Louise McMonagle
@noisycellist.bsky.social
Scottish cellist playing music old & new. Normally found touring with Riot Ensemble.
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www.louisemcmonagle.com
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www.louisemcmonagle.com
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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 🖤
Reposted by Louise McMonagle
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...
Both of those can be read here: prxludes.net/2025/08/18/e...
And here: prxludes.net/2025/08/18/n...
Ellie Wilson and Jenna Lawson on creating 'Moth X Human'
Composer Ellie Wilson and scientist Jenna Lawson on their most recent collaboration, biodiversity decline, emotional reactions, and translating data into music
prxludes.net
August 18, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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...
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...
www.thestrad.com/video/perfec...
Perfectly poised pizzicato: Louise McMonagle performs ‘Salat Babilya’ for solo cello
The work by Zoë Martlew draws influences from a modern lullaby from Iraq and the Middle Eastern oud
www.thestrad.com
July 24, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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...
www.thestrad.com/video/perfec...
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! 💫
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! 💫
May 16, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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! 💫
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...
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...
April 28, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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...
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 ✈️🚂🏡🎻
March 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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?
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How’s your Sunday going?
March 23, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Rail replacement bus to Stansted Airport.
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How’s your Sunday going?
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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...
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...
March 22, 2025 at 2:25 PM
⏰ 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...
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…👀
March 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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…👀
Reposted by Louise McMonagle
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...
February 4, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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...
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 🖤
January 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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 👀
New year: new us 💖
Actually, we're changing nothing. Get ready for a *packed* year of bold programming and exceptional music making, kicking off with these beauties 💃
Actually, we're changing nothing. Get ready for a *packed* year of bold programming and exceptional music making, kicking off with these beauties 💃
January 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Coming soon 👀
Tim Spector seeded soda bread - the new-year-new-you recipe that you need in your life! Delish. Delectable. Disappearing fast. 😋
January 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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
December 30, 2024 at 10:06 PM
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 🎅🏻🎄❄️
December 20, 2024 at 2:12 PM
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
December 5, 2024 at 2:18 PM
Thank you Núria Ribas for these great shots from Festival Mixtur in Barcelona! #chambermusic #cellist #concert
Reposted by Louise McMonagle
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.
February 24, 2024 at 4:15 PM
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
Waking up this morning to 1K+ followers on this lovely community already; thank you and hello to everyone with impeccably classy taste in music 🙏 🎩
Here's some happy artists in recording sessions to celebrate 🎙️
Here's some happy artists in recording sessions to celebrate 🎙️
November 27, 2024 at 9:20 AM
👀 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! 💥
November 25, 2024 at 11:57 AM
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! 💥
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!
Wouldn’t everybody?
Cellists - please tell me what would be your preference!
November 17, 2024 at 11:47 AM
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!
Wouldn’t everybody?
Cellists - please tell me what would be your preference!
Reposted by Louise McMonagle
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.
I'm really looking forward to this exciting event at LSO St. Luke's tomorrow - a new piece from Rufus Isabel Elliot, who is brilliant, and has kindly included my piece Haroldswick in the programme! www.lso.co.uk/whats-on/ruf...
Rufus Isabel Elliot: Waves Crash on Old Street (16 Nov 24) | London Symphony Orchestra
Rufus Isabel Elliot presents an evening of contemporary chamber music in collaboration with KNOCKvologan Studios inspired by the Isle of Mull.
www.lso.co.uk
November 16, 2024 at 5:50 PM
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...
Programme curated by Rufus Isabel Elliot
Sculptures by Miek Zwamborn and Rutger Emmelkamp
Tickets: www.lso.co.uk/whats-on/ruf...
November 16, 2024 at 3:13 PM
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...
Programme curated by Rufus Isabel Elliot
Sculptures by Miek Zwamborn and Rutger Emmelkamp
Tickets: www.lso.co.uk/whats-on/ruf...