Elysian Collective is a collaborative ensemble specialising in all kinds of contemporary, experimental and improvised music. The group formed as the contemporary string quartet, Elysian Quartet in 1999 and went on to be at the forefront of new music for fifteen years. They were the inaugural performers of the Nonclassical label and club night and went on to premiere works by leading composers including Meredith Monk, Keith Tippett, Graham Fitkin, Jason Yarde and Max De Wardener. In 2012 they took to the skies to perform Stockhausen’s infamous Helicopter String Quartet for the 2012 Cultural Olympiad. Following the tragic death of their violist Vincent Sipprell in 2015 they reformed as a flexible ensemble and in recent years have recorded and performed with PULP, Fontaines DC, Jessie Ware, The Last Dinner Party, IDLES, Philip Selway and The Waeve. Elysian Collective and Simon Fisher Turner have been close collaborators for over twenty years. They appear on many of Simon’s albums, collaborative art projects, the soundtrack to The Great White Silence and together they have performed improvised concerts to delight and confuse audiences across Europe.
