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A few (more) moments with Christopher Mayo

We are looking forward very much to playing at the Spitalfields Winter Festival next month, and happier still to be returning to the music of Christopher Mayo, which we will be performing in an all-Canadian programme alongside Nicole Lizée’s Black MIDI and Richard Reed Parry’s Music for Heart and Breath. Mayo’s extraordinary Youngblood II for five bassoons (yes!) was […]

Music for Heart and Breath

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 […]

A few moments with Helga Arias Parra

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 […]

Spitalfields: I Shall Contemplate

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 […]