new music for scotland
Please see the information below about our concerts for the 2009/10 season.
Tickets for Edinburgh concerts £10, Concessions £7, Schoolchildren free.
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For further information contact Hazel at hazelsheppard@blueyonder.co.uk or write to:
ecat
16 Clerwood Gardens
Edinburgh EH12 8PT
2009
The New Music Experience
Monday 26 October | Queen's Hall, Edinburgh 7.45pm
Sample sounds of today with young virtuosi Richard Craig (Flute), Su-a Lee (Cello), Simon Smith (Piano), including six new specially commissioned piano pieces.
Introduced by journalist & broadcaster Janice Forsyth.
An informal FREE concert - just turn up
Inner Octaves
Wednesday 11 November | Queen's Hall, Edinburgh 7.45pm
Leading performers of Indian and Western classical music perform new concerti by India's Shirish Korde and the UK's Nigel Osborne.
Simon Thacker and the Nava Rasa Ensemble.
2009/10
Ron Butlin
Edinburgh Makar, poet, novelist and opera librettist
Mondays: 2 November 2009, 1 February 2010, 1 & 22 March 2010 | Word Power Books, 43 West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh 7.45pm
Ron Butlin leads an informal discussion group about music, arts and ideas.
(Cost for all 4 sessions £15 - please contact ecat to reserve a place)
2010
Nicolas Hodges (piano)
Thursday 28 January | Queen's Hall, Edinburgh 7.45pm
Music by Georges Aperghis and Brice Pauset.
Quator Diotima (residency)
The sensational French string quartet in Edinburgh and Aberdeen
Sunday 21 February | Dovecot Studios, Infirmary Street, Edinburgh 3pm
Peter Nelson introduces a performance and discussion of Helmut Lachenmann's Grido.
(Tickets £5, students and schoolchildren free, available on the door)
Monday 22 February | Queen's Hall, Edinburgh 7.45pm
Concert of music by Gerard Pesson, Crumb (Black Angels), Webern, Lachenmann.
Tuesday 23 February | Cowdray Hall (tbc), Aberdeen 7.45pm
ecat in association with Aberdeen University
Concert of music by Pintscher, Crumb, Webern, Berg.
Wednesday 24 February | University of Edinburgh - Alison House, Nicolson Square, Edinburgh 3pm
Composition workshop with Professor Nigel Osborne.
Exaudi
director James Weeks
Monday 15 March | Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh 7.45pm
New vocal music from an extraordinary vocal ensemble.
Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
Monday 26 April | Queen's Hall, Edinburgh 7.45pm
Music from the experimental music catalogue.
Scottish Ensemble with Simon Smith (piano), Joby Burgess and Chris Brannick (percussion)