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Laure M. Hiendl with Jack Sheen
May
24
1:00 PM13:00

Laure M. Hiendl with Jack Sheen

  • Saturday, May 24, 2025
  • 1:00 PM 2:00 PM 13:00 14:00
  • Wigmore Hall (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Explore Ensemble returns to Wigmore Hall under the baton of Jack Sheen for the UK premiere of Laure M. Hiendl’s magisterial yet enigmatic large ensemble work which deconstructs four bars from Vaughan William’s Fifth Symphony into an hour of crystalline loops and slowly shifting landscapes.

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Cafe Oto
Jun
8
8:00 PM20:00

Cafe Oto

  • Sunday, June 8, 2025
  • 8:00 PM 10:00 PM 20:00 22:00
  • Cafe Oto (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Explore Ensemble presents recent collaborations with Sasha Scott, Rebecca Salvadori, Okkyung Lee, and Lawrence Dunn at London’s iconic Cafe Oto.

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EIGHT LINES
Nov
1
7:30 PM19:30

EIGHT LINES

  • Saturday, November 1, 2025
  • 7:30 PM 9:30 PM 19:30 21:30
  • Milton Court (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Explore Ensemble and Exaudi Vocal Ensemble present the world premiere of a major new work by Catherine Lamb alongside music by James Tenney and Steve Reich.

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LCMF
Dec
12
7:30 PM19:30

LCMF

  • Thursday, December 12, 2024
  • 7:30 PM 10:00 PM 19:30 22:00
  • Hackney Church (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Explore Ensemble feature in London Contemporary Music Festival's 2024 edition 'Let's Create', presenting music by James Clarke and Laila Arafah

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Okkyung Lee - Signals (Luxembourg)
Nov
23
10:45 PM22:45

Okkyung Lee - Signals (Luxembourg)

  • Saturday, November 23, 2024
  • 10:45 PM 11:45 PM 22:45 23:45
  • Philharmonie Luxembourg (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Explore Ensemble make their festival debut at Rainy Days in Luxembourg alongisde cellist/improviser/composer Okkyung Lee, performing her new work ‘Signals’.

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Okkyung Lee - Signals (UK)
Nov
17
7:30 PM19:30

Okkyung Lee - Signals (UK)

  • Sunday, November 17, 2024
  • 7:30 PM 9:30 PM 19:30 21:30
  • Huddersfield Town Hall (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Explore Ensemble present the UK premiere of ‘Signals’ with cellist/improviser/composer Okkyung Lee at hcmf//

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Okkyung Lee - Signals (Belgium)
Oct
18
8:30 PM20:30

Okkyung Lee - Signals (Belgium)

  • Friday, October 18, 2024
  • 8:30 PM 9:30 PM 20:30 21:30
  • STUK Kunstencentrum (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Explore Ensemble present the world premiere of ‘Signals’ with cellist/improviser/composer Okkyung Lee at the Transit Festival in Leuven, Belgium.

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Another Sky
Sep
22
7:30 PM19:30

Another Sky

  • Sunday, September 22, 2024
  • 7:30 PM 8:30 PM 19:30 20:30
  • Cafe Oto (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Explore Ensemble present new music as part of London’s Another Sky Festival at Cafe OTO

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Aldeburgh Festival ft. Zubin Kanga
Jun
18
3:30 PM15:30

Aldeburgh Festival ft. Zubin Kanga

  • Tuesday, June 18, 2024
  • 3:30 PM 5:30 PM 15:30 17:30
  • Britten Studio (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Zubin Kanga features as guest soloist for world premieres of Larry Goves and Lara Agar at the Aldeburgh Festival, plus Laura Bowler and Alex Paxton.

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Schlossmediale
May
18
7:30 PM19:30

Schlossmediale

  • Saturday, May 18, 2024
  • 7:30 PM 8:30 PM 19:30 20:30
  • Schloss Werdenberg (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Explore Ensemble make their Swiss debut in presenting Christian Mason’s song-cycle ‘Hölderlin’s Madness’ with mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean and SWR Experimentalstudio in Werdenberg Castle for Schlossmediale

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RCM Composers' Studio 2
Apr
25
7:30 PM19:30

RCM Composers' Studio 2

  • Thursday, April 25, 2024
  • 7:30 PM 8:30 PM 19:30 20:30
  • Royal College of Music (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Explore Ensemble present new works by RCM Postgraduate Composers

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RCM Composers' Studio 1
Mar
7
7:30 PM19:30

