Date: Saturday 15th November; 7.30pm Venue: Cecil Sharp House, Trefusis Room. As part of our Sound and Music Portfolio programme this year, we are hosting international soloists Heather Roche (Bass Clarinet), Marco Fusi (Viola D’Amore) and Rafal Luc (Accordion) in London. After a day of masterclasses and composers workshops, these three soloists will give a joint concert […]
Updates (and confessions) from behind the 93-page score of Rzewski’s ‘The People United’. Having plenty of nervous energy can often be a good thing. It’s what propels me to bounce around the many faces I wear in the week (tutor, lecturer, conductor, teacher, supervisor, Rioter and – oh yes – pianist!) Colleagues – mostly those […]
Date: Thursday, 6th November; 7:00pm Venue: St. Leonard’s Church, Shoreditch When The Riot Ensemble and Juice Vocal Ensemble ran a Call for Scores earlier this year, 126 composers from all over the world applied for just two available commissions. This concert features the resulting works – by Australian composer Holly Harrison and UK composer Ben Oliver – along with the World Premiere of […]
It might seem like all’s gone quiet on the Riot front, but we are actually furiously at work behind the scenes gathering a shortlist for our Sound and Music Portfolio Scheme and preparing music that we’ll be performing this Autumn. Here are some little musings from a pianist holed up in his garret practising Rzewski’s sprawling opus. As […]
I am absolutely delighted to announce that the call for scores for The Riot Ensemble’s 2014-15 Portfolio Scheme with Sound and Music are now open! This will be the first Portfolio Scheme to pair emerging UK composers with international musicians. There will be a public UK masterclass from each of these musicians in November, followed by […]
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. 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.
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 […]
Tomorrow evening at The Forge in Camden we’re opening up a new series of contemporary music concerts called Wednesdays at The Forge. The concert is a rather extraordinary array of low instruments: 5 Bass Clarinets, 5 Bassoons (including 3 contrabassoons) and 4 Trombones, along with Tenor. Opening up the concert, will be a brand new […]
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