Explore Ensemble
Described as one of the UK’s ‘top new music bands’ (Kate Molleson, BBC Radio 3), Explore Ensemble is a chamber group in London which performs, commissions, and promotes new music. Built around a core sextet which often works with electronics, Explore Ensemble's reputation for outstanding performances and inventive curation stems from its advocacy of some of the most original composers of today, combined with its revival of landmark works from the recent past.
In 2021 Explore Ensemble was awarded the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung Ensemble Prize (worth €75,000) to support its artistic and organisational development.
Since its founding in 2012 at the Royal College of Music by composers Nicholas Moroz and Arne Gieshoff, Explore Ensemble has featured on BBC Radio 3's New Music Show and at festivals and venues throughout the UK and beyond, including hcmf// (UK), LCMF (UK), No Bounds (UK), Transit (Belgium), November Music (Netherlands), Wigmore Hall, Kings Place, Cafe OTO, Snape Maltings, Glasgow Cathedral Festival, Cambridge Music Festival, City University of London, the Greenwich Loudspeaker Orchestra Series, the Royal Northern College of Music, the University of Leeds, and EXPO Oxford.
Recently commissioned composers include Patricia Alessandrini, Joanna Bailie, John Croft, Angharad Davies, Lawrence Dunn, Mark Fell, Edwin Hillier, Lisa Illean, Oliver Leith, Neil Luck and Scott McLaughlin. 2022 saw the group commission video artist Rebecca Salvadori for a trio portrait films on its projects with Dunn, Davies, and Fell. Other featured composers include Natasha Barrett, James Dillon, Lawrence Dunn, Michael Finnissy, Morton Feldman, Gérard Grisey, Catherine Lamb, Mauro Lanza, Luigi Nono, Enno Poppe, Kaija Saariaho, Fausto Romitelli, Rebecca Saunders, Salvatore Sciarrino, and many others.
Photograph by Dimitri Djuric
