PAST CONCERTS
2019
20th January
Patrick Jonsson music video recording
Royal Academy of Music, London
www.patrickjonsson.com
29th-31st January
Comedy performance with Rainer Hersch
Hard Rock Cafe, Dubai
www.rainerhersch.com
12th February
Rautio Piano Trio recital (guest cellist, emergency replacement for Victoria Simonsen)
Steeple Church, Dundee
Rachmaninov Trio Elegiaque No.1
Beethoven 'Ghost' Trio Op.70
Ravel Piano Trio
www.rautiopianotrio.co.uk
www.dundeechambermusic.org.uk
13th February
Corporate performance, Chineke! Chamber Ensemble
(City of London)
Dvorak String Quintet Op.77
www.chineke.org
14th February
Jigsaw Players' workshop with A level students at Wimbledon High School
www.jigsawplayers.co.uk
15th February
Sacconi Quartet (guest cellist, emergency replacement for Cara Berridge)
Amaryllis Flemming Concert Hall, Royal College of Music
7pm
Haydn Op.64 No.5 'Lark'
Mozart String Quintet in G minor K.516
www.rcm.ac.uk
www.sacconi.com
19th-25th February
USA tour with Chineke! Chamber Ensemble
Concerts in New York & Washington
Programme includes Beethoven Septet and Errollyn Wallen 'Nnenna'
www.chineke.org
27th February
Chineke! Chamber Ensemble
Royal Dockyard Church, Chatham
7:30pm
Strauss 'Till Eulenspiegel einmal anders!'
Florence B Price String Quartet in G
Beethoven Septet Op.20
www.chineke.org
28th February
Chineke! Chamber Ensemble
Private fundraiser concert
London
www.chineke.org
15th & 16th March
Ensemble 360
Wigmore Hall
11am (both days)
Stan & Mabel and the Race for Space, family concerts
https://wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/family-concert-stan-mabel-and-the-race-for-space-201903161100
www.ensemble360.co.uk
9th April
Performance of Patrick Jonsson's music
Brunel Museum, Railway Avenue SE16 4LF
www.patrickjonsson.com
11th April
Written in Fire
Kings Place, Hall One
8pm
Memorised performance of Janacek String Quartet No.2 'Intimate Letters' and the London debut of 'Written in Fire' by Vessel/Singh
https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/contemporary/rakhi-singh-vessel-chaines/
1st May
Bach Evolution
Royal Albert Hall
7:30pm
Performance of Peter Gregson's 'Bach Recomposed'
https://www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/events/2019/bach-evolution/
www.petergregson.co.uk
5th May
Written in Fire
Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, Cardiff
7:30pm
Memorised performance of Janacek String Quartet No.2 'Intimate Letters' and the Welsh debut of 'Written in Fire' by Vessel/Singh
www.rwcmd.ac.uk
7th May
Written in Fire
Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
7:30pm
Memorised performance of Janacek String Quartet No.2 'Intimate Letters' performance of 'Written in Fire' by Vessel/Singh
www.rncm.ac.uk
8th May
Written in Fire
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow
7:30pm
Memorised performance of Janacek String Quartet No.2 'Intimate Letters' and the Scottish debut of 'Written in Fire' by Vessel/Singh
www.rcs.ac.uk
16th May
Ensemble 360, 'MayFest 2019'
Crucible Studio Theatre, Sheffield
12:45pm
Britten Phantasy Quartet Op.2 for oboe, violin, viola and cello
Panufnik Cantator and Amanda for bassoon and string quartet
Nielsen Wind Quintet Op.43
http://www.musicintheround.co.uk/event.php?id=1314
www.ensemble360.co.uk
17th May
Ensemble 360, 'MayFest 2019'
Crucible Studio Theatre, Sheffield
5pm
Brahms Sextet No.2 in G Op.36
http://www.musicintheround.co.uk/event.php?id=1318
www.ensemble360.co.uk
18th May
Benyounes Quartet (standing in for cellist Kim Vaughan)
Friends' Concert for South Downs Summer Music festival
Alfriston
12pm
Schubert Death & the Maiden
http://www.southdownssummermusic.co.uk
http://www.benyounesquartet.com/
19th May
Peter Gregson 'Bach Recomposed'
The Barbican
4:45pm
Part of the Barbican's 'Sound Unbound' 2019 festival
https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2019/event/sound-unbound
www.petergregson.co.uk
24th May
Highgate International Chamber Music Festival
Susan Tomes Masterclass
Millfield Place, Highgate, London
10:30am-12:30pm
Masterclass given by renowned pianist Susan Tomes for HICMF's 2018-19 'Young Artists' the Mithras Piano Trio
(Admission is for only Supporters of the festival)
www.chambermusicfestival.co.uk
2018
22nd December
Cellophony Cello Quartet with James Thorpe-Woods
Kings Place, London
3pm
https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/family/cellophony-the-night-before-christmas/
19th December
Recording of Vessel/Singh 'Written in Fire'
London
16th-18th December
Recording of Janacek String Quartet No.2 'Intimate Letters'
Wyastone Concert Hall, Monmouth
20th-25th November
Highgate International Chamber Music Festival
Multiple performances in the festival which I jointly run!
