The Night With… Emma Lloyd
The Night With… Emma Lloyd
The Night With…is dedicated to presenting contemporary classical music in informal and accessible settings while developing composers and performers. Since our founding in 2018, we have delivered 76 concerts, 67 premieres, and 20 commissions, working with ensembles such as United Strings of Europe, Garth Knox, Red Note Ensemble, Ensemble Offspring, Wooden Elephant, and the Hebrides Ensemble. Our work supports artists through performance and recording opportunities, commissioning, and composer development schemes. We have recorded and released 10 albums on our label TNW Music.
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.
Emma Jane Lloydis 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.
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.
Show Info
In-Person
Venue: 12-13 Shaftesbury Square, Belfast, BT2 7DB
Access: Directly from Shaftesbury Square
Performance(s): Tuesday 30th September 2025.
Doors: 7:30pm BST
Starts: 8:00pm BST (Book Bar* will not be open, BYOB welcome)
Run Time: 1 hour 30mins
Disabled Access: Theatre (ground floor) is fully accessible. Toilets & Book Bar (1st floor) are accessible via a wheelchair platform lift. Carer tickets available: Call 028 9032 5881 to book.
Online
Access for the live stream will be emailed out on the day of the event, please check junk/spam folders.
*The Book Bar is our charity bar, run to help support Accidental & the new building.
Ticket Info
Please book a ticket per person watching to avoid viewing issues.
£6 - WATCH IN-PERSON TICKET - a standard ticket that gives you in-person access to watch the show in the theatre.
£10 - DONATION TICKET - a special ticket that gives a little extra to the exceptional and hardworking artists creating the show. Donation Tickets include all watch options above.
