Through Silence to Sound is an hour-long performance for cello and spoken word with visuals. Music critic Kate Kennedy presents an evening of storytelling and music, looking at the lives of remarkable cellists who suffered persecution, and discussing her own relationship with the cello.
Berridge is a founder member of the Sacconi Quartet, who have won prizes at many international competitions. She accompanies the event with live cello performance. Author Kennedy’s latest book weaves her own complicated relationship with the cello together with interviews with contemporary cellists and the stories of cellists throughout history, including Lise Cristiani, the first female professional cello soloist, who undertook an epic and ultimately fatal concert tour of Siberia in the 1850s, taking with her one of the world’s greatest Stradivari cellos.
