RIO EN MEDIO is the song-work of Danielle Stech-Homsy. 
RIO EN MEDIO has toured nationally & internationally since 2005 with such artists as Coco Rosie, Michael Hurley, BrightBlack Morning Light, Devendra Banhart & has recently performed in LA by invitation of Linda Perhacs & Friends @ Red Cat.

“The warmth and specificity of expression in this disc are such that nobody’s winter should be without it.” -Gramophone | La Vida Breve Album |

Through an exquisite nuance fresh to the classical music scene, Nadège Rochat enlivens stages worldwide, including Tonhalle Zurich, Vienna’s Musikverein, Carnegie Hall in New York, and Mariinsky Theater II St. Petersburg. As a soloist and in recitals, Nadège is equally adept at performing great pieces of the standard cello repertoire as she is at rediscovering forgotten composers and music from around the world. Rochat is a performer and recording artist, with several first prizes and two very different CDs. The first recording features French music for cello and orchestra, while the second is the product of her “La Vida Breve” project with Guitarist Rafael Aguirre, which focuses on Spanish and South American classical music.

Nadège Rochat is a Franco-Swiss cellist born in Geneva in 1991. She began learning cello at the age of 4 with her aunt Fabienne Diambrini, and later joined the Conservatoire of Geneva as a pupil of Daniel Haefliger. Moving to Cologne at the age of 15, she studied at the Musikhochschule under professor Maria Kliegel. In 2015, Nadège graduated from the Masters programme at the Royal Academy of Music under professor Robert Cohen. Through an Academy internship, she currently serves as pedagogic assistant within the cello department at the Royal Academy of Music.

Solo engagements with orchestras range from venues such as the Konzerthaus Dortmund to the Victoria Hall Geneva. Rochat has been featured with the Staatskapelle Weimar, the Dortmund Philharmonic, the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra of Polish Radio, and the NDR (Norddeutscher Rundfunk Orchestra), among others. These solo appearances complement recitals in the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Beethoven Haus Bonn, and the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Her duo project with guitar “La Vida Breve” took her to Carnegie Hall in New York, the Gasteig Munich, and Vienna’s Konzerthaus.

Nadège’s awards in national and international competitions include first prizes in Swiss and German national competitions for youth (2006, 2007, and 2009), the SUISA foundation Prize for the interpretation of contemporary music (2003 and 2006), and the Klassik Preis of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) for the interpretation of Beethoven 3rd Sonata for Cello and Piano (2009). More recently, Nadège has claimed second prize in the “Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI” international competition (2013), the First Prize, Jury Prize, and Public Prize in the ProCello competition of the Musikhochschule in Cologne (2013), and the May Muckle Prize for Cello at the Royal Academy of Music in London (2015).

Always seeking a deeper understanding of her instrument and music in general, she has participated in numerous masterclasses by musical personalities such as Anner Bijlsma, Christoph Richter, Heinrich Schiff, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, Itamar Golan, and Colin Carr.

Nadège gratefully receives scholarship from Dr. Werner Carl Dörken Stiftung and the Mozartgesellschaft Dortmund. Her studies are supported by the “Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes”.

Her first CD (2012) featured the first cello concertos of Edouard Lalo and Darius Milhaud respectively, recorded with the Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen under Ola Rudner. In January 2015, together with Spanish guitarist Rafael Aguirre, she released “La Vida Breve,” comprised of her own arrangements of Spanish and South American pieces for cello and guitar. “La Vida Breve” was broadcast throughout European radio (Radio Stephansdom Vienna, Radio Classique Live-Paris, Hessischer Rundfunk, Radio Berlin Brandenburg, etc.)


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INCANDESCENDO!
Meditations and Compositions 

Emily with her 'cello and Felix Gibbons with his array of percussion instruments create a unique and dynamic sound very much inspired by their love of the English countryside and mutual association with Brazil.. As British musicians who have worked extensively in many genres and travelled far and wide with their music, they maintain their roots whilst bringing to all of their work a kaleidoscope of musical influences breaking new ground between Classical, World and Jazz idioms. 

In concert through utilising modern sampling technology they recreate their recordings and expand their compositions and create exciting multi tracked pieces, spinning a web of intricate harmonies and rhythms, highlighted by some dazzling displays of improvisation. 

Their concert program includes their arrangements of Brazilian classical and popular music and an array of completely new works for ‘cello and percussion.

In producing a track mixing is very much part of the process. The automation technology and volume curves enable both Felix and Emily to weave complex rhythmic and harmonic pieces.
2015 has seen new developments in their writing partnership with pieces for piano and electric bass surfacing.
Cinematic resonances is a showcase set with samples of these new works. 
Incandescendo recording production - Emily Burridge 

Felix is an internationally acclaimed percussionist specialising in the multiplicity of instruments that characterise the distinct rhythms of Brazil and Latin-America. These dance around and enhance the melodic sounds of Emily, the classically trained virtuoso 'cellist, who with her passion for Brazil  is energised by the rhythms and  finds them a limitless source of inspiration for composing and improvising melodies. 

Worlds are integrated and superimposed as they combine their many influences and create beautiful and exotic soundscapes.

Review
Brazilian Post London 06/11/2012
"Thursday evening I was transported on an imaginary train journey through a warm, dazzling, sunlit green, lush and 
remarkable country, thousands of miles away, by the sublime sounds of Emily Burridge, cellist, composer, performer 
and producer, with percussionist Felix Gibbons at the Bolivar Hall in London’s Fitzrovia, as part of the Festival of the 
Arts for Brazil and Ecuador".

Emily and Felix have worked alongside a host of musical luminaries including George Michael, Roger Daltry, Jools Holland, The Specials, Olodum, Peter Gabriel, Gilberto Gil, Milton Nascimento, and many more.....




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