Emily Burridge - CV
including: session work, live performance & discography

Emily, the classically trained virtuoso 'cellist with a talent for improvisation honed to spontaneous perfection by the demands of top flight session work.

With twenty years experience in studios either reading the notes or free improvisation Emily is at home within the recording environment as she is on stage performing.
With perfect pitch she can identify chordal structures and quickly establish a ‘cello part. She loves to work alongside producers developing ideas and as a composer in her own right she easily adapts to writing string arrangements.

	Samples of sessions...
	Greatest Day by Jebo
	HSBC advert (Kevin Sargent)
	Gnossiene No 2 from The Gnossienne Suite

For session work enquiries contact: admin@emilyburridge.com

SESSION WORK

Hear Emily play on a wide variety of songs and tracks by various artists including:
Philip Clemo, Debbie Bonham, George Michael, Jebo, Roger Daltry, Gianna Nannini, Psychedelic Furs, Chrissy Hynde, Harold Budd, Roger Eno.

Working within a string section including:
Stereophonics, Jools Holland and his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra, Alison Moyet, Mathilda May, Shelleyan Orphan, East 17, Chaga & Aska, Bond, Clea, Michell Lawson, Zero 7, Lou Rhodes, Marc Almond, Micha Paris, Jon Kale, Ruby Turner,The Dear Janes

1990's - present day Film Scores Working within string section
Hans Zimmer, Richard Harvey, Roger Bolton, Dominic Crawford-Collins, and as a featured 'cellist for music by: Helene Muddiman, Sofia Morizet, Brian Gulland, Kevin Sargent, Steve Naive,Gary Tarn.

Film Music recording session 2011. Trailer for The Prophet, BAFTA-nominated director Gary Tarn's adaptation of the 1923 classic written by Kahil Gibran. Emily's 'cello playing is featured in the soundtrack.

LIVE CONCERTS Present day
During the last six years Emily has developed two performance productions a solo production and a duo with pedal steel guitarist BJ Cole.

Review solo performance: "In this groundbreaking performance, cellist Emily Burridge takes Bach as her musical source, from which the rest of her musical journey flows, via looping technology into a wonderful multilayered world of her own compositions. Using Amazonian field recordings of traditional songs, and vivid images of the unique way of life, we follow a complete day in the Amazon from dawn to dusk. Spellbinding! "

VENUES Solo Production inc:

"Start - A Garden Party to make a difference" Clarence House, London (above). Organised by The Princes Foundation in 2010 Emily performed "Out of the Blue & Into the Amazon" on the main stage and the garden stage.

Rivenstone Festival - Dartmoor. Main Stage.

Promoted by Dorset Artsreach, Emily is currently performing at various venues in Dorset. www.artsreach.co.uk

Promoted by Oxford Contemporary Music, Emily gave a sell out performance in the Warneford Chapel, Oxford. www.ocmevents.org

Previous locations:
Brazilian Embassy in London -
The first performance, "Into the Amazon" in collaboration with the photo exhibit "Heart of Brazil" by international photographer Sue Cunningham.

Butley Priory Music Series Suffolk .

Warneford Hospital, Oxford. "Into the Amazon" proved to be an effective "out reach" project. Emily integrated within the performance a story telling approach to the performance as she related her experiences of living with tribal people in the forests of Brazil.

Harcourt Arboretum, Oxford - Another fitting environment for this production. Event organised by OCM - Oxford Contemporary Music.
Penny Gallery, Kingston upon Thames in collaboration with international photographer Sue Cunningham exhibiting the "Heart of Brazil" photo exhibition
Donhead St Mary Church, Dorset. Benefit concert for the Xavante Tree Nursery initiative
Shaftesbury Arts Centre Dorset.

Photo: Kenny Laurenson

Duo production with Pedal Steel guitar legend BJ Cole performing their arrangements and unique musical interpretations of works by composers including Eric Satie, Ravel, Debussy, Copland and Purcell.

Review: Rural Tour 2011: "What a stunning combination a classical cello and a pedal steel guitar makes! A packed and appreciative audience in Maplebeck village hall were enthralled by the orchestral interpretations of Satie, Debussy, J S Bach, Ravel, Copeland and several own compositions by Emily Burridge and BJ Cole. A wonderful musical journey to be remembered and savoured."

