March 9th, 2024 - 7.30pm
Lubber Fiend, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Galvanize Ensemble // Sound Thought. Galvanize ensemble play music including by John Garner, Kate Halsall, Eleanor Cully, Ben Gaunt, Bernard Hughes and altogether, by Sarah Hennies.
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March 10th, 2024 - 7.30pm
Glad Cafe, Glasgow
Galvanize Ensemble//Sound Thought
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February 24th, 2024 - 12 - 5pm
Fellfoot Radio live event at the Eden Valley Artistic Network (EVAN) gallery in Penrith. Organised by North Pennines National Landscape, this special five hour live event will feature interviews with artists and ecologists, residents who have taken part in the project, sounds of the landscape, and possibly some musical performances, live poetry, and storytelling.
January til 28th, 2024 -
Outlier can still be heard at RSPB Geltsdale, Brampton, Cumbria at the vistor's centre. This is part of Green Croft Arts Trailblazer project from November 2023. Pack your walking boots.. details in the link.
25th & 26th November, 2023 -
Outlier premiere - A collection of short ‘sound landscape’ works by Kate, taking influences from the topography of Gilsland where Delia Derbyshire settled and the landscape between Northumberland and Westmorland.
The Trailblazer exhibition will open at @thesillnorthumberland accompanied by a two-day celebration event on Sat 25th & Sun 26th November with interactive sound commissions, panel talks, workshops, children's activities and performances. The exhibition will then move to the Gallery at RSPB Geltsdale where visitors can enjoy it for a bit longer. Sign up to Green Croft Arts for more info.
12th October 1.15pm, 2023 -
Armstrong Building, Newcastle University, Live Music programme.
Kate's ensemble Galvanize Ensemble//strings perform a programme of piano quintets. Music by Yannis Kyriakides, Linda Catlin Smith, Kirsty Devaney and Fumiko Miyachi.
14th July, 7.30pm, 2023 -
St Mary's Church Ambleside, Cumbria. Kate's ensemble Galvanize Ensemble//strings perform a programme of piano quintets, trios and duos. Music by Yannis Kyriakides, Linda Catlin Smith, Phil Cashian, Kaaija Saariaho, Kirsty Devaney and Fumiko Miyachi. Tickets
28th April, 7pm doors, 2023 – The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow. Breathe in me album for harmoniums & keyboard performed by Kate, with special guests Dextro (aka Ewan MacKenzie) and Faye MacMcalman.
12th April, 1pm, 2023 - St Mary's Church Ambleside, Cumbria. Programme of 20th and 21st century music for solo piano by composers including Erik Satie, Rose Dodd, John Cage, Fumiko Miyachi, Colin Riley, Linda Catlin Smith and Caroline Shaw. Tickets 2nd December, 1.15pm, 2022- Lit & Phil Library, Newcaslte Upon Tyne. Kate performs a solo piano programme. Music by Rose Dodd, Fumiko Miyachi, Linda Catlin Smith, John Cage, Jurg Frey, Jo Kondo
4th November, 1.15pm, 2022- Lit & Phil Library, Newcastle Upon Tyne. Kate and flautist Alessandra Amorino with music by Messiaen, Boulanger, Chaminade, Gubaidulina.
29th October, 7.30pm, 2022- cancelled!
Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester. A performance of new music from Kate's 2021 album, Breathe in Me. Alongside music for piano and harmoniums by Ailís Ní Ríain, Fumiko Miyachi, Diana Salazar and Rose Dodd, the show features very special guests, soprano Sarah Dacey and composer/performer of electronic and electroacoustic music, Jenn Kirby.
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30th September, time Doors 7pm for 7.30pm 2022-
Little Buildings, Newcastle Upon Tyne. Breathe in me album for harmoniums & keyboard performed by Kate, with special guests Dextro (aka Ewan MacKenzie) and Faye MacMcalman. Tickets
19th March, 12noon - 2.30pm, 2022 - Auntie Joy's Different Pebbles - One Beach. Ryton Holy Cross Church, 58 Barmoor Ln, Ryton NE40 3AA @joy_auntie
8th March, 8pm, 2022 - Galvanize Ensemble at Cafe Oto: Music by Duncan MacLeod, Carmel Smickersgill and more. With guests Mimi Doulton, Gemma Kost, John Garner, Jack McNeill. https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/galvanize-ensemble/
25th February, 12.30pm, 2022 - Lit & Phil Library Newcastle upon Tyne: Kate and flautist Alesandra Amorino with a programme including music by Emily Doolittle, Poulenc, Barbara Heller, Ibert, Faure and Sophia Gubaidulina https://www.litandphil.org.uk/events/alessandra-amorino-kate-halsall/
July 30th, 2021 online - Breathe in Me video filmed at Lit&Phil Library, Newcastle Upon Tyne: music from Kate's album release with NE label TQN - aut, by Diana Salazar, Rose Dodd, Eleanor Cully, Pippa Murphy. Piano/harmonium Kate Halsall, film Matt Jamie
6th August, 1.10pm 2021- Lit & Phil Library, Newcastle upon Tyne: Kate and clarinettist Jack McNeill perform a programme from Hildegarde von Bingen, John Dowland, to new works by themselves and Colin Riley, Laurence Crane and Ryoko Akama.
