north east scotland’s festival of new music 21 Oct - 13 Nov 2011
www.sound-scotland.co.uk Date Time Location Event sound 2011 21 Oct-13 Nov Sat 29 Oct 10am-5pm Aberdeen Three Cities Project: workshop 1pm Aberdeen Curious Chamber Players Welcome to sound 2011. Once again sound will offer the opportunity to experience the exciting diversity of new music: from 3pm Aberdeen Sea Of Souls, a Salute to the Lifeboat Men of Fraserburgh established composers and performers to the very best of emerging local talent; from music for solo cello to music for 20 cassette recorders; from performances in large concert halls to events in intimate venues. 6pm Aberdeen Three Cities Project: performance 7.30pm Bieldside Curious Chamber Players * In response to popular demand, this year’s festival will include a weekend of vocal music with performances by both professional and amateur choirs and singers. Also featured within the festival will be artists and composers from Nordic Sun 30 Oct 2.30pm Cults Christopher Baxter, piano countries, celebrating the first stage in a three-way partnership between sound and organisations in Bergen and St Petersburg. Tues 1 Nov 7.30pm Aberdeen Roger B Williams, organ sound will open with the inaugural New Music Scotland showcase, which we are proud to be hosting. This weekend event Thurs 3 Nov 12.45pm Aberdeen Primrose Piano Quartet will allow emerging and established Scottish talent to present their work within the stimulating and challenging environment of a 7.30pm Aberdeen Jeremy Huw Williams, baritone weekend symposium. This will include the annual sound lecture, given this year by Professor Jonathan Cross of the University Fri 4 Nov 1.10pm Aberdeen Geoff Palmer, cello and Pete Stollery, electronics of Oxford under the provocative title New Music: Is Anybody Listening? We certainly hope you will be! 7pm Tarland Ross Whyte and Shenpen Chokyi 7.30pm Aberdeen BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra At a glance 8pm Kemnay Peter Johansson, piano Date Time Location Event 8pm Banchory King Creosote and Kid Canaveral Fri 21 Oct 7.30pm Banchory Red Note Ensemble Sat 5 Nov 1pm Aberdeen Geoff Palmer, cello and Pete Stollery, electronics Sat 22 Oct 10am Aberdeen Keynote speech: Professor Jonathan Cross 3pm Tarland Scott Dickinson, viola 11.20am Aberdeen Viridian Quartet 6.30pm Aberdeen Composer Portrait: Julian Anderson 12.30-4.30pm Aberdeen Ross Whyte Sun 6 Nov 11am Aberdeen Chapel Service 1pm Aberdeen Scottish Flute Trio and Sean Shibe, guitar 3pm Banchory Sebastian Stanley, piano 2pm Banff Dr Garden’s Nordic Notebook 6pm Aberdeen University of Aberdeen Music Prize Gala Concert 2.30pm Aberdeen Scottish Clarinet Quartet 7.30pm Aberdeen Aberdeen Sinfonietta 4.15pm Aberdeen Ensemble Thing Mon 7 Nov 7.30pm Aberdeen Elias Quartet Tues 8 Nov 7.30pm Aberdeen Auriga Wind Quintet of the Lapland Chamber Orchestra 6pm Banchory James Clapperton, piano and Sven Erga, electronics 8pm Banchory Bill Thompson and Claire M Singer 7.30pm Aberdeen JAM: sound theatricals Wed 9 Nov 11am-1pm Aberdeen Auriga Wind Quintet and Geoff Palmer: masterclass 7.30pm Aboyne Finzi Quartet Thurs 10 Nov 12.45pm Aberdeen juice vocal ensemble 7.30pm Huntly Hoot 7.30pm Bieldside Dr Garden’s Nordic Notebook * 7.30pm Banchory Soundings: dance/music quadruple bill 7.30pm Bieldside juice vocal ensemble * 8.30pm Banchory Red Note Ensemble and Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra Fri 11 Nov 1.10pm Aberdeen Margaret Preston, flute and Pandy Arthur, soprano 11pm Aberdeen Hanna Tuulikki and Matthew Collings 7.30pm Methlick juice vocal ensemble Sun 23 Oct 10.45am Aberdeen Mu˚stek 7.30pm Aberdeen Stavanger Vocalensemble with Gaute Vikdal, trombone 11.15am Aberdeen Edit-Point and Graeme Truslove, electroacoustic music and Elisabeth Kristensen Eide, flutes 12 noon Aberdeen James Wyness and Patrick M Keenan 8pm Banchory Film: Sunrise, with live music by Graeme Stephen Quintet 1.30pm Aberdeen Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo Sat 12 Nov 1pm Aberdeen Stavanger Vocalensemble 2.45pm Aberdeen Mr McFall’s Chamber and Thomas Strønen, percussion/electronics 