12 ENSEMBLE

This is an extract from the 12 Ensemble's concert at Wigmore Hall on Tuesday 24 November 2020. This concert was live-streamed as part of the Wigmore Hall Autumn Series. The video is no longer online but other concerts are available to watch in full here

The 12 Ensemble performed this piece at Wigmore Hall's 2021/22 Season Launch on Wednesday 28 July 2021. Watch the entire event on YouTube.

Live at Milton Court Concert Hall, London Presented by The Barbican 3rd September 2022 ' Sagu Palm’s Song ' Ichiko Aoba (vocal and guitar) 12 Ensemble： Eloisa-Fleur Thom (violin) Venetia Jollands (violin) Connie Pharoah (viola) Max Ruisi (cello) Toby Hughes (bass) Camera operators： Barney Lankester-Owen Ben Holman Will Hazell Production：Flow Films Mixing engineer：Toshihiko Kasai Editor：Takanobu Oki Live Sound Engineer : Viktor Volaric-Horvat Recording Engineer : Gauthier Gareau Special Thanks： Chris Sharp & Claire Corns @ The Barbican Daniel Wherewell (Milton Court) Costume：Kimi Yokoyama Hair & Make Up：Chie Fujimoto Photography：Yuichiro Noda Interpretation：Tomoko Komura Support Staff：Michael King, Reona Shimizu Management：Mark Meyer ❀ Saison Des Fleurs Tour 2023 ❀ 25 FEB - The Alex Blake Charlie Sessions, SG 02 MAR - Rossi Musik Fatmawati, Jakarta, ID 03 MAR - Rossi Musik Fatmawati, Jakarta, ID ❀ 27 MAR - The Regent Theater, LA, CA, USA ❀ 28 MAR - The Regent Theater, LA CA, USA ❀ 30 MAR - The Eastern, Atlanta, GA, USA 01 APR - Big Ears Festival, Knoxville, TN, USA 04 APR - L'Olympia, Paris, FR* ❀ 05 APR - Les Trinitaires (Chapelle) Metz, FR 07 APR - Cafe De La Danse, Paris, FR ❀ 09 APR - BRDCST Festival @ AB, Brussels, BE 10 APR - Arci Bellezza, Milan, IT 11 APR - Locomotiv, Bologna, IT 13 APR - Bogen F, Zurich, CH 14 APR - Motel Mozaique Festival, Rotterdam, NL 07 MAY - CQAF, Belfast, UK 08 MAY - National Concert Hall Studio, Dublin, IE 09 MAY - Trinity Centre, Bristol, UK 14 MAY - The Bodega, Nottingham, UK 15 MAY - Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, UK 17 MAY - EartH Theatre, London, UK Ichiko Aoba official website https://www.ichikoaoba.com/

Live from Wigmore Hall, London Oct 2022

12 ensemble perform ‘II. (Full like drips)’ from Oliver Leith’s Honey Siren in our Loading Bay. Pushing the boundaries of theatre, dance, film, music and visual art, the Barbican is a world-class arts and learning centre. Subscribe: http://ow.ly/O44tx Like: http://www.facebook.com/barbicancentre Follow: http://www.twitter.com/barbicancentre Discover: http://www.instagram.com/barbicancentre What’s on? http://www.barbican.org.uk Welcome to the Barbican Centre's YouTube channel. From exclusive trailers and specially commissioned interviews to concert recordings, behind the scenes tours and insights into the unseen areas of the Barbican, subscribe to our channel for all the latest Barbican videos.

Song For Our Daughter. Laura Marling and the 12 Ensemble Mercury Prize-nominated artist Laura Marling teams up with pioneering strings-based collective the 12 Ensemble for a retrospective journey through her back catalogue, as well as showcasing tracks from her 2020 album, Song for Our Daughter. Featuring brand-new string arrangements by Rob Moose. In her first Prom as a headliner, Laura will perform an acoustic set accompanied by brand new string arrangements from the unconducted 12 Ensemble. I do not own this video.

12 Ensemble give the UK premiere of Tom Coult's 'Prelude (after Monsieur de Sainte Colombe) at Wigmore Hall, February 2025.

Live from the Wigmore Hall, London. September 2021

Performed live at the Wigmore Hall, March 2021. Oliver Leith - Honey Siren I. (Like thick air) II. (Full like drips) III. (Like slow dancing in honey) Oliver wrote this piece especially for the 12 ensemble in 2019. He writes; "I was thinking about sirens; the wailing kind, not the bird women singing on rocks. They make these beautiful, huge oblong sweeping glissandi between high and low, like a machine crying. They usually signal something ominous; these sirens do not. They are honeyed, dripping in globules of sweetness, golden and moving between solid and fluid. Like a smiling alarm.”

Filmed live at the Wigmore Hall with soprano Mary Bevan. September 2021

Live from Wigmore Hall, London Oct 2022

Live from Wigmore Hall 2022

We look forward to welcoming the shining 12ensemble back to Kings Place on 26 Sep 2020 for their rescheduled performance (Max Richter: 'The Four Seasons' Recomposed). In the meantime, here’s a rare Easter gem from their Cello Unwrapped concert with Leonard Elschenbroich in 2017. ‘I always think of this beautiful piece, Kiss on Wood, as a love letter from string players to their instruments. Composer James Macmillan’s original inspiration was the Good Friday verse ‘Behold the wood of the cross on which the saviour of the world was hung’. But he also said it ‘can equally represent a gesture of love on the wooden instruments making this music’. Helen Wallace, Artistic Director at Kings Place

12 ensemble live at LSO St Lukes for Barbican Sound Unbound Festival 2019.