Date: Sunday 1st October, 2pm Venue: St. Pauls’ Roof Pavilion, Level 6, Blue side, Royal Festival Hall (SE1 8XX) As part of our residency at Nordic Music Days 2017 we present this concert of delicate and exciting Nordic music for flute, piano, percussion, objects and electronics. Composers include Henrik Denerin (Fluchtlinien), Bente Leiknes (With the ear to the ground), Malin Bång (Hyperoxic), Adam […]
Date: Saturday 30th September, 6.00pm & 9.00pm Venue: St. Pauls’ Roof Pavilion, Level 6, Blue side, Royal Festival Hall (SE1 8XX) We’re excited to be returning to the Southbank Centre as one of the resident ensembles at Nordic Music Days 2017. This concert includes music from across the Nordic Countries, with Djuro Zivkovic’s Grawemeyer-winning On the Guarding of the […]
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.
Date: Wednesday 24th May, 8pm Venue: Olive Oil Factory, En Segura (Spain) The Riot Ensemble makes our debut performance in Spain on the opening night of the Musica en Segura Festival with Frederik Rzewski’s Coming Together and Attica, alongside Manuel de Falla’s Amor Brujo with flamenco singer Rocío Bazán.
‘Find the thing and it disappears’, warns the composer Rebecca Saunders. ‘Name the thing and it loses shape.’ In Saunders’ piece a visible trace we hear a piano keyboard squashed hard, before its sound backs away, as though embarrassed; a double bass glissandos downwards, as if being swallowed up; violin and flute essay a note, […]
We’re actually quite amazed that we’re going to be giving the London premiere of Rebecca Saunder’s A Visible Trace on 3 March at The Warehouse. We know we’re not alone in being deep admirers of Rebecca’s music, and we’re excited to be hatching plans to bring a lot more of her music to her homeland’s concert halls over […]
We give the U.K. première of Utku’s Hayirli Olsun at our concert on February 16th at Brixton East 1871, 7.30pm. Find out more about him on his website, and read his thoughts on composing, conducting and his Turkish heritage in our interview below! Your musical studies and career have taken you from Turkey all across Europe. Did […]
We are hugely looking forward to giving the premiere of Michael Cryne‘s five-movement work Celia’s Toyshop at our concert on February 16th at Brixton East 1871, 7.30pm. Michael lives and works in London and is currently pursuing doctoral study in composition under the supervision of Mark Bowden and Helen Grime at Royal Holloway, University of London, […]
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