Full Event Details: 20th-Century Perspectives: City Spaces & Strings Friday 12 & Saturday 13 September 2014, 6.30pm Our collaboration with artist Toby Paterson – 20th-Century Perspectives: City Spaces & Strings will take place inside an abandoned section of the Anderston Centre. As the venue is not a traditional performance space, there are a few things… Read more »
Today Scottish Ensemble announces the venue for its ambitious collaboration with visual artist Toby Paterson as the Anderston Centre. Designed by Richard Seifert and completed in 1972 it is an important Glasgow Modernist landmark. The building was a key part of the city’s urban renewal project during the 1950s-70s but since then some elements have… Read more »
Scottish Ensemble (SE) announces today that Thorben Dittes will leave SE in September 2014, following his appointment as Director, Royal Northern Sinfonia and Classical Music Programme at Sage Gateshead. His leadership of the organisation has been marked by significant achievements over the last four years. The introduction of a new model of regional touring – Scottish Ensemble City… Read more »
Fixed term 9-month maternity leave contract, with the possibility for extension Scottish Ensemble (SE), one of the UK’s leading ensembles, is widely recognised for its world-class performance standard, and an imaginative approach to artistic and creative learning projects. We are looking to recruit a self-motivated, confident and enthusiastic individual to join our team as Planning… Read more »
International superstar mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly has been announced as the soloist for our upcoming appearance at theEdinburgh International Festival. She will be performing with us in a new work – Relict Furies – by New Zealand composer Gareth Farr. The work marks the centenary of WW1 and pays tribute to the fallen men of the Battle of Passchendaele, but the wider… Read more »
Today Scottish Ensemble announces its 2014/15 season, one that celebrates Jonathan Morton’s tenth as Artistic Director of one of Europe’s leading string orchestras. The season includes numerous festival appearances during summer 2014 including Edinburgh International Festival; concerts and City Residencies across six Scottish cities; a collaboration with internationally-renowned artist Toby Paterson which will bring 20th-century music, art and architecture together in an immersive audience experience;… Read more »
To mark the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, the Scottish Ensemble, Royal Overseas League Arts and Edinburgh International Festival are collaborating on a strings project which will highlight the rich wealth of young classical talent from Commonwealth countries. This project will feature prominently at EIF in their Commonwealth strand of programming during the festival, and will… Read more »
We’re delighted to announce that our genre-defying collaboration with fiddler Chris Stout and harpist Catriona McKay will appear at the 2014 Spitalfields Festival and at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. At the heart of the collaboration is Seavaigers by Sally Beamish. This double concerto for fiddle and harp with the Scottish Ensemble tells the… Read more »
The van is packed and we’re ready for our next Scottish Ensemble tour. Our Love and War in Bohemia programme is coming to Inverness (21 Feb), Dundee (22 Feb), Glasgow (23 Feb), Edinburgh (24 Feb), and London (26 Feb). We’re looking forward to working again with the stunning mezzo soprano Sophie Harmsen in a programme to include Dvořák’s heartfelt Love… Read more »
Happy New Year from all at SE! We ended 2013 with packed houses during our December Nordic Nights ‘Concerts by Candlelight’ tour. We enjoyed ***** and **** reviews (to view click here) and some great feedback from our audiences, which was captured in our annual audience survey. 2013 also saw SE perform 46 concerts, 5 residencies,… Read more »
Concerts by Candlelight Here at the Scottish Ensemble we’re already dusting off the candelabra and thinking about our ‘Concerts by Candlelight’ tour in December 2013. From 6-11 December, in Aberdeen, Inverness, Dundee, Perth, Glasgow, and Edinburgh we’re performing Nordic Nights in the atmospheric surroundings of churches and cathedrals across the country. The Scandinavian theme runs throughout the December Nordic Nights programme. We begin… Read more »
Our 2013/14 season is just about to start and we open with our second set of City Residencies in Inverness (26-29 September) and Dundee (30 September-3 October). These residencies build on the success of year one, developing the new community relationships established during the first set of residencies. Every residency builds to an SE main-stage… Read more »