Hebrides Ensemble






	Season 03/04 Below are details of all the Hebrides Ensemble performances for the 2003/2004 concert season. To join the Hebrides Ensemble mailing list and recieve regular information about upcoming performances please write to or email us . November 03 : Room January 04 : RSAMD - Academy Now! February 04 : RSAMD Postgraduate Composers Series March 04 : Kindertotenlieder & Signs, Games and Messages April 04 : Argyll and Bute Concert Tours , RSAMD Postgraduate Composers Series May 04 : RSAMD - Academy Now! , RSAMD Postgraduate Composers Series + In May and June 2004, Hebrides Ensemble will be performing a short series of ‘rush-hour’ concerts in Edinburgh featuring piano quartets by Brahms and contemporary British composers. See below for details. NOVEMBER 2003 Room Friday 7th - Tuesday 11th November '03 room (Hebrides Ensemble commission) room to move room to explore room for music Come into the front room. Experience a new chamber music. Extraordinary planning and musicality from the Hebrides Ensemble. And more than music. For more information go to www.sco.org.uk/anewlook Friday 7 November 2003, 8pm Tolbooth, Stirling £10 (£6.50) t: 017886 274000 Saturday 8 November 2003, 8pm CCA, Glasgow £10 (£8) t: 0141 352 4900 Monday 10 November 2003, 8pm Lemon Tree, Aberdeen £10 (£6.75) t: 01224 642230 Tuesday 11 November 2003, 8pm Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh £10 (£6) t: 0131 668 2019 "room" Composer – David Fennessy Music Director – William Conway Stage Director – Benjamin Twist Lighting Designer – Martin Palmer (This performance does not have an interval) JANUARY 2004 RSAMD – Academy Now! Friday 16 January 2004, 1pm Side-by-side with students at the RSAMD Conductor – William Conway Solo viola – Catherine Marwood Henry Brant – Hieroglyphics Harrison Birtwistle – Ritual Fragment Alasdair Spratt – Trepidation Dancing (First Performance) Henry Brant – Horizontals Extending FEBRUARY 2004 RSAMD – Postgraduate Composers Series Friday 27 February 2004, 1pm Ibert – Trois Pièces Brèves Ligeti – Six Bagatelles for wind quintet Alan Duguid – New Work (First Performance) Janacek – Mladí MARCH 2004 Kindertotenlieder Friday 5 March 2004, 7.30pm Broughton Music Club t: 01899 830280 Saturday 6 March 2004, 7.30pm Music in Lanark t: 07748 452013 Sunday 7 March 2004, 7.30pm Gatehouse Music Club (Castle Douglas) t: 01557 815088 Tuesday 9 March 2004, 7.45pm Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh £10 (£6) t: 0131 668 2019 Louise Mott – Mezzo Soprano Poulenc – Elegie Mahler arr. Edward Harper – Kindertotenlieder Mussorgsky – Nursery Songs Janacek – String Quartet No. ‘The Kreutzer Sonata’ ECAT CONCERT Signs, Games and Messages Wednesday 31 March 2004, 7.45pm t: 0131 539 8877 Berio – Duos for two violins Tartini – L’arte del arco Cresswell – Atta Kurtag – Signs, games and messages APRIL 2004 Argyll and Bute Concert Tours Stonefield Castle Hotel, Argyll Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 April 2004 A weekend of chamber music for strings including music by Schubert, Mozart and Judith Weir. For further information please contact ABCT secretary on 01546 603088 RSAMD – Postgraduate Composers Series Friday 23 April 2004, 1pm Matthew Dover – New Work (First performance) Schoenberg – Verklärte Nacht (Version for string sextet) MAY 2004 RSAMD – Academy Now! Side-by-side with students at the RSAMD Conductor – William Conway Thursday 6 May 2004, 7.30pm Programme to include: Harrison Birtwistle – Secret Theatre RSAMD – Postgraduate Composers Series Friday 7 May 2004, 1pm RSAMD – prise winning works from the Diana Woolf composition competition Ives – Piano Trio Rush Hour Concert Series 3 Thursdays at 6pm: 13 May, 20 May, 27 May St Marks, Castle Terrace (opposite NCP car park), West End, Edinburgh. With the award of funds from the Scottish Arts Council's Lottery Audience Development Department, Hebrides Ensemble is performing a mini series of three RUSH HOUR concerts in Edinburgh in May. The concerts will feature a typically unorthodox mix of Brahms' three piano quartets alongside music for piano quartet by Judith Weir and Martin Butler. Lasting for about an hour and starting at 6pm the RUSH HOUR series is designed to meet the needs of todays’ modern audience. Come straight from work and relax for an hour in the informal surroundings of St Marks. Sit back and listen to extraordinary music performed by the outstanding musicians of the Hebrides Ensemble. Thursday 13 May at 6pm Judith Weir - Distance and Enchantment Brahms - Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor Thursday 20 May at 6pm Martin Butler - Spring Rounds Judith Weir - Arise! Arise! Brahms - Piano Quartet No.2 in A major Thursday 27 May at 6pm Martin Butler - Sequenza Notturna Brahms - Piano Quartet No.3 in C minor Tickets: £5 (£3 concs) Series Saving: Buy 3 concerts for the price of 2 Buy on the door or in advance from the Queen’s Hall on 0131 668 2019 Party bookings (8+): Group organisers go FREE Back to top