Scotland's radical free improvisation string orchestra. 

https://www.instagram.com/newstringcollective/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/eq8mzc

A member since 2013 - Performances include playing along with pioneers of free improvisation Sun Ra Arkestra, Keith Tippet, Marilyn Crispell, Gunter ‘Baby’ Summers, Maggie Nichols, Corey Mwamba, Rhodri Davis, Australian Art Orchestra, Pat Thomas, George Lewis, Trevor Watts, and many more.

Universal Grammar, a commission by the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra was performed at the GIOfest VIII, a 3-day festival of improvised music at CCA, Glasgow, Saturday 28 November 2015.

“Sketches” by choreographer Katie Armstrong, music and sounds by Mariam Rezaei with a string quintet. 

Dancers: Olivia Roach, Katie Miller, Lucy Ireland, Kate Haughton

Musicians: Atzi Muramatzu/Peter Nicholson, Cello, Fay Guiffo, Violin, Brianna Berman, Violin, Charlotte Perkins, Violin, Morag Currie, Viola

https://www.katiearmstrong.co.uk/skethces-tour-dates

A series of evenings of improvised dance and music performances.

Accompanying solo cello to moving image by Ellie Kyungran Heo, LUX Moving Image, London. November 2021.

Cover cellist for The Damascus String Quintet (DSQ) of the Syrian Expat Philharmonic Orchestra (SEPO) performed as part of the Edinburgh Art Festival in 2018. They presented a live performance with the soprano Racha Rizk in association with the exhibition "Triptych".

Edinburgh based band.

https://zedpenguin.bandcamp.com/album/a-ghost-a-beast-2

A free improvisation duo with Atzi Muramatsu (cello) and Fritz Welch (percussion). Soon after a couple of gigs, the duo made a record CREATURE , recorded at the Reid Concert Hall, Edinburgh by Owen Green on 11 September 2017.

A collaboration with London-based artist Samson Kambalu who draws on his experience of growing up in Malawi to explore ideas of creativity, time and play. Performance include Frieze Arts Festival, London, 2018.

This collaboration with electronic music artist Dave House (AKA The Reverse Engineer) sees ambient techno music unfold with all sounds sampled from the cello and the voice from Atzi. Performed at Syn Festival Edinburgh 2016, Hidden Door Festival Edinburgh 2017.

https://tokamak.bandcamp.com/album/kamakot

…is a band formed in Edinburgh, a string quartet (trio + drums). Led by composer/cellist Atzi, supported by friends he’s met during the years when he played solo shows in venues around the Scottish capital. 

The gigs in Scotland include Decagram Queens Hall (2013), Limbo (2013) Kelburn Castle Garden Party (2011), Knockengorroch Festival(2011), Edinburgh Film Festival (2011), Hiddendoor Festival (2009, 2010, 2014), a cine-concert featuring French new-wave Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959).

The trio Tim Vincent-Smith (violin, harmonograms, gas drum, water bottles), Graeme Miller (guitar, saw, bells and chimes), and Atzi (cello, bells) performed at Sharmanka Exhibition, Hiddendoor Festival, and Sound Lab in 2015.

In collaboration with poet Jennifer Williams, responding to selected poems from new publication After Economy at her book launch event at the Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh.

WWI memorial piece by Drew Mulholland, at Glasgow University Chapel

An ambitious concept concert involving 3 locally acclaimed bands and a 16 piece orchestra, fully composed for the duration of 20 mins. Queenshall, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2013.