Nice The Strad review for Death & the Maiden 12 ensemble Oliver Leith

F*** thank you BBC Radio 3 for reminding me of the absolutely devestating power and beauty of Schubert’s last string quartet. Impossible to try to carry on working, just gonna have a moment. Profound playing Cuarteto Casals

Thanks to The Guardian for giving us Contemporary Album of the Month!!! Thanks to @sa_recordings for supporting and releasing the work and @RobAmesConducts Galya Bisengalieva Max Ruisi for forming the trio!!! Thanks to N V for the amazing film that accompanies it.

Morning,today I got a new EP out,I made it with excellent Michelle Ussher a few years ago for an installation in AUS and now it is a new only music thing made from only ceramic shakers and ocarinas. Pls do listen or get i like it a lot.on Accidental Records smarturl.it/oliverleith

Thanks to the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Royal Birmingham Conservatoire for featuring me in their latest newsletter...big throwback to my teenage years at the Junior Department... bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire/…

VINYL RELEASE DAY - Scelsi String Trio with Galya Bisengalieva + @RobAmesConducts

Music I really really like from the most incredible-sounding concert hall streamed live in HD into your living room. For free. For everyone

Looking forward to this. Scelsi - and these players - are all brilliant.

Tonight at 5pm: Live stream of a performance of Scelsi Trio from eloisa-fleur thom, Zoe Matthews and me for LCOrchestra x Spitfire Audio with beautiful film by N V, down in some incredible caves... youtu.be/vH0YIcaRWDI

So pleased this little idea has become a reality...

Back to the Wigmore Hall next month with a powerful new programme... Lutosławski’s inspired ‘Musique Funebre’ is followed by Beethoven’s monumental Adagio from his late string quartet Op.132, + we end with the The Ivors Academy award-winning ‘Honey Siren’ from composer Oliver Leith

A real privilege to have spent some time together and collaborated with Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds + Warren Ellis on this new record. Out today to stream, vinyl May 28th open.spotify.com/album/6xWNh0mU…

'Musical notation is such a bad format – you lose so much by putting music into black marks on a page, so to be able to talk to the person who wrote it is liberating' – my interview with Max Ruisi ahead of tonight's 12 ensemble Barbican Centre concert. barbican.org.uk/digital-progra…

We’re back at the Wigmore Hall for a new programme of works, including the world premiere of a new string quartet written for us by Oliver Leith. Join us at 1pm, Thursday 9th December; tickets on sale now, including £5 tickets for under 35s. Link in bio

Going live later this eve 12 ensemble LondonHandelFestival

Nirvana. Join us 14 April for an hour-long journey gliding from 11th century religious zeal to 21st century super cars in New York… Tickets 🎟 bit.ly/3uc0Jni Music by Mica Levi, Ed Finnis, @annaclyne, Andrew Norman, Hildegard von Bingen & Richard Wagner Kings Place

LAST DAYS - a new opera by Oliver Leith at @RoyalOperaHouse with 12 Ensemble. Adapted from Gus Van Sant’s 2005 film loosely based on the final days of Kurt Cobain, this new opera plunges into the torment that created a modern myth. October 7-11. Tickets go on sale TOMORROW 9am

First glimpse of the new Ruisi Quartet album Big House on PENTATONE with new commissions by my boy Oliver Leith

“It feels as though Haydn’s music is the foundation upon which our quartet is built... a movement of Haydn can feel like a riddle to be solved, something to be interacted with.” – Ruisi Quartet PRE-ADD the album to your library NOW on Apple Music. ➡️lnk.to/BigHouse

Back Wigmore Hall next month for our first concert as Ensemble-in-Residence. A chance to hear Vivier’s rarely performed cult-classic Zipangu, plus a new instrumental arrangement of Oliver Leith’s aria from the opera Last Days 🎟️ wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/20230… £5 for under 35s deal