A couple weeks ago, we spent two days at Brunel University workshopping a scene Oliver Brignall’s new opera Palace of Junk. The multi-media opera retells the terrifying tale of the Collyer Brothers (do not follow that link lightly!) Oliver’s music is as beautiful and haunting as the story, and we’re really excited to premiere this scene […]
Date: Wednesday 1st February, 7.30pm Venue: Attenborough Centre for Creative Arts (BN1 9RA) In an evening of music and performances inspired by Stockhausen, we’ll be performing three audio video works by the music of Sussex University Student Tom Reid as part of the Sussex University Experimental Music Festival. Other student composers on the festival include Natalie Whiteland, Anton Pearson, […]
Date: 19-20 January 2017 Venue: Brunel University Two days of rehearsals with composers Oliver Brignall on his new opera “Palace of Junk” -a multimedia retelling of the tragic tale of the Collyer brothers, an infamous pair of hoarders, and an exploration into hoarding disorder – ahead of our performance at Mahogany Opera Group’s Various Stages Festival.
Date: Friday 24th February, 1-8pm Venue: Institute of Contemporary Arts (SW1Y 5AH) We are thrilled to join Mahogany Opera Group’s Various Stages Festival as the resident ensemble. We’ll be workshopping and premiering a scene from Oliver Brignall’s new opera Palace of Junk, a multimedia retelling of the tragic tale of the Collyer brothers, an infamous pair of […]
We had a wonderful time giving six World Premieres at MeWe360 on our Portfolio concert last week. You can hear an excerpt from all six pieces in the 2-minute recap video below:
Yesterday, at LSO St. Luke’s, we workshopped three new pieces written for us by emerging UK composers Chloe Knibbs, Daniel Kidane, and Ed Nesbit. In collaboration with Sound and Music, we commissioned these composers to write us new pieces featuring international soloists Rafal Luc, Heather Roche and Marco Fusi. We’ll give the world premieres of all three […]
Date: Saturday 6th June; 7.30pm Venue: MeWe360 Presented as part of our Sound and Music Portfolio Scheme, this concert sees three emerging UK composers writing pieces for three international soloists. They are: Chloe Knibbs (writing for Accordionist Rafal Luc), Daniel Kidane (writing for Bass Clarinetist Heather Roche), and Ed Nesbit (writing for Viola d’Amore, Marco Fusi). The concert […]
At Club Inegales at 7:30pm on Thursday 5th December. Music composed on the 2012-13 Aldeburgh English Song Project by Kim Ashton, Oliver Brignall, Samantha Fernando, Benjamin Graves, Aaron Holloway-Nahum, Roberto Kalb, Sarah Lianne-Lewis, Stephen Mark Barchan, Chris Roe and Amir Tafreshipour.
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