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: Mon 25th Nov, 2019 Time: 8pm Venue: Music Room, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic (L1 9BP) Riot Ensemble feature in the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic’s Close Up Concerts series, giving you the chance to experience works by Kaija Saariaho, Lee Hyla, Bernhard Gander, Marc Mellits, and Matthias Pintscher in an intimate and relaxed setting in the Liverpool Philharmonic Music Room.
Date: Thu 23rd May, 2019Venue: St John’s Waterloo, London The Riot Ensemble will be working side-by-side with Southbank Sinfonia in a workshop exploring new music and extended techniques as part of Southbank Sinfonia’s orchestral academy experience.
Date: Sun 3rd Nov, 2019Venue: ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands From their new album Speak, Be Silent, Riot Ensemble perform Rebecca Saunders’ Stirring Still II which continues her longstanding fascination with the writings of Samuel Beckett, sharing its title with Beckett’s final work of prose. Through its fragile and haunting soundworld, the piece’s brittle textures and distant […]
Date: Sat 2nd Nov, 4.00pm Venue: ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands Solstices is a 70-minute piece from Georg Friedrich Haas, which takes place entirely in darkness. For 10 musicians, including a completely re-tuned grand piano, Solstices opens with a passage of taut, energetic and precise music. From here the piece turns to a process of deep-listening by the musicians […]
Date: Mon 16th & Tue 17th Sep, 2019 Venue: University of Southampton (SO16 7PP) Riot Ensemble travels to Southampton University to work with composer Ben Oliver on a new piece in development with poet Luke Wright. These workshops will lead to a major new work in 2020.