Season 06/07
Below are details of all the Hebrides Ensemble performances for the 2006/2007 concert season. To join the Hebrides Ensemble mailing list and receive regular information about upcoming performances please write to or email us.
November
06 : Scottish Arts Council Tune Up Tour
January 07 : RSAMD Postgraduate Composers Series
February 07 : RSAMD
Postgraduate Composers Series
March 07 : Edinburgh International Launch
April 07 : AIYF Compose! Workshop / Performance with Judith Weir
May 07 : RSAMD
Postgraduate Composers Series , Rush Hour Concert Series , Kurtag's "Pas a Pas - nulle part"
June 07 : Kurtag's "Pas a Pas - nulle part"
August 07 : Edinburgh International Festival
Previous year's concert programmes: Season 05/06 | Season 04/05 | Season 03/04
Scottish
Arts Council Tune Up Tour
Hebrides
Ensemble with Scottish Dance Theatre
Hebrides Ensemble is joined by Scottish
Dance Theatre with stunning new choreography for two dancers performing
to the beautiful Pari Intervallo by Arvo Pärt. Hebrides Ensemble
also performs the intimate Signs, Games and Messages by György Kurtág,
works by Luciano Berio and Francis Poulenc and the virtuosic Concert Suite
for seven instruments of The Soldier’s Tale by Igor Stravinsky.
“SDT is a company with adrenaline in its veins” - Sunday Herald
Kurtág - Signs,
Games and Message
Pärt Pari - Intervallo
Berio - Psy
Roussel - Duo for bassoon and double bass
Poulenc - Sonata for clarinet and bassoon
Stravinsky - Suite: The Soldier’s Tale
Dates
and Venues:
Thursday
2 November
Platform at The Bridge, Glasgow, 7.30pm
Tickets: 0141 276 9696 £10/£8/£2.50 (local links)
Friday 3 November
Community Theatre, Fortrose, 7.30pm
Tickets: 01463 234234 £10/£8
Saturday 4
November
Inchbare Hall (for Angus Arts), 7.30pm
Tickets: 01561 340592 £8.50/£6.00/£24 (family/group
ticket) (wine and refreshments included)
Sunday 5 November
Woodend Barn, Banchory, (Sound Festival), 3pm
Tickets: 01330 825431 £10/£7.50/£2 (students)
Monday 6 November
The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, 7.30pm
Tickets: 0131 668 2019 £12/£8/£5 (students)
Tuesday 7
November
The Space, Dundee, 7.30pm
Tickets: 01382 834934 £10/£8
www.scottishdancetheatre.com
www.tuneup.org.uk
RSAMD
Postgraduate Composers Series
Friday 19 January 2007,
1pm
RSAMD Concert Hall
Side-by-side Concert
T: 0141 332 4101
www.rsamd.ac.uk
Berio - Folk Songs
Nikiforos Chrysoloras – New Work (first performance)
Milhaud - La Creation du Monde
RSAMD Postgraduate
Composers Series
Friday 23 February,
1pm
RSAMD Concert Hall
T: 0141 332 4101
www.rsamd.ac.uk
Messiaen Chamber Music
Messiaen - Piece for Piano and String Quartet
Wen Xiao - New Work (first performance)
Messiaen - Theme and Variations for violin and piano
Messiaen - Excerpts from Quartet for the End of Time
Edinburgh International 2007 Launch
Wednesday 28th March,
6 for 6:30pm
The Hub, Castle Hill, Edinburgh
Messiaen - Intermed (from Quartet for the End of Time)
Stravinsky - Dances from Soldier's Tale Suite
AIYF Compose! Workshop / Performance with Judith Weir
Thursday 26th April, Workshop 2:30 and Concert 7:30
Kings College, Aberdeen
Works by student composers from Aberdeen University and Judith Weir.
Workshop led by Judith Weir.
Engagement from Aberdeen International Youth Festival.
RSAMD
Postgraduate Composers Series
Friday 4th May 2007,
1pm
RSAMD Concert Hall
RSAMD PLUG Festival : Works by student composers and resident festival composer Graham Fitkin.
T: 0141 332 4101
www.rsamd.ac.uk
Rush Hour Concert Series - May 2007
St Mark's Unitarian Church, Edinburgh (opposite NCP car park)
3 Thursdays : 10, 17 & 24 May at 6pm (duration 1 hour)
10th : Janacek - Mladi, Ligeti Bagatelles + other works for wind
17th : Janacek - String Quartet No.1 ("Kreuzer Sonata") + other works for strings
24th : Janacek - String Quartet No.2 ("Intimate Letters") + other works for strings
Tickets on the door: £6 (£4 concessions)
Reservations in advance: please contact us.
Come straight from work and relax for an hour in the informal surroundings of St Marks.
T: 0141 332 4101
www.rsamd.ac.uk
Kurtag's ... pas a pas - nulle part... ("Step by step - nowhere")
Wednesday 30th May, 7:30pm
The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh
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Scotland's foremost chamber group make a welcom return to Kurtag's music with his contemporary classic "...pas a pas - nulle part..." (...step by step - nowhere...) setting poems by Samuel Beckett for baritone voice, strings and percussion. David Fennessy - New Work (first perfromance) Featuring Richard Burkhard (Baritone) |
Kurtag's ... pas a pas - nulle part... ("Step by step - nowhere")
Friday 1st June , 8pm
Out of Eden, Inverness
Saturday 2nd June, 8pm
The Tolbooth, Stirling
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Scotland's foremost chamber group make a welcom return to Kurtag's music with his contemporary classic "...pas a pas - nulle part..." (...step by step - nowhere...) setting poems by Samuel Beckett for baritone voice, strings and percussion. David Fennessy - New Work (first perfromance) Featuring Richard Burkhard (Baritone) |
Edinburgh International Festival
Saturday 11th August, 11am
The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh
Janacek - Mladi
Mahler - Kindertotenlieder (arr. Edward Harper)
Osborne - Balkan Dances and Laments
Berio - Folksongs (1964)
A bold and imaginative chamber programme featuring the Hebrides Ensemble and Festival favourite, Jane Irwin.