3pm Blairs Dr Garden’s Nordic Notebook 4pm Banchory NYOS Futures and Joe Boyd, french horn 7.30pm Aberdeen EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble and Endymion 7.30pm Aberdeen Scottish Ensemble Sun 13 Nov 10am-2.30pm Aberdeen A day with EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble: workshop Tue 25 Oct 7pm Aberdeen Contrechamps & Scènes with Adrian Moore and Pete Stollery 3pm Aberdeen A day with EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble: performance Wed 26 Oct 5.15pm Aberdeen University of Aberdeen Student Sinfonietta 4pm Aberdeen Stonehaven Chorus and Aberdeen Sinfonietta Thurs 27 Oct 12.45pm Aberdeen Margaret Preston, flute, Karan Raitt, soprano 8pm Aberdeen Con Anima Chamber Choir and Roger B Williams, organ 1pm Mintlaw Curious Chamber Players At a glance - Key to Special Events * Details for Newton Dee Concerts, see p16. 7pm Fraserburgh Sea Of Souls, a Salute to the Lifeboat Men of Fraserburgh New Music Scotland Event Music Prize Weekend Event 7.30pm Aberdeen Curious Chamber Players Nordic Strand Event Vocal Weekend Event 7.30pm Aberdeen Scottish National Jazz Orchestra and Bobby Wellins, saxophone
Fri 28 Oct 11am-1pm Aberdeen Curious Chamber Players: masterclass 7.30pm Portsoy Curious Chamber Players Fri 28 Oct – Sun 30 Oct Aberdeen sound @ Peacock Visual Arts Line up includes The Boats, Patrick M Keenan, White Material, Margaret Preston Indian Red Lopez, Kasule, Luxury Car, Fiona Soe Paing, Capitals, © Danny Lawson Matthew Collings, Jo Mango, Conquering Animal Sound, Frog Pocket, Trumpets of Death, The Haxan Cloak, Debutant, Seas 2 1 Starry and Emily Scott.
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4 Saturday 22 October Red Note Ensemble’s Noisy Nights Sunday 23 October James Wyness and 8.30pm and Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra 12 noon Patrick M Keenan Woodend Barn, Banchory Noisy Nights is a regular Red Note event that gives audiences the chance Johnston Hall, James Wyness proposes a series of four compositions entitled zenconcrète, All tickets £5 to listen to (and compose for) some of the best musicians in Scotland. The University of Aberdeen which investigates the quiet, subtle and incidental sounds of the prepared instruments for this Noisy Night will be flute, cello and clarinet and the evening will Donations instruments taken from a series of recorded improvisations. feature new music created by Go Compose workshop participants (see p16). Patrick M Keenan’s audio installation 4M explores sonification of unwanted The Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra performs the world première of a newly e-mail. Using a Max/MSP patch, various components of ‘spam’ are mapped commissioned work by a member of the band to explore the parallels, contrasts, to different musical parameters to create real-time generative music. overlaps and ambiguities between improvisation and composition within a large group context. Sunday 23 October Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo Hanna Tuulikki and 1.30pm In 20 Cassette Recorders, portable recorders are handed out to the audience Saturday 22 October inviting them to reflect on the cassette culture, the changing nature of the Johnston Hall, 11pm Matthew Collings recording media, obsolescence, memory, difference and repetition. University of Aberdeen The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen Hanna Tuulikki’s Away with the Birds focuses primarily on the imitation Donations All tickets £5 of bird-song within folk traditions. Matthew Collings’ Flags of a Dead Ship for electric guitars, laptop and room acoustics music spans the divide between Steve Reich and Sunday 23 October Mr McFall’s Chamber and Thomas avant-garde guitar music. 2.45pm Strønen, percussion/electronics Sunday 23 October M˚ustek The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen Thomas Strønen Musique Métrique for violin, viola, cello, double bass, All tickets £5 percussion and electronics. 