T768204496Winner of the Ensemble category at the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards 2015, the LCO has established itself as one of the UK's most innovative and respected ensembles - promoting the best new music and cross-arts collaborations to an increasingly wide audience. Formed in 2008 by co-Artistic Director Robert Ames and Hugh Brunt, the LCO has collaborated with a distinguished array of composers, artists and brands, including Jonny Greenwood, Secret Cinema, Actress, Vivienne Westwood, members of Arcade Fire, United Visual Artists, Boiler Room, Goldfrapp, Ron Arad, Beck, Conrad Shawcross, Nike, Terry Riley and Foals. Recent highlights include sold-out performances at the Roundhouse, Southbank Centre and Barbican; the critically-acclaimed site-responsive series Imagined Occasions, and a live BBC Radio 3 broadcast. | |
| 25 Aug 16 | Roundhouse, West End :: V242 listing details L1114935915 |
T1505260807The London Contemporary Orchestra will perform an incredible programme of work including pieces by Howard Skempton, Delia Derbyshire, Edmund Finnis, and Kaija Saariaho. In collaboration with ground-breaking visual artist Quayola & Sinigaglia, audiences will also experience a new commission by multi-award-winning composer, sound designer, artist and audio specialist Nick Ryan that centers around the theme of synaesthesia. This performance will give audiences the opportunity to experience the sound of the orchestra being transformed live into a dramatic visual score through computational software developed for the piece. Synaesthesia is a medical condition often described as a "union of the senses", whereby two or more of the five senses that are normally experienced separately are involuntarily and automatically joined together - some synaesthetes experience colour when they hear sounds.Performer Nick Ryan. Performer Leon Michener. Company The Norwegian Girls' Choir. Performer Mira Calix. Performer Oliver Coates. Performer Quayola & Sinigaglia. | |
| 23 Aug 14 | Roundhouse, West End :: V242 listing details L59146974 |
with NonClassical - T837537130Two of the UK's most adventurous groups, both at the forefront of the classical music revolution, present an incredible night of new music. Roundhouse and summer festival regulars the London Contemporary Orchestra (LCO) present works by some of the 20th century's most iconic composers, alongside music by Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood and the European Premiere of Nonclassical's Gabriel Prokofiev's Concerto for Bass Drum and Orchestra. Throughout the evening Nonclassical will present genre-busting DJ sets from Richard Lannoy and Gabriel Prokofiev featuring the very latest from the label and live sets by soloists and groups from the LCO and the Roundhouse Music Collective, bringing the unique atmosphere of their classical club nights to the Roundhouse. This performance is part of Music Nation which will be a Countdown Event for the London 2012 Festival, the finale of the Cultural Olympiad. The festival will be a 12-week UK-wide cultural celebration from 21 June 2012 bringing leading artists from all over the world together to celebrate the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games through dance, music, theatre, the visual arts, film and digital innovation.Conductor Hugh Brunt. Performer Joby Burgess (bass drum). Performer Daniel Pioro (violin). Performer Robert Ames (viola). Performer Oliver Coates (cello). | |
| 3 Mar 12 | Roundhouse, West End :: V242 listing details L1376970157 |
Ancient & Modern - T02843142Modern music on ancient themes, exploring the Roundhouse Main Space sonically and spatially. LCO explores 20th-century repertoire for strings, interspersed with a selection of Thomas Tallis' choral masterpieces. As Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia takes Tallis as his inspiration, so John Woolrich looks to Monteverdi in Ulysses Awakes. The programme is completed by two contrasting minimalist incarnations: John Adams'Shaker Loops and Arvo Pärt's elegy to Britten, whose funeral bell tolls throughout the work.Company London Contemporary Orchestra & Choir. Performer Robert Ames (viola). Conductor Hugh Brunt. | |
| 23 Aug 11 | Roundhouse, West End :: V242 listing details L01333566851 |
Metropolis - T443750867Metropolis, the cult classic 1927 German science fiction film by Fritz Lang, has been reconstructed and restored, and we're showing it in the Roundhouse Main Space. Relax with your mates in a cabaret table setting, watching the dizzying depiction of a futuristic cityscape and alluring female robot, with the original soundtrack brought to life by the London Contemporary Orchestra. The screening also includes an extra 25 minutes of footage previously thought lost to the world. | |
| 10 Oct 10 | Roundhouse, West End :: V242 listing details L0410671526 |
T327338117London Contemporary Orchestra, one of the UK’s youngest and most adventurous ensembles, make their Roundhouse debut. London Contemporary Orchestra, one of the UK’s youngest and most adventurous ensembles, make their Roundhouse debut. | |
| 23 Jan 10 | Roundhouse, West End :: V242 listing details L174844991 |
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| 13 May 11 | Waterloo Station, Inner London :: V01137642283 listing details L01992436049 |
