Chris Brannick Joby Burgess Stephen Hiscock Genevieve Wilkins
Sounds Like
Django Bates, David Bedford, Martin Butler, John Cage, Stewart Copeland, Michael Daugherty, Anne Dudley, Tan Dun, Graham Fitkin, Lou Harrison, Rachel Leach, Lukas Ligeti, Simon Limbrick, Peter McGarr, Minoru Miki, Stephen Montague, The Pan African Orchestra, Steve Reich, Orphy Robinson, Nitin Sawhney, Howard Skempton, Keith Tippett
Formed in 1992, the British percussion quartet ensemblebash has forged a reputation as one of the world’s most innovative and groundbreaking chamber ensembles. Using the music of West Africa as both core repertoire and a guiding spiritual influence, ensemblebash mixes contemporary classical, jazz and music theatre into unforgettable performances.
Since its inception ensemblebash has been dedicated to commissioning new repertoire for percussion ensemble, and has developed special relationships with composers including Graham Fitkin, Stephen Montague, Nick Hayes, Howard Skempton and Stewart Copeland. ensemblebash has also premiered work by Tan Dun, Keith Tippett, David Bedford, Nitin Sawhney, Orphy Robinson, Michael Daugherty, John Woolrich, Anne Dudley and Steve Reich.
ensemblebash has toured the UK and Europe extensively, including regular appearances at the BBC Proms and the Southbank Centre, and in recent years four major tours of Italy. These tours included in 2003, a performance for the Primo Maggio concert in Rome to an audience of more than 500,000. Further afield ensemblebash has performed throughout Ghana, at the Melbourne and Sydney International Festivals, and in Hong Kong, to mark the handover of the colony to the Chinese in 1997.
Famed for its extensive collaborations, ensemblebash regularly appears in concert with artists including Joanna Macgregor, Chick Corea, Django Bates, Nana Vasconcelos, Evelyn Glennie, The Hilliard Ensemble, The National Dance Company of Ghana and The Pan African Orchestra.
Since the release of its debut album Launch on Sony Classical in 1994, ensemblebash has been regularly broadcast around the world. Recent recordings have include Fiddlesticks with violinist Madeleine Mitchell on Signum Classics; Neural Circuits, the music of Nitin Sawhney, with Joanna MacGregor and the Britten Sinfonia on SoundCircus; and the grammy nominated Orchestralli with drumming legend Stewart Copeland on Ponderosa.
Each year ensemblebash leads more than fifty workshops, and its pioneering education work has included extensive residencies for Dartington International Summer School, SPNM's Sound Inventors, Spitalfields Festival and the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia.
Hello. Many thanks for taking the time to listen to my music.
I studied percussion at Wells for two years and thoroughly liked every minute of it. One of my teachers for a few lessons was a former Ensemble Bash member Richard Benjafield whom I can say was one of the best instrumental teachers I had. As an ensemble at Wells we ran through the Ensemble Bash arrangement of Bridge Over Troubled Water and the weird minimalist Apple Blossom which I forget the composer of.
Lithuanian electronica, fluxus and proto-pagan minimalism, it's all OUT HEAR on Monday 21 Sept, 8.00pm
TWITTERING MACHINES AND SUTARTINĖS Curated by Anton Lukoszevieze
Lithuanian contemporary music is a hidden gem of the European scene, characterised by a proto-pagan minimalism and a folk inspired sensibility. Sutartinės form the bedrock of much new Lithuanian music, together with electronica and the canonic inventions of composer Rytis Mažulis. Cellist and curator Anton Lukoszevieze plays and introduces the Chordos String Quartet, plus rarely heard music by leading Fluxus member George Mačiūnas.
** This concert is being recorded by BBC Radio 3 and will be transmitted in Hear and Now on Saturday 17th October at 10.30pm.**
Hey Guys! Thank you very much for the add! You have a very very great sound! I saw you in Bologna a few years ago with Mr Copeland ad the drums with the Orchestralli ensamble! What a beautiful gig! I remember your solo performance with the sticks and the rithm dance on the scene... simply fantastic! I will still have the pleasure to see you in italy?
We discovered you and your music on the occasion of a concert of yours in Rome several years ago. Still thinking you are able to mix emotions and experimentation in a very fine way. Great music! Our profound compliments. Bravo,
Hello, we're playing as support for Nico Muhly at the Union Chapel this friday, Gavin Bryars String Quartet no 2 and some Purcell, will be nice! I have cheaper £6 tickets.
