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Edinburgh-based Hebrides Ensemble is one of Scotland's foremost contemporary music groups, specialising in new, twentieth and twenty-first century chamber music, music theatre and chamber opera.

Led by the cellist and conductor William Conway and drawing upon the finest musicians within Scotland and Europe, Hebrides Ensemble tours frequently to venues from the far North of Scotland to the Wigmore Hall, performs at international festivals and broadcasts and records regularly.

Acclaimed for its imaganitive and innovative programming and presentation of works and outstanding quality of performance the group has recently been invited to join the prestigious Re: New network of European contemporary music ensembles.

The recent nomination and short-listing in the Chamber Music category in the 2009 Royal Philharmonic Society Awards was a welcome confirmation of our growing success.

Next Concerts: 

 

Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire .....Love Struck By The Moon.

Hebrides Ensemble performs Arnold Schoenberg's landmark work Pierrot Lunaire alongside other works by Debussy, Chopin, Beamish and Grime, all inspired by the Commedia dell'arte. Pierrot Lunaire was written in 1912 for small chamber ensemble and speaker and will go on tour throughout Scotland in March.

We will be joined by acclaimed actress Sylvie Rohrer from the Burgtheatre in Vienna in what will be a surreal and theatrical performance. 

10th March, Victoria Halls, Helensburgh 
11th March, Mull Theatre, Tobermoray
13th March, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
14th March, Eden Court, Inverness

Listen to some of Pierrot Lunaire here at the website of the Arnold Schoenberg Centre. You can also read the poems here.

Please check back soon for downloadable programme notes, interpretive materials and more information about these works and this tour. 

Please subscribe to our podcast, which will soon feature interviews and discussions exploring this Spring tour.
Click here for the tour flyer. 

You might also like this rather tongue in cheek 'Schoenberg advert' from the Arnold Schoenberg Centre:

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