www.chambermusicfestival.co.uk
11th November
Chineke! Chamber Ensemble, Wimbledon International Music Festival, Trinity United Reform Church, London
7.30pm
Joseph Boulogne String Quartet No 3 in G minor
Boccherini Sonata in G for Cello and Double Bass, G5
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Clarinet Quintet
Beethoven Septet in E flat, Op 20
https://www.wimbledonmusicfestival.co.uk/
5th November
Ensemble 360
10:45am
Ensemble 360 with narrator Esther Sheridan, schools' concert in the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
www.ensemble360.co.uk
21st October
Private concert for the Friends & Supporters of the Highgate International Chamber Music Festival
www.chambermusicfestival.co.uk
20th October
Chineke! Chamber Ensemble, Tonbridge Music Club, Tonbridge Parish Church, Church Street, Tonbridge, TN9 1DA
7.30pm
Joseph Boulogne String Quartet No 3 in G minor
Boccherini Sonata in G for Cello and Double Bass, G5
Haydn Divertimento in C HII C5 - adagio and variations
Strauss (arr. Franz Hasenoehrl) Till Eulenspiegel einmal anders!
Beethoven Septet in E flat, Op 20
http://www.chineke.org
19th October
Performing in Peter Gregson's 'Bach Recomposed' official launch for Deutsche Grammophon at Air Lyndhurst Studios, London
https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/gb/artist/gregson/
11th October
Chineke! Chamber Ensemble performance of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Nonet in F minor (scherzo) at the launch of the BBC's Our Classical Century
2nd-6th October
Oxford Chamber Music Festival
Concerts with Priya Mitchell, Chi-chi Nwanoku OBE, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Nicholas Daniel and several other friends. Includes Schubert String Quintet and Beethoven Septet.
www.ocmf.net
19th September
Performing in Peter Gregson's 'Bach Recomposed', Reeperbahn Festival, Hamburg
11th September
Recording with singer-songwriter Ben Block for his new album
31st August - 1st September
Latimer Music Festival
Includes performances of Debussy Cello Sonata & Brahms Clarinet Trio
12th-18th August
Teaching on ELLSO Course
23rd July
Fibonacci Sequence, Petworth Festival
Programme includes Elgar Piano Quintet
Daniel Pioro, Benjamin Roskams, Yuko Inoue & Kathron Sturrock
www.fibsonline.co.uk
https://www.petworthfestival.org.uk/
19th July
Chineke! Chamber Ensemble, Ryedale Festival
7pm, 8pm, 9:30pm
Performances of Strauss Till Eulenspiegel einmal anders and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Nonet in F minor, Op 2
www.chineke.org
http://www.ryedalefestival.com/
15th July
Chineke! Chamber Ensemble, Cheltenham Festival
11am Pitville Pump Room
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Nonet in F minor, Op 2
Strauss Till Eulenspiegel einmal anders
Schubert Octet in F, D 803
Priya Mitchell, Tai Murray, Stephen Upshaw, Chi-chi Nwanoku OBE, Rebeca Omordia, Armand Djikoloum, Mariam Adam, Michael Elderkin, Lauren Reeve-Raulings
www.chineke.org
https://www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/music/
11th July
Fibonacci Sequence, Buxton Festival
Day of chamber music concerts with the Fibonacci Sequence, including Brahms Clarinet Trio and Brahms Piano Trio in C minor with Andrew Marriner (clarinet), Kathron Sturrock (piano) and Daniel Pioro (violin)
www.fibsonline.co.uk
www.buxtonfestival.co.uk
5th July
Jigsaw Players, St Matthew’s Church, Durham Road Sw20 0DE
7:30pm
Brahms Sextet No.1 & Mendelssohn Octet
Natalie Klouda, Kaija Lukas, Tetsuumi Nagata, Jenny Lewisohn, Emmanuella Reiter, Bartholomew LaFollette
www.jigsawplayers.co.uk
30th June
Ansell's Farm
Fibonacci Sequence
8pm
Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending
Schubert Arpeggione Sonata
Tchaikovsky The Seasons, with readings by Stephen Varcoe
Brahms Trio in C minor op.101
Daniel Pioro violin, Ashok Klouda cello, Kathron Sturrock piano
http://www.fibsonline.co.uk/
22nd June
Aldeburgh Festival
10pm
'Written in Fire'
Rakhi Singh, Simmy Singh violins, Ruth Gibson viola, Ashok Klouda cello, Rakhi Singh and Vessel co-creators
Memorised performance of Janacek's String Quartet No.2 'Intimate Letters' followed by the premiere of a new work written by pioneering electronic musician 'Vessel' and classical violinist Rakhi Singh
https://snapemaltings.co.uk/whats-on/written-in-fire/
15th June
Marryat Players Chamber Music Festival
7:30pm
Programme includes Schumann Piano Quintet in Eb Major
Susan Tomes piano, Hieronymus Quartet (Ashok is guest cello in the quartet for this concert)
http://www.marryatplayers.com/s/MP-Festival-Brochure-2018.pdf
14th June
Rotherham Civic Theatre
Ensemble 360 Stan & Mable and the Race for Space
http://ensemble360.co.uk/calendar/
13th June
Carlisle Old Fire Station
Ensemble 360 Stan & Mable and the Race for Space
+ Evening concert to include Schubert Piano Trio in Bb
http://ensemble360.co.uk/calendar/
12th June
Barnsley Civic Theatre
Ensemble 360 Stan & Mable and the Race for Space
http://ensemble360.co.uk/calendar/
1st June
Wigmore Hall
Chineke! Chamber Ensemble
10pm
Strauss Till Eulenspiegel
Price String Quartet (1929)
Beethoven Septet
Saturday 26th November - Sunday 4th December 2016
Highgate International Chamber Music Festival
Performances throughout the week
Monday 21st November 2016
Ex-Animo Foundation Mentorship Scheme
Coaching the Kanneh-Mason Piano Trio (Isata, Braimah and Sheku Kanneh-Mason)
Royal Academy of Music
http://www.enticottmusicmanagement.com/project/sheku-kanneh-mason/
Wednesday 9th - Friday 11th November 2016
Outreach projects for Highgate International Chamber Music Festival
Working as an animateur with the Monte Piano Trio, presenting workshop-concerts to primary school children based on Mozart's Magic Flute
Sunday 6th - Monday 7th November 2016
Creative project based on Janacek String Quartet No. 2 'Intimate Letters', with compositional elements and electronics by Seb Gainsborough. First rehearsals!
