EXAUDI
Founded in 2002, EXAUDI is one of the world’s leading vocal ensembles for new music. EXAUDI’s special affinity is for the radical edges of contemporary music, at home equally with complexity, microtonality and experimental aesthetics. The newest new music is at the heart of its repertoire, and it has given national and world premières of many of today’s leading composers, from Sciarrino and Ferneyhough to Cassandra Miller and Jürg Frey, as well as a strong commitment to the music of younger composers.
An enduring feature of EXAUDI’s programming has been the mixing of contemporary music with the music of the medieval, Renaissance and baroque periods, and in 2019 EXAUDI released its first exclusively early music CD, Gesualdo Madrigali, on the Winter&Winter label, which received a Deutsche Schallplattenpreis and was one of BBC Radio 3’s CDs of the Year.
EXAUDI’s many international engagements have taken them across Europe, from Wittener Tage, Darmstadter Ferienkurse, Musica Viva (Munich) and Kölner Philharmonie to Muziekgebouw (Amsterdam), IRCAM (Paris), Festival d’Automne (Paris) and Voix Nouvelles (Royaumont), often collaborating with ensembles including musikFabrik, Ensemble Modern, L’Instant Donné, London Sinfonietta, BCMG, Talea (NY), Linea, Helsinki Philharmonic and Ensemble InterContemporain. EXAUDI has also appeared at all the leading UK venues and festivals, including BBC Proms, Aldeburgh, Wigmore Hall, Manchester International and Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festivals, Wigmore Hall, Café OTO, Kings Place and South Bank. EXAUDI broadcasts regularly on BBC Radio 3 and European radio stations, and has released seventeen critically acclaimed recordings on the NMC, ÆON, Métier, Winter&Winter, Mode, Kairos, Confront and HCR labels.
