Season 04/05
Below are details of all the Hebrides Ensemble performances for the 2004/2005 concert season. To join the Hebrides Ensemble mailing list and receive regular information about upcoming performances please write to or email us.
November
04 : "Sound Heritage" Tour
January 05 : RSAMD Postgraduate Composers Series
February 05 : RSAMD Postgraduate Composers Series
& Pitlochry Festival Theatre Concert
May 05 : RSAMD Postgraduate Composers Series &
"Good Angel Bad Angel" Tour
June 05: St. Magnus Festival, Orkney
Last year's concert programme: Season 03/04
Hebrides
Ensemble’s Scottish Arts Council Tune Up Tour
Sound Heritage
Hebrides Ensemble performs recent and 20th Century works by British composers including James MacMillan’s passionate lament Tuireadh and Benjamin Britten’s showpiece Quartettino written when the composer was just sixteen.
Anna Meredith - Hex
II
George Benjamin - Three Miniatures
James MacMillan - Tuireadh
Herbert Howells - Rhapsodic Quintet
Benjamin Britten - Quartettino
For further information
visit:
http://www.tuneup.org.uk/bands/hebrides_ensemble.html
Dates & Venues:
Saturday
6 November – Balmain House, Inverness
Box office 01463 234234 (Eden Court box office)
Monday
8 November – Macphail Centre, Ullapool
Box office 01854 613336
Tuesday
9 November – Lochan (Lochalsh Arts Network), Plockton
Box office 01599 534007
Thursday
11 November – Lemon Tree, Aberdeen
Box office 01224 642230
Friday
12 November – Tolbooth, Stirling
Box office 01786 274000
Saturday
13 November – Greyfriar’s Kirk, Edinburgh
Box office 0131 668 2019 (Queen’s Hall box office)
More Music, More People, More Places, More of the Time
Hebrides Ensemble is part of Tune Up – a dynamic season of music tours from September 2004 to August 2005, supported by the Scottish Arts Council, to take some of the best Scottish and International musical talent to the places that other tours don’t reach.
Check
out the Tune Up website for up to date information and dates for all the
tours.
www.tuneup.org.uk
RSAMD Postgraduate
Composers Series
Friday 14 January, 1pm
RSAMD Concert Hall
t: 0141 332 4101
www.rsamd.ac.uk
Herbert Howells -
Rhapsodic Quintet
Zhu Jie - New Work
James MacMillan - Tuireadh
RSAMD Postgraduate
Composers Series
Friday 11 February,
1pm
RSAMD Concert Hall
t: 0141 332 4101
www.rsamd.ac.uk
Joshua Kopecek - Red Key for
a Little Box
Elliott Carter - Statement Remembering Aaron
Elliott Carter - Quintet for piano and string quartet
Pitlochry
Festival Theatre
Friday 11 February, 7.30pm
t: 01796 484 626
Mozart - Sonata for
violin and piano K454
Elliott Carter - Cello Sonata
Mendelssohn - Piano Trio Op.49 in D minor
RSAMD Postgraduate
Composers Series
Friday 6 May, 1pm
RSAMD Concert Hall
t: 0141 332 4101
www.rsamd.ac.uk
Kay McKenzie - New
Work
RSAMD - Winner of the Diana Woolf composition competition
J. S. Bach - Fugue to be announced
Nigel Osborne - The Piano Tuner (piano trio)
"Good Angel
Bad Angel" Tour : 20-25 May
by Lyell Cresswell and Ron Butlin
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Following recent outstanding successes with Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale and David Fennessy’s room, Hebrides Ensemble presents the world premiere of another trademark music theatre commission. Markheim is a man at the end of his tether. What started as a robbery gone wrong has ended in murder - a murder that seems certain to force him to kill once more. And then kill again. Trapped, he is made to confront the circumstances that have brought him to this terrible crisis. Just at that moment a mysterious stranger appears - but it soon becomes clear that this saviour is not all he seems. |
Is he the devil driving Markheim to further temptation and inevitable damnation? Or an angel come to save him from himself? Loosely based on R L Stevenson’s macabre short story Markheim, a haunting study of guilt and redemption, Good Angel Bad Angel is a chamber opera for three voices and four instrumentalists |
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Dates & Venues:
Friday 20 May,
7.30pm - Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
Box office: 0131 228 1404
www.traverse.co.uk
Saturday 21 May, 8.15pm - The Tramway, Glasgow
Box office: 0845 330 350
www.tramway.org
Monday 23 May, 7.30pm - Eastgate Theatre, Peebles
Box office: 01721 725777
www.eastgatearts.com
Wednesday 25 May, 8pm - Inverness (venue to be
confirmed)
Box office: 01463 234234 (Eden Court box office)
www.eden-court.co.uk
St. Magnus Festival, Orkney
Hebrides Ensemble will be performing two concerts on Saturday 18 and Monday 20 June at the St. Magnus Festival in Orkney. The concerts will include works by two of the Festival’s featured composers Nigel Osborne and Sally Beamish. For full programme details please visit the festival website at www.stmagnusfestival.com