Ensemble Bash have had a long association with the unique and brilliant Peter McGarr. Read his lovely words about writing for percussion here....

Carlos wrote a fantastic latin inspired piece for us last year called 'Blink and You'll Miss It'. Read what he says about the problems and joys of writing for percussion.....

Congratulations to Engin Eskici and Will Miles for being the first young percussionists on the Ensemble Bash Apprentice Artist Scheme. Read more below.....

We want to know the who, where, why and why not from composers we've either worked with or admire. This month's Q&A is with Colin Riley - a great composer we commissioned a few years ago to write us a piece he called 'Rock, Paper,Scissors' - a piece we love. Come and explore Colin's mind here....

Despite our years at the percussion coalface we're constantly finding new percussive things to amaze, inspire and impress. Here's our way of sharing it. Click on the link and subscribe for your FREE (Free!) monthly newsletter sent directly to your inbox. Guaranteed no spam.

No pictures of the gig but here's one of a local donkey who brayed his satisfaction with our playing. Also many great audience reviews from our gig at the beautiful Hellens Manor. Click below to read...

We had a couple of days in Hay-On-Wye.......

Sold out gig and workshops a-plenty!

“A tremendous day of workshops with the superb, astounding and versatile Ensemble Bash!"

Special soloist guest slot with the BPO!

Thanks to Redmaids School for inviting us to....

We recently did a series of workshops and mini concerts at the beautiful old Wolford Mill at Wimborne in Dorset. Click here to find out more…

We've had a long association with the wonderfully unique UK composer Peter McGarr. Over the many inactive months of the pandemic we hatched a plan for Peter to write us a piece which we would then release as a short film. Please click the button below to watch another of Peter's brilliantly idiosyncratic pieces - 'The Acoustics of Morecambe Bay'.

Have a look on our YouTube channel for the 'one minute with...' series. These short videos are demos of some of the lesser known percussion instruments - at least to non percussionists. We're aiming to add one a week for the foreseeable future. Any requests? Let us know!

We were made to feel very welcome at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama........

Nice review from our gig at the RWCMD - thanks Cath Barton and Welsh Arts Review.

A very enjoyable gig in Colchester for the Roman River Festival this month. We filmed it all with varying results - a camera on a box is never going to be Scorsese. Still, this piece came out very well - the second performance of our latest commission 'CRACK' by Tom Gimson.

Simon Limbrick wrote us a lovely piece called 'Mopti Street' based on Malian Kora themes. Our recording of it on 'Damba Moon' was subsequently remixed by the great Banco De Gaia and features in this retrospective of his work from Hungarian radio station Bambuszradio. We're about six minutes in......

“This was one of the best new music gigs (and presentations) seen and heard in a long time.” - a great review from @allaboutjazz from our recent gig in York. Glad to say that we’re “frequently vigorous” and have “confrontational energy” - but don’t take our word for it….

After several months of sporadic rehearsals we finally performed our first concert with the marvellous percussion students at Guildhall......

We played at the lovely Old Court in Windsor in a family gig for all those bored half-termers. The gig was, of course, a great success. The shaky photo was taken just before we went on. We were shaking with excitement, not nerves.

It was our first residency workshop this week and we brought the instruments in our pockets....

We're extremely delighted to announce that we'll be Artists in Residence at Guildhall School of Music and Drama for the next three years....

We'll be doing a headlining set at the Royal College of Music's Festival of Percussion along with Mark Giuliani and the Band of the Coldstream Guards

Welcome to the new Ensemble Bash site! With a change of site comes a change of membership.....