Nordic Music Days opening concert

For the opening concert of Nordic Music Days we are joined by musicians from Norway, Finland, and Greenland, as well as one of Scotland’s most well-known musicians, Aidan O’Rourke.

Easter 2024 saw Aidan travel to the Nuuk Festival in Greenland, where he worked with Arnannguaq Gerstrøm, Nive Nielsen, Hans-Hernik Suersaq Poulsen, and Miké Fencer Thomsen to create a new project. Qullaq (meaning ‘ascending’) is a collaborative work which draws on elements of Inuit and Greenlandic tradition, myths, societal dynamics, and worldview, infused with Aidan’s trademark innovation and sense of mischief. 

Jukka Tiensuu’s Innuo opens the programme, taking a baroque orchestra as a starting point and ending up somewhere completely new in a masterclass of orchestration. Seyoung Oh’s new work The platform vividly echoes is inspired by the story of one of Glasgow’s ‘lost’ stations – the Botanic Gardens Railway Station, weaving archive sound through the music. Anna Thorvaldsdóttir and David Fennessy reference older musical forms in their works, linking the origin of their craft to the modern day.    

The performance will end at approximately 10.15pm.
Seating and standing will be unreserved, so please allow priority to those who need a seat.