Upcoming events
9 January 2025
Pierre Boulez - Éclat pour quinze instruments
with London Symphony Orchestra/Simon Rattle
Barbican Hall, London
13 January 2025
Pierre Boulez - Éclat pour quinze instruments
with London Symphony Orchestra/Simon Rattle
Philharmonie de Paris
15 January 2025
Pierre Boulez - Éclat pour quinze instruments
with London Symphony Orchestra/Simon Rattle
Philharmonie Luxembourg
8 February 2025
all Angharad Davies programme with Angharad Davies
Arnolfini Arts, Bristol
22 February 2025
new pieces by Alex Tay, Cassie Kinoshi, Joe Bates, and Linda Catlin Smith
Wigmore Hall, London
Recent events
23 November 2024 - Rainy Days Festival
with Explore Ensemble & Okkyung Lee
Salle de Musique de Chambre, Philharmonie Luxembourg
17 November 2024 - Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
with Explore Ensemble & Okkyung Lee
Town Hall, Huddersfield
16 November 2024 - Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
new works by Lawrence Dunn and Julius Aglinskas
Bates Mill Blending Shed, Huddersfield
12 November 2024
music by the Hobbs/White duo, Tim Parkinson, and Angharad Davies
Cafe Oto, London
11 November 2024 - Iš ARTI festival
new works by Lawrence Dunn and Julius Aglinskas
Kaunas State Philharmonic, Kaunas
26 October 2024 - soundfestival
with Red Note Ensemble
The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen
25 October 2024 - soundfestival
Laura Bowler - Deconstructing Pierrot (world premiere)
with Red Note Ensemble
The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen
18 October 2024 - TRANSIT festival
Okkyung Lee - Signals (world premiere)
with Explore Ensemble & Okkyung Lee
STUK, Leuven
11 October 2024 - Muzikos Ruduo festival
'Hyphen' - Twenty Fingers Duo x GBSR Duo
World premieres by Lawrence Dunn and Julius Aglinskas
Sapieha Palace, Vilnius
1-10 October 2024
In Between Silence residency
with GBSR Duo & Twenty Fingers Duo
Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Vilnius
10 August 2024
GBSR Duo: Music for a Summer Evening
music by George Crumb, Steve Martland, and Steve Reich
with GBSR Duo & Joseph Havlat and Sam Wilson
Bold Tendencies, London
29 July 2024 - Three Choirs Festival
music by Luke Lewis, Steve Martland, Joe Duddell (WP), Tippett
St Martin's Church, Worcester
28 July 2024 - Three Choirs Festival
music by Andriessen, Barbara Monk Feldman, Emahoy, Luke Lewis (WP), Lucio Tasca, Cassandra Miller, Steve Martland
College Hall, Worcester
7 July 2024 - Spitalfields Music Festival
with GBSR Duo and CHAINES
state51 Factory, London
6 July 2024 - Sound Within Sound festival
Siwan Rhys: Ustvolskaya Solo Piano Works
Ustvolskaya: Piano Sonata No.4, Piano Sonata No.5, Piano Sonata No.6
Purcell Room, Southbank Centre London
29 June 2024
James McVinnie Ensemble: American Minimalism
music by Gabriella Smith, Philip Glass, inti figgis-vizueta, and John Adams
with James McVinnie Ensemble
Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre London
28 June 2024
Oliver Leith - good day good day bad day bad day
with GBSR Duo
Wigmore Hall, London
28 June 2024
Sean Shibe, GBSR Duo, & 12 Ensemble
music by Ligeti, Brian Eno/Harold Budd, Pratten, John White, and Oliver Leith (WP)
Wigmore Hall, London
18 May 2024 - Schlossmediale festival
Christian Mason - Hölderlin's Madness (Swiss premiere)
with Explore Ensemble, Thorwald Jørgensen (theremin), Lotte Betts-Dean (mezzo-soprano), and SWR Experimentalstudio
Schloss Werdenberg, Switzerland
5 May 2024
BBC SO Total Immersion: Italian Radicals
