4•25 my album Ancient Modernity will come out on @delphianrecords.com, featuring solo cello music by living composers 🤍

Check out the single Skydance by Ailie Robertson out now!

Pre order album here:
www.delphianrecords.com/products/lou...

Last year I commissioned Aaron Holloway Nahum to write me a piece for cello & live electronics in 360. Here is a clip from the premiere at @kingsplacelondon.bsky.social ! Inspired by a Mary Oliver poem, the piece is called “Will I Ever Be Able To Sing?” A full recording is coming soon…👀

We're welcoming applications for the 2026 RPS Composers programme, for UK-based composers establishing a career. Write for a noted ensemble, venue or festival, alongside professional development workshops and mentoring. Apply by 25 March via royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/composers/rp...

SO good

2025 marks 100 years since the birth of Luciano Berio! #berio100 We are so lucky he finished the cello Sequenza in 2002, the year before he died 🖤

Coming soon 👀

Tim Spector seeded soda bread - the new-year-new-you recipe that you need in your life! Delish. Delectable. Disappearing fast. 😋

Last project of 2024 tied off today - recording 2 new pieces for cello and spacial electronics commissioned earlier this year. And now - happy new year all! 🥳🥂 #recording #newmusic #cello #bts

Thank you Christmas themed steel drum band on Oxford Street for genuinely cheering up my last minute Christmas shopping experience 🎅🏻🎄❄️

Thank you Núria Ribas for these great shots from Festival Mixtur in Barcelona! #chambermusic #cellist #concert

A fantastic concert from the Riot Ensemble this afternoon at the Wigmore Hall. Committed, virtuosic performances of two very difficult to play pieces by Brian Ferneyhough and Hilda Paredes. Wonderful to hear the Paredes twice and would like to hear it again.

👀 I see my grinning face! Will Coates-Gibson and @producer-paul.bsky.social making me laugh in our session earlier this year! Look out for my album of cello music “Ancient Modernity” on @delphianrecords.com April ‘25 🥳🎧💿🎻 #cellist #newmusic #contemporaryclassical

At Weit Weingarten this weekend with Riot Ensemble. Highlight playing with Irvine Arditti in the music of Hilda Paredes. He brings incredible energy to the stage! 💥

Much needed today! 🥶

I played this absolutely gorgeous Martin Arnold cello piece last night at St Luke’s. All natural harmonics. A comment from a friend afterwards stopped me in my tracks - why did I play the harmonics all in first position.

Wouldn’t everybody?

Cellists - please tell me what would be your preference!

Rehearsals sounding and looking gorgeous for this concert, especially for Rufus's piece - and it's lovely to work with @noisycellist.bsky.social for the first time and David Alberman for the (I think) third.

Tonight - I’ll be blinking my Scottish blue eyes while playing this piano trio 👀 by David Fennessey at LSO St Luke’s, with David Alberman & Mark Knoop

Programme curated by Rufus Isabel Elliot

Sculptures by Miek Zwamborn and Rutger Emmelkamp

Tickets: www.lso.co.uk/whats-on/ruf...