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Oliver Coates [Berio Sequenza] for solo cello ... the playing world class.

The Guardian, review of concert at Kings Place, December 09

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.


Beatboxer and cello dabbled in intimate shadowplay. Instrument proved it could go farther than voice — even [Shlomo] Kahn’s — and neither discipline seemed in thrall to the other.

The Times, Neil Fisher, review of performance at Blank Canvas with Shlomo, September 09

25 September 2009, 7.30pm

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

2 October 2009, 9pm

Solo performance for London Sinfonietta

David Fennessy The Room is the Resonator
solo cello with electronics - David Sheppard from Sound Intermedia. Go Dave and Ian!

Kings Place Hall 1, London

3 October 2009, 9pm

Solo performances for London Sinfonietta, really good gig!

Emily Hall Put Flesh On
Mira Calix ort-oard, with film
Claudia Molitor it's not quite how I remember it

Sound Intermedia doing electronics.

Kings Place Hall 2, London

My South Bank Centre Residency begins....

4 October
Performances with Contemporary Consort in Stratford Upon Avon
Alexandra Wood, violin; Sarah Thurlow, clarinet; Huw Watkins, piano
works by Brahms, Beethoven, Salter, Britten, Suckling, Watkins

5 October
Performance with New Noise in Rotherham
Joby Burgess, percussion; Janey Miller, oboe; Ruth Wall, harp
Works by Cornelius Cardew and the Scratch Orchestra, systems composers

21 October
Radius at the Purcell Room, playing Schoenberg, Benjamin, Berg

31 October
London Sinfonietta at Royal Festival Hall, sold out!
Steve Reich Music for 18 musicians, with Steve Reich performing

8 November
with Gurrumul Shepherds Bush Empire

15 November
Recording a Richard Rodney Bennett song for an NMC release, Potton Hall in Suffolk

20 November
Sally Pryce Harp Ensemble, playing the Horsham Music Circle

22 November
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival! (St Pauls Hall, 5pm)
Playing with James Weeks and the New London Chamber Choir
Jonathan Harvey The Summer Cloud's Awakening, for Choir, Flute, Cello and electronics
Also Kaija Saariaho Sept Papillons

28 November
Recording a short track with voice and clarinet and piano for Peter Wiegold's new CD
Martin Butler, piano; Tim Lines, clarinet; Juliet Fraser, soprano

30 November - 5 December
The House of Bedlam go to Cove Park, on Loch Long, for a residency, to record and write

Then perform in Glasgow, 5th December

7 December
In Paris, playing The Navigator by Lisa Lim, with the Elision Ensemble
At the Bastille !!

10 December
The House of Bedlam play in Manchester

11 December
Kings Place, London playing the Biber Passacaglia and Bach two-part inventions with Clio Gould

Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire with Claire Booth, Ryan Wigglesworth and live visuals by Netia Jones

12 December
Kings Place, London playing the Berio Sequenza XV with live visuals by Netia Jones

16 December
Jigsaw players, doing Schubert Quintet and Mendelssohn Octet, Raynes Park, SW19

8-9 January
Recording solo CD in West Dulwich, Thomas Hewitt Jones producing, to be released on Nonclassical Records

11 - 23 January 2009
Collision at the Southbank.

Southbank Centre host an intense two weeks of collaboration and discussion between resident artists and their guests. My collaborators are Mica Levi (from Michachu and the Shapes) and Matt Rogers (aka Gameshow Outpatient).

11 January
Kings Place, soloist for the London Sinfonietta, Hall 2

London Sinfonietta at Blank Canvas

playing three great pieces for solo cello and electronics:
Michel van der Aa - Oog
Larry Goves - Blind Jack's Silent House
Anna Meredith - Lylat

Kings Place Hall 2, London

16 January
Eindhoven, performance with Quayola and mira calix

17 January
Frankfurt, performance with mira calix

28 January
Aurora Orchestra, chamber concert in Kings Place, Hall 1

Schoenberg, Hindemith, Weil, Krenek

Kings Place, London

30 January
Aurora Orchestra, concert in Kings Place, Hall 1

Korngold, Schreker, Hindemith, Weill

Kings Place, London

30 January, 10pm
Kings Place Hall 1, Aurora orchestra, Cabaret after dark, Lore Lixenberg

31 January - 1 February
Brussels, recording a a CD of improv for the Box project
collaborating with Ben Frost and Helge Sten

3 February
Lille, performance with Quayola and mira calix