music by Dallapiccola, Nono, Maderna, and Berio
with BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers
Barbican Hall, London
2 April 2024 - City University concert series
music by Emahoy Tsegué-Mariam Guèbru, Ben Nobuto, Laurence Crane, and Barbara Monk Feldman
City University Performance Space, London
14 March 2024
with London Symphony Orchestra
Barbican Hall, London
1 March 2024 - CrossCurrents Festival
music by Luigi Nono, Laurence Crane (world premiere), Ben Nobuto (world premiere), and Emahoy Tsegué-Mariam Guèbru
Elgar Concert Hall, Birmingham
22 February 2024
music by Sky Macklay, George Lewis, Katherine Balch, and Michel van der Aa
with London Sinfonietta
Purcell Room, Southbank Centre London
6 February 2024
with GBSR Duo and LA Phil New Music Group
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
7 December 2023 - Giga-Hertz-Festival
music by Beatrice Dillon, John Croft, and Christian Mason
with Explore Ensemble and SWR Experimentalstudio
Medientheater, Karlsruhe
3 December 2023 - Sound Unwrapped
Stockhausen - SYNTHI-FOU, STRAHLEN, and COSMIC PULSES
with GBSR Duo and Ian Dearden (Sound Intermedia)
Kings Place, London
24 November 2023 - Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
music by Henze, Anna Korsun, Charles Uzor, Riikka Talvitie, Tyshawn Sorey, Tanya Auclair, and Mariam Rezaei
with London Sinfonietta
Town Hall, Huddersfield
20 November 2023 - Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Lisa Illean - Tiding II (silentium) [UK premiere]
with GBSR Duo, David Zucchi (saxophone), and Michael Acker (SWR Experimentalstudio)
St Paul's Hall, Huddersfield
18 November 2023 - Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Angharad Davies - Empty Spaces II [world premiere]
with GBSR Duo
Bates Mill Photographic Studio, Huddersfield
3 November 2023
Beyond Borders/Beyond Barriers
New works for piano by Sarah Lianne Lewis, Sonia Allori, Sorcha Pringle, Jo-anne Cox, Elinor Rowlands, and Leon Clowes
Dora Stoutzker Hall, Cardiff
28 October 2023 - soundfestival
music by Barbara Monk Feldman, Tim Parkinson, and a world premiere by Christopher Fox
with GBSR Duo
St Andrew's Cathedral, Aberdeen
21 September 2023 - Warsaw Autumn festival
RIOT ENSEMBLE: Bosnić / Nepelski / Gísladóttir / Macklay / Iannotta
with Riot Ensemble
Warsaw Philharmonic Chamber Hall
16 September 2023
BBC Radio 3: New Music Show concert
with GBSR Duo
Theatr Mwldan, Aberteifi
19 August 2023
GBSR Duo: Galina Ustvolskaya and Oliver Leith
Oliver Leith - good day good day bad day bad day
Galina Ustvolskaya - Composition No 2, Dies Irae
Bold Tendencies, London
19 July 2023 - Sound Unrwapped
music by Benjamin Oliver, Anna Appleby, Rob Laidlow, Zakiya Leeming, Oliver Sellwood, Megan Steinberg
with Riot Ensemble
Kings Place, London
14 July 2023 - Cheltenham Music Festival
music by Mica Levi, Fausto Romitelli, Laurence Osborn, and Harold Budd/Brian Eno
Town Hall, Cheltenham
6 July 2023
Kate Molleson - Sound Within Sound
Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbru - Mother's Love, The Garden of Gethsemane, and Ballad of the Spirits
Galina Ustvolskaya - Piano Sonata No 6
Purcell Room, Southbank Centre London
4-5 July 2023 - Time of Music festival, Viitasaari
with London Sinfonietta
Time of Music, Viitasaari Finland
16 June - Meltdown Festival
Sigur Rós & London Contemporary Orchestra
Royal Festival Hall, London
8 June 2023
GBSR Duo concert
music by Barbara Monk Feldman, Tim Parkinson, Aldo Clementi and University of Huddersfield composition students
