Tonight we welcome Helena Bugallo and Amy Williams (the Bugallo-Williams Duo) to London to perform a concert of virtuosic and exciting music for four-hands piano at MeWe360. In addition to being a fantastic pianist, Amy is a composer, and was one of my first composition teachers at Northwestern University. It’s a pleasure to welcome her […]
Today – 20th May – is the (first) culmination of our Les Citations project. Programmed in memory of Henri Dutilleux, tonight’s concert is at The Forge, and we repeat the concert tomorrow in Cambridge. Among an array of World and UK premieres, we are very pleased to be presenting Wired, by emerging English composer Chris Roe. We first […]
The Riot Ensemble is gearing up for our upcoming Les Citations project, programmed in memory of Henri Dutilleux, with an array of premieres from around the world. We’re hugely excited to be hosting Jenna Lyle for the premiere of her new piece, Falterer. Jenna is a composer, vocalist and performing artist from Carrollton, Georgia. She’s currently pursuing a […]
The Riot Ensemble is gearing up for our upcoming Les Citations project, programmed in memory of Henri Dutilleux, with an array of premieres from around the world. We’re hugely excited to be hosting Argentinian composer Jose Manuel Serrano for the premiere of his new work Cenizas de un Madrigal Triste (read on for the translation). I first met Jose in […]
The Riot Ensemble is gearing up for our upcoming Les Citations project, programmed in memory of Henri Dutilleux, with an array of premieres from around the world. One of the pieces coming from closer to home is from emerging composer Arne Gieshoff. Arne’s currently a Sound and Music Embedded composer with BCMG, and a fellow-member of the New […]
The Riot Ensemble has had a busy month of May – from an outdoor performance of Workers Union (to which the police were called!) to Vox Balaenae and the UK premiere of Djuro Zivkovic’s I Shall Contemplate… on the Platnauer Concert Series at Brasenose College, Oxford. Next week, though, is where we really get going. Our Les Citations project, programmed in […]
This Saturday we make our Oxford Debut, with a programme stretching from J.S. Bach’s Second Cello Suite, through to the UK premiere of Djuro Zivkovic’s I Shall Contemplate…. (The programme also includes the magical Vox Balaenae and two preludes of Claude Debussy). We were incredibly lucky to have Djuro with us for rehearsals of I Shall Contemplate… this week, and it […]
Well, tonight is the night! Tonight at The Forge we unleash The Flatulence of the Gods: pieces for 5 bassoons, 4 trombones and tenor, and 5 Bass Clarinets. The lineup is – so far as we know – a totally unique one, created by drawing upon various existing pieces for groups of low instruments. The […]
Tomorrow evening at The Forge in Camden we’re opening up a new series of contemporary music concerts called Wednesdays at The Forge. The concert is a rather extraordinary array of low instruments: 5 Bass Clarinets, 5 Bassoons (including 3 contrabassoons) and 4 Trombones, along with Tenor. Opening up the concert, will be a brand new […]
Of all the pieces in our concert this Friday, only two will be ‘non-first’ pieces. One of these will be Harrison Birtwistle’s second wind-quintet Five Distances for Five Instruments, and the second will also be a wind quintet: the very beautiful Halazuni by Alastair Putt. (Here performed by Martha Long (flute), Graham Mackenzie (oboe), Danny Goldman (clarinet), Elyse […]
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