Aldeburgh Music,Snape Maltings
Thursday 3rd November 2016
7:30pm
London International Players
Cadogan Hall
Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor
Beth Barfield Brown Flute Sonata (1962) (world premiere)
Mozart Flute Quartet No. 1 in D major, K. 285
Brahms Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor
Ana de la Vega flute
Daniel Rōhn violin
Benjamin Roskams viola
Ashok Klouda cello
Simon Watterton piano
https://www.cadoganhall.com/event/london-international-players-161103/
Monday 31st October 2016
Cellophony with Simon Callow
Recording Richard Birchall's "Wind in the Willows" for 8 cellos and narrator, to complete our next CD which also feature's Birchall's "Alice in Wonderland".
Potton Hall, Suffolk
Thursday 20th October 2016
7:30pm
Artea String Trio
Eaton Square Concerts
Schubert: String Trio movement in B flat
Sibelius: String Trio movement
Dobrinka Tabakova: Insight for String Trio
J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations
Thomas Gould - violin
Benjamin Roskams - viola
Ashok Klouda - cello
Saturday 15th October 2016
Ex-Animo Foundation Mentorship Scheme
Coaching the Kanneh-Mason Piano Trio (Isata, Braimah and Sheku Kanneh-Mason)
Royal Academy of Music
http://www.enticottmusicmanagement.com/project/sheku-kanneh-mason/
Monday 26th September 2016
7:30pm
Cellophony with Simon Callow
The Vernon Ellis Foundation, 49 Queen's Gate Terrace, London SW7 5PN
Richard Birchall's "Alice in Wonderland" and "The Wind in the Willows"
To raise money for the final part of Cellophony's new recording with Simon Callow
Saturday 24th September 2016
8pm
Bjork
Hammersmith Apollo
Ashok performs alongside international superstar Bjork as Guest Principal Cello in Aurora, with one song featuring a long solo cello/vocal duet!
Wednesday 21st September 2016
7:30pm
Bjork
Royal Albert Hall
Ashok performs alongside international superstar Bjork as Guest Principal Cello in Aurora, with one song featuring a long solo cello/vocal duet!
http://www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/events/2016/bjork/
Sunday 11th September 2016
7:30pm
Cellophony with Simon Callow
Kings Place Hall 2
Programme to include "Alice in Wonderland" by Richard Birchall
www.cellophony.net
http://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/music/cellophony-simon-callow-alice-in-wonderland?tid=12
Saturday 10th September 2016
6:45pm
Artea String Trio
Kings Place Hall 1
J.S. Bach Goldberg Variations (arr. D. Sitkovetsky)
Thomas Gould - violin
Benjamin Roskams - viola
Ashok Klouda - cello
https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/music/artea-string-trio-thomas-gould-benjamin-roskams-ashok-klouda-goldberg-variations?tid=16
Tuesday 23rd - Monday 29th September 2016
Southwell Music Festival
Including performances of Thomas Adés' "Catch" and leading the Festival String Orchestra cello section for Strauss' "Metamorphosen"
http://www.southwellmusicfestival.com
Thursday 4th August 2016
Oxford Chamber Music Course
Masterclass
http://oxfordchambercourse.org.uk
Friday 22nd - Friday 29th July 2016
Kammermusikfest Sylt, Germany
Chamber Music concerts throughout the week long festival
http://kammermusikfestsylt.de/festival/
Friday 15th July 2016
Recording cello quartet by Grażyna Bacewicz for the Ambache label at The Warehouse, London.
To be released late 2016.
Ashok Klouda - cello
Rebecca Knight - cello
Sarah Suckling - cello
Morwenna Del Mar - cello
Tuesday 5th July 2016
7:30pm
Symphonova
Surrey University, Arts building, PATS Studio 1
Mozart – Andante for flute and orchestra K315
The Symphonova: A brief introduction by Shelley Katz
Aaron Copland – Quiet City for trumpet, English horn and string orchestra
Modest Mussorgsky – Pictures at an Exhibition (orchestrated by Maurice Ravel)
Symphonova is a unique project which creates the sound of a full symphony orchestra using only a few players and some very intelligent computer and human controlled electronics...
