Orchestre d’Auvergne and Red Note Ensemble
Twinned Cities Aberdeen and Clermont-Ferrand’s new music festivals, sound and Musiques Démesurées, partner up to bring you an exciting Franco-Scottish collaboration of two ensembles and composers from France and Scotland, inspired by the WW1 commemoration.
Conductor – Roberto Forés Veses
Violin solo – Léonie Delaune
Laurent Cuniot Just Before (World premiere)
William Sweeney Absence for wind, percussion and strings (World premiere)
Thierry Pécou Ñawpa for violin and string orchestra (UK premiere)
Brian Irvine Of the breathing land (World Premiere)
soundconversation @ 6.30pm
with the support of Aberdeen and Clermont-Ferrand City Councils, Creative Scotland, Clermont-Communauté, Diaphonique, a franco-british contemporary music fund supported by the Institut Français, the SACEM, the Bureau export de la musique, the British Council and Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, and Fondation d’entreprise Michelin.
In association with Aberdeen Performing Arts
