Date: Tuesday 14th October; 7.30pm Venue: The Friend’s Meetinghouse in Brighton The Riot Ensemble returns to Brighton to present an exciting array of contemporary music for various combinations of flute, clarinet and string quartet. The concert includes the world premiere of Artistic Director Aaron Holloway-Nahum’s Arrangements of Five – commissioned by Timothy Orpen with funds from the RVW Trust and […]
Today – 20th May – is the (first) culmination of our Les Citations project. Programmed in memory of Henri Dutilleux, tonight’s concert is at The Forge, and we repeat the concert tomorrow in Cambridge. Among an array of World and UK premieres, we are very pleased to be presenting Wired, by emerging English composer Chris Roe. We first […]
The Riot Ensemble is gearing up for our upcoming Les Citations project, programmed in memory of Henri Dutilleux, with an array of premieres from around the world. We’re hugely excited to be hosting Jenna Lyle for the premiere of her new piece, Falterer. Jenna is a composer, vocalist and performing artist from Carrollton, Georgia. She’s currently pursuing a […]
The Riot Ensemble is gearing up for our upcoming Les Citations project, programmed in memory of Henri Dutilleux, with an array of premieres from around the world. We’re hugely excited to be hosting Argentinian composer Jose Manuel Serrano for the premiere of his new work Cenizas de un Madrigal Triste (read on for the translation). I first met Jose in […]
The Riot Ensemble is gearing up for our upcoming Les Citations project, programmed in memory of Henri Dutilleux, with an array of premieres from around the world. One of the pieces coming from closer to home is from emerging composer Arne Gieshoff. Arne’s currently a Sound and Music Embedded composer with BCMG, and a fellow-member of the New […]
Live recording from The Platnauer Concert Series at Brasenose College, Oxford of the UK premiere of Djuro Zivkovic’s I Shall Contemplate… The Riot Ensemble Kate Walter, Flute; Celeste Cronje, Soprao Claudia Maria Racovicean, PIano Theo Kung, Violin; Reinoud Ford, Cello with Artistic Director Aaron Holloway-Nahum conducting.
The Riot Ensemble has had a busy month of May – from an outdoor performance of Workers Union (to which the police were called!) to Vox Balaenae and the UK premiere of Djuro Zivkovic’s I Shall Contemplate… on the Platnauer Concert Series at Brasenose College, Oxford. Next week, though, is where we really get going. Our Les Citations project, programmed in […]
This Saturday we make our Oxford Debut, with a programme stretching from J.S. Bach’s Second Cello Suite, through to the UK premiere of Djuro Zivkovic’s I Shall Contemplate…. (The programme also includes the magical Vox Balaenae and two preludes of Claude Debussy). We were incredibly lucky to have Djuro with us for rehearsals of I Shall Contemplate… this week, and it […]
Well, tonight is the night! Tonight at The Forge we unleash The Flatulence of the Gods: pieces for 5 bassoons, 4 trombones and tenor, and 5 Bass Clarinets. The lineup is – so far as we know – a totally unique one, created by drawing upon various existing pieces for groups of low instruments. The […]
Near the one-year anniversary of his death, The Riot Ensemble brings Henri Dutilleux’s Les Citations to the Divinity School Recital Hall at St. John’s College, Cambridge. Presented along Dutilleux’s masterwork are an array of newly-commissioned works by composers from across the globe for the same lineup of instruments (with an additional soprano in two of the […]
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