https://www.symphonova.com
Wednesday 15th - Friday 17th July
Artea Quartet
Chester Music Festival
The Artea Quartet will perform Schubert's String Quartet No. 15 in G Major among other things in the festival
http://www.chesterperforms.com/music/
Tuesday 31st May - Thursday 2nd June 2016
Artea Quartet
Recording Schubert's Quartet No. 15 in G Major for the Champs Hill label
To be released in 2017
http://www.champshillrecords.co.uk
Tuesday 25th - Sunday 30th August 2015
Southwell Music Festival
Sunday 2nd August 2015
Cellophony
Freden Festival, Germany
Saturday 1st August 2015
3pm
Cellophony
Cambridge Summer Music Festival
Sunday 7th - Monday 15th June 2015
“Vibrate!” Chamber Music Festival in Brasov, Romania
Saturday 23rd May 2015
11am
Cellophony
Bury St. Edmund's Festival
Saturday 2nd May 2015
7:30pm
Cellophony
Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire
Friday 1st May 2015
7:30pm
Cellophony
Surrey Hills Festival
HolyTrinity Church, High Street Guildford GU1 3JH
http://www.surreyhillsinternationalmusicfestival.co.uk/may-2015
Sunday 22nd March 2015
3pm
Saturday 21st March 2015
7:30pm
Cellophony
Richmondshire Subscription Concerts
Influence Church, Richmond DL10 4AS
A varied programme including works for cello octet and soprano (featuring soprano Jen Witton)
Saturday 14th March 2015
6:30pm
Private house concert in Holland Park
Piano trios with Benjamin Roskams (violin) & Simon Callaghan (piano)
Haydn Piano Trio in E, Hob XV:28
Tchaikovsky Piano Trio in A minor Op.50
Tuesday 17th February 2015
7:30pm
Cellophony
Skipton Music Club
Christ Church, Keighley Road, Skipton
Wednesday 21st January 2015
7:30pm
Cellophony
Keele Concerts Society
New Vic Theatre, Staffordshire
Friday 9th January 2015
8:30pm
Cellophony
St. George’s Bristol
to include the UK premiere of Edward Nesbit: ‘To Dance on Sands’
Sunday 7th December 2014
6:30pm
Gala Concert – Highgate International Chamber Music Festival
St. Anne’s Church, Highgate West Hill
www.chambermusicfestival.co.uk
Haydn String Quartet in G Op.77 No.1
Shostakovich Piano Trio No.1 in C minor Op.8
Schubert String Quintet in C
Alexander Sitkovetsky & Natalie Klouda - violins
Benjamin Roskams - viola
Richard Lester & Ashok Klouda - cellos
Irina Botan - piano
Wednesday 3rd December 2014
7:30pm
Highgate International Chamber Music Festival
St. Anne's Church, Highgate West Hill
www.chambermusicfestival.co.uk
Mahler Piano Quartet
Rachmaninov Cello Sonata Op.19
Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence Op.70 for string sextet
Giovanni Guzzo & Francesco Sica - violins
Rosalind Ventris & Alexandros Koustas - violas
Ashok Klouda & Rowena Calvert - cellos
Irina Botan - piano
Monday 1st December 2014
7:30pm
Highgate International Chamber Music Festival
St. Anne’s Church, Highgate West Hill
www.chambermusicfestival.co.uk
Boccherini String Trio in F Op.1 No.1, G.77, for two violins and cello
Haydn String Quartet in D minor Op.103 (unfinished)
Ravel Violin Sonata No.2 in G
Dohnányi Piano Quintet No.1 in C minor Op.1
Giovanni Guzzo, Natalie Klouda & Anna Harpham - violins
Max Baillie - viola
Ashok Klouda – cello
Qian Wu - piano
Sunday 30th November 2014
7:30pm
Highgate International Chamber Music Festival
Lauderdale House, Highgate Hill
www.chambermusicfestival.co.uk
Haydn String Quartet in F Op.77 No.2
Strauss Violin Sonata in Eb Op.18
Beethoven Piano Trio in Eb Op.1 No.1
Thomas Gould & Francesco Sica - violins
Alexandros Koustas - viola
Ashok Klouda & Claude Frochaux - cellos
Irina Botan & Qian Wu - piano
Saturday 29th November 2014
7:30pm
Highgate International Chamber Music Festival
Opening Concert – St. Anne’s Church, Highgate West Hill
www.chambermusicfestival.co.uk
Haydn Piano Trio No.45 in Eb Hob. XV:29
Mozart String Quintet in Eb K.614
Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht Op.4 for string sextet
Daniel Rowland, Natalie Klouda & Francesco Sica - violins
Anna Harpham & Alexandros Koustas - violas
Ashok Klouda & Claude Frochaux - cellos
Irina Botan - piano
Wednesday 26th November 2014
Teaching at the Yehudi Menuhin School
Monday 24th November 2014
Teaching at the Yehudi Menuhin School
Thursday 20th November 2014
Teaching at the Yehudi Menuhin School
Tuesday 18th November 2014
Teaching at the Yehudi Menuhin School
Monday 17th November 2014
HICMF Outreach concert at Mary Feilding Guild, featuring a varied programme of chamber music.
