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Duquesa is an eclectic tango duo created by Fabiana Galante (piano) and Luis Conde (bass clarinet, clarinet and soprano sax), who will be performing music by well renowned traditional Argentinian tango composers such as Horacio Salgán alongside original contemporary arrangements and compositions by Eliseo Tapia, Juan María Solare and Juan ‘Pollo’ Raffo.    

This concert, curated by Rohan de Saram, will explore the drone through John Mayer’s Six Ragamalas for cello and tampura (commissioned and written for Rohan) and a series of improvisations. soundconversation with Rohan de Saram following the performance In association with Aberdeen Art Gallery and Lunchbreak Concerts at Cowdray Hall

Argentinian composer, Fabiana Galante and local pipers will perform a new work for pipeband, electronics and saxophone created collaboratively during October. The performance will take place on the top deck of the St Nicholas Centre (by the bandstand).

Erwan Keravec (bagpipes), Donatienne Michel-Dansac (soprano), Vincent Bouchot (baritone) and Beñat Achiary (improvisation, vocals) explore the combination of bagpipes and voice. Everything seems to oppose classical voices and bagpipes: erudite versus traditional, human versus primal… Yet, things might not be that simple. Maybe the sound of the bagpipe can be organic, maybe it can blend […]

Fulgor al bies is a quartet of sound artists from Argentina playing instruments including bandoneón, piano, bass clarinet, soprano saxophone, tarka and live electroacoustic processing. The group covers work in contemporary music, noise and minimalism, weaving in traditional tango gestures and expanding genre boundaries. Blending sounds of traditional instruments, extended techniques, audio processing, and Buenos […]

Combining folk idiom and dance forms from Armenia, Italy, and the United Kingdom, Sounding Motion’s programme Immersion in Place provides a dynamic mix of music and contemporary dance. This performance demonstrates the ancient and folkloric through a contemporary lens and includes a world première from British composer Michael Finnissy, choreographed by Rambert Dance Company’s Kirill […]

Aberdeen-based instrumentalist/composer Ross Whyte and Glasgow-based folk singer/guitarist/composer Alasdair Roberts collaborate musically for the first time.  They took the opportunity of a period of time spent in the Braemar/Cairngorm Park area to explore the history, landscape, folklore and musical heritage of that location, researches which informed the musical work they have created together.  Building on Ross’s practice in the field […]

Programme: Stephen Montague Southern Lament Charles Ives The Alcotts Stephen Montague After Ives:… Etude no. 2: Songs of Childhood Alex Brusentsev Pink Party People Pileup  Traditional. Irish Ho-Hoane Henry Cowell Irishman Dances Ruth Crawford Seeger Prelude Tranquillo Frederic Rzewski 4 North American Ballads no.4: Winnsoboro Cotton Mill Blues  

Inspired by the extraordinary tenth century Aberdeenshire portable gospel book, Richard Ingham leads an evening of plainsong, reels and electronic soundscapes: a sonic rollercoaster, with bells. The performance features the band Strangeness & Charm, with Richard Ingham (saxophone, whistles, bass clarinet, wind synthesiser), Maarten Verbraeken (trumpet, flugelhorn), Fraser Burke (keyboards, accordion), Kenny Irons (bass) and […]

With Şirin Pancaroğlu, harp and Erdem Helvacioğlu, electronics Resonating Universes is a unique electroacoustic work for concert harp, Turkish harp (çeng), electric harp and electronics. All of the sounds in the piece are entirely based on the timbres of these three instruments. It is a work in eight movements, with a duration of sixty minutes. […]

This concert brings together two world renowned folk players of the Hardanger fiddle and Scottish fiddle, augmented by electronics and video. Consisting entirely of new pieces, the concert presents folk music recast in ambient digital soundscapes. Monty Adkins Spiral Paths Rose Dodd mobius ii Rose Dodd Waternish Ballad Nicolas Bernier Phantom This is part of […]

Ensemble Thing will première a brand new work from Glasgow composer John De Simone which was commissioned and funded by Katherine McGillivray’s Get a Life fund.  Mixing musical genres, spoken word, electronics and Ensemble Thing’s virtuoso musicianship, “Independence” is an examination of musical, cultural and national identity in Scotland from the perspective of an English born Scottish-Italian whose […]

Scottish-Indian fusion as Red Note Ensemble is joined by the superb tabla player Kuljit Bhamra and piper-and-multi-instrumentalist Fraser Fifield for new and traditional tunes. Expect love songs, dance music, a hint of Bollywood and plenty of tunes you’ll recognise immediately even in their new guise. Suitable for the whole family. Children’s drumming workshop @ 1.30pm […]

Guitar virtuoso and composer Simon Thacker returns to sound with the outstanding young Polish cellist Justyna Jablonska to present a special trio performance with tabla master Sarvar Sabri of Simon’s pioneering work exploring the meeting of Indian and Western music. Experience the combining of the immense expressive possibilities of ragas with harmonic explorations and the explosive rhythmic systems of India […]

With award-winning Gaelic singer Maeve Mackinnon, celebrated author and actor Angus Peter Campbell and electronic artist and Creative Producer Amble Skuse. Four new works are interwoven with beautiful traditional repertoire and poetry, creating a performance that captures the riches of our cultural history through music and words with live instrumental, vocal and electronic sound. Ailie Robertson/Rebecca […]

Scottish-Indian fusion as Red Note Ensemble is joined by the superb tabla player Kuljit Bhamra and piper-and-multi-instrumentalist Fraser Fifield for new and traditional tunes. Expect love songs, dance music, a hint of Bollywood and plenty of tunes you’ll recognise immediately even in their new guise. Suitable for the whole family.

With Bora Uymaz, voice and bendir This evening’s recital of harp music from Turkey and Scotland launches a new book of intermediate level harp music featuring the first instalment of commissioned pieces from composers Pete Stollery, Ruth Wall and Şirin Pancaroğlu. Please note, there is an error on the Aberdeen Box Office site and this […]

Kevin Volans                        String Quartet No. 2 “Hunting: Gathering” Tunde Jegede                       Dancing in the Spirit Michael Nyman                   String Quartet No. 5 “Let’s not make a song and dance out of this” (Scottish première)