Two of the works receiving their UK premiere in our upcoming Transatlantic Collaborations concerts with the ECCE Ensemble were chosen through an open call for scores which drew in more than 100 applicants world-wide. I recently had the pleasure to chat with Nicholas Omiccioli, one of the selected composers. Nicholas! Thank you very much for […]
Yesterday evening, our Artistic Director Aaron Holloway-Nahum and Artistic Board Member Celeste Cronje spoke on Resonance FM about our recent Songs and Haiku concert at the Warehouse. The discussion ranged from advice for composers in writing for the voice, to thoughts of programming and presentation, and included a number of the live performances from the […]
One of the things I most enjoy about The Riot Ensemble is that all of our concerts and projects are planned and produced by the same artists who perform the music. This means that the same artist who performs a contemporary work to a new audience has had a real hand in curating both that work […]
So the Rite of Spring is 100 years old, and so it the ‘Riot’ that accompanied it. Commentators then and now seem divided on what caused the fracas; was it the music, the dancing, the performance itself, or some class-based tension in the audience that had little or nothing to do with the show? The […]
We are pleased, proud and very grateful to announce that The Holst Foundation has generously made a grant toward the remainder of the 2013 Riot Ensemble Season. The grant comes less than halfway through our first full season, and will be a significant help in successfully completing all of our 2013 concerts. If you’d like […]
Gustavo Penha‘s Estudo sobre gravitacao, from our Shapes of a Square concert, LSO St. Luke’s, 8.3.13.
We’re really pleased to announce that we’re running our first call for scores! The call is in collaboration with the fantastic East Coast Contemporary Ensemble. Two scores will be selected for performance at both The Forge (Camden, 16th July) and The Meetinghouse (Brighton, 17th July) as part of our Transatlantic Collaborations projects. You can apply […]
Christopher Theofanidis is certainly one of the most prolific and decorated American composers. He is currently working on two (different!) operas for the San Francisco and Huston Grand opera companies, and has received (among other awards) the Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright, SIX (!) ASCAP Morton Gould Prizes, and the American Academy of Arts Charles Ives’ Fellowship. He […]
Thank you for all who came along to our concert this past Friday (08.03.13). It was great to have you with us, and we hope you enjoyed hearing the music as much as we enjoyed playing it for you! The Navarra Quartet were brilliant guests and gave fantastic performances of all five works on the […]
Tonight is the 2nd concert of the 2013 Riot Ensemble Season: The Shapes of a Square. Here is tonight’s exciting programme: and a short video trailer to introduce the evening to you: We hope you can join us at 7:30pm at LSO St. Luke’s for the Navarra Quartet and 5 string quartets from around the world!
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