Date: Friday 15th May; 7.30pm Venue: Palmers Green United Reformed Church In association with the foreSOUND school of music, we’re running an education project to encourage and train the next generation of composers. Five young foreSOUND students have been selected to attend an instrument introduction day with our players (28th Feb) and take composition lessons with our Artistic Director […]
Commissioned from our 2014 Call for Scores, and premiered by percussionists Sarah Mason and James Leveridge on our she is a myth concert that year.
Riot Ensemble violinists Christopher Jones and Kay Stephen perform the UK premiere of Augusta Read Thomas’ Mansueto Tribute at Arrangements of Five – the Friends’ Meetinghouse, Brighton.
Today – 20th May – is the (first) culmination of our Les Citations project. Programmed in memory of Henri Dutilleux, tonight’s concert is at The Forge, and we repeat the concert tomorrow in Cambridge. Among an array of World and UK premieres, we are very pleased to be presenting Wired, by emerging English composer Chris Roe. We first […]
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. 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 […]
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 […]
We had a fantastic response to our first concert of the 2013 season, and it was great to hear an extended concert that focused on the many personalities and guises of the contemporary flute player. Kate Walter (above, warming up for the concert) performed on bass, alto, and c-flute for the concert. Watching her perform, […]
At The Guildhall School of Music and Drama at 7:30pm on October 21st, 2010 Music for ensemble by Richard Baker, Charlotte Bray, Michael Daugherty, Antonia Barnett-McIntosh and Aaron Holloway-Nahum