For five years, we’ve been at the forefront of UK contemporary music, shining a light on the most cutting-edge composers of today.
Now, we’re gathering to share this music with the world.
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What is PRX.LIVE?
prx.live is PRXLUDES’ concert, conversation, touring, and commissioning series: a platform to gather people, share adventurous music and sounds, and start conversations about art, music, and the world in which we’re creating it.
In partnership with ensemble partners Standard Issue, production partners Stomping Ground, and venue partners across the UK, prx.live presents a programme of works by composers in the PRXLUDES community, alongside premieres from our “5 for 5” Commissioning Initiative, accompanied by live interviews from PRXLUDES hosts.
These aren’t just events; these are social gatherings. We’re creating a space where adventurous music can be accessible to all: directly engaging with today’s cultural landscape.
We don’t think adventurous sounds are just for a small group of people. We don’t think contemporary music has to be insular.
We’re here to create spaces to share this art, and the people who create it, with the world.
When and where?
prx.live takes place across the UK over the course of 2026-28, with our launch party taking place on 5 February 2026 at Folklore, Hoxton, London.
Our 2026 schedule consists of the following:
- PRX.LIVE Launch Party @ Folklore, London – 5 February 2026
- PRX.LIVE x Oxford Contemporary Music @ The Nest, Young Womens Music Project, Oxford – 25 September 2026
- PRX.LIVE #2 with Rebecca Galian Castello @ Chats Palace, London – 16 October 2026 – tickets available now!
- PRX.LIVE Chichester – 7 November 2026 (more details TBA)
prx.live is made possible with the generous support of The Hinrichsen Foundation’s Multi-Year Partnership 2025-28 – an initiative to boost creative momentum in contemporary and experimental music.
PRXLUDES is incredibly grateful to receive support from The Hinrichsen Foundation and the Vaughan Williams Foundation, with additional support using public funding by Arts Council England, for the development of prx.live.
Are you interested in supporting this initiative? Drop us an email!
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PRXLUDES is a contemporary music magazine, resource, and organisation dedicated to the promotion and celebration of the work of emerging composers. Spearheaded by UK-based composers Zygmund de Somogyi and Patrick Ellis, PRXLUDES specialises in in-depth coverage of composers, ensembles, and organisations promoting the work of emerging artists; since their founding in 2020, PRXLUDES has interviewed over 130 composers from the UK and around the world, and collaborated with leading music organisations on features and events.
In 2025-28, PRXLUDES is thrilled to be announcing its PRX.LIVE concert series, with the support of The Hinrichsen Foundation’s Multi-Year Partnership; bringing the most exciting contemporary music of today to diverse audiences throughout the UK in informal settings.
Standard Issue is a new music collective dedicated to creating inclusive spaces to hear, see, and take part in new and experimental work. As active curators, commissioners, and performers of contemporary music, the group brings fresh perspectives to works by eclectic living composers. Standard Issue is passionate about the accessibility of new and experimental music and hopes to create unique concert experiences and events that eliminate the barrier between performers and the audience. Standard Issue has collaborated with Her Ensemble, Music We’d Like to Hear, Ineffable Sounds, Musarc Choir, and the Royal College of Music Composition Department.
Learn more about Standard Issue
Stomping Ground is a London-based multimedia arts collective and commissioner, engaging andexpanding contemporary classical audiences through innovative, high-calibre, and multi-modal concert experiences. Through simple stagecraft like fabric enclosures and projections, SG aims to create an experience in which the themes are expressed in every facet of the concert, from the programme to the stagecraft to the seating of the audience.
SG have commissioned and produced work by composers including Ben Nobuto, Georgia Denham, and Robert Reid Allan, and released a studio recording of our first project with rising wind quintet, Ensemble Renard. With clients including Lulu Wong, SG have produced events from chamber music, electronics, opera, dance, and devised theatre at Tête-a-Tête Opera Festival, The Place (LCDS), and Oslo Fringe. Stomping Ground is David Nunn, Jon Paul Mayse, and Geoff King.
Learn more about Stomping Ground
prx.live is generously supported by The Hinrichsen Foundation and public funding from Arts Council England, alongside grants from the Vaughan Williams Foundation.
Photo credit: Tilly Coulton, performing at PRX.LIVE launch party at Folklore, Hoxton. Photo by Kit McCarthy.
