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
London-based wind quintet Ensemble Renard comprises five of the UK’s most outstanding young musicians. Together, they exist to explore a wide range of timbral possibilities within modern-day chamber performance. Centrally a wind quintet, Ensemble Renard’s frequent collaboration with composers and guest instrumentalists allows them to showcase a prismatic variety of colours.
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, and most Ensemble Renard concerts feature works especially written or arranged for them.
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, performances at Aldeburgh Festival, and an appearance on BBC Radio 3’s ‘In Tune’.
Ensemble Renard champion new music and regularly commission works for wind quintet, having begun their career working with composers including Hans Abrahamsen and John Woolrich on performances of their repertoire. 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, the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, the Australian World Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, London Mozart Players, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, the Helsinki Philharmonic, to name but a few.
A typical Ensemble Renard season has something for everyone. They can be found performing at the UK’s most established music clubs, putting on family concerts with narrator and school-based workshops, and collaborating with organisations including Wigmore Hall and Spitalfields Music, in addition to performances at new music festivals in connection with a host of different composers.
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, and most Ensemble Renard concerts feature works especially written or arranged for them.
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, performances at Aldeburgh Festival, and an appearance on BBC Radio 3’s ‘In Tune’.
Ensemble Renard champion new music and regularly commission works for wind quintet, having begun their career working with composers including Hans Abrahamsen and John Woolrich on performances of their repertoire. 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, the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, the Australian World Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, London Mozart Players, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, the Helsinki Philharmonic, to name but a few.
A typical Ensemble Renard season has something for everyone. They can be found performing at the UK’s most established music clubs, putting on family concerts with narrator and school-based workshops, and collaborating with organisations including Wigmore Hall and Spitalfields Music, in addition to performances at new music festivals in connection with a host of different composers.
ensemblerenard.co.uk/