Matthew Barley - Cellist

March 28th Germany, Heidelberg Fruhling Festival
2026-03-28 14:00 UTC | 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
