“At the turning of the World”

Emily’s new performance & touring production

Combining classical with contemporary through utilising sampling and looping technology, Emily has developed exciting and innovative programs of new music for the cello.

She is a virtuoso cellist with renowned deft improvisational and composing skills and creates sublime music which fluidly crosses genres. Her music reflects her love of our natural environment and in the hands of Emily the cello becomes a voice for her personal experiences as she amalgamates melodies, rhythms and sounds from her field recordings within some of the compositions.

‘Emily Burridge lifts the subtle art of cello to new dimensions with her inspirational, moody, soulful and joyous musicianship. This is cello to lift the spirit, harmonise with the emotions and take you on a journey’.

Her programs typically appeal to a broad age range (from late teens to 60 +). 

“At the turning of the World” New album release ’24 and performance program

Following on from the success of Emily’s earlier production for solo cello performance “Bach & music from Out of the Blue” she has now created a new program; “Bach & At the Turning of the World” alternatively  “At the turning of the World” .

“At the Turning of the World” features compositions produced since 2020 with a selection of compositions inspired by events in different parts of the world which have moved Emily to compose or arrange a piece for the cello. The sound cloud player below includes seven compositions recorded during a concert performance 2024.

In performance some compositions are accompanied by an orchestrated backing track, and others feature her dynamic and adventurous approach to composing and performing with the solo cello utilising looping pedals  operated with her feet, which enable her to record and multitrack the cello.

Brazil is a country close to Emily’s heart and in particular the indigenous people of the Amazon. In this production they are represented in the track “Sisters in the Forest” which was originally premiered at COP 26 in Glasgow and below is a video clip from this multi media solo presentation.

During her concerts Emily likes to communicate with the audience about what it is that inspired a piece of music and talks with wit and pathos. “At the turning of the World” performance production was conceived during the pandemic and developed between ’21 & ’24, with audience response and various events informing the way Emily has finalised it as a performance production.

Emily also specialises in performing “The Suites for unaccompanied cello” by JS Bach  and has previously found a Bach suite included complements the program. This depends on the environment and event in which she is playing and inclusion in the program is optional, however for concerts and festivals taking place in churches and cathedrals a suite by Bach integrated within the program works particularly well. For this concert program she currently favours the second suite in D minor.

Concert recordings 2024 Prelude D minor suite for unaccompanied cello by JS Bach

Feedback from a concert promoter Spring concert ’24 (transcribed from a recorded response by a concert promoter at the end of the concert)

Emily, I don’t know how to say this, but you have captured something very special for us tonight.

You have captured in music an interpretation of real events and listening to the music is lovely but what you have done is bring it into our personal experience.

In response to “Nurses’s Song” (new composition created live with looping pedals I loved the way you interpreted the intention of the nurses between caring and rushing around and having to do a job.

“Pastoral Light” (accompanied by pre-recorded accompaniment) you then went on to capture that feeling of the first part of covid particularly the peace in the countryside during the first lock down as well as all the experiences we all had and mixture of emotions as we watched the catastrophe unfold through our TV’s and social media….and then when you went on and played your extraordinary solo cello composition “Fukushima” and conveyed through the music the power of a Tsunami – I was there in Tamil Nadu when the tsunami hit and your piece unlocked memories buried within me….

And then the last piece “Prayer for the Rivers”  in this building, a centre of worship for four hundred years – you brought Chartres to us  and you just brought alive that spiritual aspect of music that fits a building like this so well..(the current interpretation is transcribed from the original recording made in the Crypt of Chartres Cathedral and included on the album release “Compositions & Meditations”  live in Chartres cathedral.

Performance October 2024. Blandford Parish Church special event for the High Sheriff of Dorset and the Legal services music requested : “Bach & At the turning of the World” written response to the performance: “Thank you so much for your superb performance- everyone loved it”! The High Sheriff of Dorset, Anthony Woodhouse

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Technical information and requirements

Amplification – Emily supplies her own small PA which is suitable for small halls and churches. For bigger venues an in house PA is required.
For international bookings Emily has an electric cello which travels in the hold of a plane and this helps with budgets  for international travel with a cello. It is also used for festival bookings. 