10.45am Socks and Ammo for piano, percussion and live electronics, is a new work by Lauren Sarah Hayes and Christos Michalakos investigating novel Norwegian jazz drummer and percussionist Thomas Strønen uses electronic Johnston Hall, methods of communication between laptop and performer, as well as loops to do elaborate solo performances on various exotic metal objects: University of Aberdeen between performers in an improvisational setting. Musique Métrique is his only work for strings to date. Donations Sunday 23 October NYOS Futures 4pm and Joe Boyd, Woodend Barn, Banchory french horn £11, £3 students, under 18 and jobseekers Jacob Concerto for Horn Andrew Downes Sonata In association with Woodend Music Society For Horn and Piano Cherubini Sonata 1 Ian Anderson Scenes from the Afterlives (World Première) Peter Longworth Blueprint Mu˚stek (World Première) Strauss Nocturno NYOS Futures © Renzo Mazzolini Mozart Rondo Viridan Quartet © Suzy Glass
Sunday 23 October Scottish Ensemble and 7.30pm Alasdair Beatson, piano Sunday 23 October Edit-Point and Graeme Truslove, Music Hall, Aberdeen Martin Suckling Three Venus Haiku £10, students £5, Stravinsky Concerto in D 11.15am electroacoustic music U16 free with paying adult Mendelssohn Concerto for violin, piano and strings in d minor Stravinsky (arr Morton) Concertino Johnston Hall, Timothy Cooper κάκτος Promoter: University of Aberdeen Matthew Whiteside Organic Construct Mendelssohn Concerto for Violin, Piano and Strings in d minor Donations Louise Rossiter Breaking Point There will be a post-concert conversation with pianist, Alasdair Beatson. Graeme Truslove Portals This is free to ticket holders. 6 5 Dr Garden’s Nordic Notebook Saturday 22 October Thursday 27 October Sea Of Souls 2pm with Sally Garden, mezzo-soprano and Donald Hawksworth, piano 7pm A Salute to the Lifeboat Men of Fraserburgh Duff House, Banff The Museum of Scottish £6, £4 conc Viewpoints and voices on northern identity, with songs, writings and New music by Joanna Nicholson, clarinet, Patrick M Keenan, electronics, Lighthouses, Fraserburgh Robert Aitken, bagpipes and young workshop participants, as well as new discoveries gathered in Norway and Scotland. Music by Grieg, Free In association with: Nine Days Piobaireachd for clarinet by William Sweeney. Irgens-Jensen, Kvandal, Sally Garden and more. In association with:
Saturday 22 October Finzi Quartet 7.30pm Artur Akshelyan String Quartet in Memoriam Thursday 27 October Curious Chamber Players Aboyne Community Theatre Bartok Quartet No 1 £12, £10 club members, free under 18 Mozart Quartet K421 7.30pm Programme to include: Schubert Quartet in a minor: Rosamunde Promoter: King’s College Chapel, Tomi Räisänen New Work (World Première) University of Aberdeen Axel Rudebeck New work (World Première) £8, £5 conc, £2 students/under 18 Bent Sørensen Melancholy Dances for guitar Saturday 22 October Hoot Promoter: 7.30pm Helen MacLeod, harp and Emma Wilkins, flute The Stewart’s Hall, Huntly John Corigliano Voyage £8, £5 conc, £1 for schoolchildren Piazzolla Nightclub 1960 from L’histoire du Tango Scottish National Jazz Orchestra Takemitsu Towards the Sea Thursday 27 October Promoter: and music by Lutosławski, Hovhannes, Massenet, Debussy, Croft, 7.30pm with Tommy Smith, director Shaposhnikov and Rorem. Music Hall, Aberdeen and Bobby Wellins, saxophonist £17.50, £12.50 conc, £5 under Bobby Wellins The Culloden Moor Suite (World Première) Tuesday 25 October Contrechamps & Scènes 26, free under 16 + booking fee Bobby Wellins Caledonian Suite (World Première) 7pm with Adrian Moore and Pete Stollery Promoter: Institute of Medical Sciences, This event sees the launch of two new DVD-Audio publications by Moore and University of Aberdeen Free, no booking required Stollery from the Montréal-based label empreintes DIGITALes. The concert will feature electroacoustic music, introduced by both composers and In association with: diffused over a multi-channel loudspeaker diffusion system. Friday 28 October Curious 11am - 1pm Chamber University of Aberdeen Room 055, MacRobert Building, Players Wednesday 26 October University of Aberdeen 5.15pm Student Sinfonietta Free, no booking required Performance Masterclass