Kevin Leomo is a Glasgow-based composer who writes primarily for acoustic instrumental forces. He graduated with an MMus in composition from the University of Glasgow under the supervision of Professor Bill Sweeney and Dr. Jane Stanley. Kevin is currently undertaking doctoral studies with Jane Stanley, focussing on cross-cultural composition.
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The work of the youthful Mendelssohn frames this concert. Written between the ages of 12 and 14, his 12 string symphonies are highly accomplished works both here showing all the light and shade characteristic of his later music. Alasdair Nicolson’s new work has been commissioned by the orchestra and relates to the famous carved medieval crosses and hogback stones in Govan Old Church. Pärt’s Trisagion is an intense work taking its inspiration from the Slavic Orthodox prayer of the same name; it is a characteristically meditative and ritualistic piece.
The Glasgow Barons are one of Scotland’s newest orchestras which is already breaking boundaries and are based in the Govan area of Glasgow. They are joined by the virtuoso trumpet player Tom Poulson who, following his studies at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, is now performing all over the world.
The Glasgow Barons
Paul McAlindin Conductor
Tom Poulson Trumpet
Mendelssohn String Symphony No.1 in C
Alasdair Nicolson Concerto for trumpet and strings (Govan Stones) World Premiere
Arvo Pärt Trisagion
Mendelssohn String Symphony No.10 in B minor
This concert is a cycle of Scottish music compositions all recently composed, punctuated and inspired by some of the ‘Inchcolm Antiphoner’, the plainchant written to celebrate St. Columba over 1000 years ago by the monks of Inchcolm, an island in the river Forth.
Commissioned and performed by the ‘Inchcolm New Music Ensemble’, the new music group of Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.
Plainchant – Inchcolm Antiphoner
Steve King – Love Song
Tom Harrold – A Night Piece
Lyell Cresswell – Pater Columba
Lisa Robertson – May This House Stand
The concert lasts approximately one hour.
Music Director: Steve King.
For further information please contact: Steve King
Email: s.king@hw.ac.uk Tel: 0131 451 3705
An intimate evening with Rab Noakes in this lovely westend loft space, part of the Westend Festival.
2019 sees Rab Noakes’s lifetime in music’n’song flourish as he continues to tour and record. This year he has embarked on a 5-year expedition titled ‘Distance No Object’. In 2018 he marked 50 years of professional performance and released an album, the celebratory ‘Welcome to Anniversaryville’.
Well-established for her wild improvisational works with band Dinosaur, Laura Jurd goes from strength to strength as she takes on the role of Miles Davis in this restaging of the album Sketches of Spain with the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra (SNJO).
Forming part of the ‘Once Upon a Time in Spain’ retrospective at Edinburgh International Film Festival 2019, get whisked away on a romantic adventure. Taking inspiration from folksong, religious music and even a composition for ballet, the arrangements of Miles Davis and Gil Evans take in 5 musical movements through Sketches that will have you dancing in your seat.
This concert is a cycle of Scottish music compositions all recently composed, punctuated and inspired by some of the ‘Inchcolm Antiphoner’, the plainchant written to celebrate St. Columba over 1000 years ago by the monks of Inchcolm, an island in the river Forth.
Commissioned and performed by the ‘Inchcolm New Music Ensemble’, the new
music group of Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.
Plainchant – Inchcolm Antiphoner
Steve King – Love Song
Tom Harrold – A Night Piece
Lyell Cresswell – Pater Columba
Lisa Robertson – May This House Stand
The concert lasts approximately one hour.
Music Director: Steve King.
For further information please contact: Steve King
Email: s.king@hw.ac.uk Tel: 0131 451 3705
Local asylum seekers and refugees share the music of their home cultures in this one hour gig.
Tickets here or on the door.
Funded by Creative Scotland, the Robertson Trust and the Big Lottery
This year’s Summer concert celebrates Women in Music, with all of the pieces having been penned by a female composer.
The centrepiece of the evening is a setting of the poem Evensong by Irish-born poet Cherry Smyth, composed for, and in consultation with, the choir, by award-winning classical guitarist and composer Laura Snowden, as part of the Adopt-a-Composer scheme run by Making Music.
Other pieces we will be singing are:
Kerry Andrew – O Lux Beata Trinitas
Clara Schumann – 3 Gemischte Chöre
Hildegard Von Bingen – Caritas Abundat
Carlotta Ferrari – O Dulcissime Amator
Judith Weir – My Guardian Angel
Sally Beamish – In the stillness
Roxanna Panufnik – Prayer
Eleanor Daley – Upon your heart
Fanny Mendelssohn – Schweigend sinkt die Nacht
Elizabeth Poston – The Water of Tyne (SSA)
Libby Larsen – God so loved the world
Chen Yi – Sakura, Sakura
Cecilia McDowall – Regina Caeli
Eleanor Daley – Grandmother Moon
Hildegard Von Bingen – O Virtus Sapientiae