Natalie Klouda – violin
Ashok Klouda – cello
Irina Botan - piano
Sunday 16th November 2014
6:45pm
Mendelssohn Octet
St. Mary’s, Ashford
Performance of Mendelssohn’s Octet as part of Aurora Orchestra’s chamber music ‘House’ programme
Thomas Gould, Jamie Campbell, Florence Cooke & Bea Lovejoy – violins
Max Baillie & Simon Tandree – violas
Minat Lyons & Ashok Klouda - cellos
Saturday 15th November 2014
7:30pm
Mendelssohn Octet
St. Luke's, London
Performance of Mendelssohn’s Octet as part of Aurora Orchestra’s chamber music ‘House’ programme
Thomas Gould, Jamie Campbell, Florence Cooke & Bea Lovejoy – violins
Max Baillie & Simon Tandree – violas
Minat Lyons & Ashok Klouda - cellos
Friday 14th November 2014
7:30pm
Mendelssohn Octet
The Apex, Bury St. Edmund's
Performance of Mendelssohn’s Octet as part of Aurora Orchestra’s chamber music ‘House’ programme
Thomas Gould, Jamie Campbell, Florence Cooke & Bea Lovejoy – violins
Max Baillie & Simon Tandree – violas
Minat Lyons & Ashok Klouda - cellos
Thursday 13th November 2014
7:30pm
Mendelssohn Octet
St. George’s, Bristol
Performance of Mendelssohn’s Octet as part of Aurora Orchestra’s chamber music ‘House’ programme
Thomas Gould, Jamie Campbell, Florence Cooke & Bea Lovejoy – violins
Max Baillie & Simon Tandree – violas
Minat Lyons & Ashok Klouda - cellos
Tuesday 11th November 2014
Teaching cello at the Yehudi Menuhin School
Monday 10th November 2014
Teaching at the Yehudi Menuhin School
Tuesday 4th November 2014
Recording session at Air Lyndhurst Studios
Sunday 26th October - Sunday 2nd November 2014
Spencer Music Festival, Hampshire
www.spencermusicfestival.co.uk
During this exciting new chamber music festival’s week of concerts, Ashok will be performing in Beethoven’s Op.18 No.4 C minor string quartet and the ‘Archduke’ Piano trio, as well as J.S. Bach’s Cello Suite No.1 in G Major.
Sunday 26th October
6:30pm
Highgate International Chamber Music Festival private concert & reception
A taste of some of the music to come in this year’s festival, for Supporters & Friends of the HICMF
Irina Botan - piano
Natalie Klouda – violin
Benjamin Roskams – viola
Ashok Klouda - cello
If you are interested in becoming a Friend or Supporter of HICMF, please email: admin@chambermusicfestival.co.uk
Thursday 23rd October 2014
1:15pm
Cellophony
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff
Tuesday 21st October 2014
7:30pm
Cellophony
The Forge, London
Details and tickets https://uk.patronbase.com/_Forge/Productions?date=1413846000
Monday 20th October 2014
8:00pm
Cellophony
Jacqueline du Pre building, Oxford
Tickets available here: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/290726
Thursday 16th October 2014
7:30pm
Highgate International Chamber Music Festival
Fundraising concert at 22 Mansfield Street. To help raise funds for the 2014 festival and beyond.
Haydn: Piano Trio No.45 in Eb
Debussy: Violin Sonata
Rachmaninov: Piano Trio Elegiaque No.1 in G minor
Beethoven: Eyeglass Duo
Mozart: Piano Quartet in G minor
Piazzolla: Winter & Spring from the Four Seasons
Natalie Klouda - violin
Benjamin Roskams - viola
Ashok Klouda - cello
Irina Botan - piano
Tuesday 7th & Wednesday 8th October 2014
8:30pm
Cellophony
with Keaton Henson & Alexander Sitkovetsky
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
promoted by The Barbican
Monday 4th August
7:30pm
Cellophony
Church Stretton Festival, Shropshire
Programme tbc.
Richard Birchall, Matthijs Broersma, Pau Codina, Reinoud Ford, Ashok Klouda, Bartholomew LaFollette, John Myerscough, Brian O'Kane & Bozidar Vukotic - cellos
Wednesday 11th June
7:30pm
London International Players
STRAUSS BIRTHDAY CONCERT - celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the birth of Richard Strauss.
Strauss: Metamorphosen for String Sextet
Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder
Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht
Strauss: Til Eulenspiegel Einmal Anders
Daniel Röhn - violin
Alexander Sitkovetsky - violin
Ruth Gibson - viola
Alexandros Koustas - viola
Nathaniel Boyd - cello
Ashok Klouda - cello
Helen Sherman - soprano
Friday 30th May 2014
7:30pm
Cellophony with Tim Garland
Kings Place, Hall 1
A unique collaboration between cello octet Cellophony and saxophonist Tim Garland.
Tim Garland - saxaphone
Richard Birchall, Matthijs Broersma, Pau Codina, Ashok Klouda, Bartholomew LaFollette, John Myerscough, Brian O'Kane & Ella Rundle - cellos
Friday 23rd May 2014
8pm
London International Players
Ravel: Introduction and Allegro for flute, harp, clarinet and string quartet
Enescu: Cantabile e Presto for flute and piano
Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 1 D Minor op.49
Debussy: Trio Sonata for flute, viola and harp
Schumann: Piano Quintet Eb Major op.44
Daniel Röhn - violin
Benjamin Roskams - violin
Ruth Gibson - viola
Ashok Klouda - cello
Irina Botan - piano
Eleanor Turner - harp
Ana de la Vega - flute
Harry Cameron-Penny - clarinet
Tuesday 20th May 2014
7:30pm
London International Players
(Private concert in South Kensington)
Ravel: Introduction and Allegro for flute, harp, clarinet and string quartet
Enescu: Cantabile e Presto for flute and piano
Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 1 D Minor op.49
Debussy: Trio Sonata for flute, viola and harp
Schumann: Piano Quintet Eb Major op.44
Daniel Röhn - violin
Benjamin Roskams - violin
Ruth Gibson - viola
Ashok Klouda - cello
Irina Botan - piano
Eleanor Turner - harp
Ana de la Vega - flute
Harry Cameron-Penny - clarinet
Monday 5th May 2014
7pm
Cellophony with Adrian Adlam
Vivaldi: 'The Four Seasons'
Adrian Adlam - violin
Richard Birchall, Matthijs Broersma, Pau Codina, Ashok Klouda, Bartholomew LaFollette, John Myerscough, Brian O'Kane & Ella Rundle - cellos
Sunday 4th May 2014
6:30pm
Cellophony
Schubert: Three Songs from Schwanengesang
Mendelssohn: Ave Maria
Birchall: Mirrors
Dvorak: Silent Woods
Wieniawski: Scherzo-Tarantella
Wagner: Prelude to Tristan & Isolde
Bach: Three Preludes & A Fugue from The Well-Tempered Clavier
Sollima: Violoncelles, Vibrez!
