Riot Ensemble

Shortlisted for the 2024 Royal Philharmonic Society Ensemble Award, Riot Ensemble connects people to great contemporary music in concerts and events that are just as innovative, vibrant and rewarding as the music itself. The members of Riot are some of the top European soloists in new music, and with Riot they work as performers, curators, commissioners, and collaborators, creating and producing a diverse array of projects.

Based in the UK, Riot is particularly active in bringing emerging international voices to the British new-music scene and since 2012 has given over 250 World and UK premieres by composers from more than thirty-five countries. In 2023, their annual call for scores received more than 500 submissions, and in the past six years has resulted in more than twenty commissions.

In 2020 the ensemble was awarded the debut “Ensemble Prize” by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation. Their debut release on Huddersfield Contemporary Records, Speak Be Silent, was named one of the ten most important recordings of the year by Alex Ross in the New Yorker, and Fiona Maddocks was equally effusive about their most recent release, Vestige ‘played with expression and finesse by this first-rate group’.