Naomi Berrill

Suite Dreams is the new recording project by Naomi Berrill produced in collaboration with Casa Musicale Sonzogno and published by Warner. Naomi Berrill has demonstrated unique versatility that allows her to combine different musical eras under a single distinctive sign in her first two albums. With her interpretative abilities she manages to lead her cello into unexplored genres and worlds and under the same research, to bring together from Barbara Stozzi´s Pre-Baroque elements up to Nick Drake´s singer-songwriter finesse. This is Naomi´s third album and the trait-d´union of this journey is Dance: from the dances of Baroque culture - Sarabande, Gavotte, Polka, Menuet, Sicilian, Chaconne - up to typical dances of international folklore. The path of inspiration for the production of this album passes through the places dear to the cellist: Florence, where Naomi has been living for several years and where, thanks to the collaboration with choreographer Virgilio Sieni, she finds new atmospheres animating laboratories in the Isolotto neighborhood. Then Galway, her hometown, in an adjustment path to “Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture”, among the immigrant communities which come from war zones, that are stimulated to share their cultural background through workshops.

Suite Dreams is the new recording project by Naomi Berrill produced in collaboration with Casa Musicale Sonzogno and published by Warner.

Naomi Berrill's new album is an ode to sea, using cello and vocals to conjure up its sounds. Julie Seagrave – in her second review as part of the Journal of Music/Galway City Council Music Writer Mentoring Scheme – hears undercurrents, unexpected pulls and more. To the Sky is the second album from Galway cellist and vocalist Naomi Berrill, following on from 2014’s From the Ground. Now based in Florence, Berrill has played in various ensembles from the New York City Ballet to the Royal Scottish Academy Orchestra, and appears regularly in chamber ensembles across Italy.

An ensemble in which we can recognize a string quartet - Ilaria Lanzoni on the violin, Clara Maria Garcia Barrientos in viola, Naomi Berrill on cello and vocals, and Gabriele Evangelista on double bass - but enriched by the creative presence of drums, electronics and vocals by Stefano Tamborrino, the main architect of the composition, and the reeds (saxophone and clarinet) by Dan Kinzelman. Sounds ranging from jazz to contemporary music, from electronics to folk through chamber music.