Past performances

13.05.24

Guildhall Masters

Milton Court, London

Music by Guildhall MMus composers

03.05.24

‘The Mirror of Speculation’

Cork International Choral Festival

Medieval and contemporary music by Senleches, Machaut and others

28.02.24

‘Thrilly Marvel Chants’ – Oliver Leith curation

Kings Place, London

Music by Ligeti, Billings, Brahms, Ben Johnson, Miller, Hamilton, Hildegard, Joanna Ward and others. Supported with funding from Hinrichsen and the Vaughan Williams Foundation. 

16.02.24

‘In dew of roses’ – songs for loving and parting

Felton Village Hall. Northumberland

Music by Morley, Dowland, Machaut, Hildegard, Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Cardew, Cage, Hogg and Monk Feldman

15.02.24

‘In dew of roses’ – songs for loving and parting

St Thomas’ Church, Stanhope

Music by Morley, Dowland, Machaut, Hildegard, Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Cardew, Cage, Hogg and Monk Feldman

13.02.24

‘In dew of roses’ – songs for loving and parting

MUSICON, Durham Town Hall

Music by Morley, Dowland, Machaut, Hildegard, Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Cardew, Cage, Hogg and Monk Feldman

14.01.24

New Music Weekend

JdP Music Building, St Hilda’s College, Oxford

Martyn Harry: OUR SEPARATE WAYS 

11.06.23

‘Verses of Love’

Aldeburgh Festival
11.06.23

‘Verses of Love’

Aldeburgh Festival

Michael Finnissy: Cipriano
Luca Marenzio: Dura legge d’amor; Quel augellin che canta
Claudio Monteverdi: Sfogava con le stelle; Quel augellin che canta
Elisabeth Lutyens: Verses of Love
Orlando Gibbons: O that the learned poets
Gibbons, arr. James Weeks: Songs (wp)
Cassandra Miller: Guide

22.05.23

EXPOSURE2023

Milton Court, London

Works by Guildhall Masters composers (wp)
Lawrence Dunn: May Song (wp)
Chiyoko Szlavnics: Whorl Whirling Wings
Joanna Ward: Living on Ice Cream and Chocolate Kisses
Paul Newland: new work (wp)

EXAUDI gratefully acknowledges funding from the Cockayne Foundation towards this concert.

13.05.23

Gesualdo: Cruel Ecstasy

Auditorio de Tenerife

Patrick Hegarty: Recitation

12.05.23

Berio: Sinfonia

Auditorio de Tenerife

With Tenerife Symphony Orchestra
Fabián Panisello, conductor

20.04.23

Martyn Harry: Separate Ways (wp)

Pushkin House, London
16.02.23

‘Requiem for Peace’


Kings Place, London


Eugene Birman: Russia: Today (UKp)

01.02.23

‘Chromatic Renaissance’


Musicon, Durham Cathedral Chapter House


Elisabet Dijkstra: here, now
Sylvia Lim: paper wings
Madrigals and motes by Vicentino, Lasso, Marenzio, Luzzaschi, Rore

04.12.22

‘Rainbow Across the Night Sky’ – 20th anniversary concert

Kings Place, London

Hildegard of Bingen, arr. James Weeks: Hymns
Arvo Pärt: Missa Syllabica
Catherine Lamb: song/form (wp)
John Cage: Ear for EAR
Alvin Lucier: Unamuno
Brendan Champeaux: Periscope (wp)
Gloria Coates: Rainbow across the night sky (wp of revised version)

Supported by RVW Trust and Hinrichsen Foundation, with grateful thanks.

