2025
17-24/02/2025 Distat Terra Festival, Choele Choel, Argentina
Teaching and performing at the Distat Terra Festival with the Riot Ensemble performing works by Patricia Alessandrini. I will also be premiering a new work by Bruno Mesz – Chaosmosis
05/03/2025 Composer workshops, Liverpool University, UK
24-26/03/2025 Recording with the Riot Ensemble, Cologne, Germany
Works by Saariaho, Gander and Egan for ensemble
01/04/2025 SOLO, West Court, ECA, Edinburgh Cancelled – to be rescheduled
Presenting my own video and performance work at the ECA. My compositions Vorspiel, For DB and Hortulus Animae, as well as the video of SILENT STRUCTURES
04/04/2025 Performance with Stephanie Lamprea, Futures Institute, Edinburgh
Performance as part of a conference marking the anniversary of the Futures Institute.
03/05/2025 TECTONICS festival, solo concert, Glasgow
City Halls, Glasgow (Main Hall), presenting works by Patricia Alessandrini, Mesias Maiguashca, María Cecilia Villanueva and André Bouchourechliev. I will be joined by percussionist Jennifer Torrence for the Bourchourechliev
22/06/2025 Nordic Resonances, Old Hairdressers, Glasgow
A concert in collaboration with percussionist/composer Renzo Spiteri. We will be playing a new work for flute/s, percussion, electronics and field recordings from the Shetland Isles. A radical musical reformulation of the north, or what we think of as ‘north’
26/06/2025 Riot Ensemble, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Coral Formations – works by Alex Paxton and Kristine Tjøgersen
30-2/06/2025 Liverpool University Composer workshops and Concert
New works by Liverpool University’s composition courses premiered by the ensemble.
1-7/09/2025 The Night With Tour, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Edinburgh
Alongside Darren Gallacher and Stephanie Lamprea we will be touring Scotland performing and recording new works written especially for us.
2024
06/02/2024 Patricia Alessandrini & Rebecca Saunders portrait concert, West Court, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh University, Scotland
Patricia Alessandrini:
Il y a plus d’eau que prévu sur la lune for contrabass flute and electronics*
Esquisse d’après Artaud alto flute, voice and electronics
Spento è già in me l’ardore for voice and flute
Arnold Schoenberg: der Kranke Mond for voice and flute
*UK premiere
Rebecca Saunders‘ solo voice work O and the voice and bass flute duo O, yes & I
Voice: Stephanie Lamprea
15/02/2024 Lunchtime concert, Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh
Performance with pianist Christopher Baxter, programme tbc
24/02/2024 Riot Ensemble, Wigmore Hall, London
The Riot Ensemble perform a new work by Hilda Paredes and Brian Ferneyhough’s Liber Scintillarium
26/05/2024 SPOR Festival, Riot Ensemble, Denmark
Bára Gísladóttir’s ensemble work The moon is an eye is a pond and so on and so forth
15/06/2024 Paisley Abbey lunchtime concert
Playing a selection of new and old music with pianist Chris Baxter
20-22/06/2024 Orpheus Instituut, Gent, Belgium
Working with Jonathan Impett on a performance and recording of a new installation work.
26/06/2024 STEREO with Stephanie Lamprea and Alistair McDonald, Glasgow
Joining forces with Stephanie and Alistair for an improvised set
21/07/2024 Riot Ensemble at Liverpool University
Programme tbc
04/09/2024 Riot Ensemble at the Gaudeamus Festival
Works by Tuomas Kettunen, Soosan Lolavar, Cem Güven and Beniamino Fiorini
18-20/10/2024 MIXTUR festival, Riot Ensemble, Spain
The Riot ensemble perform works by Chaya Czernowin and Irene Galindo
23-25/10/24 IPSA DIXIT, Sound Festival, Scotland
Kate Soper’s work for voice and ensemble, led by Stephanie Lamprea
02/11/24 Nordic Viola – Artic Edgelands, Nordic Music Days, Glasgow
Guest performer with Nordic Viola, playing work by Katherine Wren, Arnannguaq Gerstrøm and Renzo Spiteri in Scotland’s hosting of the Scandinavian festival Nordic Music Days
08/11/24 Brunel University lunchtime concert, London
Reprise of works for flute, cello, guitar and theorbo by John Croft, José Manuel Serrano and Sam Cave
09/11/24 Duo Concert with Chris Baxter, Edinburgh
Concert for the Edinburgh Society of Musicians
19-21/11/24 Riot ensemble perform Hilda Parades, Weit Weingarten, Germany
Riot ensemble perform works by Parades including a new work with Irvine Arditti
06-7/12/24 Glasgow Experimental Music Glad Cafe
Performing two new works of my own (Vorspiel and For D.B) for flute and fixed media
12/12/24 Explore Ensemble, London Contemporary Music Festival
Performance with Explore ensemble featuring work by James Clarke
2023
12/01/2023 Creative Informatics – Research project sessions
Led by Dimitris Papageorgiou “Improvisation Technologies and Creative Machines”
24/02/2023 Contemporary Flute Composition Seminar, Royal Academy of Music, London
Co-ordinated by the Riot Ensemble, a reading session and workshop on contemporary flute techniques
20-25/03/2023 MaerzMusik with the Riot Ensemble, Berlin
Performances of new work by Alex Paxton, Bethan Morgan Williams and Bára Gísladóttir
17/04/2023 KATE SOPER: SELECTIONS FROM IPSA DIXIT, RCS, Glasgow
Performing alongside Stephanie Lamprea, Fergus Heatherington and Darren Gallacher
05/05/2023 Riot Ensemble Inaugural Residency Concert at Liverpool University, Tung Hall
Works by student composers Turowski, Burke and Fukuda.
