Described as one of the UK’s ‘top new music bands’ (Kate Molleson, BBC Radio 3), Explore Ensemble is a group in London that performs, commissions, and promotes new music throughout the UK and internationally. Based around a core sextet that often incorporates electronics and video, Explore Ensemble's reputation for outstanding performances and inventive curation stems from its advocacy of some of the most original composers of today, combined with its revival of landmark works from the recent past, and its debut recordings of new music. In 2021 Explore Ensemble was awarded the internationally prestigious Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung Ensemble Prize. Since its founding in 2012 at the Royal College of Music by composers Nicholas Moroz and Arne Gieshoff, Explore Ensemble has featured at festivals and venues throughout the UK and beyond, including Centro Pecci Prato (IT), hcmf// (UK), LCMF (UK), Aldeburgh Festival (UK), No Bounds (UK), Transit (BE), November Music (NL), Schleswig-Holstein (DE), ZKM Karlsruhe (DE), Schlossmediale (CH), and at home in London: Wigmore Hall, Kings Place, Cafe OTO, and Spitalfields Festival.

Explore Ensemble has released several critically-acclaimed records, most recently, Beatrice Dillon’s Seven Reorganisations on her new label HI. Described as ‘A gift for listeners’ by the New York Times, the ensemble’s 2023 album — Perfect Offering — showcases music by Cassandra Miller, Lisa Illean, Rebecca Saunders, and Lawrence Dunn. The ensemble’s portrait of Catherine Lamb’s music with Exaudi and Lotte Betts-Dean on Another Timbre — parallaxis forma — was described by Bandcamp’s Peter Magarsak as an ‘extraordinary collection‘. Other releases include two portrait albums of Oliver Leith and James Weeks’ music on Another Timbre: Me Hollywood and Summer, which featured on Bandcamp’s Best of Contemporary Classical list.