As a statement of continuing intent, it speaks volumes for Uproar – Wales’s new music ensemble launched in 2018 by conductor Michael Rafferty – that in the group’s current tour, he is taking them into repertory championed by elite groups such as France’s Ensemble Intercontemporain and USA’s International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE).
Chinese, New York-based Du Yun was a co-founder of ICE. Her musical imagination crisscrosses the boundaries of cultural expression, and Uproar’s performance of her piece Impeccable Quake, with its shades of jazz and the wah-wah of electric guitar, reflected well Du Yun’s irrepressible vibrancy.
