new music for scotland
Please see the info below about some of the concerts for the 2008/9 season.
Tickets for Edinburgh concerts £10, Concessions £7, School children free.
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For still more information, contact Hazel at hazelsheppard@blueyonder.co.uk or write to:
ecat
16 Clerwood Gardens
Edinburgh : EH12 8PT
2008
The New Music Experience
- Monday 27 October
- Queen's Hall, Clerk Street, Edinburgh 7.45pm
New music for new times performed by young virtuosi Simon Smith, piano, Joby Burgess, percussion, and Yann Ghiro, clarinet. Introduced by journalist & broadcaster Janice Forsyth.
An informal, FREE concert
Just turn up
Bright Light and Cloud Shadows
- Wednesday 12 November
- Queen's Hall, Edinburgh 7.45pm
New Zealand String Quartet and Richard Nunns, traditional Maori instruments. New Music from New Zealand and Shostakovich's Quartet No.13.
2009
Stockhausen - serious to Sirius
Wednesday 11 February
Presented by ecat, the University of Edinburgh and the RSAMD
- McEwan Hall, Bristo Square, Edinburgh 7pm
The RSAMD performs the meditative
'intuitive music' of Aus den sieben Tagen
- Queen's Hall,
Edinburgh 8.15pm
Simon Smith performs a selection from
the Piano Pieces
Garth Knox, viola
- Monday 23 March
- Queen's Hall, Edinburgh 7.45pm
International viola virtuoso, formerly of the Arditti Quartet, plays music by Kurtag, Dillon, Sciarrino, Ligeti, Moser, Knox and Berio
Instant Composers Pool Orchestra
- Monday 4 May
- Queen's Hall, Edinburgh 7.45pm
Free jazz from "the best band in the world", the extraordinary ICP Orchestra from Amsterdam led by legendary pianist, Misha Mengelberg
ecat in Aberdeen
ecat joins Aberdeen University to present two concerts in Aberdeen, the first as part of sound
- Monday 10 November, 2008
- Cowdray Hall, Aberdeen, 7.45pm
Bright Light and Cloud Shadows
- Sunday 8 February, 2009, 7.45pm
Simon Smith performs Stockhausen
www.abdn.ac.uk/music