RCM Composers' Studio 1

  • Thursday, March 7, 2024
  • 7:30 PM 8:30 PM 19:30 20:30
  • Royal College of Music (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Explore Ensemble present new works by RCM Postgraduate Composers

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Giga-Hertz-Festival
Dec
7
7:00 PM19:00

Giga-Hertz-Festival

  • Thursday, December 7, 2023
  • 7:00 PM 8:00 PM 19:00 20:00
  • Medientheater (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Explore Ensemble present the premiere of a new Christian Mason song cycle with Lotte Betts-Dean, plus works by John Croft and Beatrice Dillon

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Alex Paxton - Hindemith Prize 2023
Aug
14
7:30 PM19:30

Alex Paxton - Hindemith Prize 2023

  • Monday, August 14, 2023
  • 7:30 PM 8:30 PM 19:30 20:30
  • Muthesius Kunsthochschule (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Explore Ensemble showcase musc by Alex Paxton on the occassion his 2023 Hindemith Prize Ceremony at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival

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Spitalfields Festival ft. Klaus Lang + Exaudi
Jul
1
7:30 PM19:30

Spitalfields Festival ft. Klaus Lang + Exaudi

  • Saturday, July 1, 2023
  • 7:30 PM 9:00 PM 19:30 21:00
  • All Hallows by the Tower (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Explore Ensemble make their debut at Spitalfields Festival with the world premiere of a Klaus Lang organ and sextet work, plus music by Lara Agar and Catherine Lamb, featuring the Exuadi Vocal Ensemble.

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Wigmore Hall
Jun
21
7:30 PM19:30

Wigmore Hall

  • Wednesday, June 21, 2023
  • 7:30 PM 9:30 PM 19:30 21:30
  • Wigmore Hall (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Explore Ensemble present new and recent music by Clara Iannotta, Nakul Krishnamurthy, Pascale Criton, and Alex Paxton.

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Louth Contemporary Music Society
Jun
17
1:00 PM13:00

Louth Contemporary Music Society

  • Saturday, June 17, 2023
  • 1:00 PM 2:00 PM 13:00 14:00
  • Oriel Centre at Dundalk Gaol (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Music by Clara Iannotta, Cassandra Miller, and a world premiere of a new work by Sam Perkin

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On Sensations of Tone
Apr
14
7:30 PM19:30

On Sensations of Tone

  • Friday, April 14, 2023
  • 7:30 PM 9:30 PM 19:30 21:30
  • Kings Place (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Explore Ensemble present new and recent music by Beatrice Dillon, Cassandra Miller, Catherine Lamb, and Rebecca Saunders, featuring guest mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean

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RCM Composers' Studio
Mar
22
6:00 PM18:00

RCM Composers' Studio

  • Wednesday, March 22, 2023
  • 6:00 PM 7:00 PM 18:00 19:00
  • Royal College of Music (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Explore Ensemble present new works by RCM postgraduate composition students as part of its annual Composers’ Studio project.

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Mark Fell at hcmf//
Nov
27
7:00 PM19:00

Mark Fell at hcmf//

  • Sunday, November 27, 2022
  • 7:00 PM 8:00 PM 19:00 20:00
  • Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Mark Fell’s new long-form work written in collaboration with Explore Ensemble at hcmf// 2022

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Mark Fell world premiere
Nov
24
8:30 PM20:30

Mark Fell world premiere

  • Thursday, November 24, 2022
  • 8:30 PM 10:00 PM 20:30 22:00
  • Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Explore Ensemble makes its debut in Italy with the world premiere of Mark Fell’s new work in Tuscany’s Centro Pecci.

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Kings Place with Juliet Fraser
Nov
2
8:00 PM20:00

Kings Place with Juliet Fraser

  • Wednesday, November 2, 2022
  • 8:00 PM 9:30 PM 20:00 21:30
  • Kings Place, Hall One (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

New and recent music for voice and ensemble with guest soprano Juliet Fraser, featuring works by Lisa Illean, Oliver Leith, Lawrence Dunn, and a world premiere with Angharad Davies.

