Later this month we will be playing at Nottingham Trent University as part of the university’s ‘Groundbreaking’ series of contemporary music. On the programme will be works by Georg Friedrich Haas (Tria ex uno) and Chaya Czernowin Ayre, towed through plumes, thicket, asphalt, sawdust and hazardous air I shall not forget the sound of), as well as works commissioned in our 2017 Call for Scores, Baby Magnify/Lilith’s New […]
Date: Sat 16th November, 2019Time: 7.00pmVenue: St Paul’s Hall, University of Huddersfield, HD1 3DHCost: Tickets £15 – £18 available online Evan Johnson‘s Linke Hand eines Apostels (Left hand of an apostle) is a reflection on a sketch by Albrecht Dürer, a drawing which attends feverishly to details of vein, bone, skin, draped folds of cloth, and […]
Date: Mon 21st Oct, 2019Time: 1.00pmVenue: Turner Sims, Highfield Campus, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJFind out more here Revolving around the Bass Clarinet and its massive expressive and dynamic range, this chamber concert features four members of Riot Ensemble’s Artistic Board in music that is every bit as wild as it is intimate. The bombastic duo’s for […]
Date: Thur 24th Oct, 2019Time: 1.10pmVenue: Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, University of Manchester, M13 9PLCost: Free | Find out more here Revolving around the Bass Clarinet and its massive expressive and dynamic range, this chamber concert features four members of Riot Ensemble’s Artistic Board in music that is every bit as wild as it is intimate. […]
Date: Fri 15th November, 2019Time: 9.30pmVenue: Huddersfield Town Hall, Corporation St, Huddersfield, HD1 2TACost: Tickets £15 – £18 available online In the first of two concerts at hcmf// 2019, The Riot Ensemble paints a portrait of Ann Cleare, one of Ireland’s leading modern composers. The first Irish composer to win the Ernst von Siemens award, Cleare’s […]
Date: Tues 22nd October, 2019Time: 7pmVenue: University Hall, Shakespeare Street, Nottingham, NG1 4FQCost: Tickets £5-£15 available online from nonsuch studios Groundbreaking brings the very best contemporary music from the world’s top composers to Nottingham. This programme features the ever-present “Pierrot plus percussion” lineup in music that has been commissioned and featured by Riot Ensemble on […]
Date: Sat 1 February, 2020Venue: CLF Arts Cafe (133 Rye Lane, SE15 4ST) Third Floor The world premiere of Laura Bowler’s new opera Rumpelstiltskin will be preformed alongside brand new works commissioned from the Call for Scores from Igor Santos and Peggy Polias.
Date: Wed 18th March, 2020 Venue:Cardiff University Concert Hall, Cardiff (CF10 3EB) Riot Ensemble workshop new pieces from Cardiff University postgraduate composers written for Bass Clarinet, Soprano, Viola, Cello, and Harp.
Date: Tues 17th March, 2020 Time: 7pm Venue: Cardiff University Concert Hall, Cardiff (CF10 3EB) Riot Ensemble makes our third appearance at Cardiff University, with an array of chamber songs spatialized throughout Cardiff University’s concert hall, punctuated by virtuosic solos from Berio (Sequenza XIV) and Donatoni (Soft).
Date: Fri 19th Jun, 2020 Time: 8pm Venue: Kings Place, London (N1 9AG) Riot Ensemble continues their ReNEW series at Kings Place with Georg Friedrich Haas’ multi-sensory work Solstices.