Date: Fri 2nd Aug, 2019Venue: Petworth, UK A new work for violin, cello, piano and percussion by renowned Petworth composer Terence Allbright provides the centrepiece for a concert of audacious contemporary works given by the Riot Ensemble at the Petworth Festival.
Date: Mon 8th Apr, 2019 Time: 7.30pm Venue: Crypt on the Green, Saint James Church (EC1R 0EA) Join us the evening of April 8th to celebrate the release of Speak, be Silent, our latest CD, out on HCR/NMC Recordings. Riot Ensemble artists will play solo works by each of the composers represented on the CD: Rebecca […]
Date: Wednesday 25th May, 11.00pm Venue: Iglesia de los Jesuitas de Segura, En Segura (Spain) In this ‘midnight concert’ at the Musica en Segura Festival, we perform music by Augusta Read Thomas, Jose Manuel Serrano, Jonathan Harvey and George Crumb’s seminal Vox Balaenae.
Date: Wednesday 25th May, 10.30am and 12.00pm Venue: Teatro de Orcera, En Segura (Spain) As part of our residency at the Musica en Segura Festival, we perform two school’s concerts with music by Augusta Read Thomas, Jose Manuel Serrano and Jonathan Harvey alongside fragments from Manuel de Falla’s Amor Brujo with flamenco singer Rocío Bazán.
Date: Wednesday 24th May, 8pm Venue: Olive Oil Factory, En Segura (Spain) The Riot Ensemble makes our debut performance in Spain on the opening night of the Musica en Segura Festival with Frederik Rzewski’s Coming Together and Attica, alongside Manuel de Falla’s Amor Brujo with flamenco singer Rocío Bazán.
Date: Wednesday 1st February, 7.30pm Venue: Attenborough Centre for Creative Arts (BN1 9RA) In an evening of music and performances inspired by Stockhausen, we’ll be performing three audio video works by the music of Sussex University Student Tom Reid as part of the Sussex University Experimental Music Festival. Other student composers on the festival include Natalie Whiteland, Anton Pearson, […]
Date: Friday 24th February, 1-8pm Venue: Institute of Contemporary Arts (SW1Y 5AH) We are thrilled to join Mahogany Opera Group’s Various Stages Festival as the resident ensemble. We’ll be workshopping and premiering a scene from Oliver Brignall’s new opera Palace of Junk, a multimedia retelling of the tragic tale of the Collyer brothers, an infamous pair of […]
Date: Wednesday 3rd May, 7.30pm Venue: Blackheath Halls Great Hall (SE3 9RQ) Come celebrate Jonathan Harvey’s rarely heard masterwork Jubilus – with Artistic Board Member Stephen Upshaw on solo viola – alongside the world premiere of composer/clarinettist Scott Lygate’s Chamber Symphony, the UK premiere of Augusta Read Thomas’ Capricious Angels, and our second performance of Helga Arias Parra’s Incipit (commissioned and premiered by us in 2015)!
Date: Tuesday 4th April, 7.30pm Venue: Cardiff University Concert Hall (CF10 3EB) We return to Cardiff University for an evening-length performance of Pauline Oliveros’ Text Scores, like the one below. You can read Tim Rutherford-Johnson’s reflections on these scores on our blog. The music is joyous, fun and informal. The concert will take place in two halves, with […]
Date: Friday 3rd March, 7.30pm Venue: The Warehouse, Theed Street (SE1 8ST) We are thrilled to be bringing Liza Lim’s Violin Concerto Speak, Be Silent to the Warehouse for its UK Premiere with soloist Sarah Saviet. Alongside Lim’s concerto, this concert includes an array of atmospheric, colourful and virtuosic music including the UK Premiere of Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Ró, Edmund Finnis’ Frame/Refrain, and Rebecca Saunders’ A […]