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Tuesday 20
Glasgow
I Organ Recital: Peter Yardley- Jones Glasgow University Memorial Chapel. The Square. Off University Avenue. 5.15pm. Free. Music by JS Bach. Widor. Eben. Howells and Leighton.
Edinburgh
I Get Organised! Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1 155. 1.10--1.50pm. £3. The Usher Hall's series of bite—size lunchtime organ concerts continues.
I Edinburgh Quartet Reid Concert Hall. Edinburgh University. Bristo Square. 650 2427. 1.10pm. Free. It‘s a busy time for the quartet it seetns. Today they are joined by young Russian pianist Alina Kolonitskaya for a programme of Haydn. Julian Wagstaff and JS Bach.
Mr McFall’s Chamber with Kathryn Tickell & Tim Garland Queen's Hall. 87—89 Clerk Street. 668 201‘). 8pm. £10 (£4). The far-out music group. formed around a core string quartet from the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. push back more musical boundaries. Joined by piper Tickell. they play her [.mtlwtslian's alongside a world premiere ofjazz saxophonist Garland's In 'I'ranslatitm and Agustin Fernandez's Boltlnit‘ Spit/er.
Wednesday 21 ' 5
Glasgow
I The Merchant Voices in Concert City Halls. Candleriggs. 353 8000. 7.30pm. Free. ticketed. Marking the culmination of a project delivered by Glasgow Cultural linterprises. the community choir perform the world premiere of ()liver Searle's new work Pride. Poverty and Pianos. Searle will be giving a pre-concert talk at 6pm. limited spaces.
I St Mary’s Cathedral Choir St Mary‘s [Episcopal Cathedral. 300 Great Western Road. 337 2862. 7.30pm. Free. The choir sings the hauntingly beautiful Miserere by Allegri. along with William Byrd‘s l’t/Iass in four parts. in the context of a liturgy for Ash Wednesday.
St Andrews
I RSAMD Brass Department Concert Younger Hall. North Street. 01334 462 226. 1.15-—1.45pm. A short programme of music by Davur Magnussen of the RSAMl)‘s brass department.
I The Beggar’s Opera Byre Theatre. Abbey Street. 01334 475 000. 7.30pm. £7 I (£5). St Leonards Sixth Fortn College perform John Gyas indictment of the London underworld of 1726.
Stirling
>i< Mr McFaIls Chamber with Kathryn Tickell & Tim Garland Tolbooth. Jail Wynd. ()1786274000. 8pm. £10 (£8). See Tue 20.
Glasgow
I Edinburgh Quartet Glasgow University Concert Hall. University Avenue. 330 4092. 1.10--2pm. Free. The quartet perform Saint-Sa'ens‘ Quartet in [2' minor Op [/2 and Moeran's Quartet in a minor.
I Masterclass RSAMl). 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 2pm. Free. ticketed. Singing masterclass led by Malcolm Martineau.
I World Music Workshop: Bharaty Bundhoo RSAMl). 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 5pm. Free. ticketed. An important advocate of Indian classical music in Scotland. Bundhoo leads this workshop presented in association with the Scottish Academy of Asian Arts.
Edinburgh
I St Peter’s Episcopal Church Senior Youth Choir St (iiles‘ Cathedral. Royal Mile. 2260673.
12.15pm. Free. The choir drop in from Geneva. New York. to give a lunchtime concert.
I Cappella Nova Greyfriars Kirk. Greyfriars Place. 668 201‘). 7.30pm. £10-—£12.50 (£7—£‘).50). Cappella Nova’s all-female quartet. Canty. perform miracle stories and songs of love and praise in the style of the troubadours. with harp. organ. recorders. bells and percussion backing. >i< Scottish Ensemble Queen's Hall. 1 87-89 Clerk Street. 668 201‘). 7.45pm. ' £l2—£14.50 (.£3—£l 1.50). A celebration of the music of linglish composer lidward l’ilgar to celebrate the 150th anniversary of his birth. as well as the music of Maurice Ravel.
