Scottish Ensemble 2017-18 Season Brochure
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2017-18 SEASON 2017 2018 aug Jan Edinburgh International Festival RCS Week Scottish Ensemble (SE) is a group of Performances exploring Robert Burns Coaching at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland outstanding musicians who champion scottish Mull Residency RCS Fridays at One music written for strings, crossing Three days of participatory events and performances Performance featuring Mozart and Tippett genres, styles, periods, and art forms to ensemble Perth Piano Sundays sep Dundee Residency make new connections. Performance featuring Dvořák, Mozart and Tippett Four days of participatory events and performances 2017-18 What really drives us is a desire to Silver Screen Sounds Feb Prophecy present classical music from a different Concert tour featuring film soundtracks and scores Concert tour with mezzo-soprano Christine Rice At The Art School perspective by creating imaginative Performance with percussionist Colin Currie mar Court and Country and innovative live experiences, often The Cumnock Tryst Concert tour with Chris Stout & Catriona McKay in collaboration with other artists, Performances as Artists in Residence which shed new light on the genre. apr Goldberg Variations - oct The Power Of Five ternary patterns for insomnia We aim to reach as many different Concert tour featuring quintets by Mozart and Brahms Performances in Washington D.C. people as possible, giving them the Goldberg Variations - chance to experience and enjoy music may Dumfries Residency ternary patterns for insomnia in a way that’s relevant to them. Four days of participatory events and performances Performances in Shanghai Mozart by Numbers For this reason you’re as likely to find Concert tour inspired by Mozart nov Inverness Residency us playing in a prestigious concert Four days of participatory events and performances jul Goldberg Variations - hall or international music festival Tabula Rasa ternary patterns for insomnia as a supermarket, or your local pub; Performances with theatre company Vanishing Point Performances in London what links each and every event is a commitment to live performance of dec A Winter Chorale: Concerts by Candlelight the highest quality. Concert tour with vocal ensemble I Fagiolini what a note from we do jon I think it’s fair to say that our fast- CONCERTS changing world seems to be on an increasingly unpredictable Live performance is at the core of each trajectory. The human capacity to season. In each concert programme, we PARTICIPATION navigate and negotiate this journey present well-known pieces alongside successfully seems equally uncertain new or more rarely-performed works, We are committed to sharing the at present. Something I’ve been with the aim of introducing people to power and joy to be found in both thinking about recently is whether something brilliant which they might listening to and performing music, artists and musicians can contribute not have heard before. particularly within communities and meaningfully to this conversation. with individuals who have less access As well as touring across Scotland and to musical provision. Our Residency Music can be experienced as a real- in London, as the UK’s leading string programme sees the whole band set time exchange between individuals orchestra we’re also in demand across up camp in a Scottish city or location striving to integrate different elements the globe and regularly perform at and put on three or four days of events - harmony and counterpoint, emotion prestigious venues and festivals all over which take music out of the concert and intellect, tradition and innovation, the world. hall and into the community. We also the individual and the collective. The provide a season-wide programme magic that can happen during a live of creative learning events, from performance is, in part, the sharing COLLABORATION coaching for students at conservatoire of that unique moment when the level to bespoke workshops for school audience, musicians and music are One of our main passions as a group is children. jonathan morton brought together through this quest connecting with other artists - whether Artistic Director & Leader for joyful equilibrium. it’s musicians from other genres, or artists from other fields - and creating Many people find these moments exciting, thought-provoking, bold live powerful, illuminating, occasionally experiences which blur the boundaries transcendent. Are there important between genres and forms. Not only is it liza johnson insights here that could perhaps be fascinating to see what happens on stage, Violin shared within the wider context of it also places classical music in a different current human experience? It’s a context, exploring it without labels as question that I keep returning to, and well as opening it up to new people. laura ghiroViolin one that I hope to explore with you at ” our events this season. 