Jo Quail - Music Patron

Jo Quail

Music Patron allows me to create a community within which to explore and discuss my music, and enables me to bring this sometimes solitary journey of composition and creation to people interested in the evolution and development of new classical music.

Jo Quail is an internationally acclaimed award-winning composer and virtuoso cellist from London.

Equally at home on stage solo, with bands, or in collaboration with choir and orchestra, she combines an eloquent mastery of her instrument with innovative looping techniques, to realise her complex, evocative music for audiences worldwide.

Primarily a contemporary classical / avant-garde artist, Jo’s music appeals to a far broader crowd:

“Jo breathes new life in to the cello, for the first time making classical music’s long-standing influence on metal a two-way street” – Metal Hammer magazine

What does being one of Jo’s patrons look like?

Jo’s patrons will join her international, no-musical-boundaries community, in a unique, behind the scenes way. They will be invited to join every step of her composition process, from first DNA of a musical idea through to the performance or recording, via the rehearsal room and backstage.

With you, and Music Patron, I can create in real time a detailed and vibrant picture of each work I am creating, that over time becomes a map of where we have been and where we might head to next.

Supporting a composer on Music Patron gives you a first-hand perspective on the many elements within the creative process and an understanding of an authentic journey of a composer. You can find out more about what it’s like to be a patron here

Biography

Inspired by the visual arts as much as by fellow composers, Jo cites Barbara Hepworth and Georgia O’Keefe as key influences, alongside the diverse music of Debussy, Pärt, Mick Gordon, and Cardiacs among many others. As a result, she freely crosses the boundaries between genres, awakening listener emotions, and taking audiences into uncharted territory with each concert. Her exuberant, celebratory performance style has won her a fanbase in the contemporary classical world as well as among enthusiasts of post-rock, metal and electronica.

As a soloist Jo has performed extensively through Europe and internationally; venues and festivals include Hellfest (FR), the Melbourne Recital Centre (AUS) and the Royal Festival Hall (UK).

Since 2011, Jo has released five albums, three EPs and a live DVD on her own label AdderStone Records. In 2022 Jo released The Cartographer (By Norse), a composition commissioned by Roadburn Festival with a brief to “redefine heaviness”. Jo’s latest composition Invocation/Supplication – two ‘three-song-cycles’ for vocalists Maria Franz (Heilung) and Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari (O.R.k), will have orchestrated live performances this year.

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Recent updates from Jo

14 December 2024

🔒 Zoom hang out Monday 16th Dec 7pm UK time

Hello everyone! If you’re free and you’d like to join me I’ll be hanging out on zoom on Monday 16th

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11 December 2024

🔒 New piece possibly the Enschede commission start p...

This is something I’ve been working on for the last two evenings, it’s very much in its infancy, just a c...

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5 December 2024

🔒 New Emma for you

New ERR mix

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4 December 2024

🔒 A quick hello, and some titles!

Hello everyone, I hope you are all well and enjoying December! This is just a quick message update for you,

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19 November 2024

🔒 A piece I’m stuck on!

Here’s something I’ve been working on for an embarrassingly long amount of time. Last night I took off AL...

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10 November 2024

🔒 BTS from Salle Pleyel Paris last night

Last night, 9.11.24 I supported Wardruna in Paris, and I wanted to show you the bits of the venue not normally seen! ...

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29 October 2024

🔒 Blood, Breath and Bone

Blood, Breath and Bone for you before it hits bandcamp xx

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21 October 2024

🔒 Zoom meet up

Zoom link and my crochet update…!

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5 October 2024

🔒 A BTS video for you from last week at The Ahoy

I’ve collated a few videos and photos for you from last week’s performance of Macha at The Ahoy Arena. Th...

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13 September 2024

🔒 A Conductor’s Perspective

There are a lot of considerations with orchestral performances and Jos discusses some of his preparations as our cond...

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1 September 2024

🔒 Bird Wings, Divisi conundrums and more!

Hello everyone, here’s a rather lengthy update for you! We are looking at a project enticingly titled ‘T-...

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8 August 2024

🔒 Some acoustic cello work today!

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30 July 2024

🔒 Incorporating the hybrid aspects of Macha

Sound modelling, hybrid aspects, bad sounds, and some un-amplified electric cello – enticing!

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11 July 2024

🔒 Does ‘Embrace’ work? Conundrum…

An unplanned update but so much has happened since we last spoke! Here’s the finale of ‘B8ves’ whic...

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30 June 2024

🔒 Saturday’s Matinee concert, for Music Patron...

This is my performance at Matt’s Secret Garden Festival, not the live stream on Friday night but the Matinee on...

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20 June 2024

🔒 A somewhat frustrating day!

I’ve had a long day, and I hoped to have something amazing to present to you, and instead it’s all in bit...

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7 June 2024

🔒 A short update showing you a new riff I’m ve...

This is another brand new piece, this time it’s two riffs that will form part of the same piece, very early day...

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23 May 2024

🔒 The New Album – starting off

The starting point of my new album…

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13 May 2024

🔒 Behind The Scenes from Dunk! Festival 2024 with my...

Classic timing! Tom and I filmed this clip for you exactly as the orchestra arrived on Saturday lunchtime, so it gets...

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9 May 2024

🔒 Dunk! Festival – Rehearsal with Orchestra up...

Here are my thoughts following our rehearsal in Enschede last Saturday 3rd May, and here’s how I’m prepar...

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2 May 2024

🔒 Ahead of Saturday’s rehearsal…

Orchestration, bad EQ and working with an orchestra to create a hybrid performance…

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26 April 2024

The Cartographer – a deep dive

A deep dive into my piece ‘The Cartographer’.

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26 April 2024

La Loba’s Song – sound design within f...

Yoga balls and cereal packets – a look at my sound design process using recorded sounds.

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