In the centenary of his birth, we’re thrilled to return to music based around Henri Dutilleux’s Les Citations. We’ll be giving a world premiere from Nathan Shields, an extended version of Jose Manuel Serrano’s magical Cenizas de un madrigal triste, other Riot Ensemble commissions from Ken Hesketh & Chris Roe, Arlene Sierra’s Petite Grue and – of course – Les […]
Suzy Klein presents a special edition of ‘In Tune’ live from Tate Modern gallery in London, as part of Radio 3’s New Year New Music week. Our performances include Edgard Varèse’s seminal Density 21.5 (alongside Calder’s wire sculpture of his friend), Augusta Read Thomas’ Capricci, Benjamin Graves’ NocturNe, and Patrick Harrex’s …dreams, shadows, and smoke Also performing on the programme are […]
As part of the Spitalfields Music Winter Festival 2015 Date: Monday 7th December, 7.00pm Venue: St. Leonard’s Shoreditch We’re so excited to be making our London festival debut with Spitalfields Music. In this evening concert we intersperse solo movements of Bach among music by Djuro Zivkovic (2014 Grawemeyer Winner), Spanish composer Helga Arias Parra (a fourth composer […]
Date: Friday 20th November Venue: Blending Shed at Bates Mill, Huddersfield We are absolutely thrilled to make our HCMF debut with the wild and bizarre worlds of Jagoda Szmytka, Samantha Fernando & Lee Hyla. The concert includes UK premieres of Szmytka’s Game Boy and Empty Music, along with Hyla’s 30-minute retrospective My Life on the Plains. Samantha has created a new […]
Date: Tuesday 17th November, 7.30pm Venue: Brixton East 1871 A concert jam-packed with new music from new composers. More than 150 composers from 14 countries applied to the Riot Ensemble’s 2015 Call for Scores. Three composers – Thanasis Deligiannis, Jessica Rudman & Patricia Alessandrini were chosen by Riot’s musicians to write new works for this concert. We also […]
Date: Wednesday 11th November, 1pm Venue: Guy’s Chapel, Guy’s Hospital, London Bridge In our 9th concert with Breathe AHR – a charity dedicated to improving health and outcomes for patients, staff and communities – three Riot musicians perform a concert of music reflecting on war & peace.
Date: Monday 15th June, 7pm Venue: The Cockpit Theatre, Marylebone A chance to see a new chamber opera in the making. As part of Rough for Opera, a scratch night for new opera hosted and curated by Second Movement, four scenes from this new opera will be presented as a work-in-progress followed by a Q&A with audience […]
Date: Thursday 28th May; 7.30pm Venue: Orgelpark, Amsterdam Last year, as part of our Les Citations project, we commissioned UK composer Chris Roe to write a new work for Oboe, Harpsichord, Percussion and Double Bass. Chris’ piece WIRED was recorded for our first CD, and has now been selected as a finalist for the Prix annelie de Man. We are […]
Date: Wednesday 1st July, 7.30pm Venue: The Forge, Camden The closing ‘summer party’ on the second season of the critically acclaimed Wednesdays at the Forge concert series. The concert is built around Kevin Malone’s cabaret based around A Clockwork Orange, which sets the “songs” that Burgess included in his own script for the film (which Kubrick was eventually to […]
Date: Friday 15th May; 7.30pm Venue: Palmers Green United Reformed Church In association with the foreSOUND school of music, we’re running an education project to encourage and train the next generation of composers. Five young foreSOUND students have been selected to attend an instrument introduction day with our players (28th Feb) and take composition lessons with our Artistic Director […]
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