Friday 26 June 2015

New Music in Scotland...

Pilgrim of Curiosity
Busanjin Old Train Station, Busan, South Korea
Pilgrim of Curiosity is a collaborative work for Wind Quintet, with light art by Glasgow-based artist, Trent Kim. It explores issues of equality and amalgamations of culture, through a number of musical memories and references. It has been performed around Scotland as a concert work (with accompanying prints by Trent), and as a performance installation, with light art, movement and pre-recorded sound. This performance is the culmination of a residency in Busan.

PUNKIT
Love Music Production/ Town Hall Symphony Hall
2pm, 9th July
Music For Youth Fringe Festival Tent, Centenary Square, Birmingham
PUNKIT is an explosive, fun, 20-minute participative music work for massed percussion written by award winning composer Stephen Deazley, featuring internationally renowned percussion soloist Joby Burgess. Premiered with 60 young people from Birmingham Schools. Commissioned by Bedford Creative Arts with funding from Arts Council of England.

Curious presents Ruth Mills: Self Determination
NEAT, sound and Woodend Barn
Woodend Barn, Banchory, Aberdeenshire AB31 5QA

Choreographer Ruth explores the arena of self agency through the eyes of a woman facing marriage on the day after Scotland’s independence referendum. A new musical score by Gerry Campbell deftly weaves musical motifs with spoken word.

Please note that this performance includes a small amount of flashing strobe effect.

Prices: £12, £8 Students, £43 Season Ticket for 4 performances July to Sept.
Booking info : Price includes a simple bowl of something hearty and delicious served in the Barn. Advance booking essential please!
Two Worlds Collide
Matthew Whiteside and Dominika Mayovich
R-Space Gallery

Opening and Artist talk 3pm, 13th June
11am to 5pm 13th June to 11th July

The artists will present an interactive cross-discipline exhibition consisting of six Audio-Visual works. Each has a specific emotion in mind, inspired by an area of real or imagined landscape and each painting has a motion triggered and minipulated sound design element using digital technology to create an interactive installation.

This exhibition is a co-commission with sound festival in Aberdeen, where it will be remounted in October, and is supported by the Lisburn Arts Advisory Committee.

Young Musicians International Double Bill, part of Music at Paxton festival
Live Music Now Scotland
7.30pm, 21st July
Paxton House, Berwickshire
The Music at Paxton festival welcomes two outstanding duos, from Vienna and Scotland respectively, to perform for a varied programme with a distinctly Viennese flavour.
Elisabeth Juen (clarinet) & Elena Ivanova (piano) will perform works by Brahms, Werner Schulze and Joseph Horovitz.

The Spencer-Strachan Duo, of Rachel Spencer (violin) and Duncan Strachan (cello) will perform works by Bach and Ravel, as well as a Live Music Now Scotland Commission, Edward McGuire's Dance Suite for Two.

Prices: £12 (£6)


Inchcolm New Music Ensemble - ‘In Concert’

6pm, 2nd July - Ardtornish House
2.30pm, 3rd July - Iona Abbey
7.30pm, 4th July - St. Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh

What will you hear?

……a concert representing the finest music from the rich heritage of Scottish Celtic plainchant, whilst introducing new vibrant music by Scottish based composers.

This concert is a cycle of Scottish music compositions all recently composed, punctuated and inspired by some of the ‘Inchcolm Antiphoner’, the plainchant written over 1000 years ago by the monks of Inchcolm, an island in the river Forth.

Commissioned and performed by the ‘Inchcolm New Music Ensemble’, the new
music group of Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.

Plainchant Inchcolm Antiphoner
Hearne Echoes of Inchcolm
Cresswell Pater Columba
Harrison Inchcolm Timepiece
King Everyone Suddenly Burst out Signing

The concert lasts approximately one hour.
Music Director: Steve King.
Prices: Ardtornish House - Admission free
Iona Abbey - ‘the performance is included in price of admission to the Abbey’ 

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