19.11.22

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

Huddersfield

Mikel Urquiza: HOWL (UKp)
Chiyoko Szlavnics: whorl whirling wings (UKp)
Naomi Pinnock: Landscape (UKp)
Lorenzo Pagliei: Marea flusso deriva (wp)

Pagliei commission supported by Diaphonique, Franco-British fund for classical contemporary music in partnership with the SACEM, the Friends of the French Institute Trust, the British Council, the Institut français, the Institut français du Royaume-Uni, the Centre National de la Musique, Creative Scotland and the Salabert Fondation

24.06.22

Linos Festival

Cologne

Bach: Cantata 106 ‘Actus Tragicus’
Cardew: Ah, Thel
Rishin Singh: Clotho Chant
Annalies van Parys: new work
music by Hildegard, Marenzio, Dowland

22.05.22

‘Gesualdo: Cruel Ecstasy’

Norfolk and Norwich Festival

Gesualdo: madrigals
Sylvia Lim: burst flood wound
Joanna Ward: new work (wp)

16.05.22

‘EXPOSURE2022’

Milton Court, London

Works by Guildhall Masters composers (wp)
Josh Levine: Cicada June | Geheimlicht (wp)
Sylvia Lim: burst flood wound (UKp)*
Simone Corti: Three Madrigals (wp)

* supported by funding from RVW Trust

07.05.22

Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik

Naomi Pinnock: new work (wp)
Chiyoko Szlavnics: Whorl Whirling Wings (wp)
Mikel Urquiza: Howl (wp)

28.04.22

Gesualdo: madrigals

Capella de Santa Agata, Barcelona

Finnissy: from Gesualdo: Libro Sesto
Bernat Vivancos: Nigra es, pulchra sum

24.04.22

‘Moord en Madrigalen’

de Bijloke, Ghent

Gesualdo: madrigals
Simone Corti: Oh, piacere doloroso (wp)
Sylvia Lim: burst flood wound

10.02.22

Mike Worboys: Presence/Absence

Musicon, Durham Cathedral
30.10.21

Listenpony

London

William Marsey: I am become a man (wp)
Louise Drewett: The Yellow Bittern (wp)
Barbara Monk Feldman: The Gentlest Chord
Morton Feldman: Only
John Cage: Ear for EAR
and works by Machaut, Morley and Anon

21.10.21

Boulez: cummings ist der dichter

Cité de la musique, Paris

Ensemble InterContemporain, Matthias Pintscher (conductor)

04.09.21

Voix Nouvelles, Abbaye de Royaumont

New works by course participants

27.08.21

‘Gesualdo: Cruel Ecstasy’

Kölner Philharmonie

Gesualdo: Madrigals
Sylvia Lim: new work (wp)

04.06.21

‘EXPOSURE2021’

Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London

ONLINE EVENT

Works by Guildhall Masters composers
Georgia Rodgers: Near + Far
Laurence Crane: Pieces About Art

31.05.21

‘Chromatic Renaissance’

Wigmore Hall, London

ONLINE EVENT

Lassus: from Prophetiae Sibyllarum
Vicentino: Musica prisca caput
madrigals by Marenzio, Luzzaschi, Gesualdo

10.05.21

‘Book of Flames and Shadows’

Musicon Durham

James Weeks: Fantasie di strani e dolci misteri della parola (wp)
Jacques Arcadelt: Madrigals
James Weeks: Libro di fiammelle e ombre

23.10.20

‘lonesingness’


sound festival, Aberdeen


Linda Catlin Smith: In Black Ink (UKp)
Michael Pisaro: A bird in the beast
James Weeks: even here (wp)
Barbara Monk Feldman: The Gentlest Chord (UKp)
Lisa Robertson: Almost (wp)
Zesses Seglias: lonesingness (UKp)
John Cage: Ear for EAR
Rodney Lister: Devotion (UKp)

04.02.20

‘Gesualdo: Cruel Ecstasy’


Musicon, Durham


Gesualdo: Madrigals
Christopher Fox: Canti del carcere (wp)
Patrick Hegarty: Recitation (wp)

23.10.19

sound festival, Aberdeen


Ailie Robertson: new work
Linda Catlin Smith: Uncertain
Jürg Frey: Out of Chorales
Christopher Fox: Song (24.iv.1916)
Cassandra Miller: Guide

17.10.19

Gesualdo: Madrigals (CD launch concert)

St Lawrence Jewry, London

06.10.19

Gesualdo: Asciugate i begli occhi


Helsinki Music Centre


Berio: Sinfonia
With Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra / Susanna Mälkki

