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2018

Alessandrini HCR Recording (1)

Date: Sat 1st December Venue: University of Huddersfield After our exciting collaborations with Patricia Alessandrini at Goldsmiths earlier this year, we’re hugely excited to be involved in recording three of her pieces for an upcoming portrait disc on Huddersfield Contemporary Records.  We’ll travel up to Huddersfield and on 1st December record her chamber works Funeral […]

Four Facades

Date: Wed 31st Oct, 2018 Time: 8.00pm Venue: The Warehouse, Waterloo (SE1 8ST) Fresh from our Deutschlandfunk Radio recording, we perform Jonathan Harvey’s masterwork, Song Offerings (with our soprano Sara Dacey) alongside world premieres of Benjamin Graves Four Facades for viola and seven players (commissioned by Riot Ensemble with support from the RVW Trust, Carne Trust […]

Breathe AHR 17: Charcoal #7

Date: Monday 12th November Venue: St. Thomas’ Central Hall This is our seventeenth concert – free and open to the public – in conjunction with Breathe Arts Health Research and our seventh concert with charcoal artist Marcus Stefanelli.  The concert will be programmed by and feature soloists from Riot Ensemble’s Artistic Board

Breathe AHR 16: Charcoal #6

Date: Monday 24th September Venue: St. Thomas’ Central Hall This is our sixteenth concert – free and open to the public – in conjunction with Breathe Arts Health Research and our sixth concert with charcoal artist Marcus Stefanelli.  The concert will be programmed by and feature soloists from Riot Ensemble’s Artistic Board

Illusions at Kings Place

Date: Mon 17th Sept, 2018 Time: 7.30pm Venue: Kings Place, Hall Two Built around two of Philip Venables most exciting chamber pieces (Illusions and numbers 91-95) this concert also features our first performance of Sarah Nemstov (Central Park / Manhattan), Lee Hyla’s raucous We Speak Etruscan (a piece that imagines a new (fake) language, spoken by a heavily amplified bass clarinet […]

A few moments with Patricia Alessandrini

Next Tuesday, 8 May, we will give the first of two concerts at Goldsmiths College, London, this spring (the second is on 14 June). These have been arranged with Goldsmiths’ Lecturer in Sonic Arts, Patricia Alessandrini, whose music will feature in each concert. In June we will play her string quartet De profundis clamavi [hommage à Alban […]

On Magnetic Fields

Date: Thursday 14th June, 2018 Time: 8-9pm with drinks in New Cross House to follow! Venue: Great Hall, Goldsmiths (SE14 6NW) In our second 2018 performance at Goldsmiths we perform music with electronics by Ann Cleare (On Magnetic Fields, World Premiere), Patricia Alessandrini (De profundis clamavi [hommage à Alban Berg]) and Pauline Oliveros (Wheel of Time, London […]

Arrangements of Five

Date: Tuesday 8th May Time: 8pm Venue: Deptford Town Hall (SE14 6AF) In the first of two 2018 concerts at Goldsmiths University, SIX Riot Ensemble performers arrange themselves in various groupings in the music of Patricia Alessandrini (Hommage à Purcell), Morton Feldman (The Viola in My Life), Matthias Pintscher (Janusgesicht) and Aaron Holloway-Nahum (Arrangements of Five).

Tampere Biennale: My Life on the Plains

Date: Wed 11th April, 2018 Time: 7pm Venue: Pakkahuone, Finland Riot Ensemble travels to the Tampere Biennale with Lee Hyla’s masterwork My Life on the Plains, alongside Daniel Kidane’s Inner Voices (co-commissioned with Sound and Music in 2015) and Freya Waley-Cohen’s live score for Joris Iven’s 1929 film, Regen.