Date: Wednesday 25th May, 11.00pm Venue: Iglesia de los Jesuitas de Segura, En Segura (Spain) In this ‘midnight concert’ at the Musica en Segura Festival, we perform music by Augusta Read Thomas, Jose Manuel Serrano, Jonathan Harvey and George Crumb’s seminal Vox Balaenae.
Date: Wednesday 25th May, 10.30am and 12.00pm Venue: Teatro de Orcera, En Segura (Spain) As part of our residency at the Musica en Segura Festival, we perform two school’s concerts with music by Augusta Read Thomas, Jose Manuel Serrano and Jonathan Harvey alongside fragments from Manuel de Falla’s Amor Brujo with flamenco singer Rocío Bazán.
Date: Wednesday 24th May, 8pm Venue: Olive Oil Factory, En Segura (Spain) The Riot Ensemble makes our debut performance in Spain on the opening night of the Musica en Segura Festival with Frederik Rzewski’s Coming Together and Attica, alongside Manuel de Falla’s Amor Brujo with flamenco singer Rocío Bazán.
‘Find the thing and it disappears’, warns the composer Rebecca Saunders. ‘Name the thing and it loses shape.’ In Saunders’ piece a visible trace we hear a piano keyboard squashed hard, before its sound backs away, as though embarrassed; a double bass glissandos downwards, as if being swallowed up; violin and flute essay a note, […]
It’s my pleasure to be giving this Friday the UK Premiere of Liza Lim’s violin concerto, Speak, Be Silent. Liza is a generous composer and collaborator, and I’ve been an admirer of her music for a long time, so it was a particular pleasure to spend a day working on the piece with her, and asking […]
Date: Wednesday 1st February, 7.30pm Venue: Attenborough Centre for Creative Arts (BN1 9RA) In an evening of music and performances inspired by Stockhausen, we’ll be performing three audio video works by the music of Sussex University Student Tom Reid as part of the Sussex University Experimental Music Festival. Other student composers on the festival include Natalie Whiteland, Anton Pearson, […]
Date: 19-20 January 2017 Venue: Brunel University Two days of rehearsals with composers Oliver Brignall on his new opera “Palace of Junk” -a multimedia retelling of the tragic tale of the Collyer brothers, an infamous pair of hoarders, and an exploration into hoarding disorder – ahead of our performance at Mahogany Opera Group’s Various Stages Festival.
Date: Friday 24th February, 1-8pm Venue: Institute of Contemporary Arts (SW1Y 5AH) We are thrilled to join Mahogany Opera Group’s Various Stages Festival as the resident ensemble. We’ll be workshopping and premiering a scene from Oliver Brignall’s new opera Palace of Junk, a multimedia retelling of the tragic tale of the Collyer brothers, an infamous pair of […]
Date: Monday 20th February Venue: St. Thomas’ Central Hall This is our fourteenth concert – free and open to the public – in conjunction with Breathe Arts Health Research and our third concert with charcoal artist Marcus Stefanelli. The concert will be programmed by and feature soloists from Riot Ensemble’s Artistic Board.
Date: Monday 20th February Venue: St. Thomas’ Central Hall This is our thirteenth concert – free and open to the public – in conjunction with Breathe Arts Health Research and our second concert with charcoal artist Marcus Stefanelli. The concert will be programmed by and feature soloists from Riot Ensemble’s Artistic Board.
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