2026/27

This is a season of debuts. Scotland. Rainy Days. Konzerthaus Berlin. France. The Royal Opera House. Places we have wanted to play for years. New voices debut with Riot too: Maija Hynninen, Yannis Kyriakides, Josephine Stephenson, Colin Riley, Matthew Whiteside and Philip Glass all make their first appearances on our programmes. It is also a season of returns. Aldeburgh Festival, the Southbank Centre and Klangspuren welcome us back, a new chapter of our residency at the Royal Academy of Music begins, and after a short time away we go home to hcmf//. We bring many friends with us: Lisa Streich, Jasmine Morris, Evan Johnson, Bára Gísladóttir, Georg Friedrich Haas, Jonah Haven, Dilay Doğanay, Andrea Balency-Béarn, Anna Thorvaldsdóttir and Rebecca Saunders return.

Running through all of it is one idea: Debris. What is left when a language, a system or a world runs out? What can be made anew from the rubble? A comedy about selling the apocalypse. A five-hour monument that ends its own style and leads to a generation of new music. An hour of darkness that ends in light.

The idea for us is the same as it has always been: make music we believe in, with people we love. Music that is urgent, distinctive and alive to the world around us, made with extraordinary artists and built to connect with audiences wherever we meet them.