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Dionysus Ensemble, Our Ensemble in Association
In 2021, the Dionysus Ensemble received the Royal Philharmonic Society Award and was selected by The British Council to represent the UK in their Australia Season in 2022. Additionally, in 2018, TDE became the first-ever professional musical ensemble to be officially attached to the Commonwealth.
As part of TDE’s Commonwealth work, the ensemble has delivered a Music for Social Change outreach project in The Solomon Islands and delivered an instrumental project bringing school children together as part of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Cultural Festival.
TDE was honoured to play at the Commonwealth Day service in 2019, which was broadcast live internationally from Westminster Abbey by the BBC. After the service, founder and Artistic Director Léonie Adams was presented to HM The Queen and senior members of the Royal Family and Government at the request of The Palace.
Since then, TDE has been invited to perform at private events for the Royal Commonwealth Society and at Marlborough House for Secretary-General Patricia Scotland, including for the inaugural Commonwealth Day Heads of State Banquet in 2020.
In 2020, The Commonwealth Secretariat commissioned TDE to create an online Commonwealth musical video with performers from each member nation coming together during the pandemic – the United Commonwealth Covid Music Project, which was followed in 2022 by a pan-Commonwealth music video for the Platinum Jubilee – New Every Morning.
The Dionysus Ensemble was commissioned by the Mayor of London in 2021 as part of his “Let’s Do London” campaign to provide a series of interactive Pop-Up performances in central London mainline train stations.
From 2013 to 2020, the string team from The Dionysus Ensemble ran three not-for-profit interactive children’s concert series. TDE has delivered many outreach projects, including poetry and music with vulnerable teenagers in Slough, a climate change music project for Jesuit Missions in three of their UK schools, and a workshop and performance project with children and community groups for HOMESlough as part of the COP26 climate change summit.
TDE has also released a world premiere recording of newly discovered music by William Herschel to critical acclaim as part of the bicentenary celebrations in 2022 for William Herschel.
The Dionysus team are all experienced educators, instrumental teachers, coaches, and outreach providers, and have taken musical projects into a wide range of communities. They explore music and communication through composition, improvisation, and performance with instruments, songs, and sounds, bringing a project to life through music in schools, nurseries, hospitals, prisons, and care homes.
One of The Dionysus Ensemble’s founding ethos is to bring live music into situations where none might be present.
In October 2017 11 students from 
