Events
Solem Quartet at Hackney Music Live
Performing music of Dvorak, Haydn, and Ryan Latimer. Full details HERE.
Solem Quartet - Hay Festival
Music of Haydn, Dvorak and Ryan Latimer in Hay on Wye. Full details HERE.
Solem Quartet at the Barbican
Peforming Op. 2 + 3 by Ryoji Ikeda as part of a weekend long festival of this music. Full details HERE.
Phaedra Ensemble in Portsmouth
New music for string quartet and voice with Lotte Betts Dean. Full details HERE.
Max Richter Tour - Florence
Performing The Blue Notebooks and In a Landscape with Max Richter. Full details HERE.
London Sinfonietta at the Southbank Centre
Takemitsu portrait concert. Full Details HERE.
Max Richter Tour - Rome
Performing The Blue Notebooks and In a Landscape with Max Richter. Full details HERE.
Max Richter Tour - Lucerne
Performing The Blue Notebooks and In a Landscape with Max Richter. Full details HERE.
Max Richter Tour - Katowice
Performing The Blue Notebooks and In a Landscape with Max Richter. Full details HERE.
Max Richter Tour - Vienna
Performing The Blue Notebooks and In a Landscape with Max Richter. Full details HERE.
Max Richter Tour - Budapest
Performing The Blue Notebooks and In a Landscape with Max Richter. Full details HERE.
Max Richter - Ljubljana
Performing The Blue Notebooks and In a Landscape with Max Richter. Full details HERE.
Solem Quartet + Alice Zawadzki at King's Place
“As part of Memory Unwrapped and our celebration of Steve Reich’s 90th birthday, the Solem Quartet perform Steve Reich’s iconic Different Trains, a deeply personal work; and Alice Zawadzki joins them for a set of her own songs which speak to her own story, in a style that is uniquely modern. Offering dialogue to Alice’s compositions, songs by the visionary Kate Bush complete the night in celebration.”
Full details HERE.
Riot Ensemble + Royal Academy of Music Side by Side
Students perform with musicians from the Composition Department’s Ensemble in Residence, Riot Ensemble, a collective renowned for its dedication to contemporary music. Conducted by the Academy’s Richard Rodney Bennett Professor of Music, Ryan Wigglesworth, Hans Werner Henze’s Chamber Concerto 05 for 15-part ensemble provides a catalyst for three new student works.
Full details HERE.
Riot Ensemble, Cambridge University
Side by side concert int he faculty of music - full details HERE.
Riot Ensemble at Kettle's Yard
“Riot Ensemble have become a vital part of the new music scene in Britain and increasingly worldwide. They champion composers with tireless dedication, giving jaw-dropping performances of the most exciting new works. For this concert a set of solos and duos will take place in every corner, making full use of the unique acoustics of this special space.”
Full details HERE.
Solem Quartet at LSE
Free lunctime concert featuring music of Nick Martin and Dvorak. Full details HERE.
International Viola Congress 2026 - Paris
Presenting a lecture demonstration on pedagogical methods and teaching “sound inspired technique” with Jennifer Stumm and Dr. Marilyn Seelman.
University of Birmingham Composition Workshop with Huw Watkins
Workshopping new works for viola and piano ahead of recital in Barber concert series next year.
Solem Quartet: Towards Silence
“Join Solem Quartet at Kings Place for an evening of music which asks us to contemplate, or perhaps mourn Earth’s current condition, whilst reminding us of its natural aural beauty.”
Full deatils HERE.
Lucerne Festival Forward
Soloists from the LFCO perform a family concert all around the KKL concert hall.
Details HERE.
Lucerne Festival Forward
Performing as principal viola with the Lucerne Contemporary Orchestra in a programme with Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Johanna Malangre.
Full details HERE.
Solem Quartet + Tom Service at the Wimbledon International Festival
“Broadcaster and writer Tom Service (BBC Radio 3, The Guardian) introduces Steve Reich’s Different Trains, a landmark work that blends string quartet with recorded voices and sounds in a haunting exploration of memory and the Holocaust. Following his talk, the acclaimed Solem Quartet – praised for their ‘immaculate precision and spirit’ (The Strad) – perform the piece in full.”
Solem Quartet - Barber Concerts
“Praised for their ‘immaculate precision and spirit’ (The Strad) and ‘cultured tone’ (Arts Desk), the Solem Quartet give their first Barber Concert following a visit to the Department of Music to give composition workshops last year. The quartet perform a programme of captivating contemporary works including the world premiere of a new work from University of Birmingham composition lecturer Ryan Latimer.”
Full details HERE.
Chineke! at the Berlin Phiharmonie
Chineke! 10th anniversary tour. Tickets available HERE.
Oracle Song at Stone Nest, London
Performing Luciano Berio’s “Naturale” for solo viola and percussion with dancer/ choreographer Jonathan Goddard and Angela Hui.
Chineke! at the Southbank Centre
Chineke! kickstarts their tenth anniversary European tour with a signature work by Coleridge-Taylor and a new commission from Errollyn Wallen. Full details HERE.
Chineke! at Warwick Arts Centre
“We start where it all began, back in 2015, with the first piece the ensemble ever played – Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Ballade. This wild orchestral ride brims with energy and excitement, and has become something of a signature piece for the orchestra who are long time champions of the composer.” Tickets HERE.
Riot Ensemble Records Naomi Pinnock
New album of chamber music from British composer Naomi Pinnock.
BBC Proms - "Rattle Conducts Chineke!"
“Experience the ‘electric atmosphere’ of a performance by the Chineke! Orchestra – Europe’s first minority Black and ethnically diverse orchestra. Conducted for the first time by Sir Simon Rattle, together they perform Shostakovich’s 10th Symphony: over 50 minutes of brutality, violence, despair and terror, followed by two minutes of triumph. A portrait of life – and death – in Stalin’s Russia, it’s a fierce act of musical testimony.
Bearing witness is also central to Pulitzer-winner George Walker’s Sinfonia No. 5, a work ‘suffused with anger’, raging against the 2015 Charleston church massacre. The Prom opens with the steady thrum of Coleridge-Taylor’s orchestral dance The Bamboula.”
Tickets HERE.
Guest Principal - BBC Symphony Orchestra in the Proms
“From the primal, hypnotic dances of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring to the sensual throb of Ravel’s Boléro and the edgy thrum and twitch of Varèse’s Intégrales, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Eva Ollikainen get the musical pulse racing.
They’re joined by ‘stupendous’ German-Canadian cellist Johannes Moser for the UK premiere of Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Before we fall – a work that teeters on the edge of ‘a multitude of opposites’, torn between lyricism and distorted energy. “
Tickets HERE.
Solem Quartet at Buxton Festival
“Praised for their ‘immaculate precision and spirit’ (The Strad) and ‘cultured tone’ (The Arts Desk), the Solem Quartet has established itself as one of the most innovative and adventurous quartets of its generation. A 2020 awardee of the Jerwood Arts Live Work Fund, one of 33 artists selected from more than 1200 applicants, the Solem Quartet takes its place amongst some of the UK’s brightest artistic voices.
Following pieces by the remarkable Boulanger sisters, they play a work by the American composer, singer and choreographer Meredith Monk, and Debussy’s exploratory early string quartet.”
Full details HERE.