Phipps Hall, University of Huddersfield
26 May 2023 - Sound Unwrapped
music by Mica Levi, Fausto Romitelli, Laurence Osborn, and Harold Budd/Brian Eno
Kings Place, London
19 May 2023 - Norfolk & Norwich Festival
Mirrors: 12 Ensemble & GBSR Duo
music by Mica Levi, Fausto Romitelli, Laurence Osborn, and Harold Budd/Brian Eno
St Andrew's & Blackfriars' Hall, Norwich
11 May 2023
Contact: Intervals - Tim Parkinson w/ GBSR Duo, Simon Payne & More
Tim Parkinson - Project 9000 (world premiere) for piano, percussion, and electronics
with GBSR Duo
IKLECTIK, London
26 April 2023
Steve Reich - Music for Pieces of Wood, Piano Phase, Mallet Quartet, Drumming Part 1, Sextet
with Colin Currie Group
Nagakute Cultural Center, Nagoya
22 April 2023
Steve Reich - Double Sextet, Traveler's Prayer, Music for 18 Musicians
with Colin Currie Group
Tokyo Opera City
21 April 2023
Steve Reich - Double Sextet, Traveler's Prayer, Music for 18 Musicians
with Colin Currie Group
Tokyo Opera City
14 April 2023 - Sound Unwrapped
music by Rebecca Saunders, Catherine Lamb, Cassandra Miller, and Beatrice Dillon
with Explore Ensemble
Kings Place, London
25 March 2023 - MaerzMusik festival
Riot Ensemble: Gísladóttir / Thurley / Morgan-Williams / Paxton
music by Bára Gísladóttir, Bethan Morgan-Williams, Alex Paxton and Oliver Thurley
with Riot Ensemble
Radialsystem, Berlin
2 March 2023 - University of Leeds International Concert Series
music by Joanna Bailie, Tim Parkinson, Ryoko Akama, and Oliver Leith
Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, Leeds
10 February 2023
James McVinnie Ensemble: Glassworks
music by Philip Glass, Chris P. Thompson, and Meredith Monk
Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden
19 January 2023 - Kettle's Yard New Music Concert Series
music by Eva-Maria Houben, Tim Parkinson, and Barbara Monk Feldman
Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
9 January 2023
American Songbook II with Lucy Goddard, mezzo-soprano
music by Gloria Coates, Charles Ives, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Elliott Carter, Elisabet Dijkstra, Aaron Copland, George Crumb
Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton
27 November 2022 - Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
with Explore Ensemble
Bates Mill Blending Shed, Huddersfield
24 November 2022
with Explore Ensemble
Centro Pecci, Florence
21 November 2022 - Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Claudia Molitor - Polymer Hauntings
with Katherine Tinker (piano)
Town Hall, Huddersfield
3 November 2022
Tehillim, Traveler's Prayer (US West Coast premiere), Music for 18 Musicians
with Colin Currie Group
Cal Performances, Berkeley
1 November 2022
Tehillim, Traveler's Prayer (US premiere), Music for 18 Musicians
with Colin Currie Group
Carnegie Hall, New York
16 October 2022 - No Bounds Festival
Morton Feldman Crippled Symmetry and new works by Beatrice Dillon and Nakul Krishnamurthy
with GBSR Duo and Explore Ensemble
Sheffield Cathedral
7-11 October 2022
Last Days - new opera by Oliver Leith, Matt Copson, and Anna Morrissey
with GBSR Duo and 12 Ensemble
Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House
29 September 2022 - Glasgow Cathedral Festival
'Infinite Murmurs' - music by Cassandra Miller, Rebecca Saunders, and Oliver Leith
with Explore Ensemble
Glasgow Cathedral
13-19 September 2022 - Klangspuren Schwaz
Klangspuren Schwaz Composers Lab
with Riot Ensemble
Schwaz, Tyrol
