Archive
concerts, broadcasts, workshops
2023
7 December 2023
Giga Hertz Festival, ZKM Karlsruhe
John Croft — …ne l’aura che trema*
Beatrice Dillon — Seven Reorganisations*
Christian Mason — Hölderlin’s Madness**
*German premiere
**world premiere
Lotte Betts-Dean, Mezzo-soprano
Thorwald Jørgensen, Theremin
Joachim Haas, Klangregie
Mirella Weingarten & Wiebke Pöpel, Video
SWR Experimentalstudio
14 August 2023
Schlewig-Holstein Musik Festival, Kiel
Paul Hindemith — Clarinet Quartet
Alex Paxton — Spit Crystal Yeast-rack, dripping. (À l’orange)
1 July 2023
Spitalfields Music Festival
Lara Agar — Ham
Catherine Lamb — color residua*
Klaus Lang — march (william morris)**
*world premiere with Exaudi Vocal Ensemble
**world premiere with Klaus Lang, organ
21 June 2023
Wigmore Hall
”Fantasy in Orange”
Pascale Criton — Clines (UK premiere)
Nakul Krishnamurthy — One Million Dancing Shivas (world premiere)
Clara Iannotta — dead wasps in the jam-jar (iii)
Alex Paxton — Spit Crystal Yeast-rack, dripping. (À l’orange) (world premiere)
17 June 2023
Louth Contemporary Music Festival
Dundalk Gaol
Clara Iannotta — A Failed Entertainment
Cassandra Miller — Leaving
Clara Iannotta — dead wasps in the jam-jar (iii)
Sam Perkin — AWE (world premiere)
14 April 2023
Kings Place, London
Cassandra Miller — for mira
Rebecca Saunders — murmurs
Beatrice Dillon — Seven Reorganisations
Catherine Lamb — Parallaxis Forma
with vocalist Lotte Betts-Dean
2022
27 November 2022
hcmf//, Bates Mill Blending Shed, Huddersfield
Mark Fell — every non-empty ultra-connected compact space has a largest proper open subset
uk premiere
24 November 2022
Centro Pecci, Prato, Italy - co-produced by OOH Sounds
Mark Fell — every non-empty ultra-connected compact space has a largest proper open subset
world premiere
2 November 2022
Kings Place, London: Voices Unwrapped series
Lisa Illean — A through-grown earth
Lawrence Dunn — Set of Four
Angharad Davies — Sitting with Emptiness (world premiere)
Oliver Leith – Me hollywood
with soprano Juliet Fraser
16 October 2022
No Bounds Festival, Sheffield: ‘Zero as a limit’ curated by Mark Fell
Review, The Guardian
Nakul Krishnamurthy — പരിധിയായി പൂജ്യം (world premiere)
Beatrice Dillon — Seven Reorganisations (world premiere)
Morton Feldman — Crippled Symmetry*
*with GBSR Duo
29 September 2022
Glasgow Cathedral Festival
Cassandra Miller — Perfect Offering
Rebecca Saunders — murmurs
Oliver Leith — 664 love songs guaranteed to cure heartache
9 July 2022
BBC Radio 3, New Music Show. Broadcast of live recording from LCMF 2022.
Clara Iannotta — Eclipse Plumage (UK premiere)
8 July 2022
Wigmore Hall
Enno Poppe — Gelöschte Lieder
Cassandra Miller — Perfect Offering
James Dillon — The Soadie Waste
Lawrence Dunn — Suite (world premiere)
17 June 2022
London Contemporary Music Festival
Clara Iannotta — Eclipse Plumage (UK premiere)
4 March 2022
BBC Radio 3, New Music Show. Broadcast of live recording from hcmf// 2022.
