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Matthias Pintscher Conducts...
8pm, 8th April
Glasgow City Halls
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ligeti : San Francisco Polyphony
Olga Neuwirth: Masaot/Clocks Without Hands
Henze: Symphony No.7
Matthias Pintscher, the BBC SSO’s Artist-In-Association, curates another evening of works, all originally commissioned for one anniversary or another. Ligeti’s frantic, scuttling culmination of his explorations into musical polyphony was written for the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra’s 60th birthday. Hans Werner Henze’s Seventh Symphony commemorated the Berlin Philharmonic’s centenary and references Beethovenian symphonic form, German dances and the poetry of Friedrich Hölderlin. Olga Neuwirth’s recent work, meanwhile, began as a tribute Mahler to mark the centenary of his death but is inspired by memories of her grandfather’s life by the Danube and is, in her own words, “an impossible attempt to stop time by composing”.
Tickets: Free (limited to 2 per application). Unreserved Seating. £1.00 venue online booking fee.
More info and Booking
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Wider Connections Talk
6pm, 14th April
Queen's Hall, Edinburgh
Over centuries, many composers have been inspired to set the 13th century Catholic Hymn to Mary, the Stabat Mater including, most recently, Sir James MacMillan. Come and hear Lucy Forde and invited guests discuss the relationship between music and religion. This event is linked to Sir James MacMillan's Stabat Mater being performed on Thursday 23 March 2017 at the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh.
Invited guests: Sir James MacMillan and Dr Noel O'Regan (University of Edinburgh)
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NYOS Symphony Orchestra Spring Concert
7.30pm, 14th April, Perth Concert Hall
7.30pm, 15th April, Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Nico Muhly: Mixed Messages
Philip Glass: Violin Concerto No. 1
Antonin Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 in E minor
Tickets: Adult £16 | Concession £10 | Under 25 £2.50Box Office: Perth Concert Hall
Call 01738 621031 or visit http://www.horsecross.co.uk/
Box Office: Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Call 0131 228 1155 or visit http://www.usherhall.co.uk/
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The Awards for Scottish New Music, Winners announced!
The first Scottish Awards for New Music Happened on the 8th March. The winners can be seen here - http://www.newmusicscotland.co.uk/awards2017/ and a selection of photos from the evening here
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Bluebeard’s Castle & The 8th Door
1st April, Theatre Royal, Glasgow
5ht to 8th April, Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
Bartók’s beautiful, mysterious opera is directed by Matthew Lenton, founder of genre-busting stage creators Vanishing Point. It is staged alongside The 8th Door, a new work Lenton has created with Scottish Opera Composer in Residence Lliam Paterson, delving further into Bluebeard’s secretive world to create an ambitious double bill that is set to enthral and intrigue.
Tickets https://www.scottishopera.org.uk/shows/bluebeard-s-castle-the-8th-door/
The Music of the "New York School"
7.30pm, 3rd April
St Marks, Edinburgh
Students of Edinburgh Napier University present a programme of rarely performed works by "New York School" composers John Cage, Morton Feldman and Earle Brown.
Programme includes:
Living Room Music (1940) John Cage
The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs (1942) John Cage
Music for Marcel Duchamp (1947) John Cage
A Flower (1950) John Cage
Projection 1 (1950) Morton Feldman
December 1952 (1952) Earle Brown
Admission free
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Rooms of the Sea - A Celebration of Music by Jeremy Thurlow
5.30pm, 12th April
Byre Theatre, St Andrews
Musicians from the SCO join forces with students and staff from the University of St Andrews to explore music by Jeremy Thurlow, a composer with a long association with St Andrews and the East Neuk of Fife.
The programme includes The Rooms of the Sea, an evocative setting of poetry by John Burnside; Quicksilver, a virtuoso dance piece whose continual pulsation moves from meditative calm to explosive energy; Ouija, a kind of séance in which musical voices from the beyond are channelled by SCO violinist Aisling O’Dea; and finally the world premiere of a new Trumpet Concerto for Bede Williams.
Colourful, dramatic, original and often very beautiful, this is music which has enticed audiences from Cluj to Malaga to New York. Featuring dancer Giulia Montalbano presenting her new choreography of Quicksilver, the concert will be introduced by the composer and promises an enticing hour of fresh sights and sounds.
Tickets available from the Byre Theatre website.
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OTM5 Quasar Quartet
8pm 31st March
St Giles Cathedral
Old Town/New Music presents...
Join the Quasar Saxophone Quartet and composers Michael Edwards and Martin Parker at St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh on the 31st March 2017.
Michael Edwards' hyperboles 3 'so vast a vacuity' for saxophone quartet and electronics is a 50 minute work demanding great stillness and calm on the part of the players and the audience. Its large form consists almost exclusively of multiphonics. Michael chose the most delicate multiphonics upon which to superimpose the electronic part which surrounds the audience. The combination of multiphonics and electronics creates a unique sonic impression which is continuously being transformed, but in which silence plays a crucial role.
Martin Parker's scripts are inserted into this large form as a type of punctuation. They are seamlessly integrated with Michael's piece, but are distinctively different in that they offer the players (and listeners) an opportunity to move and breathe in a different way before Michael's piece resumes.
Changes in lighting are aligned with the formal changes in the piece and serve as cues to distinguish different sections.
The concert is free, but please reserve tickets via Eventbrite. There will be opportunities to make a donation before and after the concert.
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The Night With… Joanna Nicholson and Emma Lloyd
7.30pm, 11th April, The Rowantree Edinburgh
7.30pm, 12th April, The Hug and Pint, Glasgow
Joanna Nicholson and Emma Lloyd perform and evening of music for clarinet, violin and electronics in Glasgow. The programme includes:
Kaija Saariaho – Vent Nocturne
Yannis Kyriakides – Flock
Timothy Cooper – Shimmering
Matthew Whiteside – new work
Nina Whiteman – new work
Jonathan Nangle – Our Headlights Blew Softly Into the Black, Illuminating Very Little by
Kerry Hagan – Requiem by
Ken Ueno – Vedananupassana
Tickets £10/£8 from https://www.musicglue.com/the-night-with-dot-dot-dot
Parlour Sounds: When Household Appliances become Innovative Electronics Instruments
8pm, 13th April
Summerhall, EdinburghA live multimedia event by Patricia Alessandrini using innovative electronics to transform and invent instruments in an imaginative exploration of women's relationship to technology – from the advent of the home hi-fi to the smartphone. This world première performance which includes homemade electronic instruments will be followed by an after-show jam session to try out some of the electronics. Supported by Diaphonique, Creative Scotland, Sound and Music and the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
Presented by Red Note Ensemble and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris
£12/10
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Five Joan Eardley Pictures
6pm, 27th April
National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
Kirkcaldy Orchestral Society are a community orchestra serving the whole of Fife and beyond with a membership of around 60 players, from school age upwards. In this recital they will play Five Joan Eardley Pictures by KOS member and composer John Gourlay which premiered in Kirkcaldy in April 2016. Players from the orchestra will also present three of his duets with visual art connections, Aquarelle, Lithoglyph and Impasto.
No booking required: free, unticketed.
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