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Ensemble Amorpha is a London based chamber music ensemble dedicated to bringing contemporary music from around the world to the UK, in a variety of performance formats collaborating with artists in all fields.
"A Fetus in America, a brash and vibrant satire by Luke Styles (music) and Peter Cant (text), aimed at the anti-abortionists of the Tea Party right. Accompanied by a combo of oboe, cello and percussion, Jessica Walker stylishly incarnated one of the unborn as a slinky cabaret star...what we heard certainly had pizzazz." Rupert Christiansen, The Telegraph 9.8.11
"On a quieter note I loved Ilona Jäntti's (and Luke Styles’s) Handspun, an aerialist performance piece set to a live cello solo. Eschewing the usual death-defying circus turns, Jäntti gave us dreamy lyricism, hanging from her rope like a drowsy spider and slowly circling in a golden light. While clearly born of the steeliest skill, the piece gave an impression of profound detachment and peace. I envied her." Luke Jennings, The Observer, Sunday 26 February 2012
Recent Activities:
We leave what was a very busy start of the year behind us having performed our opera A Fetus In America at the Royal Opera House (and again on the 26th of March at the Soho Theatre), followed up by a new dance work, Handspun, from the collaborative partnership that produced POLAR (back in 2010). Handspun gained some great reviews in The Guardian, The Observer and The Spectator. We managed to get through all the dots of Schoenberg’s monumental String Trio for Global Austria (2) at the Austrian Cultural Forum London, in March and were delighted at another sold-out performance. Work on the EMULSION festival, our collaboration project with Tangent which has been supported by the PRSF, is progressing well with the new works being composed and a programme fit for the Vortex gradually emerging. We will be mixing Saariaho and Lachenmann, with a host of young composers and jazz musicians. Watch this space for details of what will emerge throughout 2012.
Next Event
Emulsion a mini festival of new music from Ensemble Amorpha, Tangent, Food and Fringe Magnetic, at the Vortex, 19 May 2012.
Emulsion is a new platform for composition and improvisation. For this year’s mini-festival Iain Ballamy will be guest of honour. Funded by the PRS for Music Foundation, four new commissions from Iain Ballamy, Trish Clowes, Rory Simmons and Luke Styles (Glyndebourne Young Composer in Residence) will be premiered alongside existing music from contemporary jazz groups Tangent and Fringe Magnetic and contemporary classical group Ensemble Amorpha. You can expect to experience a different way to listen to the music from these groups, showing how the use of electronics, improvisation and contemporary art music can exist in the same space and/or interact with each other.
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Upcoming Events: Kings Place, Handel House, BFI, Swiss Connections, Spanning Continents and many more. Stay tuned!
Live extract from Shorts_Amorpha, Trails, Filmmaker - Daniel Bisig, Composer - Philippe Kocher
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Ensemble Amorpha gratefully acknowledges the financial support from the PRS for Music Foundation