Mauro Lanza & Andrea Valle — Regnum Animale; Regnum Vegetabile
Part of “Systema naturæ”
3 March 2022
Listenpony, Crypt on the Green, Clerkenwell
Isabella Gellis — Bowed and Blowed (world premiere)
Kaija Saariaho — Oi Kuu
Oliver Leith — Blurry wake song
William Marsey — No Verticals (world premiere)
12 February 2022
Royal College of Music, Chamber Festival
Cassandra Miller — Perfect Offering
Rebecca Saunders — murmurs
Edwin Hillier — Plastica II
2021
18 November 2021
hcmf//, Bates Mill Blending Shed
Mauro Lanza & Andrea Valle — Systema naturæ (UK premiere)
8 November 2021
November Music Festival, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands
Willem Twee Toonzaal
Nicoline Soeter — Solution
Joanna Bailie — Dissolve
Lisa Illean — A through-grown earth
Oliver Leith — Me Hollywood
with soprano Juliet Fraser
6-7 November 2021
November Music Festival, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands
Willem Twee Kunstruimte
Mauro Lanza & Andrea Valle — Systema naturæ (Dutch premiere)
24 October 2021
TRANSIT Festival, Leuven, Belgium
STUK, Soetezaal
Nicoline Soeter — Solution (world premiere)
Joanna Bailie — Dissolve
Lisa Illean — A through-grown earth (world premiere of ensemble version)
Oliver Leith — Me Hollywood
with soprano Juliet Fraser
11 October 2021
Durham University, MUSICON Series
Jia Cao — Impressions (world premiere)
Luka Lah — Etude for Flute (world premiere)
Kaija Saariaho — NoaNoa
Eric Skytterholm Mac Aodhagáin — echos (world premiere)
Rob King — Midnight Immolation (world premiere)
Michael Worboys — VENT (world premiere)
John Croft — …ne l'aura che trema
Taylor MacLennan, flute
Nicholas Moroz, electronics
30 September 2021
Glasgow Cathedral Festival
Lawrence Dunn — Sentimental Drifting Music
Catherine Lamb — Parallaxis Forma (UK premiere)
Lotte Betts-Dean, voice
9 June 2021
City, University of London
City Summer Sounds Festival
James Weeks — Summer (world premiere)
Georgia Rodgers — York Minster
Gilberto Agostinho — follow the well-worn path in the grass (world premiere)
Elizabeth Black — Explore This (world premiere)
Alice Jeffreys — Finding a Thread (world premiere)
4-5 May 2021
Royal College of Music
Composers’ Studio
Alexander Wagner — Rhapsotüde
Andrew Chen — inhabitant
Anibal Vidal — Liquidity
Goi Ywei Chern — Cycles
Silvio Bartoli — Mala tempora currunt
Terrence Wong — First Flower
Tiziano de Felice — Concerto da Camera
1 May 2021
BBC Radio 3 New Music Show
‘Explore Ensemble in Session 2/2’
Lisa Illean — février
Klaus Lang — Die hässliche Blume
Jack Sheen — Television Continuity Solos
Oliver Leith — Balloon
Clarence Barlow — Im Januar am Nil. electronic realisation
24 April 2021
BBC Radio 3 New Music Show
‘Explore Ensemble in Session 1/2’
Cassandra Miller — Perfect Offering (premiere of revised version)
Clara Iannotta — Limun
Michael Finnissy — Alternative Readings
James Weeks — Summer
Mauro Lanza — JSB Bleibet meine Freude (extract from How to Proceed)
1 March 2021
Ö1, „Zeit-Ton: Novitäten, nicht nur aus England“
Austrian radio broadcast of part of hcmf// 2020 programme
Oliver Leith — Me Hollywood
Ein Hauch von The Truman Show umgegossen in Musik.
[A breath of The Truman Show transfused into Music.]
— Walter Weidringer (Presenter)
2020
20 November 2020
hcmf// 2020 / BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show
Lawrence Dunn — Sentimental Drifting Music
Joanna Bailie — Dissolve (world premiere)*
Oliver Leith — Me Hollywood (world premiere)*
*Commissioned by Explore Ensemble with support from Arts Council England’s Emergency Relief Funding and the RVW Trust. Co-commissioned by the November Music festival and hcmf//.
– Review: Positionen, Edward Henderson
– Review: The Guardian, Andrew Clements
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16 May 2020
BBC Radio 3, New Music Show
Recorded Broadcast
Oliver Leith — 664 Love Songs Guaranteed to Cure Heartache
21 March 2020
BBC Radio 3, New Music Show
Recorded Broadcast
Edwin Hillier — Plastica
14 March 2020
BBC Radio 3, New Music Show
Recorded Broadcast
John Croft — Sextet
25 February 2020
City, University of London
Performance Space, College Building
John Croft — Sextet (world premiere)
Lisa Illean — Weather a Rare Blue
Edwin Hillier — Plastica (world premiere)
Horațiu Rădulescu — Lux Animae
Oliver Leith — 664 Love Songs Guaranteed to Cure Heartache
– Review: Not Only Opera blog
28 January 2020
Greenwich University Loudspeaker Orchestra
St Alfege Church, Greenwich, London
Natasha Barrett — Sagittarius A*
John Croft — …ne l’aura che trema
Kaija Saariaho — Petals
John Croft — Intermedio III
Luigi Nono — A Pierre. Dell’Azzurro Silenzio. Inquietum
21 January 2020
Somerset House Studios / Call & Response
Spatial Music Workshop
Free public workshops introducing different approaches to spatialisation in electronic music.
