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Next Tuesday @wigmore_hall We’re joined by soloist Timothy Ridout for Britten's haunting lament, a new account of Brahms' wild C minor quartet and premieres from Oliver Coates and Tom Coult... wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/20250…

Honoured to win this award, thanks @IvorsAcademy. Thank you most of all ti @12ensemble and @GBSRduo for bringing this piece to life with such skill and commitment 🤌 thanks @NNFest @cheltfestivals & @KingsPlace for commissioning it!
The Ivor Novello Award for Best Chamber Ensemble Composition goes to @LaurenceOsborn for 'TOMB!' - a piece composed for strings, percussion and piano 🏆 The judges called the piece “a masterful blend of the old and new, where tradition is re-envisioned with intelligence and…
Thank you for the nomination @IvorsAcademy and thanks to @GBSRduo @12ensemble @KingsPlace @NNFest @cheltfestivals 🪦🪦🪦
TOMB! by Laurence Osborn #TheIvorsClassicalAwards nomination for Best Chamber Ensemble Composition
Can you capture the sound of eternity? ⏳ Don’t miss the world premiere of Eric Whitacre’s 'Eternity in an Hour' with us, @12ensemble, Lesjamusic and pianist @chrisglynn00 in this heavenly late-night Prom, conducted by @EricWhitacre. 📅 Wed 4 Sep, 10:30PM | @RoyalAlbertHall
We’re back at the @bbcproms next week for a late-night world premiere with the @BBCSingers and @EricWhitacre … Join a string quartet of 12 Ensemble players for new work ‘Eternity in an Hour’ at the Royal Albert Hall on Wednesday 4th September. Tickets bbc.co.uk/events/efh6gw
Beethoven, Britten and Jonny Greenwood. Next week at @smitf_london • stmartin-in-the-fields.org/calendar/the-1…
Next week we’re teaming up with the sensational @MaryCBevan for Britten’s Les Illuminations @smitf_london Thursday 8 August 7.30pm St Martin-in-the-Fields Britten, Beethoven and Jonny Greenwood stmartin-in-the-fields.org/calendar/the-1…
Summer newsletter … shoutout.wix.com/so/04O-fpwES?l… Feat upcoming concerts @wigmore_hall @bbcproms @smitf_london & North Norfolk Festival ✨




Tonight at Wigmore Hall, @12ensemble and @BarronFleur perform works by John Luther Adams, Respighi, Sofia Gubaidulina and Vaughan Williams 🎻 🕰️ 7.30pm 🎟️ wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/20240…
Join us this Saturday @wigmore_hall for a celestial, spell-binding programme featuring a 16-piece cello choir and the mesmerising mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/20240… £5 tickets available for under 35s




🎶 Enter the holographic world of Metamorphosis... @12ensemble are warming up for tonight's performance! Accompanied by AI-generated visuals created live, directed by visual artist Ben Ditto 🌱 Last few tickets remaining 👉 bit.ly/4brvaZS
Early to post but next 28th June have written this new large thing for @seanstshibe @12ensemble @GBSRduo ‘Doom and the Dooms’ where they perform a transcription of a band’s gig that never happened. Squealing, Ballads, tears. Also Pratten,White,Budd,Ligeti bit.ly/3QDixSZ
🍹Martin Denny x GM Koenig?! @BBCSSO plays Øyvind Torvund: The Exotica Album +Vivier @12ensemble, Alanis Obomsawin, Alice Coltrane, @Zwerm_EgtrQt lullaby, Brina Jež, Tadeja Vulc, Sara Caneva & Scott Wilson @LigetiQuartet New Music Show, 1030pm @BBCRadio3 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
Join me today for Classical Connections Radio on @AppleMusic where I’ll be joining the dots from @CoastContra to Verdi in #Sampology, chatting to my Artist of the Week, @NuDecoEnsemble, and spotlighting the latest release by the @12ensemble (1/2)
Beautiful to be a part of Kaouther Ben Hania’s deeply moving ‘Four Daughters’, nominated for best documentary at tonight’s Oscars. Music by Amine Bouhafa, recorded by 12 Ensemble at RAK Studios. bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-…
This is such an honour! Thanks so much to @GBSRduo and @12ensemble for the extraordinary work you did on this piece. To @KingsPlace @NNFest @cheltfestivals for the commission. @RoyalPhilSoc who have been so supportive of my work throughout, means a lot thank you x x 🤘
The RPS Chamber-Scale Composition Award goes to @LaurenceOsborn. TOMB! - written for @12ensemble and @GBSRduo - 'immerses the listener in a sound-world that defies expectation and shows a composer reaching new heights.' #RPSAwards
Metamorphosis Album Launch - Thank you to all those who came down and celebrated with us @lsostlukes 🦪 photos by Matthew Johnson




The 12 Ensemble's new album, Metamorphosis gramophone.co.uk/podcasts/artic…