October 30th, 12.30pm, 2021 - Being and Dwelling project by artist Irene Rogan at St Michael and All Angels Church, Hawkshead, Cumbria: Kate performs music for solo piano, harmonium and sound by Diana Salazar, Rose Dodd, Eleanor Cully, Simon Bainbridge, Eleanor Alberta, Param Vir. With Kate’s new commission for piano and sound Kirk Yat premiere
29th January, 2021 online - Galvanize Ensemble for Sound Festival watch here
2020:
18th December,2020 online - Galvanize Ensemble for NottNOISE festival, present Metalization of a Dream, Duncan MacLeod, film Claire Orme watch here
November 20th,2020 online - Cobalt Duo for NottNOISE festival, with nonclassical - watch here
22nd October 2020,Venue: CANCELLED Comedia Cafe, Kendal, Cumbria
29th April 2020, 6pm, Venue: CANCELLED Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, 200 Jennens Rd, Birmingham B4 7XR
22nd April 2020, 7pm, Venue: CANCELLED Lit and Phil Library, Newcastle Upon Tyne
4th March 2020, 1pm, Venue: CANCELLED Lit and Phil Library, Newcastle Upon Tyne
2nd February 2020, 7pm, Venue: Royal Concert Hall, Theatre Square, Nottingham,
8th January 2020, Venue: Lit and Phil Library, Newcastle Upon Tyne
28th January 2020, 7pm, Venue: Performance Space, College Building, City, University of London, EC1V 4PB
2019:
18th December 2019, 1pm, Venue: Lit and Phil Library, Newcastle Upon Tyne
8th November 2019, 7pm, Venue: Holy Saviours Church, Sudley, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Programme: The Collective Choir (Sage, Gateshead)
14th July 2019, 3.30pm, Venue: The Sage Gateshead concourse Programme: The Collective Choir
13th July 2019, 12noon, Venue: The Sage Gateshead Hall 2, YMP Festival
13th May 2019, 8pm, Venue: Scottish New Music Awards, Drygate, Glasgow Kate performs solo commission for harmonium and electronics, by Pippa Murphy, winner of the EVM Award for Electroacoustic/sound art work
2nd May 2019, 7.30pm, Venue: The Lab, Birmingham Conservatoire, 200 Jennens Road
29th March, 2019, 5pm, Venue: Northern Rock Foundation Hall, Sage, Gateshead
12th February 2019, 8pm, Venue: The Lit & Phil, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 1SE
15th February 2019, 7pm, Venue: Antonin Artaud Building, Brunel University
16th February 2019, 6pm, Venue: Antonin Artaud Building, Brunel University Programme: Hillingdon Literary Festival, Graphic Scores
2018:
2nd December - 15th December 2018: Venue: Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada
8th November 2018: Venue: Cobalt Studios, Newcastle Upon Tyne
29th October - 1st November 2018: Venue: soundfestival
25th October 2018, Venue: Sheffield Concert Series
27th October 2018: Venue: soundfestival
28th July 2018: Venue: Bell Halsall duo Horizontal Transfer album release
8th July 2018, Venue: Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham Music Festival
15th June 2018, 8pm, Venue: Hall 1, Kings Place, London
13th June 2018, time tbc, Venue: Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast Book Festival
26th May 2018, 8pm Venue: The Lab, Birmingham Conservatoire
11th May 2018, 8pm, Venue: North Wall, Oxford Contemporary Music
28th February 2018, 7pm, Venue: The Lab, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
1st February 2018, 6pm, Venue: The Lab, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
2017:
14th December 2017: Birmingham Conservatoire
29th November 2017, 7.30pm, Venue: The Stables, Wavendon
25th November 2017, 7.30pm, Venue: The Tabernacle, Talgarth
15th November 2017, 8pm, Venue: Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester
4th November 2017, 5.30pm, Venue: Village Hall, Logie Coldstone, Aboyne
2nd November 2017, 7pm, Venue: Lemon Tree, Aberdeen
24th October 2017, 7.30pm, Venue: Performance Space, College Building, City University
16th October 2017, 7.30pm, Venue: International Anthony Burgess Foundation
24th June, 2017, 12 noon Venue: Mick Jagger Centre, Dartford Grammar School
29 June - 2 July, 2017 Venue: Sound + Environment, University of Hull