10 September 2022 - Festival of New, Britten Pears Arts
music by Joanna Bailie, Neil Luck, and Lawrence Dunn
with Explore Ensemble
Snape Maltings Concert Hall
27 August 2022
Stockhausen KONTAKTE and Aphex Twin Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2
with GBSR Duo, Joseph Havlat (piano), Sam Wilson (percussion), and Sound Intermedia
Bold Tendencies, Peckham
12 August 2022
James McVinnie Ensemble at Bold Tendencies
with James McVinnie Ensemble
Bold Tendencies, Peckham
22 July 2022
Kate Molleson 'Sound Within Sound' book launch
Ustvolskaya - Piano sonata no 6
Cafe Oto, London
9 July 2022 - Spitalfields Festival
Enchanted Vistas: The Music of Barbara Monk Feldman
with GBSR Duo and Mira Benjamin
Voces8 Centre, London
8 July 2022
Explore Ensemble at Wigmore Hall
music by Enno Poppe, Cassandra Miller, James Dillon, and Lawrence Dunn
Wigmore Hall, London
22 June 2022
James Weeks - Plain Air (world premiere)
with Lucy Goddard, mezzo-soprano
Musicon concert series, Durham University
17 June 2022 - London Contemporary Music Festival
Arvo Pärt - My Heart's in the Highlands
Fireworks Factory, Woolwich
4 June 2022 - Aldeburgh Festival
with London Sinfonietta
Britten Studio, Snape Maltings
25-29 April 2022
Britten Pears artist residency with Explore Ensemble
Snape Maltings
3 April 2022 - SoundState Festival
Eva-Maria Houben - together on the way
with GBSR Duo and Eva-Maria Houben
Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre London
16-22 March 2022
with Clod Ensemble
8 March 2022
WOMENS WORK with Elaine Mitchener
Wigmore Hall, London
26 February 2022
'Simon med vänner - kammarmusik'
John Adams - Hallelujah Junction (with Simon Crawford-Phillips)
Steve Reich - Quartet (with Colin Currie, Owen Gunnell, Simon Crawford-Phillips)
Västerås Konserthus
16 February 2022
Talk on approaching contemporary repertoire
Cardiff University Music Department
1 December 2021
Another Timbre CD launch concert
music by Ryoko Akama, Martin Iddon, and Linda Catlin Smith
IKLEKTIC, London
23 November 2021
'Glassworks' - music by Philip Glass and Chris P. Thompson
with James McVinnie Ensemble
Barbican Hall
18 November 2021 - Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Eva-Maria Houben - together on the way (world premiere)
with GBSR Duo and Eva-Maria Houben
St Paul's Hall, Huddersfield
8 November 2021 - November Music festival
Explore Ensemble & Juliet Fraser
music by Lisa Illean, Nicoline Soeter, Joanna Bailie, and Oliver Leith
Willem Twee Toonzaal, Den Bosch
6 November 2021
Steve Reich - Tehillim, Traveler's Prayer (French premiere), Music for 18 Musicians
with Colin Currie Group
Philharmonie de Paris
26 October 2021
Steve Reich - Runner, Traveler's Prayer (German premiere), Tehillim
with Colin Currie Group
Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
24 October 2021 - TRANSIT Festival
with Explore Ensemble and Juliet Fraser
music by Lisa Illean, Nicoline Soeter, Joanna Bailie, and Oliver Leith
STUK, Leuven
19 October 2021
Steve Reich - Runner, Traveler's Prayer (UK premiere), Quartet, Tehillim
with Colin Currie Group
Royal Festival Hall, London
16 October 2021
Steve Reich - Tehillim, Traveler's Prayer (world premiere), Music for 18 Musicians
with Colin Currie Group
Concertgebouw Amsterdam
23 September-2 October 2021 - Voice of the Whale tour
Voice of the Whale with Manchester Collective
music by Molly Joyce, Alex Groves, Andrew Hamilton, and George Crumb
Lancaster, Bristol, Manchester, Stockport, Leeds, Birkenhead, London