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Announcing the 2026-28 Arcangelo New Ensemblists!

We're delighted to present the four talented young musicians joining our Arcangelo New Ensemblists programme for the next two seasons:

The 2026-28 ANE programme benefits from the generous support of @trinitybuoywharf trust and Idlewild Foundation.

🔼🔗 Link in bio to find out more:

🐸🪸🐣 by @joep___

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14 days ago

Alpine music coming soon 🏔️

photo credit: @miketemiola
video credit: @constance_pharoah & @nikolauspetrus taken in Pinzgau by @joep___

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Imitation of the Imitation of the Imitation of the Bells 🔔 with @monpuo
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What started as a silly thumb position exercise morphed into an encore in Konzerthaus, inspired by dear Mon. I especially love baroque music with clear programmatic ideas, and this beautiful piece by J.P. von Westhoff seemed ripe for experimentation and, ultimately, appropriation for cello. In other words I stole it 🥷

The transcription (Imitation x 2) seemed to work, but was a little growly due to the lower register and my own talent limitations. So thanks to the free rein given to harpsichord players in ye olde days and given the damage was already half done, a 2nd voice was worked up and Imitation x 3 was born.

Bach almost certainly knew Westhoff in Weimar, J.S. seems to have been influenced by J.P.’s playing and solo violin writing so this music could seem familiar, it might even ring a bell (!)
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#cello #duo #concert #baroque taken in Berlin, Deutschland by @joep___

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3 months ago

Spontaneous stream-of-consciousness songofthebirdsposting. Enjoying slow shifts and space between notes and trying to make wolfs (wolves?) beautiful and singing with too much breath and searching for flute sounds, all courtesy of @pirastroofficial Oliv (#sponsormeplease ) and my own laissez-faire approach to good phrasing, rhythm and taste. If that’s what you’re after, go listen to Joan Baez’s version with strings on her 1966 Christmas album (yes, really). Failing that, Casals will have you covered 🙌🕊️

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#casals #cello #bird #joanbaez taken in Berlin, Germany by @joep___

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7 months ago

A scattered, slapdash selection of some of the excellent bits from 2025, one of the all time years…

1,10 hibibidibrg by @emiliaturkanik. elite daisy chain crown craftsmanship from @connie_pharoah
2 jaäasspodspolska. I’ve been obsessed with Swedish tunes (and particularly this one) for years, this lil impromptu session with these delightful nyckelharpa-wielding geezers was so joyful and inspiring. might need to live there for a little while and just learn and play weird tunes
3 winter defocus
4 @allan_janson turning Bach into tunes and me trying to keep up and stop the spike sinking into the sand and not be distracted by THAT DAMN SKY
5,9,12 stooorhied, it IS barry lyndon
6 the best people
7 simply the best people
8 last minute arranging on the fly shenanigans. zilvinas with some delectable noodling but this goes in for foot restlessness/sock aura alone
11 avalon
13 soundtrack of the seymour

🧡🧡 taken in Seymour Arms - Witham Friary by @joep___

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9 months ago

This is how our journey to the Lighthouse began, rehearsing Britten’s 2nd quartet in the @hawkwood_cft

We spent five days together, having never played as a quartet before, exploring this music but also going for walks, talking for hours, eating together and sight-reading music. It feels so right to be learning music this way - with space, stories, debates, singing, inspiration from our surroundings and beautiful people. If you want to know more about what the Lighthouse means and what it could mean for you, watch this space! by @joep___

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9 months ago

So happy to have played Vivaldi double concerto yesterday with the GOAT @joep___ in Konzerthaus Berlin and @huang_niemand and #capellaamadeus
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📹 @lena_angelina_va
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#cello #cellist by @joep___

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10 months ago

Kodaly Solo Sonata op. 8. ⛰️
My favourite factlet about this piece: Starker‘s 1948 Grand Prix de Disque-winning recording was so successful and the proceeds so fruitful that a plaque was unveiled above the new indoor swimming pool at his house in Bloomington, Indiana.
The plaque read „The Pool That Kodály Built“. 🏊‍♂️

“Folk music is not a primitive product, but a mature art refined by thousands of years of evolution: an art that is valid and perfect.” - @zoltankodaly_

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#cello #cellist #kodaly #solo #sonata #concert #scordatura #folk taken in HfM Hanns Eisler, Marstall by @joep___

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a year ago

Part 2 as promised. Do you think we have productive rehearsals??? Btw we had a really great concert yesterday, AND we’ve got more exciting projects coming up!! by @joep___

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a year ago

We put the rave in Ravel 🤘🏼 by @joep___

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a year ago

So many wonderful times spent with these two throughout the years 🥰
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📸 @benjaminguenst.violin by @joep___

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a year ago

Arranging already fiddly violin pieces (thus violating my left hand stretch) is a recent guilty pleasure. Has been a labour of love figuring out the enigmatic Passacaglia by Biber, Italian tuning for the win 🙌🤘
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#cello #cellist #baroque #solo #passacaglia #ciaccona taken in Witham Friary by @joep___

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