The Scottish Ensemble

Collaboration is on the coronary heart of the Scottish Ensemble’s just lately introduced 2024/25 season. A season that features new work by Hannah Kendall, a brand new collaboration with fiddle participant and violinist Donald Grant, concert events with Héloïse Werner as each composer and singers, a programme with puppeteer Mark Down and additional performances of their collaboration with Mish-Mash Productions.

The season begins with Resound (September 2024 – Arran, Kirkcudbright, Perth, Mull, Seil, Glasgow), 5 centuries of mind-expanding music curated by the ensemble’s violist, Andrew Berridge, supposed to discover how music can transport and encourage, lifting spirits and strengthening connections. The ensembe may even be travelling all the way down to London to characteristic in opening weekend of the Southbank Centre’s 2024-25 classical season, with a programme, that features Philip Glass’ Symphony No. 3 and the ensemble’s collaboration with Mish-Mash Productions, in Sync, will probably be popping up on the Southbank Centre and in Nottingham.

Their Live shows by Candlelight tour (December 2024 – Perth, Inverness, Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dunblane) features a new work by Hannah Kendall, the second composition supported by Scottish Ensemble’s Calder Commissioning Fund, created via a transformative donation, made in reminiscence of Scottish Ensemble’s late founder John Calder.  The Regulation of Gravity (February 2025 – Edinburgh, Dundee, Glasgow) sees the ensemble collaborate with grasp puppeteer Mark Down and his staff at Blind Summit to discover what puppetry can reveal about music, in a programme that options Schoenberg’s Transfigured Evening and Philip Glass’ Symphony No. 3.

April 2025 finds them becoming a member of forces in Edinburgh, Inverness, Aberdeen, Findhorn with Donald Grant, with whom the ensemble collaborated at Celtic Connections 2024. Their new challenge options conventional and up to date string music that bridges genres and tells of life within the Highlands, via Grant’s new work Thuit an Oidhche Oirnn (The Evening Overtook Us).  Then in Live shows for a Summer time’s Evening (June 2025 – Perthshire, Strathpeffer, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee),  singer and composer Héloïse Werner options as each soloist and composer.

The ensemble’s work with a brand new technology of musicians additionally continues with its Younger Artists programme, in partnership with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. In addition to supporting gifted younger string gamers via a week-long residency in January, chosen Younger Artists are provided the chance to hitch one of many ensemble’s Scottish excursions as a performer in 2025.

Full particulars from the Scottish Ensemble’s web site.