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Richard Birchall, Matthijs Broersma, Pau Codina, Ashok Klouda, Bartholomew LaFollette, John Myerscough, Brian O'Kane & Ella Rundle - cellos
Wednesday 30th April 2014
7:30pm
Ashok Klouda, Miloš Milivojević & Harriet MacKenzie
Osprey Music Society, Boat of Garten
A varied programme of works for violin, cello & accordion. Details tbc.
Harriet Mackenzie - violin
Ashok Klouda - cello
Miloš Milivojević - classical accordion
Sunday 20th April 2014
6:30pm
Artea Quartet
Mendelssohn: Four Pieces
Schulhoff: Five Pieces
Schubert: Quartet in G Major D.887
Thomas Gould - violin
Rhys Watkins - violin
Benjamin Roskams - viola
Ashok Klouda - cello
Saturday 29th March 2014
7:30pm
Artea Quartet
An evening celebrate the upcoming Champs Hill launch of the complete Mendelssohn Quartets, which the Artea Quartet were part of.
Mendelssohn: Four Pieces
Schulhoff Five: Pieces
Schubert: Quartet in G Major D.887
Thomas Gould - violin
Rhys Watkins - violin
Benjamin Roskams - viola
Ashok Klouda - cello
***CANCELLED/POSTPONED***
Saturday 22nd March 2014
7:30pm
***WE ARE SORRY TO ANNOUNCE THAT THIS CONCERT HAS SADLY HAD TO BE POSTPONED UNTIL A LATER DATE, DUE TO DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED BY THE ORCHESTRA***
We hope the concert will take place either in late 2014 or in 2015. Please check back for more details.
***CANCELLED/POSTPONED***
Concerto with the Amati Orchestra
The National Musicians' Church, St. Sepulchre Without Newgate, Holborn Viaduct, London, EC1A 2DQ
Dvorak: Cello Concerto in B, Op.104
Conductor: Leo Patsalides
Sunday 9th March 2014
1pm
FREE ADMISSION
Cellophony Quartet
As part of the London Cello Society's 'Beyond Cello' day at Kings Place, a four cellists from Cellophony take you on a lunchtime tour of the diverse cello quartet repertoire! Featuring original compositions and arrangements including masterpieces by Mozart & Beethoven, a beautiful set of pieces by Julius Klengel, Richard Birchall's blazing 'Viral', tangos by Putz and Piazzolla and Paganini's virtuosic Moses Variations.
Richard Birchall - cello
Reinoud Ford - cello
Ashok Klouda - cello
Ella Rundle - cello
Sunday 8th December - Sunday 15th December 2013
Highgate International Chamber Music Fetival
St. Anne's Church, Highgate West Hill
& Lauderdale House
Ashok is one of the Founders and Artistic Directors of this exciting new festival which brings together several renowned chamber musicians from around the world for six concerts over eight days.
