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Scottish Music Centre announces high calibre performers for Composition Marathon

  • Scottish Music Centre
  • 31 Jan 2012

With less than a day to go till the application deadline, the Scottish Music Centre are delighted to announce the five professional Scottish ensembles who will perform the resulting works produced in their unique, Bang On A Can inspired, Composition Marathon: Daniel’s Beard, Ensemble Thing, Peter Gregson with Keith Beattie, and Live Music Now’s Flercussion and Pure Brass.

The dynamic Daniel's Beard consists of some of Scotland's top musicians. In partnership with the Four Acres Charitable Trust, the ensemble has a performance residency at The Cottier Theatre, Hyndland, where they programme regular concerts featuring works at the core of the chamber music repertoire alongside lesser-known discovered gems. Through this residency, they created the UK’s largest professional chamber music festival which returns this june.

http://www.danielsbeard.org.uk

Ensemble Thing are a new music group who have existed for several years in a variety of different guises. Under the Artistic Direction of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s John de Simone, they are currently a ‘power’ octet (or thereabouts) who frequently programme both their own works and those of other composers, including Scottish Music Centre members.

http://www.myspace.com/thingensemble

Peter Gregson is a cellist and composer working at the forefront of the new music scene. He has premièred works by composers including Tod Machover, Daníel Bjarnason, Joby Talbot, Gabriel Prokofiev, Max Richter, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Steve Reich, Martin Suckling, Milton Mermikides, Howard Goodall, John Metcalfe, Scott Walker, and Sally Beamish. Most recently, Scottish Music Centre Sound Artist, Keith Beattie, remixed his recording of Jerk Driver, one movement of Gabriel Prokofiev’s Cello Multitracks suite, scored for nine cellos and premièred at LSO St. Luke’s in 2011.

http://petergregson.co.uk / http://www.nonclassical.co.uk

Live Music Now continues their close working relationship with the Scottish Music Centre thanks to the involvement of Flercussion and Pure Brass. Young Scottish-based musicians Jo Ashcroft and Calum Huggan have teamed together to form the exciting, creative and quirky new duo combination that is Flercussion. They have recently been accepted onto the Live Music Now scheme, and are looking forward to working in venues across Scotland and the UK. Their vision is to bring the repertoire and soundworld of the instruments they are so passionate about, with a bang and a crash, into the chamber music scene.

The award winning Pure Brass is a vibrant, young and well-established brass quintet that perform regularly to critical acclaim. Formed in 2006 at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland the group has quickly become a prominent ensemble within the Scottish chamber music scene. They are part of the Live Music Now scheme, past recipients of the June Emerson Launchpad Prize and have toured extensively as part of their two-year residency with Enterprise Music Scotland.

http://www.livemusicnow.org.uk

The Scottish Music Centre Composition Marathon is an excellent opportunity, offering Scottish composers the chance to work with some of the world’s greatest innovators in contemporary music and of course, to receive a performance of their work by one of five outstanding Scottish chamber ensembles in Glasgow’s Old Fruitmarket.

The deadline for applications is 6pm on Wednesday 31st January. Please submit all applications electronically to Christopher Glasgow, Communications Officer: chris.glasgow@scottishmusiccentre.com

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