SCOTTISH ENSEMBLE Jonathan Morton: Director and violin soloist Alasdair Beatson: Piano Alison Lawrance: Cello MUSIC HALL, ABERDEEN Saturday 25 October 2014 The music of Mozart was spotlighted in Saturday’s performance by the Scottish Ensemble. The programme included two of his most celebrated works, a Divertimento for strings and a Piano Concerto alongside two works by […]
THE DRONE Rohan de Saram: Cello Jonathan Mayer: Tampura and Sitar Erwan Keravec: Bagpipes Aberdeen Art Gallery Saturday, 25 October 2014 Saturday’s combined performance by Rohan de Saram, Jonathan Mayer and Erwan Keravec satisfied a main theme of this year’s sound Festival: namely new ways of experiencing and revitalising long established musical traditions. The three […]
Fabiana Galante: Composer and Director Pete Stollery: Electronics Luis Conde: Saxophone Steve Brown and Robert Legge: Bagpipes Jamie Fairbairn: Drums Bandstand, Top Deck St. Nicholas Centre, Aberdeen Saturday 25 October 2014 Having just come from Aberdeen Art Gallery where the theme of the performance was “The Drone” and included a bagpipe player, A la pipeta!, […]
Music Hall, Aberdeen Friday 24 October 2014 sound has in the past made connections with other festivals specialising in new music outwith the UK. This year sees the fruition of collaborations between sound and Musiques Démesurées a French festival of contemporary music held in Clermont-Ferrand, one of Aberdeen’s twin cities. The Orchestre d’Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand’s virtuoso […]
OK – so we’re just over half-way through this year’s festival and it’s fair to say that it’s been an interesting couple of weeks… What an amazing start to our 10th anniversary festival – Colin Currie and Fabiana Galante/Luis Conde both performing to capacity audiences in the Cowdray Hall and then the following evening, premieres from Red […]
Colin Currie: Percussion Cowdray Hall Thursday 23 October 2014 Aberdeen University Music in association with sound Aberdeen University Music in tandem with sound welcomed back percussion wizard Colin Currie for a solo performance that easily drew a full house to the Cowdray Hall on Thursday. We were about to enjoy an astonishing display of virtuosity, […]
Duquesa Fabiana Galante: Piano Luis Conde: Bass Clarinet, Clarinet and Soprano Sax Cowrday Hall, Aberdeen Thursday, 23 October 2014 Lunchbreaks at Cowdray Hall in association with sound sound celebrates its tenth anniversary this year. Its regular collaboration with many Aberdeen and North East concert promoters includes the ever popular Lunchbreak Series. Lunchbreak will continue […]
