Kaleidoscope Night and The Night With… present an evening with violinist Emma Jane Lloyd and cellist Naomi Berrill on Wednesday 1st October 2025 at Bello Bar, Dublin 8.
The audience can look forward to 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 (Irish 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 as 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. 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. 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 … takes place on Wednesday 1st October 2025 Bat ello Bar
8pm doors/ 8.30pm music Tickets €18, Early Bird €15
Student Rate €5 from Kaleidoscopenight.ie
Tickets here.
