We had a wonderful time performing on the opening night of the 2015 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Ian Faragher and Nigel Bryant – of Sonic Imperfections – discussed their experiences of the weekend (including our concert) on Resonance Extra: Huddersfield’s Artistic Director Graham McKenzie had this to say: You can watch our performance of Jagoda Szmytka’s sky-me, type-me below, […]
This Monday, at the Spitalfields Music Winter Festival, we give the first performance of Helga Arias Parra in the UK: the World Premiere of Incipit (Omaggio a G.B. Pergolesi). This piece – a co-commission between Riot Ensemble and Spitalfields Music – is fourth and final piece commissioned from our 2015 Call for Scores (NB composers, we’ll be opening […]
Have a look at our six concerts taking place this Autumn, including the Spitalfields Music Winter Festival, opening night of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, ongoing work with BreatheAHR, a return to Brighton with NMB and more!
I’m keen to write a few lines about our ‘Wednesdays at the Forge’ concert next week as we’re looking forward to it hugely and hope there’ll be a fine crowd to enjoy it with us. We’ve decided to have programmes for this concert and, although the short notes will tell you everything you need to […]
We had a wonderful time giving six World Premieres at MeWe360 on our Portfolio concert last week. You can hear an excerpt from all six pieces in the 2-minute recap video below:
We had a wonderful time in Amsterdam this past week, giving the Dutch premiere of Chris Roe’s Wired at the Prix Annelie de Man. We commissioned Chris’ piece as part of our Approaching Dutilleux project in 2014, and it won the audience prize as part of the composers’ competition in Amsterdam!
This Friday we present the final concert of the foreSOUND 2015 Young Composer of the Year Award. It has been an absolute pleasure to work with these new composers, who have blown us away with their creativity and passion. You can check out their scores (which we typeset for them) here:
We’re having a great time working with five young composers (Samuel Carrington, Nikhita Nandi, Marie-Louise Ptohos, Amelia Mills and Molly Kain) from the foreSOUND school of music as they prepare their pieces for our 15th May ‘Young Composer of the Year‘ concert. We began by introducing the students to the instruments they would be writing […]
Yesterday, at LSO St. Luke’s, we workshopped three new pieces written for us by emerging UK composers Chloe Knibbs, Daniel Kidane, and Ed Nesbit. In collaboration with Sound and Music, we commissioned these composers to write us new pieces featuring international soloists Rafal Luc, Heather Roche and Marco Fusi. We’ll give the world premieres of all three […]
Our 2015 Call for Scores received 151 applications from composers all over the world. It has been a pleasure to get to know so much new music, being made by such inspiring and exciting artists. We are extremely proud to announce the composers we’ll be collaborating with for our 20th November concert, this year. Thanasis […]
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