St Andrews
I The Beggar’s Opera Byre Theatre. Abbey Street. 01334 475 000. 7.30pm. £7 (£5). See Wed 21.
Glasgow
I Lunchtime Concert: Hebrides Ensemble RSAMl). 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. lptn. £7 (£5). For the second recital in their series. the ensemble focuses on the evocative scores of French composer ()livier Messiaen.
I RSAMD Youthworks Music Competition RSAMl). 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 6pm. Free. ticketed. Two new prizes are up for grabs this evening. reflecting the growth of the Guitar and Scottish Music Departments at RSAMl) Youthworks.
>35 Scottish Ensemble City Halls. Candleriggs. 353 8000. 6.30pm. Free. The Ensemble gives the world premiere of two new works -— Silenee Watered by the young Ukrainian composer Halyna ()vcharenko. who has an established reputation as a composer of music for theatre and for the concert hall. and Seio by Philip Venables. who is British based. Both have been selected through the Society for the Promotion of New Music. I Scottish Ensemble City Halls. Candleriggs. 353 8000. 7.30pm. £11.50—£15(£3—£l2). See Thu 22.
I Organ Recital: Douglas Bruce Mchan Hall. Bristo Square. 650 2427. 1.10pm. Free. Music by Mendelssohn. Knecht. Leighton. Buck. Schmidt. Widor and lilgar.
I Royal Scottish National Orchestra: The Great Concertos: Sibelius Violin lfsher Hall. 1.othian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. £10-~£28. Alexander 1.a/.arev will be wielding the baton for this performance of Sibelius‘ l/itlse 'I'rieste and Violin ('oneerto. with soloist Boris Belkin. and lilgar‘s .S'vntpltmiv No 2.
St Andrews
I The Beggar’s Opera Byre Theatre. Abbey Street. 01334 475 000. 7.30pm. £7 (£5). See Wed 21.
I Cappella Nova St Salvator's Chapel. North Street. 01334 475 000. 7.30pm. £l0—£l2.50 (£7—£9.50). See Thu 22.
Saturday 24 5
Glasgow
I Royal Scottish National Orchestra: The Great Concertos: Sibelius Violin Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. 353 8000. 7.30pm. £10 £30. See Fri 23.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh Symphony Orchestra Greyfriars Kirk. Greyfriars Place. 225 1900. 7.30pm. Tickets available on the door: £7 (£5). Gerard 1)oherty conducts the liS() in a performance of Webern‘s Pussut‘ugliu Berg’s Violin Concerto. featuring soloist Leanne Alexander.
and Bruckner‘s .S'vmp/ionv No 9.
I The Choir of St Andrew’s and St George’s Church: Fauré Requiem St Andrew‘s and St (ieorge‘s Church. 13 George Street. 225 3847. 7.30pm. £5: available on the door. Brigitte Harris directs the choir in Faure‘s choral-
orchestral setting of the Rotnan Catholic Mass (or the Dead. featuring the famous
soprano aria ‘Pie Jesu‘.
Dunfermline
I Gaita Medieval Music Ensemble:
A Series of Unfortunate Events Holy Trinity Church. liast Port, 557 2397. 7.30pm. £7.50 (£5). The ensemble
3 perform a ‘Musical History of Medieval ScodandX
3 Glasgow I Organ Recital Kelvingrove Art
Gallery & Museum. Argyle Street. 276
‘ 959‘). 2.30—3pm & 3.30—4pm. Take a seat i in the museum's magnificently restored
; centre hall and enjoy some wonderful
1 music at one of the museum‘s Sunday
Promenade concerts. This time with
: Julian Jefferson.
I Cappella Nova St Andrew’s in the Square. St Andrew's Square. 353 8000. 7.30pm. £10--£12.50 (£7»-£‘).50). See Thu
Edinburgh
7 I St Giles’ at Six: Organ Music for Lent St Giles‘ Cathedral. Royal Mile.
226 0673. 6pm. Free. A programme including J S Bach‘s I’assaeaglia BWV
582 and works by Pachelbel. Parry.
