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Welcome to the 10th sound festival!

What better way to kick off the celebrations than to invite the amazing percussionist Colin Currie back to perform a new work by composer Rolf Wallin commissioned by sound, The Wigmore Hall and Bergen Festival.

This year’s theme of new approaches to traditional music will feature musicians and composers from Scotland and beyond, looking at new ways of writing for traditional instruments and new collaborative works. As well as music from Turkey, Argentina, Norway and France, our Scottish highlights include a new commission from folk musician/composer Alasdair Roberts and electroacoustic composer Ross Whyte following a 4-week residency in our local Cairngorm National Park.

We’ll also be marking the first joint project between sound and our partner festival, Musiques Démesurées, from Aberdeen’s twinned city Clermont-Ferrand. We have jointly commissioned two new works from one Scottish and one French composer for the joint forces of Clermont-Ferrand’s Orchestre d’Auvergne and Scotland’s Red Note Ensemble. We are delighted to also announce that Red Note Ensemble are sound’s first Associate Ensemble.

There will be the usual late night concerts, workshops, events aimed at families and soundconversations as well as a new promenade discovery concert to encourage everyone to join in and discover something new.

We look forward to celebrating this significant anniversary with you!

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