Season 23/24

UNITED STRINGS OF EUROPE ANNOUNCE THEIR NEW SEASON

With major national and international debuts, the United Strings of Europe’s 23/24 season offers up bold programming, electrifying collaborations, world premieres and a brand new album showcasing the ensemble’s virtuosity and knack for re-imagining familiar repertoire. Whether at Glasgow’s Engine Works or at London’s Wigmore Hall, come experience something fresh and unexpected.

The season features debuts at Antwerp’s De Singel, the Wigmore Hall and the Barbican Centre, a performance in Nottingham launching our new album Through the Night, tours to Switzerland and Belgium, collaborations with the BBC Singers, sopranos Ruby Hughes and Emily Thorner, and pioneer of the magnetic resonating piano Xenia Pestova Bennett, a first visit to Reading Town Hall and a return to St Martin-in-the-Fields Church, premieres of new works by Rhian Samuel, Kim André Arnesen and Matthew Whiteside, plus a residency at Scotland’s The Night With… new music festival.

COLLABORATIONS AND LONDON DEBUTS

INHERITING THE EARTH with soprano Ruby Hughes
Wigmore Hall London – 16 SEPT at 1 PM

Celebrating nature and our role in preserving it with music by Lili Boulanger, Joanna Marsh, Errollyn Wallen, Rhian Samuel and Osvaldo Golijov

OUR LIVING FUTURE with BBC Singers + New Voice Collective
Milton Court, London – 13 OCT at 7:30 PM

Works by some of today’s most exciting composers from Europe and North America: Kim André Arnesen, Morten Lauridsen, Caroline Shaw, Dobrinka Tabakova and Judith Weir.

NEW ALBUM THROUGH THE NIGHT (out 27 Oct)

ALBUM LAUNCH CONCERTS
University Hall, Nottingham – 3 OCT at 7 PM

Sextet concerts launching our new album out on BIS with music by Schönberg, Gesualdo, Shaw and Purcell

RESIDENCY AT THE NIGHT WITH… FESTIVAL

3 SHOWS ft. soprano Emily Thorner and Xenia Pestova Bennett
The Engine Works, Glasgow – 14 + 15 DEC

14 Dec large-scale works by Vivier, Gorecki, Shaw and a new work by Matthew Whiteside
15 Dec chamber music with Xenia Pestova Bennett on Magnetic Resonating Piano and soprano Emily Thorner

INTERNATIONAL TOURS

MYTHS AND LEGENDS
Salle Jean-Jacques Gautier, Geneva – 19 Jan at 8 PM

With music by Golijov, Mustonen, Tabakova and Stravinsky, the programme pays hommage to mythical gods and musical legends

ACROSS THE HEMISPHERES: Vivaldi and Piazzolla Four Seasons
Temple du Bas, Neuchâtel – 21 Jan at 5 PM
Town Hall, Reading – 23 Jan at 7:30 PM

Showcasing the brilliant playing of the ensemble’s members with the solo parts shared across the ensemble and some players even swapping instruments!

RENEWAL ft. Ruby Hughes
St Martin-in-the-Fields Church – 29 Feb at 7 PM
De Singel, Antwerp (Belgium) – 1 March at 8 PM

Part of De Singel’s Festival of Re/Birth, the programme features many of the works from the ensemble’s critically-acclaimed second album ‘Renewal’ including Osvaldo Golijov’s haunting Three Songs with soprano Ruby Hughes and original arrangements by ensemble director Julian Azkoul of works by Caroline Shaw, Felix Mendelssohn and Henry Purcell

Stay tuned for further announcements about our spring and summer 2024 dates.

For a complete listing of all events in the 2023/24 season, including box office links where live, please visit our What's On page.