Messiaen and Leighton, performed by Peter Backhouse.
Monday 26
f Glasgow
I Electroacoustic Event RSAMl). 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. Free. ticketed. Music for instruments. computers. microphones and loudspeakers!
Glasgow
I Kevin Bower and Paul Fisher
Glasgow University Memorial Chapel. The Square. Off University Avenue. 5.15—6.15pm. Free. ()rganist Bowyer performs pieces by Austin. Watson. Fisher. Wammes and Francis. with the aide of narrator Paul Fisher.
Edinburgh
I Gillian Craig and Audrey Innes
Reid Concert Hall. lidinburgh University. Bristo Square. 650 2427. 1.10pm. Free. Clarinet and piano duo. performing their own arrangement of Schubert's Sonata in A major. Arpeggione and Berg‘s Pour
i Piet'es. ()p 5.
Bonnyrigg
I Edinburgh Telephone Choir
Bonnyrigg Parish Church. High Street.
6540140. 7.30pm. tbc. Popular light ' music from the lidinburgh Telephone Choir.
Peebles
I Scottish Ensemble liastgate Theatre
& Arts Centre. liastgate. 01721 725 777. 7.30pm. £10. The ensemble mark the end of their spring tour of Scotland with a selection of lilgar. Takemitsu and Ravel.
' Wednesday 28
Dundee
l I Scottish Ensemble Marryat Hall. ' City Square. 01382 434941. 7.30pm. £14.50 (£3—-£10.50). See Thu 22.
St Andrews
I Angela and William Stevenson
Younger Hall. North Street. 01334 462 226. 1.15—-1.45pm. A programme of 20th
century French music.
: Thursday 1
Glasgow ' I Laurina Sableviciute Glasgow
University Concert Hall. University Avenue. 330 4092. 1.10pm. Free. Music frotn the Baltic states. including works by
:2: NYOS Futures Conductor Paul MacAlindin (pictured), currently residing in Cologne, returns to his native Scotland before heading off to Armenia and Finland to take the talented students of the NYOS Futures initiative through Wave Mechanics by Karen Tanaka, one of the leading composers from Japan. Reid Concert Hall, Edinburgh, Sun 78 Feb.
:2: Mr McFall’s Chamber with Kathryn Tickell and Tim Garland Premiere of In Translation for bass clarinet and piano quintet by Tim Garland, who plays bass clarinet in his new piece. Currently composer— in-residence at Newcastle University, Tim is joined by two other well-known Northumbrian composers, Kathryn Tickell and the Bolivian Agustin Fernandez. The former collaborates with McFaIls in a performance of her own piece, Lordenshaws. See preview, page 63. Queen ’3 Hall, Edinburgh, Tue 20 Feb; Tolbooth, Stirling, Wed 27 Feb. :3? Scottish Ensemble More music from Japan. The exquisite sounds of Takemitsu, like Tanaka (see above) born in Tokyo, only 30 years earlier, can be heard in two of his rarely performed pieces. The Ensemble also marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sir Edward Elgar with his popular string orchestral pieces, Serenade Op 29 and the Introduction and Allegro Queen ’8 Hall, Edinburgh, Thu 22 Feb; City Halls, Glasgow, Fri 23 Feb.
Ciurlionis. Senderovas. Part. Vasks and
Baltakas. courtesy of pianist Sableviciute.
Edinburgh I The Mans Piano Trio Reid Concert Hall. lidinburgh University. Bristo
: Square. 650 2427. 1.10pm. Free. The
RSAMl)-originating trio. featuring Alexander Kanchavely (piano). Ian Watson (violin) and Christoff Fourie
(cello). deliver a selection of works by
Beethoven and Shostakovich.
I Jonathan Eato and Craig Vear St Cecilia‘s Hall. Niddry Street. 650 2427. 7pm. Free. Saxophonist and composer
, Halo. and percussionist and co-founder of hop group Cousteau. Vear. explore the 3 boundaries between composed and
improvised music. Preceded by a seminar in which the performers will discuss their work (5.15pm).
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