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No Bounds: Zero as a limit
Oct
16
7:00 PM19:00

No Bounds: Zero as a limit

  • Sunday, October 16, 2022
  • 7:00 PM 10:00 PM 19:00 22:00
  • Sheffield Cathedral (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Explore Ensemble head to Sheffield’s No Bounds festival to present new works by Beatrice Dillon and Nakul Krishnamurty, plus Morton Feldman’s ‘Crippled Symmetry’ in collaboration with the GBSR Duo

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Infinite Murmurs
Sep
29
7:00 PM19:00

Infinite Murmurs

  • Thursday, September 29, 2022
  • 7:00 PM 8:00 PM 19:00 20:00
  • Glasgow Cathedral (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Explore Ensemble return to Glasgow Cathedral Festival to present a spatialised performance of Rebecca Saunders’ ‘murmurs’, plus music by Oliver Leith and Cassandra Miller

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Festival of New
Sep
10
9:30 PM21:30

Festival of New

  • Saturday, September 10, 2022
  • 9:30 PM 10:30 PM 21:30 22:30
  • Snape Maltings Concert Hall (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

A late-night concert at the Festival of New with film works by Joanna Bailie and Neil Luck (world premiere), plus Lawrence Dunn’s immense ‘Suite’.

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Wigmore Hall
Jul
8
7:30 PM19:30

Wigmore Hall

  • Friday, July 8, 2022
  • 7:30 PM 9:00 PM 19:30 21:00
  • Wigmore Hall (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Explore Ensemble make their Wigmore Hall debut with a formidable programme of music by Cassandra Miller, Enno Poppe, James Dillon, and the world premiere of Lawrence Dunn’s ‘Suite’.

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LCMF
Jun
17
7:00 PM19:00

LCMF

  • Friday, June 17, 2022
  • 7:00 PM 9:00 PM 19:00 21:00
  • Fireworks Factory (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Explore Ensemble make their debut at LCMF with the UK premiere of Clara Iannotta’s Eclipse Plumage, for amplified ensemble and antimachine; a new electromagnetic instrument

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BPA Residency
Apr
29
8:30 PM20:30

BPA Residency

  • Friday, April 29, 2022
  • 8:30 PM 9:30 PM 20:30 21:30
  • Britten Studio (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Join Explore Ensemble at Britten Pears Arts for their Open Session, which concludes a week-long residency with collaborators Angharad Davies, Lawrence Dunn, and Mark Fell

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Systema Naturae on BBC Radio 3 - 2/2
Mar
12
10:00 PM22:00

Systema Naturae on BBC Radio 3 - 2/2

  • Saturday, March 12, 2022
  • 10:00 PM 11:30 PM 22:00 23:30
  • BBC Radio 3 (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Tune into BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show for the live UK premiere performance of Mauro Lanza and Andrea Valle’s audacious cycle for ensemble and home-brewed robotic noise machines: Systema Naturae, performed by Explore Ensemble at the opening concert of hcmf// 2021.

return to hcmf// to present the UK premiere of

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Systema Naturae on BBC Radio 3 - 1/2
Mar
5
10:00 PM22:00

Systema Naturae on BBC Radio 3 - 1/2

  • Saturday, March 5, 2022
  • 10:00 PM 11:30 PM 22:00 23:30
  • BBC Radio 3 (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Tune into BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show for the live UK premiere performance of Mauro Lanza and Andrea Valle’s audacious cycle for ensemble and home-brewed robotic noise machines: Systema Naturae, performed by Explore Ensemble at the opening concert of hcmf// 2021.

return to hcmf// to present the UK premiere of

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Listenpony
Mar
3
7:30 PM19:30

Listenpony

  • Thursday, March 3, 2022
  • 7:30 PM 9:00 PM 19:30 21:00
  • Crypt on the Green (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Explore Ensemble feature in one of Listenpony’s typically intimate evenings at Crypt on the Green, with music by Oliver Leith, Kaija Saariaho, and new works by William Marsey and Isabella Gellis

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RCM Chamber Festival
Feb
12
5:30 PM17:30

RCM Chamber Festival

  • Saturday, February 12, 2022
  • 5:30 PM 8:30 PM 17:30 20:30
  • Royal College of Music (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Explore Ensemble return to the Royal College of Music to share a series of specially-curated concerts with student performers that venture from imaginary landscapes to immersive and sublime spaces.

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hcmf// Systema Naturae
Nov
18
7:00 PM19:00

hcmf// Systema Naturae

  • Thursday, November 18, 2021
  • 7:00 PM 8:30 PM 19:00 20:30
  • Bates Mill Blending Shed (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Explore Ensemble return to hcmf// to present the UK premiere of Mauro Lanza and Andrea Valle’s audacious cycle for ensemble and home-brewed robotic noise machines: Systema Naturae

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