Curious Chamber Players © Annika Falkuggla Johnston Hall, Sibelius Andante Festivo University of Aberdeen Free, no booking required Joan Cumming New Work (World Première) Scott Matheson New Work (World Première) Friday 28 October Curious Chamber Players Promoter: Offenbach Overture to the Underworld 7.30pm Programme to include: Salmon Bothy, Portsoy Rei Munakata New Work (World Première) Margaret Preston, flute, Karan Raitt, £8, £6 conc, £2 under 16 Eivind Buene Delta Ground Duo for violin and guitar Thursday 27 October In association with: Paula af Malmborg Ward To-tanongo-go! for flute 12.45pm soprano and Roger B Williams, piano Cowdray Hall, Aberdeen A spooky swashbuckling event suitable for the whole family with music from Free, no booking required the movies and symphonic repertoire to feature works by Berlioz, Mizzy, Klaus Badelt, Nobuo Uematsu, Patrick Carrabré and Margaret Preston. Promoter: Lunchbreak Concerts at Cowdray Hall Fri 28 - Sun 30 October sound @ Peacock Visual Arts Doors Friday 7.30pm, A festival within a festival featuring MORE of the best in new music in Sat - Sun 3.30pm Scotland (and a few from further afield) over three days in the intimate surroundings of Peacock Visual Arts Gallery. Line up includes Curious Chamber Players Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen Thursday 27 October The Boats, Patrick M Keenan, White Material, Indian Red Lopez, Sweden's Curious Chamber Players showcase brand new works by Tickets: £9 Friday, £10 Saturday, 1pm £10 Sunday, £22 weekend pass Kasule, Luxury Car, Fiona Soe Paing, The Haxan Cloak, Capitals, Scandinavian composers written in close collaboration with the ensemble, Matthew Collings, Conquering Animal Sound, Frog Pocket, Trumpets Aden Country Park, Mintlaw which comprises flute, clarinet, violin and guitar as well as newly invented for all three days in advance Donations of Death, Debutant, Seas, Starry, Jo Mango and Emily Scott. sound objects. Programme to include: Promoter: In association with: Rei Munakata New work (World Première) 8 7 Ørjan Matre New Work (World Première) Eivind Buene Delta Ground Duo for violin and guitar Saturday 29 October Curious Chamber Players 1pm Programme to include: Aberdeen Art Gallery Malin Bång New Work for bass flute and sound objects (World Première) Thursday 3 November Jeremy Huw Williams, Free, no booking required Ørjan Matre New Work (World Première) baritone In association with Henrik Strindberg The 5th String for violin (UK Première) 7.30pm Lunchbreak Concerts at Cowdray Hall Paul Mealor King’s College Chapel Of Night and the Stars (Scottish Première) Mark Bowden The Soul Candle (Scottish Première) £8, £5 conc, £2 students and Michael Berkeley Hollow Fires (Scottish Première) under 18 Immanuel Voigt Im Sturm (World Première) Promoter: Monica Webster Go Tell It (World Première) Saturday 29 October Sea Of Souls Joan Cumming On a Fine Morning (World Première) A Salute to the Lifeboat Men of Fraserburgh Paul Murray Misty Mountain (World Première) 3pm Ed Jones The Dying Christian to his Soul (World Première) Aberdeen Maritime Museum New music by Joanna Nicholson, clarinet, Patrick M Keenan, electronics, Cecilia McDowall Christmas Eve at Sea (Scottish Première) Robert Aitken, bagpipes and young workshop participants, as well as Free, no booking required John Metcalf In Time of Daffodils (Scottish Première) Nine Days Piobaireachd for clarinet by William Sweeney. In association with Sonsie Music and Lunchbreak Concerts at Cowdray Hall Friday 4 November Geoff Palmer, cello 1.10pm and Pete Stollery, Three Cities Project Institute of Medical Sciences, Saturday 29 October University of Aberdeen electronics Workshop 10am-5pm As part of the partnership between sound, Music Factory (Bergen) and Free, no booking required John Tavener Thrinos Sound Ways (St Petersburg), the Three Cities Project brings together Performance 6pm composers, musicians and communities in Aberdeen, Bergen and St In association with Kaija Saariaho Petals Petersburg. The main aim is for participants to learn about and engage with Institute of Medical Sciences J.S. Bach