Live at Bello bar Wednesday 1st October
Kaleidoscope Night Music Series & The Night With..
Wednesday 1st October 2025
Bello Bar
8.30pm Music (Doors 8pm)
Tickets €18, Early Bird €15,
Student €5 from Kaleidoscopenight.ie
Ticket Link : https://buytickets.at/kscope2025/1847476
Kaleidoscope Night and The Night With… are pleased to present an evening with violinist Emma Jane Lloyd and cellist Naomi Berrill on Wednesday 1st October 2025 at Bello Bar, Dublin 8.
An adventurous evening of contemporary compositions, improvisation Jazz and song for your curious ears, featuring the music of Egidija Medekšaitė, Emma Jane Lloyd. Matthew Whiteside, Émilie Girard-Charest, Rylan Gleave, Sam Perkin (world premiere), Naomi Berrill and Bill Whelan
Emma Lloyd performs a programme of contemporary works that explore the violin’s expressive possibilities through extended techniques, electronics, and open-ended interpretation. Featuring music from her album mue, the concert brings together pieces shaped by long-standing collaborations and a shared curiosity for sound.
From delicate textures to dense sonorities, each work approaches the violin in a unique way. Rylan Gleave’s Small Haven balances notation and improvisation, while Émilie Girard-Charest’s Mue embraces transformation and instability. Matthew Whiteside’s freely, darkly, deeply expands and layers sound through effects pedals and live looping, and Egidija Medekšaitė’s Mishra Pilu weaves fragmented materials into a meditative, shifting form. Emma’s own caprices esquisses push the instrument to its sonic limits, embracing the unpredictable.
These works are shaped by long-standing creative relationships between Emma and the composers and a shared curiosity for the violin’s possibilities. At the heart of the concert is an exploration of sound in flux—where each performance is a conversation between structure and spontaneity.
Emma Jane Lloyd is an international performer, improviser, composer, and artist. She performs as a soloist and in small ensembles, working often with live electronics, and collaborating regularly with composers. In addition to the modern set-up, she plays a baroque violin and performs both baroque and contemporary music written specifically for this instrument.
As an improviser, Emma's performance tends to be quiet and intimate in nature, exploring the innate timbral qualities of the violin, and discovering some of the often hidden sounds that can be found with her unique combination of technique and tools.
Naomi Berrill is a cellist, singer and composer originally from Ireland, now based in Florence, Italy, Naomi is one of the most eclectic voices in today’s music scene. After her classical training, she developed a unique language using the cello as an accompanying instrument to her voice, while exploring new harmonic possibilities of the cello . Her work extends to theatre, contemporary dance, and design and she has collaborated with artists such as Arvo Pärt, Giovanni Sollima and Mario Brunello.
She is founder of the High Notes Festival in the Apuan Alps, now in its 14th edition.
In 2024, she was commissioned by the Cellissimo festival by Music for Galway to compose a work for string ensemble, choir, ukulele ensemble and solo cello.
She has performed at major international festivals including: Venice Biennale, Cello Biennale Amsterdam, Beethovenfest Bonn, Triennale Milano, Festival dei Due Mondi Spoleto, Oriente Occidente, Uffizi Galleries (Uffizi Live), Time in Jazz, Casa del Jazz, Spike Cello Festival (Dublin), Vicenza Jazz, Elba Isola Musicale d’Europa, as well as on tour in the U.S. (Irish Arts Center, New York) and Brazil (Italian Culture Week, São Paulo).
Her performance at the Ice Music Festival, playing an ice cello on the Presena Glacier at 2,600 meters altitude, remains iconic.
Programme :
Mue - album performance by Emma Jane Lloyd
freely, darkly, deeply by Matthew Whiteside
Small Haven by Rylan Gleave
caprices esquisses by Emma Jane Lloyd
Mue by Émilie Girard-Charest
Mishra Pilu By Egidija Medekšaitė
Improvisation – Naomi Berrill (cello anf voice) & Emma Jane Lloyd (violin)
Fragments – by Bill Whelan
(commissioned by Music for Galway for Cellissimo Festival 2020)
Blue – by Naomi Berrill
Galatea – by Naomi Berrill
Sea Warrior – by Naomi Berrill
Incantation – by Sam Perkin (Irish Premiere)
Kaleidoscope Night & The Night With …
Wednesday 1st October 2025
Bello Bar
8pm doors/ 8.30pm music
Tickets €18, Early Bird €15
Student Rate €5 from Kaleidoscopenight.ie
