Scottish Ensemble Artistic Director curates a weekend of events at Glasgow venues Our Artistic Director Jonathan Morton is in Glasgow this weekend, Friday 13 – Sunday 15 April, for a weekend of hand-picked events at The Old Fruitmarket, CCA, and Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. Beginning on Friday at 9.30pm, the rest of the Ensemble… Read more »
At the end of February, 700 nursery pupils from East Ayrshire and Glasgow came along to Platform, Easterhouse to enjoy Musical Hats at Platform, Easterhouse The children had enjoyed workshops in their nurseries learning songs and finding out about the instruments of the Ensemble. At the end of the project, the children brought their musical… Read more »
We’ve announced details of our tour to China taking place from 11 – 15 May 2012. We’ll be performing three concerts in Beijing, Lanzhou and Shanghai with some of our favourite repertoire including the Asian performances of our 1995 commission by Sir John Tavener Tears of the Angels. You can listen to a clip from… Read more »
Over the last few weeks, the Ensemble has been featured prominently on BBC Radio 3. First, the Ensemble’s Sinfonia Concertante concert with violist Lawrence Power was broadcast live from Glasgow City Halls on Thursday 23 February 2012. Lawrence and SE Artistic Director Jonathan Morton’s performance of Mozart’s glorious Sinfonia Concertante was selected as one of… Read more »
We’re back out on the road this weekend performing at Christ Church, Cockermouth on Saturday 3 March and Hull City Hall on Sunday 4 March. We’ll bejoining music groups all over the country giving performances as part of Music Nation – a weekend of events devised and led by the BBC to begin the countdown… Read more »
Our Sinfonia Concertante tour began on Friday 17 February with the world premiere of Luke Bedford’s Wonderful-Two Headed Nightingale. We had some great reviews in the press, and Luke’s piece has been going down well: The Herald **** “Very rock ‘n’ roll” The Scotsman**** “Even the section [of Symphony No. 44] Haydn chose to have played at his own funeral… Read more »
Composer Luke Bedford has been named as one of three recipients of the Ernst von Siemens Foundation Composers’ Prize 2012. The Scottish Ensemble has commissioned Luke to create a new work for the group as a companion piece to Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante and will be giving the première performances of the new piece -Wonderful Two-Headed… Read more »
The Scottish Ensemble is off on tour again next Friday 17 February withSinfonia Concertante – concerts which showcase the distinctive voice of the viola with violist Lawrence Power. We’ll be starting at Eden Court, Inverness where the world première of Luke Bedford’sMagnificent Two-Headed Nightingale will take place. We commissioned Luke to create a new companion piece to Mozart’sSinfonia… Read more »
featuring the Scottish Ensemble Following the tremendous success of Alison Balsom’s Italian Concertos disc, which was EMI Classics best-selling record of 2010, the superstar trumpeter’s latest release was announced today. Seraph – Trumpet Concertos, which features four works by 20th and 21st-century composers, is Balsom’s sixth recording with EMI Classics. The title work, Seraph, is dedicated to Alison by the composer, James MacMillan. Seraph was… Read more »
The Scottish Ensemble is delighted to have been invited by the Scottish Government EU Office to help them celebrate their biggest event of their year – St Andrew’s Day. On Wednesday 30th November – Scotland’s National Day – the Ensemble will be performing a programme of classical and traditional Scottish music for Shona Robison MSP,… Read more »
The Ensemble recently had the opportunity to join Charles Hazlewood for his presentation at the prestigious TED conference, which this year took place in Edinburgh. Charles’ talk ‘Trusting the ensemble’ explores the power of music to bring people together and to break down social barriers. The Scottish Ensemble musicians provide the on-stage representation of this ethos. You can watch the talk… Read more »
Listen and play – a concert in two parts On Sunday 10 April we are joined by Director, Anthony Marwood in an exciting concert experience for young musicians. During the first half of the concert, there is a choice – to stay in the concert hall to hear Mendelssohn’s youthful Sinfonia No. 13 in C minor… Read more »