Crash Ensemble

Tonight ✨Tune in from 7.30pm to hear Crash live on BBC Radio 3 - live from our sold out concert in London 📻

Grammy Award-winning singer, composer, ace fiddle player and banjo virtuoso has breathed fresh life into the realms of folk and country music, won a Pulitzer Prize for Music for her opera Omar, and forged electrifying creative partnerships with a multitude of like-minded boundary breakers. For the last of her Residency concerts at Wigmore Hall, she joins forces with fellow Grammy-winning composer and multi-instrumentalist and ourselves.

The concert will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 and available on BBC Sounds for 30 days afterwards.

📣 Announcing… The World Premiere of 🔵Everything is Connected🔵 by Ed Bennett

Featuring WindJammers

Presented in association with Music for Wexford and Music Generation Wexford

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Crash Ensemble premieres ‘Everything is Connected’, a bold and inclusive new work by acclaimed Irish composer Ed Bennett, created with collaboration and community at its core.

Commissioned by Crash, the project brings together members of the ensemble with local musicians and performers from diverse musical backgrounds in a dynamic live performance showcasing the possibilities of collaborative performance.

For this world premiere concert, Crash are joined by Wexford’s WindJammers in a compelling presentation of Bennett’s expansive and energetic score.

Described by The Guardian as creating “unclassifiable, raw-nerve music of huge energy and imagination”, Bennett is one of Ireland’s most distinctive contemporary composers. His work spans orchestral music, opera, electronic music, installations and film, and has been commissioned and performed internationally by organisations including the BBC, RTÉ and Music Network. In 2024, he was elected to Aosdána in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the creative arts in Ireland.

‘Everything is Connected’ celebrates collaboration, connection, and the collective energy of live performance - an ambitious new work that showcases community musicians alongside one of Ireland’s leading contemporary ensembles.

📆 3.30pm, 28 June 2026
📍 Wexford County Hall

🎟️ tickets are on sale now 🎟️

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📣 Introducing Crash Artist-In-Residence Laura Bowler

is a composer and vocalist working across music theatre, multidisciplinary performance, concert music and opera. Her work brings together composition and performance, often placing her own voice at the centre of theatrical musical forms.

She has been commissioned internationally by ensembles and orchestras including BBC Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, Goteborg Symfoniker, Copenhagen Philharmonic, Decoder Ensemble, Ensemble Phace, Basel Sinfonietta, Royal Opera House and lovemusic collective. Her work, Wicked Problems, won the Royal Philharmonic Chamber Composition Prize, and several of her works have been shortlisted for the Ivor Awards.

Recent projects include several large-scale multimedia music theatre works presented at festivals across Europe, as well as a new 30 minute orchestral song cycle for Barbara Hannigan setting text by Nobel Prize winning author, Han Kang. Laura is the Deputy Head of Composition at the Royal Northern College of Music.

During her residency, Laura will work closely with Crash’s musicians to develop new work which has been co-commissioned by Crash Ensemble and Kilkenny Arts Festival ❤️


Photos by Harald Hoffman
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