Matthew Barley - Cellist

March 25th Talk on Creative Health at University College London
2025-03-25 11:00 UTC | University College London, London, United Kingdom

March 31st - April 3rd Germany, Heidelberg
2025-03-31 08:00 - 2025-04-03 17:00 | Heidelberg Fruhling Festival, Heidelberg, Germany
Teaching the Kampus Ensemble at Heidelberg Fruhling Festival

April 5th Germany, Heidelberg Fruhling Festival
2025-04-05 08:00 - 17:00 | Heidelberg Fruhling Festival, Heidelberg, Germany
CHAPEL 21.00 Light Stories for solo cello, electronics and video design by Yeast Culture (with on screen dance from Mavin Khoo)

April 13 - 18 Italy, Cremona
2025-04-13 08:00 - 2025-04-18 17:00 | Stauffer Academia, Cremona, Italy
Stauffer Academia teaching with Viktoria Mullova

May 6 -10 Recording in London
2025-05-06 08:00 - 2025-05-10 17:00 | London, London, United Kingdom

May 13 - 22 UK tour of Light Stories
2025-05-13 08:00 - 2025-05-22 17:00 | UK Tour, United Kingdom
For solo cello, electronics and video design by Yeast Culture (with on screen dance from Mavin Khoo) Wavendon, Windermere, Nottingham, Leeds, York, Glasgow and others. Details announced in Jan 25.

May 13th The Stables, Wavendon
2025-05-13 20:00 | The Stables, Stockwell Lane, Wavendon, Milton Keynes, MK17 8LU, United Kingdom
Light Stories for solo cello, electronics and video design by Yeast Culture (with on-screen dance from Mavin Khoo)

May 14th Leeds, The Assembly Rooms
2025-05-14 20:00 | The Assembly Rooms, Howard Assembly Room, Leeds, United Kingdom

May 15th Windermere, The Old Laundry Theatre
2025-05-15 20:00 | The Old Laundry Theatre, The Old Laundry Theatre, Crag Bow, Bowness on Windermere, Cumbria, LA23 3BX, United Kingdom

May 18th York, National Centre for Early Music
2025-05-18 20:00 | National Centre for Early Music, York, United Kingdom

May 20th Glasgow, Cumbernauld Theatre
2025-05-20 20:00 | Cumbernauld Theatre, Glasgow, United Kingdom

May 22nd Nottingham, The Metronome
2025-05-22 20:00 | The Metronome, Nottingham, United Kingdom

May 28 - 30, University College London
2025-05-28 11:00 - 2025-05-30 11:00 | University College London, London, United Kingdom
Matthew Barley Foundation workshops with Emma Bonnici Creative music, song, theatre and movement for improving and maintaining good mental health.

June 9 - 12 Lithuania workshops with teenagers on creative health
2025-06-09 08:00 - 2025-06-12 17:00 | Lithuania, Lithuania

June 12th Lithuania, Klaipeda concert hall
2025-06-12 20:00 - 21:00 | Klaipeda, Lithuania, Klaipeda, Lithuania

June 19th Lithuania, Klaipeda concert hall
2025-06-19 20:00 - 20:30 | Klaipeda, Lithuania, Klaipeda, Lithuania
Tabakova concerto for cello and strings with Klaipeda Chamber Orchestra

March 28th Germany, Heidelberg Fruhling Festival
2026-03-28 14:00 | Heidelberg Fruhling Festival, Heidelberg, Germany
USA Day: Conducting Terry Riley’s In C with Kampus Ensemble

April 13th - 18th Italy, Cremona, Stauffer Academy
2026-04-13 - 2026-04-18 | Stauffer Academia, Cremona, Italy
Teaching Bach and Improvisation course with Viktoria Mullova

May 23rd - 25th Switzerland, Zurich, Musikschule Konservatorium Zürich
2026-05-23 - 2026-05-25 | Musikschule Konservatorium, Zurich, Switzerland
Improvisation course

May 30th Holland, Den Haag
2026-05-30 | Den Haag, Den Haag, Netherlands
Play/directing the Residentie Orkestr with Sir John Tavener’s The Protecting Veil with works by Arvo Pärt, Piazzolla and Milton Nascimento

June 1st - 3rd UK, London
2026-06-01 - 2026-06-03 | University College London, London, United Kingdom
Sounding Together, exploring music, movement and mental health with students from University College London

July 5th UK, Wigmore Hall 125
2026-07-05 11:30 - 12:30 | Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London, W1U 2BP, United Kingdom
Kindred spirits Matthew Barley and Mishka Rushdie Momen share a refreshing attitude to thinking about and performing music, always ready to reject tired conventions yet alive to the essential spirit that unites the best of past and present.
Their programme revels in the cello’s singing line, present in Barley’s elegant transcriptions of Lieder by Robert Schumann and the lyrical warmth and expressive gravity of Brahms’s First Cello Sonata.

Matthew Barley – cello

Mishka Rushdie Momen – piano

July 25th - 29th UK, Stroud
2026-07-25 - 2026-07-29 | Hawkwood College, Hawkwood College, United Kingdom
Residency and concert at Hawkwood College Matthew Barley & 51 Strings, a new group with Melisa Yıldırım, Hanna Ryynänen and Dawda Jobarteh

July 30th UK, Petworth Festival
2026-07-30 | Petworth Festival, X9QR+65 Petworth, UK, Petworth, United Kingdom
Matthew Barley & 51 Strings