Suite No.4 in E flat BWV 1010 MacRobert Building, aural culture from each of the three cities. Using sounds recorded in Bergen University of Aberdeen and Aberdeen, participants will create pieces of music and sound art working Free with editing and transformation software. Jeremy Huw Williams © Tommy Ga Ken Wan Led by Pete Stollery and Ross Whyte, the workshop is open to anyone, no previous experience required. To participate, email [email protected] An informal performance will take place at 6pm. The concert will include Friday 4 November Ross Whyte and Shenpen Chokyi new pieces created for the Three Cities Project by Suk-Jun Kim, Pete A Private Space Stollery and Ross Whyte as well as music and sound art created during the 7pm workshop held earlier in the day. Left Bank, Tarland A Private Space is a web-based sound-art project by Ross Whyte and Free, no booking required Shenpen Chokyi. It is designed to allow visitors to ‘journey’ to various Sunday 30 October Christopher Baxter, piano Promoter: imagined locations on a map and experience surreal sonic environments. The opening night will include the official launch of the site along with a live 2.30pm J.S. Bach Prelude and Fugue in B major performance from Ross Whyte. Cowell Aeolian Harp Cults Parish Church, Aberdeen Exhibitions will run until Monday 7 November. Beethoven Piano Sonata in A major Op 101 Opening hours: daily 11am – 5pm £6, £5 conc Cage In a Landscape Promoter: Crumb A Little Suite for Christmas, A.D. 1979 Ligeti Etudes Friday 4 November Peter Johansson, piano Roger B 8pm Préludes by Debussy, Ravel, Szymanowski and Bach Tuesday 1 November Mira Linda Håkanson New Work (World Première) Kemnay Church Centre Studies by Rachmaninoff 7.30pm Williams, organ £9, £7 conc, £1 under 16 and Mikael Edlund Cadenza from the lost Jugglery full-time students King’s College Chapel, Tim Raymond Alleluia on the Pipes Thea Musgrave Snapshots University of Aberdeen (World Première) Promoter: Inverurie Music Beethoven Sonata op 110 Free, no booking required Claire Singer Layers and Levels Promoter: (World Première) King Creosote Ligeti Ricercare © Steve Gullick Judith Weir Wild Mossy Mountains and music by Frescobaldi Friday 4 November King Creosote and Kid Canaveral Thursday 3 November Primrose Piano 8pm Nominated for a Mercury Music Prize for 'Diamond Mine', his album collaboration with Jon Hopkins, King Creosote returns to sound with 12.45pm Quartet Woodend Barn, Banchory £14, £12 conc, £5 under 16 in his mix of folky pop loveliness; heartbreaking, inspirational and upbeat in equal measures. He will be supported by Scottish four-piece Kid Primrose Piano Quartet © Richard Hughes Cowdray Hall, Aberdeen Robin Ireland Pairings for String Duos advance (+£1 on the door) Fauré Piano Quartet in c minor Canaveral and their uplifting and melodic indie pop. Free, no booking required Promoter: Promoter: Lunchbreak Concerts at Cowdray Hall 10 9 Saturday 5 November Geoff Palmer, cello and Music Prize Weekend 1pm Pete Stollery, electronics Aberdeen Art Gallery Britten Second Suite for Cello, Op. 80 In association with University of Aberdeen Music Prize and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Free, no booking required Matthew Whiteside Dichroic Light I In association with Jonathan Harvey Ricercare una melodia Lunchbreak Concerts at Cowdray Hall Kaija Saariaho Petals
Saturday 5 November Scott Dickinson, viola BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Ligeti Loop Friday 4 November 3pm Ligeti Hora Lunga 7.30pm Ruxandra Donose, mezzo-soprano and Ilan Volkov, conductor Magnus Robb Skyn Migvie Church, Tarland Stravinsky Elegy Wagner Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde £6, £4 conc Music Hall, Aberdeen Julian Anderson Eden Jonathan Harvey Chant Tickets from £9.50 to £20 Berlioz La Mort de Cléopâtre with the support of Astor of Hever Trust Britten Elegy Julian Anderson Prayer Promoter: BBC Scottish Symphony Sibelius Symphony No.2 Orchestra and Aberdeen Performing Arts The concert is scheduled to be recorded for future broadcast on BBC Radio 3. Come equipped with warm clothes!
