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Evan Johnson

HCMF: Evan Johnson

Date: Sat 16th November, 2019Time: 7.00pmVenue: St Paul’s Hall, University of Huddersfield, HD1 3DHCost: Tickets £15 – £18 available online Evan Johnson‘s Linke Hand eines Apostels (Left hand of an apostle) is a reflection on a sketch by Albrecht Dürer, a drawing which attends feverishly to details of vein, bone, skin, draped folds of cloth, and […]

Celia’s Toyshop

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 […]

A few moments with Evan Johnson

The music of American composer Evan Johnson has been described as “conjuring a Beckett-like eloquence from stammers and silences” (Ivan Hewitt, The Telegraph).  He’s a truly international composer, with works performed regularly by ensembles such as MusikFabrik, Elision, and EXAUDI at festivals ranging from Darmstadt to Spitalfields to Dark Music Days in Iceland. Even with such an array […]

Traced Upon Cinders

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 & […]