Ensemble Renard (wind quintet)
Friday 13 February 2026 at 7.30pm
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This concert is supported by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust scheme
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Mozart arr. Meyer: Andante für eine Walze in eine Kleine Orgel, K.616
Milhaud: La chéminée du roi Réné
Barber: Summer Music
Leonarda: Sonata Nona
Ligeti: Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet
Weir: Mountain Airs
Reicha: Wind Quintet in E-flat Op.88 No.2
Milhaud: La chéminée du roi Réné
Barber: Summer Music
Leonarda: Sonata Nona
Ligeti: Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet
Weir: Mountain Airs
Reicha: Wind Quintet in E-flat Op.88 No.2
L to R: James Gilbert (clarinet); Ellie Blamires (flute); George Strivens (horn); Francesca Cox (oboe);
Patrick Bolton (bassoon)
Photo: Betsa Collins
Ensemble Renard comprises five of the country’s most outstanding young musicians. Together, they exist to explore a wide range of timbral possibilities within modern day chamber performance.
Ensemble Renard carefully curate compelling and contrasting programmes tailored to each audience, aiming to take repertoire rarely given the light of day to audiences from London to the Hebrides and beyond. From Gershwin to Knussen, each piece they play demonstrates the kaleidoscopic versatility of the ensemble.
Ensemble Renard have quickly emerged onto the scene as one of the UK’s most promising young chamber ensembles. To date, they have been made Tunnell Trust awardees, Britten-Pears Young Artists, Stoller Hall Young Artists, and awardees of the Countess of Munster Musical Trust’s Recital Scheme. Performance highlights of the ensemble’s career so far include their European debut at the Dinard Opening Festival in Brittany, a recital at the Aldeburgh Festival, and an appearance on Radio 3’s ‘In Tune’.
Ensemble Renard champion new music and regularly commission works for wind quintet. They were among the first artists to be awarded a grant from the Vaughan Williams Foundation in support of a new commission by Luke Lewis, and in 2023 they recorded their debut album of commissions by the Stomping Ground collective.
The Ensemble’s members are some of the most promising young classical musicians of the moment, who regularly perform with the London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Aurora Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Manchester Camerata, English Touring Opera, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, London Chamber Orchestra, and the English National Opera, to name but a few.
ensemblerenard.co.uk/
Ensemble Renard carefully curate compelling and contrasting programmes tailored to each audience, aiming to take repertoire rarely given the light of day to audiences from London to the Hebrides and beyond. From Gershwin to Knussen, each piece they play demonstrates the kaleidoscopic versatility of the ensemble.
Ensemble Renard have quickly emerged onto the scene as one of the UK’s most promising young chamber ensembles. To date, they have been made Tunnell Trust awardees, Britten-Pears Young Artists, Stoller Hall Young Artists, and awardees of the Countess of Munster Musical Trust’s Recital Scheme. Performance highlights of the ensemble’s career so far include their European debut at the Dinard Opening Festival in Brittany, a recital at the Aldeburgh Festival, and an appearance on Radio 3’s ‘In Tune’.
Ensemble Renard champion new music and regularly commission works for wind quintet. They were among the first artists to be awarded a grant from the Vaughan Williams Foundation in support of a new commission by Luke Lewis, and in 2023 they recorded their debut album of commissions by the Stomping Ground collective.
The Ensemble’s members are some of the most promising young classical musicians of the moment, who regularly perform with the London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Aurora Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Manchester Camerata, English Touring Opera, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, London Chamber Orchestra, and the English National Opera, to name but a few.
ensemblerenard.co.uk/