Session 1: Introduction to IRCAM’s Spat5 in Max 8, with live performance
Session 2: Introduction to IRCAM’s Spat5 in Max 8
Session 3: Introduction to Blue Ripple’s O3A Plugins and Rapture3D Advanced in Max 8.
2019
13 December 2019
Kings Place – Venus Unwrapped Series
In Dreams and Shadows
Joanna Bailie — Artificial Environments Nos.1-5
Kaija Saariaho — Je sens un deuxième coeur (UK premiere)
Rebecca Saunders — O Yes & I (UK premiere)
Kaija Saariaho — NoaNoa
Rebecca Saunders — Shadow
Kaija Saariaho — Figura (UK premiere)
Juliet Fraser — Soprano
Benjamin Mellefont — Clarinet
9 November 2019
Cambridge Music Festival – Young Composers’ Network
Trinity College, Cambridge
Dominic Wills — Episodes (world premiere)
Alexia Sloane — Acres (world premiere)
Jasper Eaglesfield — Two Walk Alone (world premiere)
Lucian Crosby — Inc-5 (world premiere)
Luke Fitzgerald — Partially Rising (world premiere)
Olivia Ransome — (world premiere)
8 November 2019
Cambridge Music Festival
Robinson College, Cambridge
Fausto Romitelli — Nel’alto dei giorni immobili
Kaija Saariaho — NoaNoa
Lisa Illean — Weather a Rare Blue
Gérard Grisey — Talea
20 June 2019
AUGMENTED INSTRUMENTS
Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, Leeds
Patricia Alessandrini — Tracer la lune d’un doigt
Jonathan Packham — SECRET ANIMALS
Oliver Leith — 664 Love Songs Guaranteed to Cure Heartache
Scott McLaughlin — Contingent Harmonies (world premiere)
Joanna Bailie — Artificial Environments Nos. 1-5
Lisa Illean — Weather a Rare Blue
19 June 2019
AUGMENTED INSTRUMENTS
EXPO // JdP Music Building, Oxford
Patricia Alessandrini — Tracer la lune d’un doigt
Jonathan Packham — SECRET ANIMALS
Oliver Leith — 664 Love Songs Guaranteed to Cure Heartache
Scott McLaughlin — Contingent Harmonies (world premiere)
Joanna Bailie — Artificial Environments Nos. 1-5
Lisa Illean — Weather a Rare Blue
13 June 2019
Future Music
Royal Northern College of Music
Patricia Alessandrini — Tracer la lune d’un doigt
Zakiya Leeming — At the Node of Ranvier
Jonathan Packham — SECRET ANIMALS
26 April 2019
Again & Again Conference
City, University of London
Morton Feldman — Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello
18 February 2019
Zeitströme Festival
Akademie für Tonkunst, Darmstadt
Michael Finnissy — Alternative Readings
Arne Gieshoff — …nach dichteren Kreisen
Gihyun Kil — Schatten des Atems (world premiere)
Xingni Li — Mystery (world premiere)
Karl-Wieland Kurz — L ́hydre-univers tordant son corps écaillé d ́astres (world premiere)
George Crumb — Vox Balaenae
2018
24 November 2018
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Salvatore Sciarrino — Carnaval (UK Premiere)
EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble
James Weeks — conductor
Emmanuelle Fleurot — piano solo
30 September 2018
Kings Place, Hall One: ‘Into the Vortex’
Fausto Romitelli — La sabbia del tempo
Olivier Messiaen — Preludes (Nos. 1, 3, 4, 5)
Lisa Illean — Weather a Rare Blue (world premiere)
Gérard Grisey — Vortex Temporum I, II, III
Asier Puga — conductor
16 May 2018
Rendezvous Oxford
JdP Music Building, Oxford
Jonathan Packham — SECRET ANIMALS (world premiere)
Peter Ablinger — Voices and Piano (selection)
Joanna Bailie — Trains
Joanna Bailie — Artificial Environment No.8
Morton Feldman — Durations 2
18 February 2018
