Light Stories “Beautiful…rich, impassioned”
The Artsdesk Dec 2024
Matthew Barley “The world’s most adventurous cellist” (The Times) performs his own music alongside composers such as Anna Meredith, John Metcalfe and Bach.
A deeply personal and epic journey, Light Stories weaves together music, projected imagery, and electronics to narrate Matthew’s personal story, exploring the transformative power of music to heal, console, and uplift.
Innovative video designers Yeast Culture create projected images as a vivid counterpoint to the music (with on-screen dancer Mavin Khoo (Akram Khan), creating a magical and theatrical experience that evokes the darkness of trauma and its transformation into clarity, understanding and joy.
5 star review in A Youngish Perspective
Interview in The Telegraph September 2024
Post-Show Q&A
This concert will consist of one set followed by a short interval and then a Q & A.
------
Matthew Barley
Cellist Matthew Barley has created a unique international career full of improvisation, new music, cutting-edge computer technology, collaboration with jazz and Indian musicians, education, and arranging – but always with cello playing at the heart. He has played with top orchestras (Frankfurt Radio Symphony, BBC Philharmonic/Scottish, Czech Philharmonic, Sydney Symphony), in some great concert halls, given premieres by composers including MacMillan, Dusapin, Larcher and Deep Purple's Jon Lord and appeared on tv and radio worldwide. He is currently engaged in a first composing and home recording project called Light Stories for a release on Signum Classics and a UK tour starting at London’s Southbank Centre. He lives in London with his wife, violinist Viktoria Mullova.