Highlights from 2011 included: Glastonbury Festival
Spirit of '71 stage. They have also performed at The Sage Gateshead Hall2, Aldeburgh and a number of Guitar Festivals including The Wirral International Guitar Festival, Birkenhead, The Lewes Guitar Festival, East Sussex, as well as The Rochefort En Accordes Festival, France, St Firmin's Church, Lincs (as part of the 'Music In Quiet Places series), and South Bank Foyer events at the Festival Hall and Purcell Rooms.

For bookings/enquiries please e mail: admin@emilyburridge.com

Emily in being employed to work alongside individuals and bands:
1990's Netherlands Klem Electro-Acoustic festival,
with Austrian composer/performer Gandalf. Norderlichte Vienna.
Votivkirche Austrian tour Performance with Gandalf and Band.
Montreaux Jazz Festival guest appearance with Gianna Nannini.
Sienna University arrangements of Italian peasant songs as a duo with Gianna Nannini.
London Cafe Royal - Chaga & Aska.
Pink Orchestra with Steve Naïve.
Olympia Paris forming string trio with Chi2 for "The Servants"
Purcell Rooms, South Bank London as a member of Ensemble X performing quartet by Errolyn Wallen.
1990’s performing first CD production "Earth Songs" : Steiner Theatre Regents Park, Riverside Studios as part of three day festival, Nettlefold Festival Clapham Common, Assembly Rooms Glastonbury, Glastonbury Festival Classical Dome, Mansfield College Oxford & St James's Piccadilly "Journey into the Forest".
Frankfurter Ring productions own CD show case
Frankfurt Book Fair own CD show case
Royal Academy of Art solo classical recital.
Windsor Festival solo classical recital. Austria Vienna. Various venues for performances of co-write CD productions Barakaya and Gates to Secret Realities on which Emily sings as well as plays the 'cello with Austrian producer and guitarist Gandalf. Both productions were re-released in 2011 through BSC music in Germany.
Brazil
Performing music from first CD "Earth Songs" - Rio de Janeiro, Museu do Acude presented by Margaret Mee foundation. Brasilia Brazil Omame Festival in the National Theatre and Rio Flamengo Park, Earth Summit 1992. Auditorio Centro de Convencicoes. Sala Villa Lobos guest appearance with Gandalf.
Fortaleza Various venues as guest appearance with guitarist Manasses and his band including at the Teatro Jose Alencar.

CD Releases by Emily Burridge

New Double CD Recorded in British Grove Studios "Out of the Blue" & "Into the Amazon”

Back catalogue:

	"Earth Songs" originally released 1994 through German Independent Label re-released 2003
	"Footsteps in the Sand" originally released 1998 re-mastered and re-released 2003
	"Bridge between Worlds" 2007

Music from Emily’s CDs is regularly used for film and documentaries and she also has Library Music with the following companies: KPM, Fireworks and West One

CD Releases duo with BJ Cole. "Into the Blue" available on in the shop & www.untiedartists.eu 

New release 2010 available from iTunes "The Gnossienne Suite" 

Co-writes with Austrian producer and guitarist Gandalf as featured 'cellist and singer on the CD releases: 

"Barakaya"	"Gates to Secret Realities"

Originally released on Sattva label and now re-released through German label BSC 

"Somewhere between Earth & Sky" released through Real Music USA(2004)

1980's Orchestral work:
London Bach Orchestra and The Mozart Players

1980‘s Compositional Commissions inc:
Sacred Elephant - Emily composed music to accompany readings of the book, "Sacred Elephant" by Heathcote Williams which was performed at various venues throughout England, accompanying the reading given by actress Virginia McKenna.
1999-2000 Working within chamber groups for theatre productions at the National Theatre London
including Guiding Star & Albert Speer
1990's - 2000 Live TV and Videos with bands inc: TFI, MTV, Top of the Pops, HTV, Des O'Connor Show & Fantastico live in Rome, Robert Palmer - "Father Father" video Stereophonics - "Hand Bags and Glad Rags" video

For bookings/enquiries please e mail: admin@emilyburridge.com