Principal Sound Festival, Explore Ensemble & EXAUDI
St John's Smith Square
Salvatore Sciarrino — Lo spazio inverso
John Cage — Five
Rebecca Saunders — Molly's Song 3 - Shades of Crimson
John Croft — Trio & Quartet (Seirênes III & IV)
György Kurtág — Signs, Games, and Messages (selection for solo violin)
Morton Feldman — Voices and Cello
– Review: The Arts Desk ★★★★
16 February 2018
Principal Sound Festival
St John's Smith Square
Luigi Nono — A Pierre. Dell'azzuro silenzio. Inquietum
– Review: The Guardian ★★★★
7 February 2018
Rendezvous, Oxford
Jdp Music Building, Oxford
John Croft — la terra lagrimosa...una luce vermiglia
Nicholas Moroz — Ambages
John Croft — …ne l'aura che trema
Kaaija Saariaho — Oi Kuu
2017
30 December 2017
BBC Radio 3, New Music Show
Recorded Broadcast
Patricia Alessandrini — Tracer la lune d'un doigt
16 December 2017
BBC Radio 3, New Music Show
Steven Daverson — Elusive Tangibility II: firelife
Fausto Romitelli — La sabbia del tempo
9 December 2017
BBC Radio 3, New Music Show
Recorded Broadcast
Enno Poppe — Gelöschte Lieder
28 November 2017, 19:30
Goldsmiths, University of London
Patricia Alessandrini — Tracer la lune d'un doigt
Enno Poppe — Gelöschte Lieder
Steven Daverson — Elusive Tangibility II: firelife
Fausto Romitelli — La sabbia del tempo
24 November 2017, 19:30
JdP Music Building, Oxford
Patricia Alessandrini — Tracer la lune d'un doigt
Enno Poppe — Gelöschte Lieder
Steven Daverson — Elusive Tangibility II: firelife
Fausto Romitelli — La sabbia del tempo
23 November 2017, 12:00
HCMF// 2017
Patricia Alessandrini — Tracer la lune d'un doigt
Enno Poppe — Gelöschte Lieder
Steven Daverson — Elusive Tangibility II: firelife (UK premiere)
Fausto Romitelli — La sabbia del tempo
– Review: 5:4 / Simon Cummings
16 November 2017, 19:30
Handel & Hendrix in London
John Croft — la terra lagrimosa...una luce vermiglia
Nicholas Moroz — Ambages
John Croft — …ne l'aura che trema
Kaaija Saariaho — Oi Kuu
4 April 2017, 20:00
Kammer Klang, Cafe OTO, London
Fausto Romitelli — Domeniche alla periferia dell'impero
Gérard Grisey — Talea
2016
14 December 2016
Nonclassical: Signs, Games & Messages
The Victoria, Dalston
Arne Gieshoff — MUD II for tape
Györgi Kurtág — Signs, Games & Messages for String Trio
Franz Schubert — String Trio B-flat major D581
21 November 2016, 13:20
HCMF// shorts
Huddersfield Town Hall
Gérard Grisey — Talea
8 October 2016
BBC Radio 3 — Hear & Now
Recorded Broadcast
Enno Poppe — Gelöschte Lieder
Morton Feldman — Spring of Chosroes
Fausto Romitelli — Domeniche alla periferia dell'impero
Gérard Grisey — Talea
2 November 2016, 18:00
Royal College of Music, Inner Parry Room
Michael Finnissy at 70
Michael Finnissy — Independence Quadrilles
Michael Finnissy — Banumbirr
4 May 2016, 19:30
Royal College of Music, Britten Theatre
Arne Gieshoff — Dichtere Kreise (UK premiere)
Rebecca Saunders — Shadow
Gérard Grisey — Charme
Nicholas Moroz — Unhintergehbar (UK premiere)
Gérard Grisey — Talea
3 April 2016, 17:00
St John's Smith Square
Principal Sound Festival
Enno Poppe — Gelöschte Lieder
Morton Feldman — Spring of Chosroes
Fausto Romitelli — Domeniche alla periferia dell'impero
Gérard Grisey — Talea
13 January 2016, 19:30
Royal College of Music
Michael Finnissy — Banumbirr
Giacinto Scelsi — Ko-Lho
Josephine Stephenson — Movement Still
