Season 05/06
Below are details of all the Hebrides Ensemble performances for the 2005/2006 concert season. To join the Hebrides Ensemble mailing list and receive regular information about upcoming performances please write to or email us.
November
05 : "Quartet for the End of Time" Tour
January 06 : RSAMD Postgraduate Composers Series
February 06 : RSAMD Postgraduate Composers Series
March 06: ECAT
Concert
April 06: "Shoreline... Stories of Love and War"
May 06 : RSAMD Postgraduate Composers Series, Plug Festival
& "Rush
Hour" Series
Previous year's concert programmes: Season 04/05 | Season 03/04
Hebrides
Ensemble Scottish Arts Council Tune Up Tour
Quartet for the End of Time
Hebrides Ensemble performs masterpieces by Debussy and Messiaen alongside recent commissions. Marina Adamia’s "Penumbra" explores through sound the shadowland between light and shade. Haflidi Hallgrimsson draws inspiration from a visit to the Anne Frank house for "Notes from a Diary"; this is a Hebrides Ensemble co-commission and these will be the first UK performances. The "Quartet for the End of Time", composed while Messiaen was held in a POW camp, is the most ethereally beautiful music of the Twentieth Century.
Debussy - Sonata
for violin and piano
Marina Adamia
- Penumbra
Haflidi Hallgrimsson - Notes from a Diary
Messiaen - Quartet for the End of Time
Dates
and Venues:
Friday 4 November
Kilmardinny House, Kilmardinny, 7.45pm
Tickets: 0141 339 1707 £8.50 (£5)
Saturday 5 November
Tolbooth, Stirling, 8pm
Tickets: 01786 274000 £10 (£6.50)
Tuesday 8 November
Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, 7.30pm
Tickets: 0131 668 2019 £12 (£8, £5 students)
Wedesday 9 November
Universal Hall, Findhorn, 8pm
Tickets: 01309 690110 (Phoenix Stores) and www.thebooth.co.uk
(£10, £8)
Friday 11 November
Birnam Institute, Dunkeld 7.30pm
Tickets: 01350 727674 £10 (£8)
Saturday 12 November
Angus Arts, Fettercairn Hall, Fettercairn, 7pm
Tickets: 01356 670304/01561 340592 £8.50 (£6, £24 family
ticket)
Sunday 13 November
Woodend Barn, Banchory, 3pm
www.sound-scotland.co.uk
Tickets: 01330 825431 £9, (£7.50, £2 Full time students
and school children)
Tune
In to Tune Up
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 2005 to August 2006, 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 20 January, 7.30pm
RSAMD Concert Hall
Side-by-side Concert
t: 0141 332 4101
www.rsamd.ac.uk
Mahler arr. Harper - Kindertotenlieder
(Hebrides Ensemble commission 2003)
Alistair Clerkston - Burlesque Sherbert (First Performance)
Ligeti - Chamber Concerto
RSAMD Postgraduate
Composers Series
Friday 24 February,
1pm
RSAMD Concert Hall
t: 0141 332 4101
www.rsamd.ac.uk
Koechlin - Cello Sonata (Scottish
Premiere)
Ross MacRae - Three Small Tragedies (First Performance)
Ravel - Piano Trio
ECAT Concert
Monday 20 March, 7.30pm
Greyfriar’s Kirk
Edinburgh
t : 0131 539 8877
John Adams - Road
Movies
Stravinsky - Ragtime (solo piano version) & Circus Polka
Iain Mathieson - Twine (First Performance)
Bill Sweeney - Night-songs (First Peformance)
Geoffrey King - Spanish Moods (First Performance)
M. A. Turnage - Three Trios
Jack Body - Tribute to the Blues
APRIL
2006
Shoreline…stories
of love and war
A new Hebrides Ensemble commission from composer Nigel Osborne and film maker Rachel Bevan Baker in collaboration with Opera Circus and Scottish Dance Theatre.
Music by Nigel Osborne
Shoreline (Hebrides Ensemble Commission)
Adagio for Vedran Smilovic (to be choreographed by Scottish Dance Theatre)
Sandstorm (operatic excerpt) (with Opera Circus)
Piano Tuner (piano trio)
Sevdah Opera (excerpt) (with Opera Circus)
Dates
and Venues:
Friday 21 April, 8pm
The Reid Concert Hall, Edinburgh
Tickets: 0131 668 2019 (Queen’s Hall Box Office)
Saturday
22 April, 8pm
The Space, Dundee
Tickets: 01382 834934
RSAMD Postgraduate
Composers Series, Plug Festival
Friday 5 May, 1pm
RSAMD Concert Hall
t: 0141 332 4101
www.rsamd.ac.uk
Diana Wolf Composition
Prize Winner - a new work
Will Chadwick - Hooses by the Shore
Nigel Osborne - Shoreline
Rush
Hour Series
2 Thursdays at 6pm: 11 May, 25 May
St. Marks,
Castle
Terrace (opposite NCP car park),
West End,
Edinburgh
Following the successful launch of its rush hour concerts in 2004, Hebrides
is returning a second mini series in May. 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 11 May
St. Mark's Unitarian Church, Edinburgh, 6pm
Ravel - Sonata for
violin and cello
Debussy - Sonata
for flute, viola and harp
Koechlin - Sonatine
Modale for flute and clarinet
Ravel - Intro
and Allegro
Thursday 25
May
St. Mark's Unitarian Church, Edinburgh, 6pm
Ravel - Chansons Madecasses
Debussy - Syrinx
Koechlin and
Fauré - Songs
Ravel - Piano
Trio