19/05/2023 Scottish Art Club – Flute & Organ, St Peter’s Church, Edinburgh
First concert of a new duo with Michael Bonaventure – PNEUMA – to include newly composed works for each other as well as works by Machaut and Stockhausen’s Tierkreis
02/06/2023 ANTHROPOCENIC GARDEN – Hidden Door Festival, Edinburgh
Performing in a piece by Stephanie Lamprea, developed in collaboration with choreographer Penny Chivas, composer Tom Green and vocalist Stephanie Lamprea
09/06/2023 Duo concert with Stephanie Lamprea, INSPACE, Edinburgh
Duo and solo works by Soper, Ferneyhough and a newly composed work by Thomas Metcalf for voice, flute and electronics
26/6/2023 Music Conference – Innovation in Music, Napier University, Edinburgh
A performance alongside Dimitris Papageorgiou demonstrating the AHRC funded “Improvisation Technologies and Creative Machines”
05-10/07/2023 Riot Ensemble, Time of Music, Viitassari Finland
Performance of Haas’ Solstices, Liza Lim’s Extinction Events and a new work by Tuomas Kettunen
18-22/09/2023 Riot Ensemble, Warsaw Autumn, Poland
Programme to be confirmed
13/10/2023 Performance at Brunel University
New works for flute, cello, guitar and theorbo by John Croft, José Manuel Serrano and Sam Cave
28/10/2023 PNEUMA at the Sound Festival, Aberdeen
A concert with the organist Michael Bonaventure performing Tierkreis by Stockhausen and new work by myself and Michael for the duo.
30/10/2023 Performance at University of Edinburgh
New works for flute, cello, guitar and theorbo by John Croft, José Manuel Serrano and Sam Cave
16/11/2023 Duo concert with Stephanie Lamprea, Old Hairdressers, Glasgow
Works by Soper, Dillon, Weeks and the Scottish premiere of Rebecca Saunders’ Oh Yes & I
23-27/11/2023 Riot Ensemble at HCMF
Repertoire TBC
2022
22-23/02/2022 Riot Ensemble, Barber Evening Concerts, Birmingham
Goska Isphording perform’s Xenakis’s work for harpsichord and ensemble ‘A L’île de Gorée’, and ensemble works by Sanchez-Verdu and Anna Clyne
15-16/03/2022 Riot Ensemble, Kings Place, London
Goska Isphording perform’s Xenakis’s work for harpsichord and ensemble ‘A L’île de Gorée’, and ensemble works by Sanchez-Verdu and Anna Clyne
11-18/04/2022 GEORGIC by Max Murray, Boston and Montreal, USA
Boston Art Lab and NO HAY BANDA, Montreal will present Max Murray‘s music theatre piece. Performers include Samuel Stoll and Noëlle-Anne Darbellay
11-16/06/2022 Octandre Ensemble at LCMF, and solo performances
A premiere a new work by Frank Denyer, and a solo performance of émoi by Evan Johnson
17-19/06/2022 Riot Ensemble, Aldeburgh Festival, Snape Maltings, UK
The Riot Ensemble present their first concert for the Aldeburgh Festival including works by Martlew, Fallah and Lim.
03-07/07/2022 Riot Ensemble, Tzlil meudchan, Tel Aviv, Israel
Works to be confirmed
29-3/08/2022 Octandre Ensemble recording, London
New works by Frank Denyer recorded for Another Timbre
2-11/09/2022 Riot Ensemble ensemble in residence at the Gaudeamus Festival, Utrecht, Holland
Works by resident composers, and a premiere of a new work by Evan Johnson
11-13/09/2022 Riot Ensemble at the Klangspuren Festival, Austria
Works by Farzia Fallah, Naomi Pinnock and Alex Paxton
27/10/2022 Reid Concert, Edinburgh University
14/10/2022 Kings Place – Riot Ensemble, London
Works by Del Tredici, Naomi Pinnock and Anna Korsun
16/09/2022 Recording session
Recording Mary Bellamy‘s Semblance for solo bass flute for a disc to include ensemble and chamber works performed by ELISION
30/10/2022 GIO Birthday Concert
Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra 20th Anniversary concert with Maggie Nicols and Evan Parker.