Oliver Christophe Leith — Blue-Sky Sprites
Georges Aperghis — La nuit en tête (UK premiere)
2015
29 November 2015, 14:00
Handel House Museum
Karlheinz Stockhausen — Tierkreis
GF Handel — Lascia ch'io pianga (arr. Moroz) (World premiere)
John Cage — Suite for Toy Piano
Oliver Christophe Leith — Blue-Sky Sprites (World premiere)
Fausto Romitelli — Domeniche alla periferia dell'impero
20 November 2015, 19:30
Royal College of Music, Concert Hall
Morton Feldman — piano violin viola cello
13 May 2015, 19:30
Royal College of Music, Concert Hall
Josephine Stephenson — Movement Still (World premiere)
Cord Meijering — Eloge (UK premiere)
Luigi Nono — A Pierre. Dell'azzuro silenzio. Inquietum
Morton Feldman — Spring of Chosroes
Fausto Romitelli — La Sabbia del Tempo
20 April 2015, 19:30
The Peckham Pelican
Fausto Romitelli — Domeniche alla periferia dell'impero
Alexander Agricola — De Tous Biens Playne III (arr. Moroz)
Lisa Illian — Breathturn
Salvatore Sciarrino — Caprices
Gesualdo — Moro, Lasso (arr. Moroz)
Salvatore Sciarrino — Omaggio a Burri
Magnus Lindberg — Steamboat Bill Junior
Alexander Agricola — De Tous Biens Playne IV (arr. Moroz)
Xenakis — Charisma
20 February 2015, 19:30
Royal College of Music, Inner Parry Room
Beat Furrer — Presto
Salvatore Sciarrino — Codex purpureus
Anton Webern — Variationen, op. 27
Tristan Murail — Paludes (UK premiere)
Lisa Illean — Breathturn (World premiere)
2014
27 November 2014, 20:00
Royal College of Music, Concert Hall
Fausto Romitelli — Professor Bad Trip, Lesson I, II & III
23 June 2014, 19:30
Royal College of Music, Inner Parry Room
Salvatore Sciarrino — Lo spazio inverso
Luciano Berio — Lied
Salvatore Sciarrino — Omaggio a Burri
Edwin Hillier — Sumac (World premiere)
Fausto Romitelli — Domeniche alla periferia dell’impero (UK premiere)
30 January 2014, 18:00
Royal College of Music, Inner Parry Room
Helmut Lachenmann — Guero
Rebecca Saunders — Molly's Song 3 - Shades of Crimson
George Crumb — Four Nocturnes
Elizabeth Ogonek — The Mysteries of Jacob - The Great Affliction (World premiere)
George Crumb — Vox Balaenae
2013
6 November 2013, 19:30
Royal College of Music, Inner Parry Room
Giacinto Scelsi — Duo for violin and violoncello
Kaija Saariaho — Oi Kuu
Tristan Murail — Feuilles à travers les cloches
Lauri Supponen — da Camera (World premiere)
Tristan Murail — La barque mystique
2 November 2013, 19:30
St Gabriel's, Pimilico
Giacinto Scelsi — Duo for violin and violoncello
Kaija Saariaho — Oi Kuu
Tristan Murail — Feuilles à travers les cloches
Lauri Supponen — da Camera (World premiere)
Tristan Murail — La barque mystique
18 February 2013, 19:30
Royal College of Music, Inner Parry Room
James Dillon — L'Ascension
Nicholas Moroz — Fang I (World premiere)
William Davy Cole — Four Voices (World premiere)
Laurence Osborn — Pteranodon
Peter Ablinger — Voices and Piano (extracts)
Louis D'Heudieres — En (UK premiere)
Haris Kittos — Dancechase (UK premiere)
2012
24 April 2012, 19:30
Royal College of Music, Inner Parry Room
Kenneth Hesketh — What if?
Elliott Carter — Rhapsodic Musings
Bruno Mantovani — Tocar
Helmut Lachenmann — Pression
Isa Khan — þogn (World premiere)
Luciano Berio — Six Encores
Arne Gieshoff — Shrine - Invocation to Ate
Charlie Sdraulig — hush (World premiere)
Jonathan Cole — nadanu (World premiere)