Author Archives: Matthew Barley

Last week I drove down to deepest Dorset to visit John Tavener, and play The Protecting Veil to him ahead of my performance in Latvia this week. I was supposed […]

Last night I was performing at St John’s Waterloo as a guest of the Southbank Sinfonia – the country’s leading orchestral academy, also described as Britain’s Young Professional Orchestra. And […]

I had the honour of sitting in and playing with the London Improvisers Orchestra last night at Cafe Oto. This is a really remarkable collective of very experienced musicians, dedicated […]

Several years ago I premiered Traversing, Rand Steiger’s concerto for cello and live electronics at Cadogan Hall in London with the Southbank Sinfonia. It was memorable partly because we checked, […]

Last night I played at the Landmark Arts Centre in Teddington – what an amazing building! It appears that two wealthy Victorian ladies wanted to make a statement with a […]