A Riot Ensemble commission, this is the extended version, and this is a live performance from Dark Music Days. Philip Haworth, OboeDavid Royo, PercussionGoska Isphording, HarpischordMarianne Schofield, Double Bass
Date: Friday 26th January, 8.00pm Venue: Iðnó (Reykyavik) Riot Ensemble makes our Icelandic Debut at Myrkir Músíkdagar (Dark Music Days) with a new work by Icelandic composer (and performer) Bára Gísladottír for the same forces as Henri Dutilleux’s chamber masterpiece Les Citations. Riot will also give Icelandic premieres to works for the same forces from Arlene Sierra, Jose Manuel […]
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.
In the centenary of his birth, we’re thrilled to return to music based around Henri Dutilleux’s Les Citations. We’ll be giving a world premiere from Nathan Shields, an extended version of Jose Manuel Serrano’s magical Cenizas de un madrigal triste, other Riot Ensemble commissions from Ken Hesketh & Chris Roe, Arlene Sierra’s Petite Grue and – of course – Les […]
Date: Friday 30th January; 7.30pm Venue: MeWe360 The opening concert of our 2015 season! Built around Jonathan Harvey’s raucous trio for Flute, Clarinet and Piano (The Riot) this concert also includes the UK premiere of music by Marco Momi (Reloading Vanishing), our first 2015 performance of composer-in-residence Jose Manuel Serrano (Espantajo de Resaca), Arne Gieshoff’s Invocation to […]
Harpsichordist Goska Isphording joined the Artistic Board of The Riot Ensemble after our Les Citations projects in 2014. Goska is one of Europe’s top contemporary specialists on the harpsichord, previously winning first prize as a soloist at the Krzysztof Penderecki International Competition of Contemporary Music 2002. Goska will be performing in two Riot Ensemble concerts in 2015, including our end of year […]
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 Argentinian composer Jose Manuel Serrano for the premiere of his new work Cenizas de un Madrigal Triste (read on for the translation). I first met Jose in […]
Near the one-year anniversary of his death, The Riot Ensemble brings Henri Dutilleux’s Les Citations to the Divinity School Recital Hall at St. John’s College, Cambridge. 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 […]
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 […]
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