19th June, 2017, 7pm, Venue: Coda festival, Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire
30th May, 2017, 7pm, Venue: Speigeltent, The Old Steine, Brighton, BN1 1GY Programme: SoundKarD Explorations in Sound w/ Bastard Assignments Music by Duncan MacLeod, Neil Luck, Amber Priestly, Iain Chambers
20th April 2017, 1-2pm, Venue: Arts@Trinity, Holy Trinity Church, Boar Lane, Leeds LS1 6HW
12th April 2017, 8pm, Venue: Nonclassical, The Victoria Dalston, E8 3AS
6th April 2017, 1-2pm, Venue: Arts@Trinity, Holy Trinity Church, Boar Lane, Leeds LS1 6HW
8-9 March, 2017, Venue: School of Creative Arts and Technologies, Ulster University
3rd February 2017, 12.30pm, Venue: Bournville Concerts, Friends Meeting House, 65 Linden Road, Birmingham B30 1JT
2016:
9th December 2016, Venue: St Ann's Church, St Ann St, Manchester, M2 7LF
18th November, 2016, Venue: St Ann's Church, St Ann St, Manchester, M2 7LF
17th November, 2016, 7.30pm doors, Venue: Nexus Art Cafe, 2 Dale St, Manchester, M1 1JW
21st October, 2016, 12.30pm Venue: St Ann's Church, St Ann St, Manchester, M2 7LF
16th September, 2016, 12.30pm Venue: St Ann's Church, St Ann St, Manchester, M2 7LF
3rd August 2016, Venue: Brampton Classical, St Martin's Church, Front St, CA8 1SH
28/29th June, Venue: Dartington Hall & Sharpham House, Devon
22nd June, 8pm Venue: Resonance fm, In Place ensemble with Colin Riley
12th June, 7.30pm Venue: Recital Room, Blackheath Halls
4th May 2016, 7pm Venue: Silk Street Music Hall, GSMD
20th May 2016, 1.10pm Venue: Haldane Room, UCL Chamber Music Club
15th March 2016, 1pm Venue:Frontiers Festival 2016, Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire
10th November 2015, 6pm Venue: Resonance fm, Horizontal Transfer 5 3rd November 2015, 6pm Venue: Resonance fm, Horizontal Transfer 4 27th October 2015, 6pm Venue: Resonance fm, Horizontal Transfer 3 20th October 2015, 6pm Venue: Resonance fm, Horizontal Transfer 2 13th October 2015, 6pm Venue: Resonance fm, Horizontal Transfer 1
24/25th October 2015, 8.15pm Venue: INTIME: Landscapes and Environments, Coventry School of Art & Design,CV1 5FB
23rd October 2015, 7.30pm Venue: The Tin Music & Arts Centre,The Canal Basin, Saint Nicholas Street, Coventry, West Midlands CV1 4LY
7th September 2015, 1.15pm Venue: OCM, Richard Hamilton Building (Upper Foyer) Oxford Brookes University, OX3 0BP
31st July 2015, 8pm-9.30pm Venue: Bluecoat, Liverpool
19th May, 2015, 5.30pm Venue: Galvanising Shop, Historic Dockyard- Octandre & Sarah Dacey/soprano, Kate Halsall/piano
1st April, 2015- Boom residency, Oxford Contemporary Music
28th February 2015, 6.30pm-10pm Venue: LimeWharf Gallery, Vyner St, London E2 9DJ
11th February 2015, 1pm Venue: Breathe Arts, Guy's Hospital Chapel, St Thomas' Street, London SE1 9RG
2014:
- 7th November 2014, Venue: LV21, Gillingham Pier, Pier Approach Rd, Gillingham, Kent ME7 1RX
Programme: Composers’ Workshop with MidKent College and Music students from University of Keny
- 18th September 2014: ICMC 2014, Athens
Programme: Making Place by Katharine Norman
- 25th August 2014 Venue: Greenbelt Festival
Programme: The Observatory, Jump Cannon Productions
- 24-25th July 2014 Venue: Dean Clough Gallery
Programme: Happenstance Residency with Angie Atmadjaja
- 18th July 2014, 7.30pm Venue: LSO St Luke’s
Programme: Contemplating – soundhub composer Robert Szymanek‘s project
- 28th June 2014, 7.30pm Venue: LSO St Luke’s
Programme: soundhub preview, Screamingly Street Wonderful Flowers – Robert Szymanek
- 26th May 2014, 1pm Venue: Galvanising Shop, SMFA, University of Kent
- 5th Apr 2013 – 7th Apr 2013 Venue: Dartington Hall
Programme: lunchtime concert/Folksongs by student composers/Graduate Show
- 12th May 2014 Venue: NEM Sumitt, Brussels
Programme: App for Hear the City with Stromatolite
- 22nd January 2014, SMFA, University of Kent
Programme: Folksong Workshop with Sarah Dacey
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