5 tv GLASGOW in your Also appearing in... 15 Sep 2017 Silver Screen Sounds p11 Tramway cumnock 27 Sep 2017 At The Art School p12 28 Sep - The Cumnock Tryst p13 Glasgow School of Art Union 1 Oct 2017 Various venues area 13 Oct 2017 The Power Of Five p15 Glasgow Cathedral 22-24 Nov 2017 Tabula Rasa p19 greenock ABERDEEN EDINBURGH Tramway 14 Mar 2018 Court & Country p27 6 Dec 2017 A Winter Chorale p21 12 Oct 2017 The Power Of Five p15 17-18 Aug 2017 EIF p8 The Beacon Wellington Church Town and County Hall Scottish National Portrait Gallery 12 Jan 2018 Fridays at One p22 mull 7 Dec 2017 A Winter Chorale p21 16 Sep 2017 Silver Screen Sounds p11 Royal Conservatoire of Scotland St Machar’s Cathedral The Queen’s Hall 31 Aug - Mull Residency p8 21 Feb 2018 Prophecy p25 14 Oct 2017 The Power Of Five p15 2 Sep 2017 Wellington Church DUMFRIES Greyfriars Kirk 31 Aug 2017 The Power Of Five p15 31 May 2018 Mozart By Numbers p29 8-11 Nov 2017 Tabula Rasa p19 Druimfin New Auditorium, 17 Oct 2017 The Power Of Five p15 Traverse Theatre Glasgow Royal Concert Halls Theatre Royal 5 Dec 2017 A Winter Chorale p21 15 Mar 2018 Court & Country p27 Greyfriars Kirk Theatre Royal 20 Feb 2018 Prophecy p25 INVERNESS LONDON 25 May 2018 Mozart By Numbers p29 The Queen’s Hall Theatre Royal 1 Jun 2018 Mozart By Numbers p29 10 Sep 2017 Silver Screen Sounds p11 15 Oct 2017 The Power of Five p15 24-27 May 2018 Dumfries Residency p30 The Queen’s Hall Eden Court Wigmore Hall 13-16 Nov 2017 Inverness Residency p17 23 Feb 2018 Prophecy p25 16 Nov 2017 Tabula Rasa p19 Kings Place DUNDEE Eden Court 5-7 Jul 2018 Goldberg Variations - p16 8 Dec 2017 A Winter Chorale p21 ternary patterns for insomnia 11-14 Sep 2017 Dundee Residency p9 Inverness Cathedral The Barbican Centre 14 Sep 2017 Silver Screen Sounds p11 13 Mar 2018 Court & Country p27 Caird Hall Eden Court PERTH 4 Dec 2017 A Winter Chorale p21 29 May 2018 Mozart By Numbers p29 Caird Hall 16 Oct 2017 The Power of Five p15 Eden Court 16 Mar 2018 Court & Country p27 Perth Concert Hall Caird Hall 9 Dec 2017 A Winter Chorale p21 30 May 2018 Mozart By Numbers p29 St John’s Kirk Caird Hall 14 Jan 2018 Perth Piano Sundays p23 Perth Concert Hall For booking details go to p37 7 17-18 event listings eif DUNDEE Had We Never with Graham Fagen and more RESIDENCY As part of the Edinburgh International SE Residencies are all about bringing 17 & 18 AUG 2017 Festival, a trio from SE joins a host participatory events and the joy of making and listening to community performances Scottish National Portrait Gallery of artists and musicians for four late- music to as many people as possible by Edinburgh night performances exploring Robert 11-14 SEP 2017 taking it out of the concert hall and into 9pm & 11pm Burns, slavery and Scotland. the community. Across a short stay in eif.co.uk / 0131 473 2000 Closing concert: each place, we put on events from pop- Across a packed hour of art, poetry Thu 14 Sep up performances in supermarkets and and live music, this multi-arts feast Silver Screen Sounds workshops with amateur musicians includes visual art from eminent see p11 to community feasts, art classes and Scottish contemporary artists Graham much more. Fagen and Douglas Gordon, vocals from singer-songwriter Ghetto Priest This year’s Residency in Dundee and two classical vocalists, Sally includes a special event hosted in Beamish’s new setting of Burns’ The collaboration with McManus Galleries Slave’s Lament, a performance of Arvo celebrating its 150th anniversary, as Pärt’s mesmerising arrangement of My well as many more events across the Heart’s In the Highlands, and a reading region. of a poem written for the occasion by mull poet and Makar Jackie Kay. Go to scottishensemble.co.uk to see the full programme. residency We’re looking forward to seeing participatory events and familiar and new faces as we return community performances to Mull for the second time, putting on a packed programme of events 31 aug - 2 SEP 2017 and performances across all corners Opening concert: of the island. Our stay begins with a Sat 31 Aug concert exploring the Power of Five, Druimfin, Tobermory performing two celebrated string 7.30pm quintets by Mozart and Brahms, as comar.co.uk / 01688 302 211 well as Mendelssohn’s Capriccio - see p15 for more details. 10-16 SEP 2017 SILVER SCREEN SOUNDS soundtracks and scores for strings Including... Our hand-picked showcase of music Barber from films really celebrates the power Adagio for Strings (from Platoon) of sound – sound with the power to provoke the most obvious to the most Copland unexpected of emotions. Hoedown (from Rodeo) Janáček This pick-and-mix selection includes String Quartet No.2 (from The works either written for, or featured in, Unbearable Lightness of Being) films from the dawn of cinema to today.