Poster design by Emma Werner
RECENT NEWS:
Royal Over-Seas League Competition
We're thrilled to have won the ROSL Competition for Mixed Ensembles a few weeks ago. We were awarded £10,000 and will go on to perform at the Gold Medal Final on 30 May 2019 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre. Their full press release is available here.
 
5th Birthday project
We were delighted to mark our ensemble's 5th birthday in style with an evening of music and celebration at a packed-out Crypt on the Green on the 11th January. It was such a pleasure for us to revisit and perform some of the pieces from our five year history of commissioning, as well as to premiere two new works from Errollyn Wallen and Oliver Leith respectively. Thanks must go again to Nick Luscombe for his DJ sets, to poet Ali Lewis who joined us on stage for the piece 'Familiar Objects', and above all to everyone who came to the concert; it was an absolute joy to perform to such an incredible audience.
The concert was recorded by BBC Radio 3 and the works will be broadcast as part of the New Music Show over the next few months.
Crypt on the Green, 11 January 2019 - picture by Dimitri Djuric
We have also marked our 5th birthday with our first self-directed education project. We visited three secondary schools during the months adjacent to our Birthday Concert: Ark Bolingbroke Academy in Clapham, Whitmore High School in Harrow and Impington Village College in Cambridgeshire. In each school, we led a composition workshop for classes of GCSE and A level music students, focusing on writing for different instruments and voice, as well as exploring different ways of approaching compositional structure. This project also saw the release of Hermes video blogs from each of our musicians.
Our 5th birthday project was generously supported by Arts Council England and the RVW Trust.
Other news
In the past 3 months, we made our Nottingham Royal Concert Hall and Purcell Room debuts, and premiered 10 new works by postgraduate students from Trinity Laban Conservatoire at Blackheath Halls, a project we've now been running with their composition department for the last two years.
We're also pleased to have been chosen by Making Music for their Selected Artists guide 2020-21.
Crypt on the Green, 11 January 2019 - picture by Dimitri Djuric
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