Photography by Jess Aslan and Atzi

Artists / Composers

The LNM #1 showcased the following world premiere performed by Tesseris String Quartet:

Egidija Medeksaite | Purusha

Emma Jane Lloyd | Apertures

Duncan Jones | Butterpillar - Arranged for String Quartet

Jack Weir | Sketch #1 for String Quartet 

James Brady | String Quartet: mvmt IV

Malcolm MacFarlane | Ares

Tesseris String Quartet

Tesseris is a new Edinburgh-based string quartet specialising in contemporary repertoire and collaboration, including projects with emerging composers and visual artists. Born in Germany, Ireland, Cyprus and Scotland and well-travelled across multiple continents on the way, Irini Dimitriadou, Rebecca Minio-Paluello, Emma Lloyd and Jonathan McBride have met through conservatoire study, performance and teaching and found their common bond through a love of chamber music. Currently working on an American programme featuring music by Philip Glass, Missy Mazzoli, Steve Reich, and Jessie Montgomery, we are looking forward to new opportunities to work with local composers next month. 

Emma Jane Lloyd

Emma 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.

Irini Dimitriadou

Irini grew up in Cyprus and studied at the Royal Academy of Music (London), the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln (Cologne) and privately in Zagreb, Croatia. She has toured extensively as an orchestral musician and has taken part in a number of chamber music festivals. In 2015 she moved to Aberdeen, Scotland to work for the charity Sistema Scotland, a social programme using music as a tool to empower young people and communities. She has a special interest in music education and is currently completing a PGCEi with the London Music Masters. She has been based in Edinburgh since August 2022 working for Big Noise Wester Hailes.

Rebecca Minio-Paluello

Born in Germany, Rebecca started learning the violin in England and then continued to move back and forth between those countries, attending the Royal College of Music Junior Department in London and C.P.E. Bach Gymnasium, a music secondary school in Berlin, after which she moved back to the U.K., studying with Nick Miller, then Krysia Osostowicz and David Takeno while at Cambridge University, before moving back again to Germany to study with Helge Slaatto in Münster. Then at short notice, she broke the pattern and moved to Bethlehem, Palestine, teaching at the Edward Said Conservatory of Music for three years.

Now she's back in the U.K., but new to Scotland. As a passionate music educator, Rebecca is committed to teasing out potential and sharing the transformative experience of music-making. She has recently been a Teaching Artist with the New York Philharmonic's Very Young Composers project in Palestine, was a MusAid Fellow at the El Sistema programme in El Salvador, and is currently completing a Colourstrings Certification.

Jonathan McBride

Originally from Northern Ireland, Jonathan  has always had a passion for music and languages. After completing an MA in German and French at the University of Glasgow, he pursued his violin studies with Anne Shih in Mainz, Germany, before completing a Masters at the Royal Northern College of Music, studying with Thelma Handy.

Over the years he played regularly with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Other orchestral experience includes Britten-Pears Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Manchester Camerata and Camerata Ireland.

A passionate educator, Jonathan taught the violin for five years at Sistema Scotland's Big Noise Raploch, where he taught young people from 6-17 years.  He was also a visiting tutor over a number of years at the Al Kamandjati Association in Ramallah, Palestine, where he had the opportunity to teach young people from the West Bank. 

Jonathan currently teaches German and French at the Edinburgh Academy, where he also coaches some of the string ensembles in the co-curricular programme.