Date: Wednesday 9th November 1pm Venue: Guys Hospital – Atrium 1 A ‘Remembrance’ themed concert, with live artist Marcus Stefanelli. Music by John Garner, A world premiere of Giovanni Cacioppo’s The Immigrant Suite, a selection of Bartok’s 44 Duos For Two Violins and Kate Williams Suite for Two Violins.
Yukiko Watanabe is one of two winners of our 2016 Call for Scores competition. She studied with Beat Furrer in Austria and now lives in Berlin. Her music is truly adventurous, embracing the dramatic and the bizarre alongside truly heartfelt sensitivity. We are excited to perform her new work In My Room at our Brighton concert […]
Date: Monday 5th September 1pm Venue: St. Thomas’ Hospital – Central Hall A theme of folk songs including Szymanowski, Berio and Dallapiccola alongside transcriptions of Hugo Wolf’s Möirke Lieder.
UK Premiere performance of sky-me, type-me by Jagoda Szmytka at HCMF2015. Performers are: Sarah Dacey, Martha Lloyd, Anna Hashimoto & Tansy Bennett. Conducted by Aaron Holloway-Nahum.
This Monday, at the Spitalfields Music Winter Festival, we give the first performance of Helga Arias Parra in the UK: the World Premiere of Incipit (Omaggio a G.B. Pergolesi). This piece – a co-commission between Riot Ensemble and Spitalfields Music – is fourth and final piece commissioned from our 2015 Call for Scores (NB composers, we’ll be opening […]
Have a look at our six concerts taking place this Autumn, including the Spitalfields Music Winter Festival, opening night of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, ongoing work with BreatheAHR, a return to Brighton with NMB and more!
As part of the Spitalfields Music Winter Festival 2015 Date: Monday 7th December, 7.00pm Venue: St. Leonard’s Shoreditch We’re so excited to be making our London festival debut with Spitalfields Music. In this evening concert we intersperse solo movements of Bach among music by Djuro Zivkovic (2014 Grawemeyer Winner), Spanish composer Helga Arias Parra (a fourth composer […]
Date: Friday 20th November Venue: Blending Shed at Bates Mill, Huddersfield We are absolutely thrilled to make our HCMF debut with the wild and bizarre worlds of Jagoda Szmytka, Samantha Fernando & Lee Hyla. The concert includes UK premieres of Szmytka’s Game Boy and Empty Music, along with Hyla’s 30-minute retrospective My Life on the Plains. Samantha has created a new […]
Date: Tuesday 17th November, 7.30pm Venue: Brixton East 1871 A concert jam-packed with new music from new composers. More than 150 composers from 14 countries applied to the Riot Ensemble’s 2015 Call for Scores. Three composers – Thanasis Deligiannis, Jessica Rudman & Patricia Alessandrini were chosen by Riot’s musicians to write new works for this concert. We also […]
Date: Wednesday 11th November, 1pm Venue: Guy’s Chapel, Guy’s Hospital, London Bridge In our 9th concert with Breathe AHR – a charity dedicated to improving health and outcomes for patients, staff and communities – three Riot musicians perform a concert of music reflecting on war & peace.