Upcoming events
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Loré Lixenberg Residency: Berberiana! A Celebration of Cathy at 100
17 September 2025 7:30pm
Café Oto, 18–22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London, UK
A series celebrating Cathy Berberian’s legacy with performances including avant-garde voice, film (Lethe by Lixo), and collaborations with Musarc
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Tuning Dimensions: a polyphonic exploration of Mediterranean heritage
18 October 2025, 6:00–6:30 pm GMT+1
Holy Cross Church, 98 Cromer Street, London WC1H 8JU
Performance of polyphonic Mediterranean singing featuring Ilenia Cipollari Ganucci and guest artists, part of Bloomsbury Festival’s New Wave music programme
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Sounding the Archive: Fragments in Emily Penrose’s Own Voice
24 November 2025, 6:00–7:30 pm EET (4:00–5:30 pm UK time)
British School at Athens, Upper House, 52 Souedias Street, Athens, Greece (hybrid event)
Live reading & soundscape of Emily Penrose’s travel diaries—voice, Mediterranean field recordings, and audience reflections.
PAST EVENTS
May 11 2025
Vanishing Voices, 7:45 pm, Norwich Cathedral
Norfolk and Norwich Festival 2025
Following our sell-out London success, Idrîsî Ensemble brings a mesmerising concert to the Norfolk and Norich Festival, featuring rare music from Corsica, Greece, and Mallorca.
With world-leading traditional performers and early music specialists, this special concert celebrates human imagination and a powerful encounter with sounds on the brink of extinction.
Experience the full forces of the Idrîsî Ensemble as our choir and instrumentalists unite to bring ancient traditions to life.
With world-leading traditional performers and early music specialists, this is a celebration of human imagination and a powerful encounter with sounds on the brink of extinction. Doors open at 6:30pm and the concert begins at 7pm.
December 7 2024
Vanishing Voices, 7 pm, St Clement Danes Church Strand, London, England, WC2R 1DHUnited Kingdom.
November 28 2024
Background Noise Opening reception performance 6-8pm, DES BAINS GALLERY, 20 Great Portland Street, W1W 8QR, London.
Myself and Serena Braida will be making some noises. Come along 28th of November 2024 at DES BAINS gallery 6-8pm x
Background Noise, a group show featuring artists Carmela De Falco, Semin Hong, Magdalen Wong, and Orsola Zane, curated by Giulia Pollicita and Clara Rodorigo opens on November 28th from 6 to 8PM. Featuring the performance reflecting, reflecting, the voice by Carmela De Falco, with special guests singers Ilenia Cipollari and Serena Braida.
But what’s left beyond this rotten candy-floss cloud?
This exhibition is supported by The Italian Cultural Institute in London.
Please contact mvb@desbains.co.uk for enquiries or further info.
October 15 2024
We radicles? Exhibition, Triangle Space, Chelsea College of Arts, London.
Radicles are the first roots to emerge from plant seeds following germination. They grow down into the soil, anchoring the seedling. Eleven practice-based PhD students at Chelsea, Camberwell and Wimbledon pose an oblique question: We Radicles? You are invited to encounter their research in progress, as they map their fields and seek future cross-pollinations. With Ilenia Cipollari, Annie Riga, Charlotte Yao amongst others.
Opening Reception: 15 October 2024, 5pm- 7pm
EXERCISES IN CARE
A PhD practice-based research project at the University of the Arts London: Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon colleges.
I am so excited to announce the beginning of EXERCISES IN CARE, my own practice-based PhD project held at UAL CCW. It is an exploration around how sound, singing and movement improvisation facilitate the establishment of a care-ful devising environment. The project will run throughout 2024, 2025 and 2026 and with a series of performance sharings next year.
If you want to move and sing into a space with other humans, this is for you, and I would love for you to take part! Get in touch with me for more informations.