The Night With… Emma Lloyd

Emma Lloyd performs a programme of contemporary works that explore the violin’s expressive possibilities through extended techniques, electronics, and open-ended interpretation. Featuring music from her album mue, the concert brings together pieces shaped by long-standing collaborations and a shared curiosity for sound.

From delicate textures to dense sonorities, each work approaches the violin in a unique way. Rylan Gleave’s Small Haven balances notation and improvisation, while Émilie Girard-Charest’s Mue embraces transformation and instability. Matthew Whiteside’s freely, darkly, deeply expands and layers sound through effects pedals and live looping, and Egidija Medekšaitė’s Mishra Pilu weaves fragmented materials into a meditative, shifting form. Emma’s own caprices esquisses push the instrument to its sonic limits, embracing the unpredictable.

These works are shaped by long-standing creative relationships between Emma and the composers and a shared curiosity for the violin’s possibilities. At the heart of the concert is an exploration of sound in flux—where each performance is a conversation between structure and spontaneity.

The concert is supported by PRS Foundation’s Beyond Borders Scheme.

mue will be released on the 16th May. Stream it or save it here: https://emmajanelloyd.ffm.to/mue 

Emma Jane Lloyd is an international performer, improviser, composer, and artist. She performs as a soloist and in small ensembles, working often with live electronics, and collaborating regularly with composers. In addition to the modern set-up, she plays a baroque violin and performs both baroque and contemporary music written specifically for this instrument.

As an improviser, Emma’s performance tends to be quiet and intimate in nature, exploring the innate timbral qualities of the violin, and discovering some of the often hidden sounds that can be found with her unique combination of technique and tools.

www.emmajanelloyd.com