To make contact regarding your concert/tour enquiry please send an e mail to:

admin(at)emilyburridge.com

Other Solo Cello Productions Include:

Bach & music from Out of the Blue
Out of the Blue & Into the Amazon
Mellow cello sessions for festivals
Bach by candlelight

Past Performances

Over the last few years Emily has established a strong reputation with her unique solo productions

• 2024 “At the turning of the World” Semley Festival Dorset
• 2024 “Bach & At the turning off the World” Shaftesbury Fringe Festival – sold out
• September 2023 “Bach & At the turning off the World” St Mary’s Church Donhead St Mary – sold out
• October 2023 “Bach & At the turning of the World” The Alverton Manor concert hall Truro – sold out
• 2022 “Bach & At the turning of the World” Winterborne Tomson church Dorset – sold out
• COP 26 Glasgow Climate Conference 08/11/2021  “Sisters in the Forest” & “Into the Amazon” performance & video presentation
• 2021 “Bach & Out of the Blue” Music on the Quantocks – sold out
• From Bach  to the Amazon’ St Peter’s Church, Shaftesbury Dorset
• ‘From Bach & to the Amazon’ Live & Local rural tour Warwickshire
• ‘Music from Out of the Blue’ Sculpture by the Lakes Festival Dorset
• ‘From Bach & to the Amazon’ Festival of Chichester St John’s Chapel
• ‘Out of the Blue & Into the Amazon’ Survival International 50 years celebratory performance Museum of the order of St John, London. May 2019
• ‘Bach & music from Out of the Blue’ Kino Teatr St Leonard’s on Sea June 2018
• ‘From Bach to the Amazon’ Milton Abbey School concert series June 2018
• ‘Bach & music from Out of the Blue’ Winterborne Tomson Church Dorset May 2018 – sold out
• ‘Out of the Blue & Into the Amazon’ ‘Unplugged’ East Bridgford Hill April 2018
• ‘Bach & music from Out of the Blue’ The Silk Mill Frome ‘Outside insight concert series’ October 2017
• “Bach & music from Out of the Blue” in Chartres Cathedral, France for their summer concert series 2016
• “Bach, Burridge & Into the Amazon” Calne Festival of Music & Arts
• “Bach & Music from out of the Blue” St Mary’s Church, Shroton & St Peter’s Church, Shaftesbury
• “Bach, Burridge & Into the Amazon” Barnard Castle international festival of music 2013
• “Bach, Burridge & Into the Amazon” St Mary’s Church Alvediston 2013 & St James’s Church Pilton 2013
• “Music from Out of the Blue” Equator WOW Festival, Women of the World, London.
• “Bach, Burridge & Into the Amazon”  St. Ives Festival , Zennor Church, Cornwall UK
• “Bach, Burridge & Into the Amazon”  Hayle – Rural tour venue Cornwall.
• “Bach, Burridge & Into the Amazon” Rural Tour – Various Venues Dorset. Promoted by Dorset Artsreach.
• “Music from Out of the Blue & Into the Amazon” Clarence House, London.” Start – A Garden Party to make a difference” Organised by The Princes Foundation.
• “Bach, Burridge & Into the Amazon”  Warneford Chapel, Oxford. Promoted by Oxford Contemporary Music, ” Into the Amazon”  Ashleywood Farm Music Festival, Dorset.
• “Bach & music from Out of the Blue” McQueen’s Club, London.
• “Out of the Blue & Into the Amazon” Rivenstone Festival – Dartmoor. Main Stage.
• “Into the Amazon” in collaboration with the photo exhibit “Heart of Brazil” by international photographer Sue Cunningham. Brazilian Embassy in London. The first performance “Bach, Burridge & Into the Amazon”  Butley Priory Music Series, Suffolk.
• “Music from Out of the Blue” Hindon “Peace wins Japan” private concert.
• “Into the Amazon” ‘out reach” performance. Warneford Hospital, Oxford. Emily integrated within the performance a storytelling approach to the performance as she related her experiences of living with tribal people in the forests of Brazil.
• “Bach, Burridge & Into the Amazon” Harcourt Arboretum, Oxford. Production – Oxford Contemporary Music.
• Donhead St Mary Church, Dorset. Benefit concert for the Xavante Tree Nursery initiative.
• Shaftesbury Arts Centre Dorset.