patron: Martyn Brabbins

About Kreisler Ensemble

Formed in 2003, Kreisler Ensemble is a young and versatile group who combine the intensity of chamber music with a strong sense for the drama and theatre of live performance. They create innovative and exciting programmes by exploring the connections between music of widely different generations and styles

We explore collaborations between different art-forms, and use photography as a way of bringing contemporary music to a wider audience.

Reviews

"the talent across this young group demands their swift return. And after Iain Farrington's arrangements of Brecht and Weill songs took Raybould all over the audience, they were reluctant to allow them to leave at all."

"this was a concert of the essence of St Magnus clearly safe in new young hands."

The Glory Tree, commissioned by Kreisler Ensemble:
"The centrepiece was an astonishing tour de force written for her by Cheryl Frances-Hoad and sung entirely in Old English. The Glory Tree had remarkable scoring, stratospheric singing and was performed with shamanic authority, her final scream reverberating through the cloisters."

The Herald (June 2007)

"Oliver Weeks' "Drumhead Mass" was most impressive- and extremely effectively performed"

"Matilda Hofman's conducting was excellent throughout"

(from "Classical Source", June 9th 2005)