Light Flowing: help support a new album of music for solo cello

6th March 2023

Features NMC Recordings

Curator, collaborator and cellist Clare O'Connell has launched a Kickstarter campaign to help raise money to pay for the commissions of three brand new works by outstanding woman composers: Emily Hall, Emilie Levienaise Farrouch and Natalie Klouda, all to be recorded with NMC for an album celebrating 21st century music for solo cello, and cello and electronics.

This will be the first solo cello album that NMC has supported, and O'Connell is hoping for it to be as uplifting and as experimental as possible, focussing on sharing the feeling of lightness, which she feels is deeply relevant given the challenges of the past few years.

Watch O'Connell perform her arrangement of the traditional work Seachrán Sí with Carleton Etherington (organ) and The Carice Singers during the Cheltenham Music Festival at Gloucester Cathedral in the video below.

She says of the campaign, "I am passionate about creating and sharing beautiful and moving musical experiences with people, both live and recorded, and I'm committed to raising up and collaborating with new artistic voices. So I’m thrilled to be collaborating with Emily, Natalie and Emilie, whose work will be represented alongside works by leading composers Edmund Finnis, Alex Mills and Nick Martin.

I also believe in paying performers and creators fairly for their work and the creativity that goes into it  -  it ensures greater equality, diversity, and freedom in art and thought.

This is where you come in! If you want to see experimental contemporary music created, if you want to see composers and musicians paid fairly for their work, if you want to hear new music for solo cello, if you want to support composers and performers exploring creative freedom and risk-taking, if you think music is one of the essential ways we connect with each other as fellow humans... then I would love to welcome you as a supporter. Every donation made is crucial in bringing this new music to life and I’m incredibly grateful for your support."

The Kickstarter campaign runs until 6 April 2023. To support please follow the link below.

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