Our first concert of 2018 is already almost here! On Friday 12 January we perform Elliott Carter’s legendary Double Concerto for harpsichord and piano at LSO St Luke’s, with Riot members Goska Isphording and Adam Swayne in the challenging solo roles. This will not be the only highlight of the evening, however: the concert is […]
Our first concert of 2018 is already almost here! On Friday 12 January we perform Elliott Carter’s legendary Double Concerto for harpsichord and piano at LSO St Luke’s, with Riot members Goska Isphording and Adam Swayne in the challenging solo roles. This will not be the only highlight of the evening, however: the concert is […]
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: Friday 12th January, 8.00pm Venue: LSO St. Luke’s (EC1V 9NG) We’re hugely excited to kick off 2018 with a rare performance of Elliott Carter’s masterful Double Concerto, with Riot soloists Adam Swayne (Piano) and Goska Isphording (Harpsichord). Carter’s work will be placed alongside two varied emerging American composers. Molly Joyce, one of seven composers chosen in our […]
Date: Saturday 11th November, 7.30pm Venue: Broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Live from LSO St. Luke’s (EC1V 9NG) As part of the regular BBC Radio 3 programme Open Ear, we perform the London premiere of Ayre: Towed through plumes, thicket, asphalt, sawdust and hazardous air I shall not forget the sound of by Chaya Czernowin next two Clara Iannotta’s The people […]
Date: Saturday 25th November, 10pm Venue: Bates Mill Blending Shed (HD1 3ER) As part of hcmf//’s 40th Anniversary Festival, we’re bringing two Pauline Oliveros pieces to their closing weekend ‘mix-tape’. We continue our ongoing interpretations of Pauline’s text scores, with Sarah Dacey’s performance of The autobiography of Lady Steinway (which we gave the UK premiere of earlier this […]
Date: Friday 24th November, 7pm Venue: St. Paul’s Hall (HD1 3DH) We’re hugely excited to return to hcmf// for the 40th Anniversary Festival with a programme exploring gender and identity in 2017. Laurence Osborn’s Ctrl – (commissioned with funding from the Arts Council and PRSF) written on the theme of the crisis of masculinity and the persistence of outdated […]
Date: Saturday 28th October, 5.00pm Venue: St. Nicholas Church, Brighton (BN1 3LJ) Now in it’s fourth year, our annual concert with the New Music Brighton composer collective sees us perform an array of their miniatures alongside the UK premiere of Chaya Czernowin’s Ayre: Towed through plumes, thicket, asphalt, sawdust and hazardous air I shall not forget the sound […]
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.