On Wednesday 31 October at the Warehouse in London we will be playing Jonathan Harvey’s masterful Song Offerings, the world premiere of Benjamin Graves’ Four Facades, and new pieces from two of our 2018 Call for Scores winners, Caterina di Cecca and Judit Varga. Judit, a Hungarian-born resident of Vienna, spoke to us between house moves about beauty, […]
On Wednesday 31 October at the Warehouse in London we will be playing Jonathan Harvey’s masterful Song Offerings, the world premiere of Benjamin Graves’s Four Facades, and new pieces from two of our 2018 Call for Scores winners, Caterina di Cecca and Judit Varga. Caterina, who is based in Rome, spoke to us about saxophone potential, the poetry […]
On Wednesday 31 October at the Warehouse in London we will be playing Jonathan Harvey’s masterful Song Offerings alongside new pieces from two of our 2018 Call for Scores winners, Caterina di Cecca and Judit Varga. The concert takes its title from another world premiere, Four Facades by Benjamin Graves, written for Riot and our fantastic violist Stephen […]
Date: Wed 5th Dec, 2018 Time: 8.00pm Venue: Trinity Buoy Wharf (E14 0JY) Presented as part of the Spitalfields Music Festival, this concert showcases three eclectic and exciting Canadian composers. It includes the UK premieres of Christopher Mayo’s BEAST (originally written for Alarm Will Sound), and the rapidly upcoming Nicole Lizée’s BLACK MIDI (a co-commission […]
Date: Wed 31st Oct, 2018 Time: 8.00pm Venue: The Warehouse, Waterloo (SE1 8ST) Fresh from our Deutschlandfunk Radio recording, we perform Jonathan Harvey’s masterwork, Song Offerings (with our soprano Sara Dacey) alongside world premieres of Benjamin Graves Four Facades for viola and seven players (commissioned by Riot Ensemble with support from the RVW Trust, Carne Trust […]
Next Thursday, 14 May, we will present the second of our two spring concerts at Goldsmiths College, London. As well as pieces by Pauline Oliveros (her almost forgotten string quartet The Wheel of Time, of which we gave the UK premiere at hcmf// last year), Clara Iannotta (Limun for violin, viola, and two page turners), and Patricia […]
Date: Monday 12th November Venue: St. Thomas’ Central Hall This is our seventeenth concert – free and open to the public – in conjunction with Breathe Arts Health Research and our seventh concert with charcoal artist Marcus Stefanelli. The concert will be programmed by and feature soloists from Riot Ensemble’s Artistic Board
Date: Monday 24th September Venue: St. Thomas’ Central Hall This is our sixteenth concert – free and open to the public – in conjunction with Breathe Arts Health Research and our sixth concert with charcoal artist Marcus Stefanelli. The concert will be programmed by and feature soloists from Riot Ensemble’s Artistic Board
Date: Mon 17th Sept, 2018 Time: 7.30pm Venue: Kings Place, Hall Two Built around two of Philip Venables most exciting chamber pieces (Illusions and numbers 91-95) this concert also features our first performance of Sarah Nemstov (Central Park / Manhattan), Lee Hyla’s raucous We Speak Etruscan (a piece that imagines a new (fake) language, spoken by a heavily amplified bass clarinet […]
Next Tuesday, 8 May, we will give the first of two concerts at Goldsmiths College, London, this spring (the second is on 14 June). These have been arranged with Goldsmiths’ Lecturer in Sonic Arts, Patricia Alessandrini, whose music will feature in each concert. In June we will play her string quartet De profundis clamavi [hommage à Alban […]