Sunday 6 November Sebastian Stanley, piano 3pm Haydn Sonata in C major Hob XVI:50 Schubert Impromptu D935 No 3 in B flat major Composer Portrait: Julian Anderson Woodend Barn, Banchory Granados El amor y la muerte: Ballade from Goyescas Saturday 5 November £11, £3 students, Granados El Pelele Escena Goyesca 6.30pm with Scott Dickinson, viola, Simon Smith, piano under 18 and jobseekers Albeniz Iberia Suite Book 1 and Joanna Nicholson, clarinet Thea Musgrave Snapshots King’s College Chapel, Promoter: Woodend Music Society Nikolai Kapustin Etude in minor 2nds Aberdeen Julian Anderson will present a selection of his own music, interviewed by Wagner/Liszt Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde £8, £5 conc, Dr Edward Campbell, lecturer in musicology at the University of Aberdeen. Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No.12 £2 students and under 18 Prayer for solo viola (2009) Piano Etudes Nos. 1-3 for solo piano (1998) The Bearded Lady for piano and clarinet (1994) Sunday 6 November Aberdeen Sinfonietta 7.30pm Garry Walker, conductor, Chapel Service Music Hall, Aberdeen Lyn Fletcher, violin and Sunday 6 November £12, £10 conc, £5 students, Nicholas Trygstad, cello with the Chapel Choir of King’s College and David Smith, organ free under 16 11am Peter Maxwell Davies Chat Moss King’s College, Aberdeen Paul Mealor Ubi Caritas Promoter: Brahms Double Concerto Free, no booking required Arvo Pärt The Beatitudes Dvorˇák New World Symphony
University of Aberdeen Sunday 6 November Monday 7 November Elias Quartet 6pm Music Prize 7.30pm Sally Beamish Reed Stanzas Elias String Quartet © Benjamin Ealovega Cowdray Hall, Aberdeen Gala Concert Haydn Quartet in C major Op 20 No 2 £10, £5 conc Free (limited booking Beethoven Quartet in B flat Major Op 130; Große Fuge Op 133 Members of the BBC Scottish Symphony on 01224 273233 or Cowdray Hall, Aberdeen Orchestra will perform five new pieces for any [email protected]) Promoter: Aberdeen combination of Trumpet and String Quartet, Chamber Music Concerts specifically written for the Music Prize. The Julian Anderson © Maurice Foxall winner of the prize will be announced by competition judge, Julian Anderson, and will receive a £5,000 prize in the form of a Tuesday 8 November Auriga Wind Quintet of commission to write a new piece for the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. 7.30pm the Lapland Chamber Orchestra King’s College Chapel, Azusa Yomogida (Japan) Autana III Kalevi Aho Quintet University of Aberdeen Peteris Vasks Music for a Deceased Friend Marc Garcia Victoria (Spain) Plastic Trio £8, £5 conc, £2 students and under 18 Shai Cohen (Israel) Circles of Time Geoff Palmer Auriga puhallinkvintetille (UK Première) Promoter: Zvonimir Nagy (USA) Nielsen Quintet Ayres 12 11 Christophe Looten (France) Quintet Ilan Volkov, principal guest conductor Ilan Volkov, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Tuesday 8 November Burning Harpsichord Series: Vocal Weekend 8pm Bill Thompson and Claire M Singer Woodend Barn, Banchory Bill Thompson’s work involves the combination of found objects, field recordings Thursday 10 November juice vocal £10, £8 conc, £5 under 16 in (sound and video), repurposed live electronics and digital media to create sound 12.45pm ensemble advance (+£1 on the door) installations and compositions for live performances. He will be joined by Scottish Promoter: composer and cellist Claire M Singer in a live electronics set. Cowdray Hall, Aberdeen Programme to include: Free, no booking required Damien Harron When Birds Do Sing In association with Anna Meredith Heal You Lunchbreak Concerts at Cowdray Hall Roxanna Panufnik Faint Praise Mica Levi Never Adore Jim Moray The Unquiet Grave Wednesday 9 November Auriga Wind Quintet 11am-1pm of the Lapland juice vocal ensemble Friday 11 November Margaret Preston, flute © Andy Furlow Room 055, MacRobert Building, Chamber Orchestra 1.10pm and Pandy Arthur, soprano University of Aberdeen Free entry, no booking required and Geoff Palmer Institute of Medical Sciences, John Corigliano Selection of Folk Songs University of Aberdeen Toru Takemitsu Voice for solo flute Promoter: Composition Masterclass Free, no booking required Nobuo Uematsu / Kazushige Nojima Suteki da ne In association with Margaret Preston Tam O’ Shanter (World Première) Institute of Medical Sciences Trad (arr. Preston) Mine eyes are now closing to rest Trad (arr. Preston) Crimson petal
