ReNEW: Extinction Events
Date: Fri 14th Feb, 2020 Time: 8pm Venue: Kings Place, London (N1 9AG) The inaugural concert of Riot Ensemble’s ReNEW series at Kings Place, bringing the cream of international contemporary music on to the Hall One stage.
Like A Memory Of Birds by Aaron Holloway-Nahum
Piece for Oboe (Philip Haworth) and Percussion (David Royo) by our Artistic Director Aaron Holloway-Nahum. Live recording of the World Premiere performance at Dark Music Days (Reykjavík) 2018.
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).
Seven Heavens: Dark Music Days, Iceland
Date: Friday 26th January, 8.00pm Venue: Iðnó (Reykyavik) Riot Ensemble makes our Icelandic Debut at Myrkir Músíkdagar (Dark Music Days) with a new work by Icelandic composer (and performer) Bára Gísladottír for the same forces as Henri Dutilleux’s chamber masterpiece Les Citations. Riot will also give Icelandic premieres to works for the same forces from Arlene Sierra, Jose Manuel […]
A few moments with Laurence Osborn
We come to new music in a lot of ways here. You’ve already been introduced to Yukiko and Lee, the two winners of our 2016 Call for Scores competition. This Saturday’s concert will also feature more than a dozen World Premieres from New Music Brighton composers – whom we collaborate with in Brighton annually. Laurence […]
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 […]
