Date: Thursday 16th February, 7.30pm Venue: Brixton East 1871 (SW9 7JF) The Riot Ensemble celebrates the beginning of 2017 with a return to Brixton East 1871 in an evening filled with chamber music from around the world. Come hear some of Europe’s top performers in an array of World and UK Premieres, along with the customary £5 bottles […]
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 […]
Date: Monday 21st November, 8.00pm Venue: The Forge, Camden (NW1 7NL) The Riot Ensemble connects people to great contemporary music with this performance entitled “The Viola in my Life.” The performance features Riot’s new Artistic Board Member Stephen Upshaw, who programmed this concert alongside fellow rioters Sarah Mason & Claudia Maria Racovicean. The concert features Feldman’s classic The […]
Date: Saturday 29th October, 5.00pm Venue: St. Nicholas Church, Brighton (BN1 3LJ) The World Premiere of Laurence Osborn’s Micrographia – a song cycle for two sopranos and chamber ensemble setting seven new poems (written specifically for this piece) by poet Joseph Minden. World Premieres from our 2016 Call for Scores winners Yukiko Watanabe and Lee Westwood, and an array of new […]
Date: Saturday 1st October, 10.00pm Venue: South Bank Centre, London Members of our Artistic Board perform live from the Southbank on BBC Radio 3’s Hear and Now. We’ll be performing the UK premiere of “death, hocket, and roll” – a Toy Piano Duo by Thomas Kotcheff, Nina C Young’s “Void” (Nina is our current composer in residence), Scelsi’s Ko-Lho, […]
Date: Tuesday 13th September, 8pm Venue: Montague Arms, Peckham (SE15 2PA) Sonic Imperfections is a monthly experimental music night at the Montague Arms in Peckham. We’re heading down with a complete evening of Pauline Oliveros‘ Text Scores, like the one below. The evening will take place in three short sets, with time for drinks and conversation in-between!
We have been having SUCH a wonderful time with our second year work with Young Composers from the foreSOUND School of Music in our ‘Young Composer of the Year’ education project. Quite uniquely to this project, we ask young students to undertake the serious task of composing and notating a complete new work for our […]
Date: Friday 29th April, 7.30pm Venue: St. Leonard’s Church, Shoreditch (E1 6JN) An ecclectic evening of music in the resonant and beautiful St. Leonard’s Church. We give the UK premieres of Evan Johnson’s experimental and virtuosic L’art de toucher le clavecin 3, our 2016 composer-in-residence Nina C. Young’s Traced Upon Cinders (for electric guitar and ensemble), and Djuro Zivkovic’s Grawemeyer Winning On the Guarding of the Heart (commissioned & […]
Date: Wednesday 11th May; 1.00pm Venue: Guys’ Hospital Chapel Our tenth concert with Breathe AHR. This concert will feature works from our Young Composer of the Year Award along with John Tavener’s To A Child Dancing With the Wind
In conjunction with Sonic Imperfections as part of the Telegraph Hill Festival Date: Friday 18th March Venue: St. Catherine’s Church After giving the UK Premiere at the 2015 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, we’re bringing Lee Hyla’s masterwork My Life on the Plains to London on a fantastic evening of music shared with Gold Vox, Matthew Shaw, and Charles Hayward with Laura […]
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