Ensemble Renard
- Wind Quintet
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Ensemble Renard latest
A new commission by composer Cem Güven. Performed at the Royal Academy of Music, May 2022.
Bart’s Lunchtime Concert
9th September 2026
Coming soon
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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, and by frequently collaborating with composers and guest instrumentalists, they strive to showcase a prismatic variety
of colours.
Ensemble Renard curates 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 were Chamber Music Fellows at the Royal Academy of Music in 2021, and have since received several accolades, becoming Tunnell Trust awardees, Britten-Pears Young Artists, Stoller Hall Young Artists, and awardees of the Countess of Munster Musical Trust’s Recital Scheme. They won the Royal Philharmonic Society Henderson Chamber Ensemble Award 2024, and in 2025 became Associate Artists on the Countess of Munster/YCAT UK Artists Directory, and City Music Foundation Artists.
Highlights of the ensemble’s career so far include repeat performances at the Aldeburgh Festival. In the 2025 issue they celebrated the centenaries of both Berio and Boulez at
Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall to critical acclaim, and Britten-Pears Arts commissioned a new quintet by Cheryl Frances-Hoad to mark the occasion. They have returned yearly to
Llanfyllin Music Festival since 2022 and can be found performing in music clubs the length of the United Kingdom.