Gregor Riddell

Gregor Riddell plays the cello and writes music.

He has been a founder member of the Solstice Quartet, Living Room in London, KGB, Tre Voci and Odysseus Piano Trio with whom he has performed and toured across Europe at venues and festivals including the Wigmore Hall, Union Chapel, Southbank Centre, Edinburgh Festival, Musikverein (Vienna), Musée d'Orsay (Paris).

Alongside his own projects, he’s written music for Galya Bisengalieva, Duo TÖ, the BEAST (Birmingham University), Asamisimasa and Cikada. Having written for the London Contemporary Orchestra, Gregor is also a principle player and has collaborated with artists including Radiohead, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Sarah Davachi, Actress and Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch.

Following the release of UNDA on Focused Silence, BirdWorld will release ‘Nurture’ on Dugnad in spring 2025.

Tlön will release their debut album 'Reality' on Jazzland Records in 2025. They will perform a 19 piece string orchestral arrangement of the record with DNK at Ultima Festival in September 2025.

He recently set up a versatile Oslo-based session orchestra called OBO which recently performed their debut concert with Sigur Rós at Oslo Spektrum.

He co-runs an Oslo-based online platform with Torkjell Hovland called SVS broadcasting adventurous music from the Nordics.

Gregor was born in London, studied music at Cambridge University and composition at the Royal College of Music. He works mostly between Norway and the UK and lives with his family in Oslo.