We’re extremely excited to present the UK premiere of Djuro Zivkovic’s I Shall Contemplate for soprano, flute, piano, violin and cello. This evening concert at Brasenose College, Oxford, will also feature works by J.S. Bach, Vox Balaenae by George Crumb, and Claude Debussy’s piano prelude Brouillards.
As you’ll know by now, we’re interviewing some of the composers featured in our first concert of 2014, which takes place this Friday at Club Inégales. So far we’ve spoken with Richard Causton and Joanna Lee, and tomorrow we take a few moments with Alastair Putt. We did also send some interview questions to […]
We have a great season of concerts coming up in 2014 – the first of which, Number Ones, features ‘first pieces’. We love the idea of taking a look back at where some of today’s composers began their journey, and to listen for the ideas that have either grown more important to them or faded […]
The Riot Ensemble kicks off a new series of contemporary music at The Forge in Camden. The first half of this concert, starting at 7.30pm on 5th February, features CHROMA – while the Riot Ensemble brings you a second half of extremely low notes from Scott Lygate, Amy Beth Kirsten, Martijn Padding, Chris Mayo and […]
Near the one-year anniversary of his death, The Riot Ensemble brings Henri Dutilleux’s Les Citations to The Forge, Camden. Presented along Dutilleux’s masterwork are an array of newly-commissioned works by composers from across the globe for the same lineup of instruments (with an additional soprano in two of the works). These new pieces will come from Jose […]
As you’ve hopefully heard by now (!) we have a fantastic concert coming up this Thursday (31st October) at the Friend’s Meetinghouse in Brighton. We’re going to be performing a number of works by composers from the New Music Brighton Collective, while also revisiting some of our favourite chamber pieces that we performed this past […]
Live recording from The Friend’s Meetinghouse of Helen Grime’s Seven Pierrot Miniatures. This was part of our Transatlantic Collaborations Project. The Riot Ensemble, with Artistic Director Aaron Holloway-Nahum conducting.
Live recording from The Forge of Nicholas Omiccioli’s Invisible Worlds with Riot Ensemble’s flautist Kate Walter and pianist Adam Swayne.
Tomorrow and Wednesday of this week, as part of our collaboration with the fantastic ECCE Ensemble, we will be performing Helen Grime’s Seven Pierrot Miniatures for (as you might expect) pierrot ensemble (Flute, Clarinet, Piano, Violin, Cello). I’ve been a big fan of Helen’s music from the first time I heard it, and so it’s a great […]
Two of the works receiving their UK premiere in our upcoming Transatlantic Collaborations concerts with the ECCE Ensemble were chosen through an open call for scores which drew in more than 100 applicants world-wide. I recently had the pleasure to chat with Nicholas Omiccioli, one of the selected composers. Nicholas! Thank you very much for […]
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