News

New Project: opera!

Our newest project expands Kreisler Ensemble's theatrical dimension into the realm of surreal music-theatre-opera. Juan Rulfo's ground-breaking novel Pedro Paramo will be the basis for Christian Baldini's new work. We'll keep you posted with developments!

Recording the Glory Tree 2008

Kreisler Ensemble recorded Cheryl Francs-Hoad's "The Glory Tree" in September. It will be released on Toccata records shortly as part of a CD of Cheryl's music.

St Magnus Festival 2007

Kreisler Ensemble made a highly successful tour to the St Magnus Festival in Orkney in June 2007. They performed in the beautiful cathedral and then gave a "Classical meets Cabaret" concert in the Spiegeltent. The festival is one of Britain's most highly regarded and adventurous arts events. Kreisler Ensemble also worked closely with the Orkney Conducting Course and the new Orkney Composition Course, which culminated in a final concert.

Reviews from the Herald:

"the talent across this young group demands their swift return. And after Iain Farrington's arrangements of Brecht and Weill songs took Raybould all over the audience, they were reluctant to allow them to leave at all."

"The centrepiece was an astonishing tour de force written for her by Cheryl Frances-Hoad and sung entirely in Old English. The Glory Tree had remarkable scoring, stratospheric singing and was performed with shamanic authority, her final scream reverberating through the cloisters."

"this was a concert of the essence of St Magnus clearly safe in new young hands."

Thanks to....

The Britten-Pears Foundation and the RVW Trust for recently committing funding towards our commission from Stuart Macrae.

The Holst Foundation, for supporting our tour to the St Magnus Festival