These days we are often in the happy position that our brilliant musicians fit us around the best orchestras in Europe, but a first for us to be borrowing from the band of Hamilton Greta Mutlu is a phenomenal and diverse musician, touring with us 11-15/4, don't miss out!

2 weeks 'til tour, London 11th, Bury St Edmunds 13th, Beverley 14th, Bath 15th, Scarlatti's Stabat Mater (w/ Pierrot ensemble of course...) punctuated by brilliant modernism like Berio's elegiac Lied for clarinet! Don't miss this Lent concert like no other eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-facade-e…

Bath Bach Choir may be on an Easter break, but our MD Benedict Collins Rice will be busy on tour with The Facade Ensemble including a visit to Bath on Tues 14 April Find out more at: facadeensemble.co.uk/lent-tour

We can’t wait to perform a Baroque masterpiece..? April Fool? No! Despite our modernist specialism, we will be performing Scarlatti’s Stabat Mater, BUT with the Pierrot instrumentation made famous by Schoenberg! Interweaving incredible Berio&Nono - ‘as never heard before’ indeed!

Returning to the Facade fold for a third year in a row after our recording last autumn, we can't wait to work with Lotte Betts-Dean again 🧡 A star of contemporary music performing one of the best modernist pieces ever, why would you miss it! 11-15 April 🎟️ eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-facade-e…

Today, 4th April, is sadly the day in 1968 when Martin Luther King was assassinated. We mark this terrible event with Luciano Berio's music in our upcoming tour, performing his in memoriam work 'O King'. Please do join us in London, Bury St Edmunds, Beverley and Bath, 11-15 April

Another Facade original from our Cambridge Uni Music days back with us for this tour, Ben Tarlton fitting us in his busy concert schedule! Don't miss our compelling programme of iconic modern mournings by Berio/Nono (11-15/4) inserted in Scarlatti's Stabat Mater eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-facade-e…

Last composer profile before tour - Luigi Nono! A fervent believer that music can take part in political discourse, works include Sul ponte di Hiroshima, Canto per il Vietnam & Intolleranza. We perform his truly special work of aghast sonority and silence: ¿Donde estas hermano?

✨It's the week our Lent Tour starts!✨ flying the flag for 20th century composers along with our friends at BBC Radio 3, getting on board with #ModernismMondays by launching this series 👀📻🙌 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Wonderful musicians are in rehearsal 🙌 so time for another artist profile: Rebekah Nießer-Jones! Joining us for the first time since our visceral filming of Seven Last Words from the Cross, live from Ely Cathedral, during lockdown, see her this Friday St James's Sussex Gardens!

As happy as a modernist ensemble rehearsing in the Barbican, as the old saying goes. Our tour starts on Friday, 19.30, St James's Sussex Gardens: Berio, Nono, Clementi, Scarlatti, a Lent concert like no other, don't miss it eventbrite.co.uk/e/stabat-mater…

Tour starts tomorrow, St James's Sussex Gardens, 19.30 eventbrite.co.uk/e/stabat-mater… so time for a final artist profile of modernist champion and our conductor/founder Benedict Collins Rice Benedict Collins Rice Read what he's up to alongside Facade and catch his latest brilliant programme tomorrow!

Tonight in London! Berio’s Sequenza III, Nono’s ¿Donde estas hermano? and A Scarlatti’s Stabat Mater, plus other works, to kick off The Facade Ensemble’s Lent Tour! Join us 7.30pm at St James Sussex Gardens 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 eventbrite.co.uk/e/stabat-mater…

Join us this morning at 10.30 am for our Palm Sunday Choral Eucharist and celebrate the gateway to Holy Week. Later at 5.00 pm. we'll be joined by Façade Ensemble for a free concert Stabat Mater - all are welcome! More info: stedscathedral.org/events/the-fac…

Halfway through Lent tour already 😭 and it’s been fab! Here’s Lotte Betts-Dean + audience poring over Berio scores after today’s concert 😍 Beverley East Riding New Paths Music people, we’re coming to you next with our brilliant musicians. Tomorrow, 19.30 St Mary's Beverley: join us!

Our 2025 team bidding farewell to another Lent Tour 😍 our massive thanks to them and to the audiences who joined us for Berio, Nono, Clementi & Scarlatti’s stunning depictions of human anguish through the centuries. A restful and happy Easter weekend to all, see you next year 👀

We’re so sad to hear of the death of the legendary Per Nørgård, a wonderful and varied composer who influenced so many modernist greats. Here we are in Ely Cathedral in 2022 playing his piece ‘Out Of This World - Parting’, written in memory of Witold Lutosławski

More details of our next concert, A Celebration of Psalms, in the link below Saturday 12 July, St MaryChurch, Bathwick r1.ddlnk.net/cr/AQiw3gwQmLC… The Facade Ensemble @bathstmarymusic #BBCPsalms

Tonight’s the night! Tickets available on the door for A Celebration of Psalms Bernstein, Boulanger, and Ives at St Mary’s Church Bathwick, 7.30pm @bathstmarymusic With The Facade Ensemble

Come and enjoy this wonderful celebration of modernist psalm settings! An exciting and extra-ordinary choral concert with our brilliant friends Bath Bach Choir, 7.30pm Music at St Marys BritEvents Bath Love Bath