20-21/11/2022 HCMF with the Riot Ensemble, Huddersfield
Works by Aaron Holloway-Nahum, Lisa Streich and Anna Korsun
12/11/2022 Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra & Ceò is Craic CCA, Glasgow
Collaborative performance
30-3/11-12/2022 GIOfest, Glasgow
Performances across Glasgow with invited artists and Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra
07-19/12/2022 Distat Terra Festival, Choele Choel, Río Negro, Argentina
Performances with the Riot Ensemble, teaching and performing Sciarrino’s La Perfezione di uno Spirito Sottile for flute and voice at Argentina’s biggest contemporary festival.
2021
21-22/07/21 Ensemble Octandre, Installation ‘Sub’ , London
Guest player in a new work by Jack Sheen for large spatialised ensemble
6-14/09/21 Riot Ensemble, Iceland
Developing a new work in collaboration with the Icelandic composer Bára Gísladóttir
20/11/21 Wales International Piano Competition
Adjudicator for the accompaniment competition
22/10/21 Riot Ensemble, Transit Festival, Belgium
Performance to include new work by Gísladottir
27-30/10/21 Riot Ensemble, Crossroads Festival Salzburg
Alexander Ho, Jeeyoung Yoo, Giulia Monducci, Michele Abondano and Ferneyhough
27-30/10/21 Riot Ensemble, Open Music, Graz
Works by Clara Iannotta, Brian Ferneyhough, Joanna Bailie and Anna Korsun
11/10/21 Solo concert in the Music Current Festival , Dublin
New works by Fergal Dowling, José Manuel Serrano, Seán ó Dálaigh and performances of Egidija Medekšaitė and Richard Barrett
20/11/21 Riot Ensemble, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, England
Works by Gísladóttir, Czernowin and Hettne
20/11/21 Recording session with Another Timbre
A new work by Evan Johnson for his portrait disc
3/12/21 Riot Ensemble Royal Holloway Composers Workshop, London
Composition workshop for the composers – chamber and solo works
8/12/21 Riot Ensemble Composers Workshop, City University, London
Composition workshop
12/12 Octandre Ensemble, Recording Sessions – postponed
Recording works by Frank Denyer with the London-based ensemble.
2020
(Strikethrough represents cancelled or postponed concerts)
14-16/02/20 ReNEW Riot Ensemble, Kings Place, London
The inaugural concert of Riot Ensemble’s ReNEW series at Kings Place. Repertoire to include Aaron Holloway-Nahum, Liza Lim and Laurence Osborne
28/02/20 UPROAR – Professor Bad Trip, Chapter, Cardiff
Playing with the Welsh new music ensemble UPROAR with Saariaho’s Lichtbogen, Murail‘s Winter Fragments and Romitelli‘s Professor Bad Trip, including several new works by Welsh composers.
01/03/20 Scottish Arts Club – Recital, Edinburgh
Works for solo flute/s including new works by Matheson and repertoire by Creswell (repertoire tbc)
09/03/20 Voice of Fire, St Padarn church, Aberystwyth, Wales
Improvised music with Rhodri Davies and Angharad Davies
11/03/20 Riot Ensemble, Liverpool University
A performance with the Riot Ensemble in Liverpool University’s Open Circuit Festival performing Hackbarth, Ferneyhough and Grisey
21/03/20 UPROAR – Professor Bad Trip, Galeri, Caernarfon Playing with the Welsh new music ensemble UPROAR with Saariaho’s Lichtbogen, Murail‘s Winter Fragments and Romitelli‘s Professor Bad Trip, including several new works by Welsh composers.
23/03/20 Solo concert – Huddersfield University Concert Series
A recital of works from students, as well as repertoire by Mary Bellamy and Brian Ferneyhough
17-18/04/20 Dublin SoundLab, Ireland
Two solo concerts in the SoundLab festival including new works by Fergal Dowling, José Manuel Serrano and Piaras Hoban
25/04/20 UPROAR – Professor Bad Trip, Bristol
Playing with the Welsh new music ensemble UPROAR with Saariaho’s Lichtbogen, Murail‘s Winter Fragments and Romitelli‘s Professor Bad Trip, including several new works by Welsh composers.
01-4/05/20 Resident musician at the Welsh International Piano Festival, Caernarfon, Wales
Performances of the chamber music of Ravel, as well as resident musician and adjudicator for the accompaniment competition in the piano festival
08/05/20 A performance of Max Murray’s Georgic, Harvard University Art Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA
A performance of Max Murray’s new theatre work with Noëlle-Anne Darbellay and Samuel Stoll
11/05/20 A performance of Max Murray’s Georgic, NO HAY BANDA, La Sala Rossa / Montreal, QC, Canada
A performance of Max Murray’s new theatre work with Noëlle-Anne Darbellay and Samuel Stoll
2-4/06/20 UPROAR – Professor Bad Trip, KLANG, Montpellier, France
Playing the Welsh new music ensemble UPROAR with Saariaho’s Lichtbogen, Murail‘s Winter Fragments and Romitelli‘s Professor Bad Trip, including several new works by Welsh composers.
4-7/07/20 Riot Ensemble in Tzlil Meudcan,Tel Aviv, Israel
Repertoire to be confirmed.
22/10/20 Red note ensemble, Sound festival, Aberdeen
Guest musician with Rednote performing in a live stream premiere of Ben Lunn’s Th’first munth is th’wurst iv awl