Game Boy (highlights) by Jagoda Szmytka
Highlights from the UK Premiere performance of Game Boy by Jagoda Szmytka at HCMF2015. Performed by Goska Isphording. GameBoy (Highlights) from The Riot Ensemble on Vimeo.
sky-me, type-me by Jagoda Szmytka
UK Premiere performance of sky-me, type-me by Jagoda Szmytka at HCMF2015. Performers are: Sarah Dacey, Martha Lloyd, Anna Hashimoto & Tansy Bennett. Conducted by Aaron Holloway-Nahum.
A look back at HCMF 2015
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, […]
Six Autumn Concerts 2015
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!
Spitalfields: I Shall Contemplate
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 […]
HCMF: Szmytka, Fernando & Hyla
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 […]
New Music from New Voices
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 […]
Breathe AHR: Remembrance Day
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.
The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst
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 […]
Wired in Amsterdam
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 […]