Michael Popper © Maria Falconer Soundings Thursday 10 November 7.30pm dance/music quadruple bill Friday 11 November juice vocal ensemble Michael Popper, choreographer/dancer and Simon Smith, piano 7.30pm Programme to include: Woodend Barn, Banchory Kerry Andrew Correctospective 1 (for Vaxtang) Lullaby for the Witching Hour £10, £8 conc, £5 under 16 in Haddo House, Methlick Sarah Dacey (trad arr.) Cruel Mother Myra Hess’ JS Bach £10, £8 conc, £2 students, advance (+£1 on the door) Set to s transcription of ’s Jesus bleibet meine Freude, Elisabeth Lutyens Of the Snow Correctospective is a growing collection of choreographic miniatures. jobseekers and under 18 In association with: Gavin Bryars Io Amai Sempre In association with: Smallpetitklein Dance Company November from Falling Man Anna Meredith Heal You On music by Scanner (Robin Rimbaud), this female solo explores the impact Roxanna Panufnik Faint Praise of 9/11 on those who were left behind as they struggle to come to terms with Stavanger Vocalensemble their grief and loss. © Erik Jørgensen Rosalind Masson, choreographer/dancer and Jan Hendrickse, sound artist Tape Piece Friday 11 November Stavanger Vocalensemble Using a composed sound score and adhesive tape as a static cultural Gaute Vikdal, trombone and Elisabeth Kristensen Eide, flutes presence, Tape Piece explores the relationship between physical action, space 7.30pm and sound through movement and live processing. Bodvar Drotninghaug Moe Bukkehornlåt (Fenugreek song) St Mary’s Cathedral, Aberdeen Thomas Tallis Salvator mundi Michael Popper, dancer/bass, Clea Friend, cello and Simon Smith, piano £10, £8 conc, £2 students, Arne Nordheim Jeg spiller The Return of the Snark Nigel Osborne and Michael Popper REMEMBERING...... FORGETTING under 18 and jobseekers for solo trombone and electronics (Scottish Première) Arvo Pärt Magnificat Osborne and Popper’s second working of their brutal and tender tribute to Kazuo Fukshima MEI the poet Esenin. Knut Nystedt Peace I leave with you Eric Withacre Water Night Sally Beamish Highland Haiku (Scottish Première) Friday 11 November Film: Sunrise, A Song of Two Humans Saturday 12 November Stavanger Vocalensemble 8pm with live music by Graeme Stephen Quintet 1pm arr: Per H. Indrehus Bruremarsj fra Østerdalen Bodvar Drotninghaug Moe (Fenugreek song) Woodend Barn, Banchory Award-winning Aberdeen-born guitarist Graeme Stephen has composed Bukkehornlåt Aberdeen Art Gallery Henning Sommerro Amen Jesus han skal råde £12, £10 conc, £5 under 16 in a powerful new score that brings a radically modern perspective to Frank advance (+£1 on the door) Free, no booking required Grieg Våren (Spring) Murnau’s 1927 visual masterpiece Sunrise, harnessing influences from various Magnar Åm “Verdsmedvitet” (Scottish Première) Promoter: musical styles including folk, classical and jazz. In association with Lunchbreak Concerts at Cowdray Hall Eric Withacre Water Night Bjørn Kruse Ro, ro Lavring (Scottish Première) Orlando Gough Vogel (Scottish Première)
The Stavanger Vocalensemble concerts are supported by Aberdeen 14 13 City Council through their International Twinning Projects fund. 15 Saturday 12November Saturday 12November Workshop 10am-2.30pm St Machar’s Cathedral,Aberdeen £10, £8conc,£1students/under16 £10, £8 conc, £2 students, under £10, £8conc,£2students,under Sunday 13November Sunday 13November Promoter: ConAnimaChamberChoir St Mary’s Cathedral,Aberdeen Sunday 13November St Machar’s Cathedral,Aberdeen Performance 3pm St Mary’s Chapel,Blairs with thesupportofAberdeen In association with Stonehaven In associationwithStonehaven University ofAberdeen and District Choral Society and DistrictChoralSociety 18 andjobseekers Endowments Trust In associationwith: In associationwith: Johnston Hall, £10, £5conc £6, £4conc 7.30pm 4pm 8pm 3pm Free
’s Renaissance PoemsandinPaulMealor ’s composers works aresetagainstcontemporaryinterpretationsofthesametextsby concert, exploresmusicofloveandpassion.ItalianEnglishRenaissance Madrigali: Fire&Roses,ConAnima’s secondCDwhichwillbelaunchedinthis with PaulMealor, conductor Con AnimaChamberChoir Fredrik SixtenRequiem Stewart Kempster, baritoneandJohnHearne, conductor with WilmaMacDougall,soprano, and AberdeenSinfonietta Stonehaven Chorus An informalperformancewilltakeplaceat3pm. To participate,[email protected] and working onHowardSkempton’s A participativesingingworkshopforallinterestedinchoralsinging, with JamesWeeks, conductor A day withEXAUDI Vocal Ensemble Arvo Pärt Philip Venables (ScottishPremière) Newwork Arvo PärtSumma Andrew Hamilton Arvo PärtFratres James Weeks with JamesWeeks, conductor and Endymion EXAUDI VocalEnsemble Jensen, discoveries gatheredinNorwayandScotland.MusicbyGrieg, Viewpoints andvoicesonnorthernidentity, withsongs,writingsandnew and DonaldHawksworth,piano with SallyGarden,mezzo-soprano Dr Garden’s NordicNotebook ’s Judith Weir’s Kvandal, Stabat Mater Madrigali: Six ‘fire songs’ on Italian Morten LauridseninhisMadrigali:Six‘firesongs’onItalian (Scottish Première) (ScottishPremière) New work