Ashok will be performing in concerts as part of the festival on:
Sunday 8th December, 6:30pm
Tuesday 10th December, 7:30pm
Friday 13th December, 7:30pm
Saturday 14th December, 7:30pm
Sunday 15th December, 6:30pm
Please visit www.chambermusicfestival.co.uk for all details
Thursday 5th December 2013
7:30pm
Cello & piano duo recital with John Reid
J.S. Bach Gamba Sonata in G Major BWV 1027
Britten Suite for Solo Cello No.2 Opp. 80
Bridge Melodie, Spring Song & Scherzo
Mendelssohn Sonata No.2 in D Major Op.58
Wednesday 4th December 2013
7:30pm
Cello & piano duo recital with John Reid
J.S. Bach Gamba Sonata in G Major BWV 1027
Britten Suite for Solo Cello No.2 Opp. 80
Bridge Melodie, Spring Song & Scherzo
Mendelssohn Sonata No.2 in D Major Op.58
Friday 8th November 2013
7:30pm
London International Players
Cadogan Hall
5 Sloane Terrace, London SW1X 9DQ
"Bach to Britten"
J.S. Bach
Vaughan Williams Piano Quintet in C minor
Bax Trio Élégiaque for flute, viola & harp
Arvo Pärt Fratres
Gluck Melodie from The Blessed Spirits
Britten Simple Symphony (for string quintet)
Daniel Röhn - violin
Natalie Klouda - violin
Ruth Gibson - viola
Ashok Klouda - cello
Tim Gibbs - double bass
Irina Botan - piano
Eleanor Turner - harp
Ana de la Vega - flute
http://www.londoninternationalplayers.com/en
http://www.cadoganhall.com/event/london-international-players-131108/
Thursday 19th September 2013
1pm
London International Players
Wigmore Hall
36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP
Mozart Flute Quartet No. 1 in D K285
Mahler Piano Quartet in A minor
Bax Elegiac Trio for flute, viola and harp
Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 49
Daniel Röhn - violin
Ruth Gibson - viola
Ashok Klouda - cello
Ana de la Vega - flute
Martino Panizza - harp
Irina Botan - piano
http://www.londoninternationalplayers.com/en
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/productions/london-international-players-33383
Sunday 15th September 2013
3:45pm
16th June - 2nd July 2013
Cellophony & The London Cello Orchestra
Mulit-concert tour with one concert in Geneva (19th June) and eight concerts in and around Seoul, South Korea
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
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Wednesday 22nd May 2013
7:30pm
Klouda Ensemble
Osprey Music Society, Boat of Garten
Rossini: String Sonata No.3
Mendelssohn: Trio in C minor Op.66
Schubert 'Trout' Quintet
Natalie Klouda - violin
Ben Roskams - viola
Ashok Klouda - cello
Alexandra Scott double - double bass
Simon Callaghan - piano
Thursday 2nd May 2013
1:10pm
Callaghan Piano Trio
St John’s Smith Square, London SW1P 3HA
Beethoven: Trio in E flat Op.1/1
Ravel: Trio in A minor
Wednesday 3rd April 2013
1:10pm
Barbirolli Quartet (guest appearance)
Manchester Mid-day Concerts Society, Bridgewater Hall, Lower Mosley Street Manchester, Lancashire M2 3WS
Haydn Quartet in D minor, Op.103, Hob III:83
Stravinsky Three Pieces for String Quartet
Schumann Quartet No.3 in A major Op.41, No.3
Wednesday 27th March 2013
7:30pm
London International Players
22 Mansfield Street, London W1G 9NR
Mixed chamber music masterworks by Mozart, Brahms, Strauss, Debussy and Rachmaninov
Saturday 23rd March 2013
7:30pm
Concerto with Sinfonia Tamesa
St. Andrew's, Holborn, Holborn Circus EC4A 3AB
Nielsen - Helios Overture
Shostakovich - Cello Concerto No. 1
Nielsen - Symphony No. 3 'Sinfonia Espansiva'
Conductor: Matthew Taylor
Tuesday 12th March 2013
7:45pm
Barbirolli Quartet (guest appearance)
Peak Music Society - PRIVATE CONCERT FOR CLUB MEMBERS ONLY
Haydn Quartet no. 63 in B flat major, op. 76, no. 4, The Sunrise
Debussy Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10
Schubert Quartet no. 14 in D minor, D. 810 - Death and the Maiden
Sunday 10th March 2013
6:30pm
Callaghan Piano Trio
Conway Hall, 25, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
Beethoven: Kakadu Variations Op.121
Beethoven: Trio in E flat Op.1/1
Beethoven: Trio in B flat Op.97 'Archduke'
Tuesday 5th March 2013
5:45pm
Phoenix Piano Trio*
Wolfson Lecture Theatre 1, Imperial College Hammersmith Campus, The Commonwealth Building, The Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London W12 0NN
Philip Venables Klaviertrio im Geiste
Beethoven Piano Trio Op 70 No 1 'The Ghost'
*Ashok is stepping in for the Phoenix Piano Trio's regular cellist Marie Macleod in this concert
Wednesday 27th February 2013
Concert of cello quartets
British Museum, London
Sunday 27th January 2013
6:30pm
Callaghan Piano Trio
Conway Hall, 25, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
Beethoven: Trio in B flat Op.11
Beethoven: Trio in G Op.1/2
Beethoven: Trio in E flat Op.70/2
Saturday November 3rd, 2012 at 4:00pm
Cellophony perform at the inaugural Ashdown Music Festival in East Sussex
Sunday October 7th, 2012 at 6:30pm
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London
1st Recital of the newly reformed Artea Quartet!
Programme tbc
Friday June 29th, 2012 at 1:10pm
Lunchtime concert at St. Anne's Lutherian Church, London
Ashok Klouda, Natalie Klouda and the Klouda Ensemble perform various solo works as well as Wolf's 'Italian Serenade' and an Olympic-inspired new commission for string quartet by Natalie Klouda (world premiere)
http://stanneslutheranchurch.org.uk/page/music
Sunday June 17th, 2012 at 7:00pm
Cellophony perform an evening concert at Winchester College.
Saturday June 16th, 2012 at 7:30pm
Cellophony will perform an evening recital at Linton, near Cambridge.
Friday June 15th, 2012 at 7:30pm
Cellophony return to the Northern Aldborough Festival in Yorkshire, for an evening recital with soprano Sarah Fox at St. Andrew’s Church, Aldborough.
MENDELSSOHN: Ave Maria
BIRCHALL: Mirrors
RACHMANINOFF: Vocalise*
RAVEL: Habanera *
VILLA-LOBOS: Bachianas Brasileiras no. 5*
(interval)
LISZT: La Lugubre Gondole
PART: L’Abbe Agathon*
SOLLIMA: Violoncelles, vibrez!
