Events

Hebrides Ensemble Future Concerts 
 

2010 sees Hebrides Ensemble touring and performing the length and breadth of the UK. Below you will find details of upcoming performances to the Spring.  

Pierrot Lunaire.....Love struck by the moon......

Scottish Tour March 2010

Thursday 4th          BBC  Radio 3 Broadcast, RSAMD, Glasgow**
Wednesday 10th    Victoria Halls, Helensburgh 
Thursday 11th         Mull Theatre, Mull 
Saturday 13th         Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh 
Sunday 14th           Eden Court, Inverness  

Please download the programme notes for Pierrot Lunaire.

Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire is a music theatre landmark.
 
A strikingly significant work, it launched the career of Hebrides Ensemble some twenty years ago. We take to the road in March with 4 performances of this seminal masterpiece.

This fascinating work by, setting Albert Giraud's dark, eerie poems to music, created for speaking/singing female performer and chamber ensemble was first performed in Berlin in 1912. The premiere had audiences spellbound and awestruck. 

Dubbed by Stravinsky as 'the solar plexus of Twentieth Century music' it is a dark and exciting piece, and has in the past been performed by vocalists as diverse as Cleo Laine and Bjork.

For this tour Hebrides Ensemble have teamed up with the Vienna Burgtheater's lead actor, the excellent Sylvie Rohrer, who has performed Pierrot Lunaire in Europe several times and brings her highly theatrical performance to the UK for the first time. 

The programme focuses on the Pierrot character from the commedia dell'arte and will feature: 

Sally Beamish          Commedia (Pierrot and Harlequin fight for the affections of Columbine) 
Claude Debussy       Sonata for Cello and Piano (original title Pierrot angry with the moon), 
Helen Grime             Seven Pierrot Miniatures (world premiere) 
Frederic Chopin         Valse No 2. in C Sharp Minor (Valse de Chopin is a title from Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire)

Helen's work is a brand new commission by Hebrides Ensemble, supported by the Ralph Vaughn Williams and Britten-Pears Trusts.

Listen to some of the movements from Pierrot Lunaire at the Arnold Schoenberg Centre website.  
  

 

Performers

Sylvie Rohrer (Pierrot) 
William Conway (Cello)
Alexander Janiczek (Violin)
Philip Moore (Piano)
Catherine Marwood (Viola)
Alison Mitchell (Flute)
Yann Ghiro (Clarinet)

 

**This hour long BBC Radio 3 broadcast features works from the subsequent tour (Beamish's Commedia and Debussy's Sonata for Cello and Piano) as well as Alexander Janiczek performing Paganini's Carnival of Venice and Bartok's Contrasts for small ensemble. 

Tickets for the tour are available direclty from theatre box offices. In Helensburgh tickets are available from The Booth and also from The Pink Gallery (01436 678 848). Tickets for the BBC Radio 3 performance are available from the RSAMD box office. 

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) 

  

  

Hebrides Ensemble performs works by Hans Abrahamsen

As part of Hebrides Ensemble's membership of Re: New, a European network of contemporary ensembles dedicated to the exchange of new works throughout the continent, we shall be working with Dane Hans Abrahamsen to perform new works alongside students in both Aberdeen and Edinburgh Universities.

Friday 19th March          1pm, Reid Hall, Edinburgh University
Sunday 21st March        7.45pm Cowdry Hall, Aberdeen University 

Performers

William Conway (Cello)
Simon Smith (Piano)
Krysia Osostowicz (Violin)
Alex Franc-Gemmel (Horn)
Jessica Beeston (Viola)

Hebrides Ensemble is a member of the Chamber Music Forum Scotland. Visit their website for listings and information on chamber music in Scotland. 

More information on our Summer and Autumn season will be available soon.