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Coates is a master of his instrument, who had me transfixed for the duration of the performance.
This was virtuosity in the extreme – and he made it seem easy. He is, without a doubt,
someone who has a dazzling career ahead of him.

Carla Rees, review of Wigmore Concert, Jan 08 for MusicWeb International

Among the stand-out performers was Oliver Coates, a cellist with the London Sinfonietta,
who played electronically mangled yet attractively dissonant pieces.

The Times, review of performance at Faster than Sound Festival, Aldeburgh 2008, (1/7/08)


Of an appearance at the Wigmore Hall, the composer Anthony Gilbert said:
This a was mind-blowing performance of 'Moonfaring'; masterly in every way:
the sound-world and sound-range,
the technique, the imagination, the understanding. Thank goodness there are players like you; who can turn crotchets and quavers into vibrant music.

May 2009,
Balliol College Oxford
recital with Huw Watkins
Beethoven, Brahms and Martin Suckling

May 2009,
Kings Place Hall 1
with London Sinfonietta - Gustav Holst Savitri

May 2009,
Urban Explorers Electronic Music Festival
Improvised set with mira calix
Rotterdam, Netherlands

May 2009,
Working with Goldie

players fixed by me to work with Goldie on his new classical work
BBC Proms commission, Sine Tempo

Filmed by BBC for documentary to be aired July 09

7 June 2009,
Ossian Ensemble and the Camberwell Composers Collective

Set of new pieces by
Anna Meredith
Emily Hall (love songs) with Olivia Chaney
Mark Bowden
Charlie Piper (Sthee and Siren Song)
Christopher Mayo (Sturzstrom)

Kettles Yard, Cambridge

12-18 June 2009,
Harrison Birtwistle semper John Dowland

new opera with London Sinfonietta, at Britten Studio, Snape Maltings

Aldeburgh, Suffolk

28 June 2009,
The House of Bedlam play Sound Rebound

new installation piece written by Larry Goves and David Sheppard.
Britten Studio, Snape Maltings newly built acoustic instruments,
virtual digital instruments, electronics, an hour long performance

Aldeburgh, Suffolk

2 July 2009, pm
Kaija Saariaho Oi Kuu
for cello and bass flute, to be performed in the presence of Kaija Saariaho
Royal College of Music, London

6-7 July 2009
Harrison Birtwistle semper John Dowland

new opera with London Sinfonietta, at QEH, South Bank Centre

South Bank Centre, London

8 July 2009, 7.30pm
Ossian Ensemble

new works by Emily Hall (love songs with Olivia Chaney)
Charlie Piper
Christopher Mayo
Animals (Saint-Saens, Huw Belling, Solfa Carlisle, Philip O'Meara)

Royal College of Music, London

11 July 2009
improvising in Brighton
Natures, collaborative improvisation and visuals with mira calix and Davide Quayola

15 July 2009, 7.30pm
Aurora Orchestra at the Deal Festival

Debussy La boîte à joujoux
Mahler Symphony No.4, arranged Erwin Stein, guest principal cello

St, Mary's Church, Walmer

19 July 2009
Gurrumul
Latitude Festival

21 July 2009
Gurrumul
Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank Centre

25&26 July 2009
Aurora Orchestra with Boom Town - Children's Concerts
Cambridge Summer Music Festival

30 July - 2 August 2009
Harrison Birtwistle semper John Dowland
new opera with London Sinfonietta
Bregenz, Austria

7 August 2009
Aurora Orchestra with BBC Young Composers
BBC Proms, in Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music

25-28 August 2009
Arundel Town Festival

25th - Organic Duets part 1, Bach, Mozart, Anna Meredith and David Fennessy
26th - Haydn, Brahms, MacMillan chamber music, clarinet quintets
27th - Organic Duets part 2, Beethoven, Ravel, Meredith and Matt Rogers
28th - Potrait of a Woman with Dave Newton, Heather Cairncross, Owen Gunnell

Emma Smith, Kerenza Peacock - violins
Jessica Beeston - viola
Steve Dummer - Clarinet and festival director

5 September 2009
Solo performances for the London Sinfonietta at Kings Place

Larry Goves the terminus wreck for solo cello
Dai Fujikura Eternal Escape for solo cello

6 September 2009
improvised performance with Peter Wiegold and Notes Inegales at Kings Place

8-11 September 2009
recording with Peter Wiegold and Notes Inegales

12 September 2009
performance with flautist Adam Walker at Kings Place
Haydn, two flutes, one cello

25 September 2009, 9pm

Performance with New London Chamber Choir and James Weeks

Xenakis: Knephas 9'
Xenakis: Kottos (cello) 10'
Dusapin: Umbrae mortis 4'
Evan Johnson: iij 4'
Saariaho: Sept Papillons (cello) 10'
Saariaho: Nuits, adieux 10'

St Andrew’s Church, Holborn, Lonbon