WIENIAWSKI: Scherzo-Tarantella
Monday June 4th, 2012 at 1:00pm
Cellophony perform a lunchtime concert as part of the 2012 Bath International Music Festival.
WAGNER: Prelude to Tristan & Isolde
BIRCHALL: Mirrors
SCHUBERT: Three Songs from Schwanengesang
SOLLIMA: Violoncelles, vibrez!
WIENIAWSKI: Scherzo-Tarantella
The concert will be followed by a live appearance on BBC Radio 3’s ‘In Tune’ programme, broadcast from the Guildhall in Bath.
Banqueting Room, Guildhall, High Street, Bath BA1 5AW.
6th November 2011 - 6:30pm, Barbirolli Quartet - London Chamber Music Society
Kings Place, 90 York Way - Map
· Haydn Quartet no. 31 in B minor, op. 33, no. 1, Hob.III:37
· Britten String Quartet no. 1 in D major, op. 25
· Brahms String Quartet in C minor, op. 51, no. 1
8th November 2011 - 1:00pm, Barbirolli Quartet - University of Salford
St. Philip's Church, Salford - Map
· Beethoven Quartet no. 14 in C sharp minor, op. 131
20th November 2011 - 3pm, Cellophony - Royal Over-Seas League (by invitation only)
Over-Seas House, Park Place, St James's Street, London SW1A 1LR - Map
Cellophony will perform a mixed programme for an invited audience
20th November 2011 - 6:30pm, Callaghan Piano Trio - Conway Hall
25 Red Lion Square, Camden, London WC1R 4RL - Map
Simon Callaghan (piano), Giovanni Guzzo (violin) & Ashok Klouda (cello)
· Brahms Trio in C Op.87
· Schubert Trio in Eb D929
22nd November 2011 - Barbirolli Quartet - The Apex
Bury St. Edmonds, Charter Square, Bury St Edmunds
· Mozart Quartet in C major, K. 465, Dissonance
· Britten Divertimenti
· Beethoven op. 131
25th November 2011 - 7:30pm, Cellophony - Burford, Cambridgeshire
· Wagner Prelude to Tristan & Isolde
· Bach Three Preludes
· Mendelssohn Ave Maria
· Birchall Mirrors
· Bach Sarabande
· Birchall Viral
· Schubert Three Songs from Schwanengesang
· Wieniawski Scherzo-Tarantella
5th December 2011 - 7:30pm, Cellophony - Wigmore Hall
36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP - Map
Cellophony make their Wigmore Hall debut on December 5th 2011, courtesy of the Park Lane Group.
· Schubert Three Songs from Schwanengesang
· Berio Korot
· Wagner Prelude to Tristan & Isolde
· Bach Three Preludes
· Wieniawski Scherzo-Tarantella
http://www.parklanegroup.co.uk/
14th December 2011 - 1pm, Klouduo (Natalie Klouda - violin & Ashok Klouda - cello) - Kendal Midday Concert Club
Kendal Town Hall, Highgate, Kendal, LA9 4DL - Map
Ashok performs a lunchtime duo recital with his wife, the fantastic violinist Natalie Klouda
· Mozart Duo in G Major K.423
· Kodaly Duo Op.7
· Handel-Halvorsen Passacaglia
19th December 2011 - 7:30pm, Barbirolli Quartet - Wigmore Hall
36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP - Map
Jonathan McGovern, James Cheung and The Barbirolli Quartet
Supported by the Kirckman Concert Society
2012
7th-16th March 2012 - Klouda/Zagoranski Duo- tour of Slovenia
Ashok will perform a tour of concerts around Slovenia with classical accordionist Borut Zagoranski
Programme tbc
3rd April 2012 - Provisional concert, time tbc, Callaghan Piano Trio - St David's Hall Cardiff
The Hayes, Castle, Cardiff CF10 1AH - Map
Simon Callaghan (piano), Giovanni Guzzo (violin) & Ashok Klouda (cello)
· Beethoven Kakadu Variations
· Brahms Trio in B Major
11th April 2012 - 7:45pm, Ashok Klouda (cello) & John Reid (piano) duo recital - Letchworth Music Club
Ashok will give a recital with old friend and duo partner John Reid
· Dvorak Rondo in G Minor Op.94
· Brahms Sonata in F Major Op.99
· Martinu Rossini Variations
· Beethoven Sonata in A Op.69
17th April 2012 - 8pm, Cellophony - Mouvaux, France
Cellophony will appear at the ‘Mouvaux en Concert’ festival near Lille
Programme tbc
22nd April 2012 - 11:00am, Ashok Klouda (cello) & John Reid (piano) duo recital - The Forge
3-7 Delancy St, Camden Town, London
Ashok will give a recital with old friend and duo partner John Reid
· Dvorak Rondo in G Minor Op.94
· Martinu Rossini Variations
· Brahms Sonata in F Major Op.99
17th May 2012 - 8:00pm, Cellophony - Mouvaux en Concert Festival, France
Programme tbc
19th May 2012 - 8:00pm, Cellophony - Swaledale Festival
Wagner Prelude to Tristan & Isolde
Bach Three Preludes
Mendelssohn Ave Maria
Birchall Mirrors
Schubert Three Songs from Schwanengesang
BARBER: Adagio
VILLA-LOBOS: Bachianas Brasileiras no. 1
23rd May 2012 - 1:00pm, Cellophony - The Apex, Bury St. Edmunds
Music by Wagner, Birchall, Schubert, Sollima and Wieniawski.