Explore Ensemble Commissions

Explore Ensemble Commissions —

 

Links to videos and recordings

OKKYUNG LEE
SIGNALS

2024, sextet and electronics with the artist as performer, 42 minutes

Premiere at Transit Festival, STUK Arts Centre, Leuven, Belgium 18.10.24

Commissioned by Explore Ensemble with support of Arts Council England. Co-commissioned by Transit Festival, Rainy Days Festival, and hcmf// with support of Sounds Now, funded by Creative Europe.

lara agar
they have the fish, you love the fish

2024, sextet and electronics, 20 minutes

Premiere at Aldeburgh Festival, Britten Studio, Snape Maltings, 18.06.24

Commissioned by Explore Ensemble, co-commissioned by Britten-Pears Arts, with the support of the Vaughan Williams Foundation, the Hinrichsen Foundation, and Arts Council England’s National Lottery Project Grants.

KlAUS LANG
MARCH (WILLIAM MORRIS)

2023, sextet and organ / harmonium, 40 minutes

Premiere at Spitalfields Festival, All Hallows by the Tower, London, 01.07.23

Commissioned by Explore Ensemble with the support of the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung.

Alex Paxton
spit crystal yeast-rack, dripping (à l’orange)

2023, sextet and audio, 22 minutes

Premiere at Wigmore Hall, 21.06.23

Commissioned by Explore Ensemble with the support of the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, the Hinrichsen Foundation and the Vaughan Williams Foundation

NAKUL KRISHNAMURTHY
ONE MILLION DANCING SHIVAS

2023, quintet and electronics, 20 minutes

Premiere at Wigmore Hall, 21.06.23

Commissioned by Explore Ensemble with the support of the Hinrichsen Foundation and the Vaughan Williams Foundation

Mark Fell
every non-empty ultra-connected compact space has a largest proper open subset

2022, sextet, variable durations

Premiere at Centro Pecci, Prato, Italy, co-produced by OOH Sounds

Commissioned by Explore Ensemble with the support of the Genesis Foundation Kickstart Fund and the PRS Foundation

Angharad Davies
Sitting with emptiness

2022, voice, sextet, and audio, 12 minutes

Premiere at Kings Place, 2.11.22

Commissioned by Explore Ensemble with the support of the RVW Trust

Lawrence Dunn
Suite

2022, sextet and audio, 22 minutes

Commissioned by Explore Ensemble with the support of the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, the Genesis Foundation Kickstart Fund, and the RVW Trust. Co-commissioned with Wigmore Hall

Neil Luck
In the Style of Old Times / Innan thee stile fram Olde Tymes

2020/2022, sextet and video, 12 minutes

Commission supported by PRS Foundation’s Open Fund and Arts Council England’s Emergency Relief funding

Joanna Bailie
Dissolve

2022, sextet and video, 22 minutes

Premiere at hcmf// 2020, lockdown broadcast from BBC Maida Vale - BBC Radio 3 New Music Show

Co-commissioned with hcmf// and November Music

Oliver Leith
Me Hollywood

2022, sextet and tv, 14 minutes

Premiere at hcmf// 2020, lockdown broadcast from BBC Maida Vale - BBC Radio 3 New Music Show

co-commissioned with hcmf//

Edwin Hillier
Plastica

2020, sextet and electronics

Commission supported by PRS Foundation’s Open Fund and Arts Council England’s National Lottery Project Grant

John Croft
Sextet

2020, sextet, 13 minutes

Commission supported by PRS Foundation’s Open Fund and Arts Council England’s National Lottery Project Grant

Scott McLaughlin
Contingent Harmonies

2019, sextet, 12 minutes

Commission supported by Arts Council England’s National Lottery Project Grant

Lisa Illean
Weather a Rare Blue

2018, sextet and audio, 12 minutes

Commissioned by Explore Ensemble with the support of the Hinrichsen Foundation

Patricia Alessandrini
Tracer la lune d’un doigt

2017, sextet and live electronics, 12 minutes

Commissioned by Explore Ensemble with the support of PRS Foundation’s Open Fund and the Hinrichsen Foundation. Co-commissioned by hcmf//