05.07.19

‘Toujours et pres de moi’: Hologram Madrigal Opera


Malta Festival

With Opera Erratica
Music by James Weeks, Salvatore Sciarrino, Christopher Fox, Machaut, Monteverdi and Gesualdo

07–09.06.19

Aldeburgh Festival


Thomas Larcher: The Hunting Gun (Ukp)

22.05.19

Student compositions

City University, London
19.05.19

‘Toujours et pres de moi’: Hologram Madrigal Opera


Operadagen Festival, Rotterdam

With Opera Erratica
Music by James Weeks, Salvatore Sciarrino, Christopher Fox, Machaut, Monteverdi and Gesualdo

22.03.19

EXPOSURE2019


Milton Court, London

Works by Guildhall School of Music and Drama Masters students
Geoff Hannan: Pocket Universe (wp)
Linda Catlin Smith: Uncertain
Jürg Frey: Out of Chorales (UKp)
Cassandra Miller: Rounding (wp)
Christopher Fox: Song (24.iv.1916)
Sylvia Lim: paper wings
James Saunders: constant interchange of the most various kinds

29.01.19

MUSICON

Durham

The EXAUDI Italian Madrigal Book
Eric Egan: new work (wp)
madrigals by Monteverdi, Gesualdo, Marenzio, Sciarrino

27.01.19

L’Auditori, Barcelona

Bryn Harrison: Eight Voices
Linda Catlin Smith: Uncertain
Jürg Frey: Shadow and Echo and Jade; Out of Chorales (wp)
Salvatore Sciarrino: Madrigali (selection)
Morton Feldman: Christian Wolff in Cambridge

07.01.19

Gesualdo: Madrigals


Temple Church, London


Private view concert for Gesualdo CD subscribers

24.11.18

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

Salvatore Sciarrino: Carnaval (Ukp)
with Explore Ensemble
James Weeks, conductor

Supported with public funding from Arts Council England

10.11.18

Pascal Dusapin: Passion

Teatr Clywd, Mold
06.11.18

Pascal Dusapin: Passion

Lowry, Salford

With Music Theatre Wales, London Sinfonietta, National Dance Company Wales

13.10.18

Pascal Dusapin: Passion

Snape Maltings, Suffolk

With Music Theatre Wales, London Sinfonietta, National Dance Company Wales

23.10.18

Pascal Dusapin: Passion

Millennium Centre, Cardiff

With Music Theatre Wales, London Sinfonietta, National Dance Company Wales

13.10.18

Pascal Dusapin: Passion

Queen Elisabeth Hall, London

With Music Theatre Wales, London Sinfonietta, National Dance Company Wales

11.10.18

Pascal Dusapin: Passion (Ukp)dfewqas`

Anvil, Basingstoke

With Music Theatre Wales, London Sinfonietta, National Dance Company Wales

09.09.18

‘Amours, Espaces’

Abbaye de Royaumont, France

Sivan Eldar: Heave (wp)
Lorenzo Pagliei: corpi celesti (Frp)
Osvaldo Coluccino: Scomparsa (Frp)
madrigals by Gesualdo and Monteverdi

09.09.18

Voix Nouvelles composers 2

Abbaye de Royaumont, France
08.09.18

Voix Nouvelles composers 1

Abbaye de Royaumont, France
05.06.18

Music by student composers

City University, London
26.05.18

Beverley Early Music Festival

St Mary’s Church, Beverley

‘Quel augellin che canta…’
Marenzio, Monteverdi, Gesualdo: Madrigals
Sciarrino: from 12 Madrigali
Finnissy: from Gesualdo: Libro Sesto

14.04.18

BBC OPEN EAR

LSO St Luke’s, London

Michael Oesterle: All Words
Amber Priestley: Help with Adverbs (wp)
Lorenzo Pagliei: Corpi Celesti (wp)

20.03.18

Osvaldo Coluccino: Scomparsa (wp)

Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London

Pieces by students on the Guildhall Masters programme (wp)

