Ensemble Exposé and Roger Redgate will present the world premiere of “Finnegans Wake: Here Comes Everybody” at the London Irish Centre on Sept. 5, 2026, at 7:30 p.m.

The concert is the first installment of a project created by composer and author Alastair White, conceived to run through 2039, the centenary of Joyce’s book. This opening work is described as a one-hour reimagining of an operatic overture, and includes readings by Cathal Murray of RTÉ. The production is produced by Irish curator Gemma A. Williams and supported by DCCI in partnership with the London Irish Centre.

“Central to the adaptation’s approach is a radical re-reading of Finnegans Wake and the modernist canon: that authors such as Joyce, Eliot and Hemingway continue to be misread through romantic and post-modern analyses that see them as depths rather than surfaces. There is no iceberg, no skeleton key; Finnegans Wake is not a cipher. It is only itself,” said White, per an official press release.

Ensemble Exposé was founded in 1984 by composers Richard Barrett, Roger Redgate, and Michael Finnissy. The ensemble has performed across Europe at major contemporary music festivals in France, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Italy, and Sweden, as well as at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, and served as a resident ensemble at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in 1986, 1988, and 1990.

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