Events are listed by date, then city. Submit listings at least 14 days before publication to iulesGllst.co.uk. Listings are compiled by Jules Graham and Carol Main.
Isle of Mull
:2: Mendelssohn on Mull Festival Various venues. ()168 830 l 108. Times and prices vary. Set up by celebrated violinist Leonard Friedman. this week- long festival of chamber music sees young musicians work alongside experienced professionals to give them a taste of what they will face in their future careers. See www.mullfest.org.uk for more details.
CHORAL CONCERTS
Dundee I Dundee Guitar Festival Various venues. ()1382 432478. Times and prices
. vary. A celebration of the guitar and its i personalities. featuring world renowned
performers and local youngsters in concerts. courses. guest artists and master classes. This year also includes Scotland‘s first international guitar competition for young performers.
Isle of Mull '1: Mendelssohn on Mull Festival
’ Various Venues. ()168 830 1108. Times
and prices vary. See Thu 5.
Dundee
I Dundee Guitar Festival Various venues. 01382 432478. Times and prices vary. See Fri 6.
NATIONAL YOUTH CHOIR OF SCOTLAND
St Cuthbert’s, Edinburgh, Fri 13 Jul; City Halls, Glasgow, Sat 14 Jul
While the professional outfits take a summer break, it’s the turn of Scotland’s musical youth to take to the stage. First off on the round of summer courses, concerts and tours is the National Youth Choir of Scotland. In preparation for their August trip to Hungary, the top tier of the phenomenal organisation that offers structured singing activities to thousands of children and young people throughout Scotland, from nursery age to mid-20$, performs in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Centrepiece of the programme will be Thomas Tallis’ mind- boggling masterpiece, the 40-part motet, Spem in Alium.
Although it is vital for the choir to perform on home ground, it is important for all sorts of reasons to broaden the scope to international work. A milestone tour to Chicago in 2004 took confidence from a first tour to Sweden three years previously. Hungary will build on these experiences in a way that is especially appropriate for NYCoS. ‘lt’s a country where people love choral music and are really interested in what we are doing,’ says Artistic Director Christopher Bell. ‘It is also the home of the composer Kodély, and it is the Kodaly system of music teaching that we’ve absorbed for our work.’ 2007 also marks the 125th anniversary of Kodaly’s birth and is when NYCoS will celebrate the complete publication of its musicianship
training programme.
Singing in cathedrals, churches and high profile festivals, cities and rural towns, NYCoS members will not only get to know the music so that it sounds, as Bell puts it, ‘drop dead amazing’, but each other too. ‘There is real social bonding and friendships are forged that last forever and a day,’ he says. ‘Of course it’s a musical experience, but it’s also a social one. These are the singers of now and of the future singing culture in Scotland.’
(Carol Main)
74 THE LIST 5—19 Jul 2007
Isle of Mull
I Mendelssohn on Mull Festival Various Venues. 0168 830 1 108. Times and prices vary. See Thu 5.
Glasgow . I Busch - Bawtree Piano Duo St Margaret's Episcopal Church. 353—355 Kilmarnock Road. Newlands. ()7786 331799. 4.30pm. £5 (£3). The transatlantic piano duo performs an enticing f programme featuring music by (ireig. Sullivan. Gershwin. Beethoven. Lambert and Richard Busch.
Edinburgh
I Michael Garrett Ensemble Pilrig St Paul's Church. Pilrig Street. Leith Walk. 6.30pm. Suggested donation £10 (£5). Featuring the work of the pianist himself. alongside pieces by Handel. Hamilton Harty and Percy (irainger.
Dundee
I Dundee Guitar Festival Various venues. ()1382 432478. Times and prices vary. See Fri 6.
. Wednesday 11 ;
Edinburgh
I Timothy Byram-Wigfleld St (iiles‘ Cathedral. Royal Mile. 2260673. 8pm. £7 (accompanied children free). St Giles' Celebrity Organist Recital series continues with Windsor organist Byram-Wigfield entertaining us with works from the pen of Buxtehude. Bach. Weber. Josef Rheinberger. (iuy Bovet and Joseph Jongen.
Edinburgh I National Youth Choir of Scotland
St Cuthbert‘s Church. Lothian Road. 0141 I 287 2856 (NYCoS office). 7.30pm. £8
l£()/£2l. A summer concert where the
: creme de la creme of Scotland‘s young
I singers perform Thomas Tallis's motet
? Spam in Alium. which boasts no less than 40 different parts. and two pieces by the somewhat more contemporary Eric
1 Whitacre. See preview. left.
Street. 332 5057. 10am. £1()(£5);
competition returns. once again presented
' £8 (£6/£2). The main choir (see Fri 13)
' Saturday 14
Glasgow
Glasgow International Competition for Young Pianists: Semi-final RSAMI). 100 Renfrew
combined ticket for final also: £15 (£8). The International Piano Academy in Scotland‘s prestigious international
in association with the RSAMD.
I National Youth Choir of Scotland and National Youth Training Choir City Halls. Glasgow. ()141 353 8000. 3pm.
are joined by the NYCoS Training Choir who show what they are made of in two pieces by Bullard. Lauridsen's Diruit ()n. and a selection of Scots songs.
Glasgow
.1: Glasgow International Competition for Young Pianists: Final RSAMI). 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 2pm. £10 (£5); combined ticket with semi final: £15 (£8). They're all fantastic but only one can take the title. Find out who it will be first hand as the competition reaches its climax.
=11 Mendelssohn on Mull Festival Whether heard in the beautiful setting of Iona Abbey, or the Aros Hall in Tobermory. music at this nearly 20-year-old festival takes on an almost magical quality. String players of international renown come together on Scotland’s west coast, following in the footsteps of Felix Mendelssohn who was inspired to write his famous overture The Hebrides after his visit in 1829. Various venues, Mull, Thu 5—Fr/ 6 Jul.
Ii: Glasgow International Competition for Young Pianistsl International Piano Academy The world’s finest young pianists converge in Glasgow to compete for the prestigious title prior to a week of piano masterclasses, recitals and special guest appearance by favourite pianist. John Lill. RSAMD, Sat 74—Fri 27 Jul.
: Glasgow
I The International Piano Academy in Scotland: Masterclass RSAMI). 100 Renfrew
' Street. 332 5057. 1pm. £1()(£5). Led by
multi-award winning New York pianist
Barry Snyder.
Wednesday 18
Glasgow
i I The International Piano Academy in Scotland: Lunchtime
Recital RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 1pm. £10 (£5). What better
5 way to spend a lunchtime than digesting
this performance from French-born but New York-based pianist. Andre-Michel Schub.
Edinburgh I Jerzy Dziubinski St (iiles‘
i Cathedral. Royal Mile. 226 0673. 8pm.
£7 (accompanied children free). The
s Polish organist becomes the latest
musician to take to the keys as part of the catherdral‘s ongoing Celebrity ()rganist Recital series. with a programme set to include August Freyer. Micczyslaw Surzynski. Jakth Polak.
Buxtehude and Julius Reubke.
Monday 16
Glasgow » I The International Piano Academy in Scotland: Lunchtime Recital RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 1pm. £10 (£5). A lunchtime performance from the winner of last year‘s Glasgow International Competition for Young Pianists. Ashley Fripp.
Glasgow
I The International Piano Academy in Scotland: Lunchtime Recital RSAMI). 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 1pm. 1‘ 10 (£5). Today's recital is given by [PAS competition winner 2006. Ji-Soo Seo.