Formed at the Royal College of Music in 2022, standard issue describe themselves as ‘a London-based...
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Caroline Potter
The London Symphony Orchestra regularly promotes new music, but surely their recent performance feat...
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Caroline Potter
The Southbank Centre has been a major performing arts venue in London since it opened in 1951, but i...
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Caroline Potter
You read that right: Vulva Voce. V.U.L.V.A. Voce. Say it out loud! There are so many fine string qua...
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Caroline Potter
Tangram, a collective of musicians who celebrate the interaction between contemporary Western and Ch...
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Caroline Potter
On Nov. 15 I went to a nightclub in east London — OK, it was 7 p.m. and the Colour Factory in Hackne...
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Caroline Potter
The Australian-born pianist and composer Zubin Kanga’s current research project, Cyborg Soloists, ex...
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Caroline Potter
No contemporary music ensemble can ignore the impact of electronics and sound diffusion on new music...
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Caroline Potter
London has more green space than many would assume, but its oldest part, now known as the City of Lo...
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Caroline Potter
London has a seemingly inexhaustible supply of quirky venues. On 2 December a pair of Australian ens...
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Caroline Potter
Composer, singer and cellist Ayanna Witter-Johnson is one of the most multitalented musicians on the...
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Caroline Potter
Content warning: sexual assault How should opera deal with sensitive subject matter? Recently, the R...
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Caroline Potter
The music of Anglo-Armenian composer, performer, and multi-media artist Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian br...
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Caroline Potter
This week marks the Lunar New Year of the Tiger, and Tangram, a collective of musicians of Chinese h...
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Caroline Potter
Live music is now returning to London, and Jenny Moore and Rattle’s gig at Café Oto on 9 September w...
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Caroline Potter
London concert life is slowly reopening to limited audiences, and it was a particular pleasure to le...
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Caroline Potter
Chinese-American yangqin player Reylon Yount, currently residing in London, combines performance wit...
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Caroline Potter
The Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (HCMF) has been a highlight of the new music calendar i...
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Caroline Potter
What is an opera? Take your preconceptions and throw them in the recycling bin. Founded in 1997, the...
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Caroline Potter
Loss, degradation, toxic masculinity: these were the themes of The Riot Ensemble’s ‘Extinction Event...
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Caroline Potter
Like many of the London universities and conservatoires, City, University of London run a concert se...
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Caroline Potter
It’s summer opera festival season in the UK–so, are you a Glyndebourne or a Grimeborn person?...
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Caroline Potter
For me, summer in London would be unimaginable without two things: complaining about the weather bei...
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Caroline Potter
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