William Sweeney

Scottish Music Centre

William Sweeney - Performances

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more Fri 14 Mar 2008 5:00 pm
Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama presents...
Talk+Play
Stringfest 2008
William Sweeney

Academy Concert Hall - free by ticket
0141 332 5057
more Tue 21 Nov 2006 7:00 pm
Enterprise Music Scotland/Music in the University of Glasgow presents...
Edinburgh Quartet
The Edinburgh Quartet

Glasgow University Concert Hall

Kenneth Dempster : String Quartet No 4 (The Cold Dancer)
James Clapperton : The Great Divorce
Edward Harper : Three Folk Settings
William Sweeney : String Quartet No 3
more Mon 20 Nov 2006 7:30 pm
Edinburgh Quartet: Contemporary
The Edinburgh Quartet

Stockbridge Parish Church, Edinburgh - £10, (£7/£2)

This concert sees the Edinburgh Quartet perform a selection of contemporary string quartets some of which will be introduced by the composers. This performance is in conjunction with the release of a new contemporary CD on Delphian Records.

Kenneth Dempster : The Cold Dancer: String Quartet No 4
James Clapperton : The Great Divorce
Judith Weir : String Quartet
Edward Harper : Three Folk Song Arrangements
William Sweeney : String Quartet No 3
more Mon 20 Mar 2006 7:30 pm
Hebrides Ensemble

Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh

John Adams : Road Movies
Stravinsky : Ragtime (solo piano version)
Stravinsky : Circus Polka
Iain Matheson : Twine
William Sweeney : Night-songs
Geoffrey King-Gomez : Spanish Moods
M. A. Turnage : Three Trios
Jack Body : Tribute to the Blues
more Thu 18 Aug 2005 7:30 pm
Sir Michael Tippett Centenary Concert
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
John Butt, Mr McFall's Chamber, Dunedin Consort

St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh - £10, (£8)

Dunedin Consort and Mr McFall’s Chamber directed by John Butt join in the centenary celebrations of the birth of Sir Michael Tippett, one of the most intensely individual composers of the twentieth century.

Tippett : arrangements from the oratorio A Child of Our Time
Tippett : Second String Quartet
Tippett : Crown of the Year
William Sweeney : Pro Patria
more Fri 10 Jun 2005 1 pm
West End Festival/ Musica Nova Festival
Paragon Ensemble

University Concert Hall, Glasgow University - Admission Free

The University of Glasgow's Musica Nova Festival kicks off with a lunchtime concert festuring the excellent Paragon Ensemble playing 2 contemporary pieces.

William Sweeney : String Quartet
Matyas Seiber : Sonata de Camera for Violin and Cello
more Sat 4 Dec 2004 7:30 pm
Concert
Sound Inventors - Scotland
William Sweeney

Town House, Inverness - Admission Free

New music by young composers who took part in a Sound Inventors project at Culloden Academy during October and November 2004.
more Fri 27 Feb 2004 8 pm
The People
Musica Nova Mini-Festival
Paragon Ensemble, Natalia Luis-Bassa, Damian Thantrey

Glasgow University Concert Hall, Glasgow - £3 on the door

Bill Sweeney is one of Scotland's finest living composers. His seminal work El Pueblo ("The People") is a setting of Neruda's stark and powerful poem of the same name.

William Sweeney : El Pueblo
Martin Dixon : The Head of Bernardo Soares
Nick Fells : 5 derbies
more Tue 13 May 2003 1:10 pm
Candlemas and Whitsun Terms 2003
UniSon, William Sweeney

Glasgow University Concert Hall - Free

Edward McGuire : Soundweft
Janet Beat : Fireworks In Steel
Ryo Noda : Improvisation 1
David Lyon : Waltz from Partita for Solo Horn
more Thu 30 Jan 2003 1:00 pm
Candlemas and Whitsun Terms 2003
Ros Dunlop, Robert Melling, Graham Hair, Magnus Mehta, Martin Wesley-Smith

Glasgow University Concert Hall - Free

Richard Vella : Cut to the Chase
Elena Kats Cherin : 25 Measures
Bruce Mahin : Skye Lines
Martin Wesley-Smith : Welcolme to the Hotel Turismo
Graham Hair : Frenzy and Folly, Fire and Joy
Martin Wesley-Smith : X
William Sweeney : Life Studies Nos. 1-4