Zoe Martlew - Curriculum Vitae

Nationality: British

Education

Royal College of Music, Clare College, Cambridge, Royal Academy of Music, Chopin Academy of Music, Warsaw

Ensembles

Has performed and recorded for CD and radio throughout the UK and Europe with the following, including:-

London Sinfonietta, Ensemble Modern, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Composers Ensemble, Lontano, Ixion, Music Theatre Wales, Capricorn, Expose, Firebird Ensemble, Gemini, Jocelyn Pook Ensemble

Solo

includes:

with live electronics/improvisation

Colin Riley cello concerto with live electronics: Sinfonia Viva (world prem)

Brian Lock cello concerto (world prem)

Live improvisation with electronica band Plaid at Faster Than Sound Festival

Other

Soloist with Northern Sinfonia at Huddersfield Festival in Simon Holt's 'Daedalus Remembers'

Soloist with Ensemble Bash in Tan Dun's Snow in June at Huddersfield and Almeida Festivals

Park Lane Group recital at the Purcell Room

Recitals with pianist Rolf Hind and Huw Watkins

Lecture/recital Princeton University

Camberwell Composers’ Collective: regular premieres of works by members

Recitals and solo appearancesat many European festivals

Aldeburgh Festival, Almeida Festival, Auch New Music and Dance festival (France), Bath Festival, Bergen Festival, 'Autumnale' and 'Music Factory', Bromsgrove Music Festival, Darmstadt Contemporary Music Festival, Huddersfield Festival, Lucerne Contemporary Music Festival, Meltdown Festival, Montepulciano Festival, Nancy (France), Spitalfields, Szombathely (Hungary), Turin University, Warwaw Autumn Festival plus many London festivals.

BBC Radio 3 - regular solo items on 'Midnight Oil' and 'Hear and Now' regular appearances on European radio

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Composer/performer

One woman cabaret revue show Z Unleashed: uncensored, unhinged, underwired; Battersea Arts Centre, Banff Centre for the Arts, Semley and Fingrinhoe Festivals, pubs and clubs across UK – sell-out shows.

(devising, composing, performing music for shows)

Collaboration with New York City Ballet’s Antonia Franceschi:

Shift, trip, catch for Ballet Black at Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House II

Up from the Waste Soho Theatre – Franceschi’s solo show.

Ghost Ward- Almeida Theatre

A Warning to the Curious- Eastern Angles Theatre – UK tour

Theatre

MD for Ballet Boys showEncore at Sadlers Wells and Richmond Theatre

Humble BoyNational Theatre, Gielgud Theatre

Tete a Tete, ShortsandA Brief AffairBridewell Theatre

Television

Jury member for BBC2’s Maestro

Guest on BBC4’s Proms coverage.

Pop, rock, folk

Paul McCartney, Terry Hall, Katie Melua, Crispian Mills (Kula Shaker), Incognito, Dagmar Krause, Radiohead, Super Furry Animals, Travis.

FREE IMPROVISATION

National Portrait Gallery, opening Pop Art exhibition, with MooV ensemble

RencontresMusiqueImprovisees festival, Paris.UK and French groups.

LMC ensemble and Butch Morris: experimental improvisation with 'conduction'.

Education

· Working with schoolchildren, mentally and physically disabled adults, autisitc children and with various groups, including

London Sinfonietta,

Almeida Theatre,

Southbank Summer School

Spitalfields

Regular visitor to HM Albany Prison – setting /performing prisoners poems

· Masterclassesincluding:-

Dartington International Summer School,

York International Cello Festival

Princeton University, New Jersey,

Purcell School

Pro Cordastring course,

· Contemporary music workshops, seminars, coaching, including:-

Bergen Music Factory (Norway)

Britten Pears School, SnapeMaltings

London College of Music

Royal College of Music

Royal Academy of Music

Turin University (Italy)

Universities including: -

Bath, Cambridge, Durham, Exeter Oxford, Southampton, Surrey

Recording Session work: - film, tv, pop

Includes:

Isabelle Griffiths

Andy Brown

Hilary Skewes

BAROQUE –

Recital on baroque cello atWigmore hall with Carl Dolmetch, Janet Baker and ensemble.

Oriel ensemble, Berlin.

OWN RECITAL SERIES

Critically acclaimed 'Series Z': at the Warehouse in London premiering especially commissioned works and little known/performed works from 20/21st century repertoire including Ades Sola, Knussen Eccentric Melody, Ustvolskaya Grand Duo, Enesco's Sonata no. 2, Busoni's Albumblatt and Ligeti Tribute to Hilding Rosenberg.

Press

'…sparks of electricity. Martlew drew from a deep well of expressive intensity…A shimmering performance…uncommon sensitivity.'

THE STRAD

“But the hit was Antonia Francheschi's Shift, Trip ...Catch, a sassy, Big Apple-style blast whose helter-skelter jazz score by Zoe Martlew - who also played cello on stage - set a pace that nearly set the floor on fire.”

INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

“Saturday’s final event was, well, stimulating. If you like PVC and whips, that is (and who doesn’t, after all?) It was the astonishing Zoë Martlew (billed as ‘cellist/performer, a virtuoso show of understatement) in her spectacular ‘Zoë Unleashed …. Unhinged, uncensored, underwired!’ No kiddies shuffling in their pew for this one … some of Martlew’s own compositions (for which she included tape playback) vied with sassy songs and hot chat. I’m not quite sure some Semley residents quite know what had hit them (not literally, the whip could have had more of an airing), but the whole was so well prepared, and given with such confidence, that this was an unforgettable experience. Martlew had to cope with an awkward performing space, situated in the middle of a very long room (The Barn at Hatts Farm, Semley), and if she talked to one half of the room her back was necessarily showing to the other half. But with those hot pants, how can that possibly be a bad thing?”

SEEN & HEARD INTERNATIONAL

“We hit an excellent evening of work in progress. Zoë Martlew proves herself an accomplished actress, assuming various characterisations, some of them hilarious, and delivering text with aplomb."

SEEN & HEARD

'…typify what makes the Park Lane Group's concerts so rewarding: bold and unpredictable…a strong narrative line…'

THE OBSERVER

'…Martlew realized this terrifyingly bleak work in a performance that sent us reeling numb into the interval.'

THE TIMES

'Another discovery was cellist Zoe Martlew: wonderful technique coupled with expressiveness and clear understanding of the problems and new beauties of this music.'

LUZERNER ZEITUNG

'…the richest and longest sustained pizzicato notes I have ever heard from a cello…Martlew has now acquired a sound to die for. Many times during the evening the music seemed to pause a moment for her cello to throw out just such sounds whose path through time and space the avid ear would trace to the last phonon.'

SEEN & HEARD (MUSIC ON THE WEB)

“Admiration needs to be expressed to 'cellist Zoe Martlew in co-ordinating live performance with a recorded track. There were points where the dancers almost seemed about to eat her!”

BALLET MAGAZINE

'…with sounds never heard before on the concert platform, Miss Martlew reduced the audience to quivering jelly.'

EAST ANGLIAN DAILY TIMES

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