Explore Ensemble Commissions
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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//