Emily Burridge is a virtuoso cellist, composer,performer & producer whose deft improvisational and composing skills create sublime music, fluidly crossing genres.
In the hands of Emily, this instrument becomes a voice for her personal experiences, her emotions, and her thoughts as she amalgamates in her productions a variety of rhythms, sounds, backing performers, and instruments.
Her music was recently described in The Musician as "fascinating and unique" and in Europe - European Progressive Music "music that is deep, thoughtful and also lifts your spirits"
"In her compositions, Emily is capable of gathering, in a truly spontaneous way, elements derived from her Classical upbringing, together with those coming from the ethnic musics she has lived with." "dare to venture into a realm of beautiful sometimes haunting cello playing.."
considering 'cello for a recording please visit:
http://www.emilyburridge.com/online-session-cello/
Sounds Like: David Darling
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New release 2017 Sombre piano & cello + orchestrations
Bio
EMILY is an outstanding classically trained 'cellist and innovative composer. She is a renowned master of her instrument, unique in her ability to improvise and cross genres.
She is a much in demand session player, and has worked with Roger Daltrey, George Michael, Chrissie Hind, Jools Holland, Zero 7, Stereophonics and Hans Zimmer to name a few, and is featured on numerous albums and film soundtracks. She is also known for bridging the musical gap of disparate cultures. Experiences of the native people and natural environment of Brazil have provided the initiating factor in Emily's production of three of her own CDs, "Earth Songs"and "Footsteps in the Sand" which are song orientated and "Into the Amazon" which is part of her double CD release "Out of the Blue & Into the Amazon" Her productions have been mainly sourced in Brazil and although retaining elements of her classical origins the integration of this country into her music is evident in the use of rythms and notably recordings of tribal chants.
In 1995 Emily founded the registered charity "Indigenous People's Cultural Support Trust" through which together with fellow trustees she has provided support for tribal communities in Brazil.
Published music Emily's music is regularly used for film and TV. Her CDs include Earth Songs, 1994; Footsteps in the Sand, 1998; Bridge Between Worlds, 2007; Out of the Blue & Into the Amazon, 2010; Recent collaborative productions: Into the Blue, 2010 and The Gnossienne Suite, 2011 with slide guitarist B.J. Cole. Momentum, 2013 with pianist Guy Jackson, Incandescendo EP 2014 with Latin percussionist Felix Gibbons. As well as her solo performance Emily also tours with two ensembles; Incandescendo, a dynamic Latin percussion/guitar and cello duo and her long standing duo with pedal steel guitarist BJ Cole