Date: Friday 14th November; 7.30pm Venue: St. Luke’s Church, Brighton The Riot Ensemble’s co-principal pianist Adam Swayne presents a unique performance Frederic Rzewski’s The People United Will Never Be Defeated, one of the twentieth century’s most monumental works for solo piano. Rzewski wrote the piece in 1975 for Adam’s teacher, Ursula Oppens. The 36 variations are based on a song that expressed solidarity […]
Date: Friday 7th November; 7.30pm Venue: The University of Chichester The Riot Ensemble’s co-principal pianist Adam Swayne presents a unique performance Frederic Rzewski’s The People United Will Never Be Defeated, one of the twentieth century’s most monumental works for solo piano. Rzewski wrote the piece in 1975 for Adam’s teacher, Ursula Oppens. The 36 variations are based on a song that expressed solidarity […]
Date: Tuesday 11th November; 7.30pm Venue: The Forge Camden The Riot Ensemble’s co-principal pianist Adam Swayne presents a unique performance Frederic Rzewski’s The People United Will Never Be Defeated, one of the twentieth century’s most monumental works for solo piano. Rzewski wrote the piece in 1975 for Adam’s teacher, Ursula Oppens. The 36 variations are based on a song that expressed solidarity […]
We’ve got a concert coming up tonight (!) at the Friend’s Meetinghouse (in Brighton) where we’ll be recapping some of our favourite pieces of the 2013 season and also playing some pieces by composers from the New Music Brighton collective. We’re gearing up for the concert by asking the NMB Composers a series of questions, so you can get […]
Live recording from The Forge of Nicholas Omiccioli’s Invisible Worlds with Riot Ensemble’s flautist Kate Walter and pianist Adam Swayne.
So the Rite of Spring is 100 years old, and so it the ‘Riot’ that accompanied it. Commentators then and now seem divided on what caused the fracas; was it the music, the dancing, the performance itself, or some class-based tension in the audience that had little or nothing to do with the show? The […]
“Why the ‘Riot’ Ensemble?” I’m quite often asked. I usually reply that our Artistic Director Aaron Holloway-Nahum dreamed up the name many years ago, pre- 2011, and has nothing to do with a quick smash for a new flatscreen or pair of trainers and, as far as I know, no-one’s tried to launch a brick […]
Kate Walter (Flute) and Adam Swayne (Piano) perform Terence Allbright’s Partita in The Magic Bass Flute concert (2013 Season)
Adam Swayne performs Amy Beth Kirsten’s Speak to me live on The Magic Bass Flute concert (2013 Season). [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/77830087%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-W52eb” params=”color=ff6600&auto_play=false&show_artwork=false” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]
Thank you for all who came along to our concert this past Saturday (26.01.13). It was great to have you with us, and we hope you enjoyed hearing the music as much as we enjoyed playing it for you! One of the highlights of the concert this past weekend was having composer Amy Beth Kirsten […]
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