18.02.18

PRINCIPAL SOUND

St John’s, Smith Square, London

Kurtág: Hölderlin-Gesänge no.1
Nono: Sarà dolce tacere
Rihm: Quo me rapis
Feldman: Voices and Cello
Linda Catlin Smith: Uncertain (wp)
Machaut: Fins cuers doulz; Rose, Liz, Printemps, Verdure

25.01.18

Public workshop

Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London

With final-year Guildhall undergraduate composers

26.11.17

Fondazione Pietà de Turchini

Napoli

Stefano Gervasoni: Di dolci aspre catene; Donne settings (wp)
Salvatore Sciarrino: from 12 Madrigali
music by Monteverdi and Tomkins

25.11.17

Milano Musica

Stefano Gervasoni: Di dolci aspre catene; Donne settings (wp)
Salvatore Sciarrino: from 12 Madrigali
music by Monteverdi and Tomkins

16.11.17

Rainy Days

Luxembourg

EXAUDI Italian Madrigal Book
works by Monteverdi, Marenzio, Gesualdo
Catherine Kontz: new work
Stefano Gervasoni: Di dolci aspre catene
Michael Finnissy: from Gesualdo: Libro Sesto
Salvatore Sciarrino: from 12 Madrigali

29.09.17

Nordic Music Days

Royal Festival Hall Foyer

Madeleine Isaksson: Ciels
Mette Nielsen: Song
Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen: Song
Ansgar Beste: In the Steppes of Sápmi

06.09.17

BBC Proms

Tate Modern, London

Cassandra Miller: Guide
Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3

08.07.17

PRS for New Music Foundation: New Music Biennial

Royal Festival Hall, London

Laurence Crane: Pieces About Art

01.07.17

PRS for New Music Foundation: New Music Biennial

Albemarle Music Centre, Hull

Laurence Crane: Pieces About Art

10.06.17

‘Chromatic Renaissance’

Aldeburgh Festival

Works by Vicentino, Lassus, Rore
James Weeks: Primo Libro (excerpts, wp)

02.06.17

Ircam Manifeste

Paris

Alberto Posadas: Tenebrae
Victoria: Tenebrae Responsories (selection)
with Ensemble InterContemporain/Duncan Ward

01.04.17

15th Anniversary Concert

Wigmore Hall, London

Arcadelt: Il Primo Libro de’ Madrigali (selection)
James Weeks: Libro di fiammelle e ombre (wp)
Claudio Monteverdi: Ecco mormorar l’onde; Quel augellin che canta
Giaches de Wert: Vezzosi augelli
Salvatore Sciarrino: Sei Madrigali

03.03.17

Showcase concert

Milton Court, London

A showcase concert of works by student composers on the GSMD MMus course

23.01.17

Public workshop

Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London

With final-year Guildhall undergraduate composers

20.11.16

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

Huddersfield

Furrer: FAMA
with London Sinfonietta/Furrer

11.11.16

St John’s Smith Square

London

Furrer: FAMA
with London Sinfonietta/Furrer

23.10.16

EXPOSURE2016

07.10.16

Kings Place

London

Bill Thompson, James Weeks, James Wilkes: Otherwise Josquin

04.09.16

Abbaye de Royaumont

France

Le Madrigal Renouvelé
Gervasoni: Di dolci aspre catene
Weeks: new work (excerpts, wp)
Finnissy: Resta di darmi noia
Sciarrino: from 12 Madrigals
and music by Arcadelt, Gesualdo, Monteverdi, Wert

29.08.16 – 09.09.16

Voix Nouvelles

Abbaye de Royaumont

Student composition workshops and performances

25.06.16

King’s College London

London

Christopher Fox: from Catalogue Irraisoné
James Weeks: Nakedness
Zeynep Bulut: soul-mates (reworked)
Claudia Molitor: Das Schwein, das Schwein

11.06.16

IRCAM ManiFeste

Centre Pompidou

Gérard Pesson: cantate=pays
with Ensemble L’Instant Donné

07.06.16

Kammer Klang

Cafe OTO, London

Christopher Fox: Catalogue Irraisone

26.05.16

City University Summer Sounds Ii

London

Student compositions

25.05.16

City University Summer Sounds I

London

New work-in-progress by Miguel Mera, Leo Chadburn, Newton Armstrong, Bill Thompson, James Weeks and James Wilkes

