❉ Acclaimed violin/cello duo have announced details of their Royal Albert Hall show next month – with special guests David Arnold and Nitin Sawhney, and details of debut album due for release June 6th.
FIRL have announced details of their Royal Albert Hall show next month. The acclaimed violin and cello two-piece will be appearing at The Elgar Room at the Albert Hall on June 10th. The duo are pleased to announce that the multi-award winning composers David Arnold and Nitin Sawhney will be appearing as special guests on the evening.
FIRL have also announced details of their debut album due for release on June 6th 2025. Entitled, Wildwood, the album is a collection of cinematic, nature-inspired compositions for cello, violin, piano and birdsong and was “inspired by the beauty, mystery and wonder of the natural world, and the many diverse cultures we have encountered on our travels.” The album also includes the pair’s take on Debussy’s beautiful Clair De Lune. “It is the most beautiful record you will hear this year”, PR legend Jane Savidge confidently states!
Track listing for the album runs as follows: Summer Rain; Forest Prayer; New Beginnings; Awakening: Golden; Little Bird; First Flight; Migration; Breathe; Woodland Creature; Lake Kussharo; Tokyo Summer, Clair De Lune.
FIRL are two ex-Bond girls – ha! – Eos Counsell (violin, programming) and Gay-Yee Westerhoff (cello, piano/keyboards), a pair of Honours degree-wielding Music graduates from the Royal College of Music and London’s Trinity College, respectively, who just happen to make up half of the most successful string quartet band of all time – five million albums and counting – Bond. Bond were such a phenomenon they performed in Times Square, rang the final bell at the NY stock exchange, sold out Sydney opera house, had sumo wrestlers at their Japan shows, and were featured in both the Tokyo and London Olympics. Correspondingly, the band’s very existence – and the fact they topped the classical charts in numerous countries – prompted US Billboard to set up a crossover-classical chart.
Eos is currently featured violinist with Nitin Sawhney and her film and TV soundtrack work includes Sherlock, Good Omens, Dr Who, Harry Potter, Mission Impossible, Black Widow and Spiderman, although she has also recorded with Paul McCartney, Nick Cave, The Divine Comedy, The XX, Paloma Faith, The Cocteau Twins, Julian Cope, Badly Drawn Boy, Tinie Tempah, Little Simz, Robbie Williams and Stevie Wonder. Eos writes arrangements for Bond quartet and recently arranged Queen’s Greatest Hits for string sextet for the hit amazon TV show, Good Omens.
Gay-Yee has worked with Primal Scream, the Spice Girls, Talvin Singh, Lulu, The Lightning Seeds Sting, Bryan Adams and Barry Manilow and is a truly prolific composer, arranger and producer, recently contributing songs to Rehab The Musical, a show (starring Keith Allen and Mica Paris) that premiered in the West End in January 2024.
❉FIRL ( @firlmusic ) will be appearing at The Elgar Room at the Albert Hall on 10th June 2025. Tickets here: https://www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/events/2025/firl
❉ News source: Jane Savidge @jane_savidge
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