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EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble © David Jensen Thursday 10Novemberat7.30pm:juicevocalensemble Saturday 29Octoberat7.30pm:CuriousChamberPlayers with SallyGarden,mezzo-sopranoandDonaldHawksworth,piano Saturday 22Octoberat7.30pm:DrGarden’s NordicNotebook During Newton DeeisaCamphillcommunityinBieldside,Aberdeen. Newton DeeConcerts offer reducedpriceticketsformanyperformancesschoolchildren,pleasegetintouch. website Curious ChamberPlayers,juicevocalensemble,....Formoredetailspleaseseeour During Schools Workshops sound theywillbehostingthreeconcertsattheirownvenue,MichaelChapel. the Scottish Youth Music Initiative , the following musicians and composers will lead workshops in schools: sound, thefollowingmusiciansandcomposerswillleadworkshopsinschools: www.sound-scotland.co.uk [email protected] . We canalso Woodend Barn,Banchory Lighthouses, Fraserburgh The Museum of Scottish The MuseumofScottish 10am-12.30pm 20-22 October 20-22 10-14 October August 2011- In associationwith: In associationwith: with thesupportof May 2012 Promoter: Free £10
Contact pieces assubmissionsfortheirHighers coursework. 22 October (seep5forinfo).Studentswill beabletousetheircompleted recorded andperformedaspartofRed Note’s Noisy NightonSaturday Note Ensembletocreatetheirown,original piecesofmusicwhichwillbe work withprofessionalcomposersand musiciansfromtheScottishRed Over thespaceofthreedays,participants aged13-18willbeableto Go Compose Contact [email protected]. The MaritimeMuseuminAberdeenonSaturday29October(seep7-9forinfo). concert attheMuseumofScottishLighthousesonThursday27Octoberand and Workshops foryoungpeopleaged9andover, leadbyJoannaNicholson A SalutetotheLifeboatMenofFraserburgh Sea OfSoulsworkshop week teachers toleadsimilarmusicworkshopswithminimalexternalinput. The aimoftheprojectistoproduceatoolkitenablingprimaryschool May 2012combiningmusic,wordsandmovement. The projectwillendwithaperformancedevisedbythechildrenin creatively throughexploringmusicandsound. in Peterheadencouragingthechildrentoengagetheirimaginations and musicianJoannaNicholsonwillworkwithtwoprimaryschools In thispilotmusiceducationproject,composerKennethDempster Drilling Sailing, Whaling, . Compose your own music to perform in the Sea Of Souls Robert Aitken.ComposeyourownmusictoperformintheSeaOfSouls [email protected] for detailsandbookings.
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16 Ticket and Venue Information Travel and Accommodation Tickets can either be bought through Aberdeen Box Office or, in some cases, directly at the venue (in which case telephone numbers given below). Hotels Travel information We are pleased to be associated with the Aberdeen by rail Douglas Hotel to offer reduced price hotel rooms from There is an overnight sleeper service from London to Aberdeen Box Office Thursdays to Sundays during the festival. Aberdeen, hourly trains from Glasgow and Edinburgh or direct services from London, Birmingham, In person at the Music Hall or His Majesty’s Theatre, 9.30am-6pm, Mon-Sat, Plymouth, Newcastle, York. Single Room £45 B&B or at The Lemon Tree 11.30am-2.30pm, Fri-Sun. by road By phone 01224 641122, 9.30am-6pm, Mon-Sat. Twin/Double Room £60 B&B Aberdeen is accessible by road from Edinburgh or Glasgow in around two and a half hours. From Glasgow Online 24/7 at www.boxofficeaberdeen.com. Please contact [email protected] take the M8/M80-A80/M9-A9 north to Perth or from Edinburgh the A90-M90 north to Perth, and then the A90 trunk road to Aberdeen. Alternatively from Perth, take the Aberdeen Arts Centre The Lemon Tree more scenic A93 over Glenshee and via Braemar. 33 King Street, Aberdeen AB24 5AA 5 West North Street, Aberdeen AB24 5AT by air Aberdeen Art Gallery 01224 641122 Schoolhill, Aberdeen AB10 1FQ Aberdeen Airport is situated 7 miles north west of the MacRobert Building city. It is served by flights from throughout the UK, Aberdeen Maritime Museum University of Aberdeen, King Street, including daily flights to and from London, as well as Shiprow, Aberdeen AB11 5BY Aberdeen AB24 5UA international destinations such as Amsterdam, Dublin,
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