22.04.16

Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik

Germany

Gérard Pesson: cantate=pays
with Ensemble L’Instant Donné

02.04.16

St John’s Smith Square

London

Jürg Frey: Shadow and Echo and Jade (wp, EXAUDI commission*)
Cassandra Miller: Guide
Morton Feldman: Only
James Weeks: A Tear
Aldo Clementi: Im Frieden dein, o Herre mein

* commissioned with funding from the Fondation Nicati-de Luze

16.03.16

Milton Court

London

A showcase concert of works by student composers on the GSMD MMus course

12.03.16

Finnissy at 70

Milton Court Concert Hall, London

Michael Finnissy: Cipriano (1974); Tom Fool’s Wooing (1975-78/2015, world premiere)
Promoted by EXAUDI in association with the Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Supported by a generous donation from The Hinrichsen Foundation
Part of the Finnissy at 70 Weekend.

18.01.16

Guildhall School of Music & Drama

London

Public workshop with final-year Guildhall undergraduate composers

20.12.15

Wigmore Hall

London

Music of celebration and consolation for the Christmas season. Works by Schütz and the world premiere of Christopher Fox Trostlieder (in Widerwärtigkeit des Kriegs)

17.10.15

EXPOSURE2015

The Warehouse, London

New work by Jeffrey Gavett, Alastair Putt, Luke Nickel, Pia Palme, Charlie Usher and Michael Perrett.

04.07.15

Bridgewater Hall

Manchester

EXAUDI and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. World première of Mark Simpson’s The Immortal

10.06.15

City University

London

A programme including works by Chase, Skempton and student composers from City University

03.06.15

Spitalfields Summer Festival

London

James Weeks: Mala Punica

14.04.15

Cafe OTO

London

Hobbs One Note and a rare chance to hear Terry Riley’s Olson III

12.04.15

Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ

Amsterdam

EXAUDI joins the Ives Ensemble to perform works by Hobbs, Riley and Mažulis

30.03.15

Milton Court

London

A showcase concert of works by student composers on the GSMD MMus course.

21.02.15

St David’s Hall

Cardiff

Voice/Off: works by Kagel, Chase, Mac Low, Aperghis and Fox.

03.02.15

Wigmore Hall

London

Finnissy: Kelir; Holliger: from Nicht Ichts – nicht Nichts; Scelsi: Tre Canti Sacri; Machaut, Léonin, Ciconia and Rodericus.

Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3

25.01.15

Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme

Aldeburgh

Six singers from EXAUDI, along with James Weeks and composer Michael Finnissy will be working with young composers writing for vocal ensemble.

06.11.14

Wigmore Hall

London

‘Italian Madrigal Book II’

27.07.14 – 03.08.14

Dartington International Summer School

Week 1: coaching and performing at DISS

20.06.14 – 30.06.14

IRCAM

Paris

Ensemble in Residence at the IRCAM Academy

17.06.14

Cologne Philharmonie

Posadas and Nono with Ensemble Intercontemporain

15.06.14

Festival d’Agora

Paris

Posadas and Nono with Ensemble Intercontemporain

20.05.14

Education project

St John’s Beaumont, Windsor

Recital and workshop

18.05.14

Casa da Musica

Porto

Ferneyhough Finis Terrae with Ensemble Remix

04.05.14

‘Human Testing’

EXAUDI’s latest experiments

29.03.14

Aldeburgh Easter Festival

Aldeburgh

Britten, Birtwistle & Maxwell Davies

14.03.14

Education project

Cardiff University

Students’ composition workshop

27.02.14

‘An Italian Madrigal book’

De Singel, Antwerp
24/27/28.01.14

Gervasoni Dir – In dir with L’Instant Donné

Toulouse, Geneva, Lausanne

Theatre Garonne, Toulouse (24th)
Conservatoire de Musique, Geneva (27th)
Conservatoire de Lausanne (28th)