Tantallon! These Lands, This Wall
Spectacular Sound and Light Event
>> Tantallon Castle, North Berwick
8:30pm 17 September
Music: William Sweeney
Words: Aonghas MacNeacail
Lights and Video: Culture Creative
A spectacular site specific music-and-light show by Red Note Ensemble with event makers Culture Creative, following in the footsteps of Red Note’s production of 1000 Airplanes on the Roof at the Lammermuir Festival in 2011.
The Intoxicating Rose Garden
West-Eastern New Music and Dance
>> The Tolbooth Stirling 8pm 15 November
>> Woodend Barn Banchory 8pm 17 November
(with special Family Concert at 10:30am)
>> Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh 7:30pm 22 November
Music: Sally Beamish and Anoosh Jahanshahi
Text: Divan e Hafez trans. Jila Peacock
Choreographer, dancer, singer: Michael Popper
Artwork: Jila Peacock
Video: Laurie Irvine
Late-night, meditative music for String Quartet, performed by candlelight
Wednesday 19th December 2012, 9pm
St Giles' Cathedral, Royal Mile, Edinburgh
Thursday 20th December 2012, 9pm
Wellington Church, University Avenue, Glasgow
Tickets £10 / £5, on the door only.
In the run-up to The End of the World (for one night only), Red Note’s string quartet play two one-hour concerts of some of the most beautiful meditative music ever written.
The End of the World
(for one night only)
>> Traverse @ Summerhall 9pm 21 December 2012
1 Summerhall Edinburgh EH9 1PL
Join Red Note on the 21st December 2012 as we prepare ourselves for the end of the world.
Do you remember the moment you realised the world was going to end? Did you feel panic? Fear? Were you excited or frozen to the spot? Or maybe, just maybe, you felt hope for the possibility of a new beginning...?
The Intoxicating Rose Garden is a new hybrid work which takes Sally Beamish's settings of poems by Hafez, the 14th century Persian mystic, as its starting-point. Combining music, song, dance and animated image, it explores the longing and separation, as well as the sense of belonging and completeness that are so present in Hafez's poems: elements that somehow conflict with and complement one another in the same moment. The animated images are based on Jila Peacock's renderings of Hafez poetry in figural calligraphy.
Red Note will be joined by the multi-faceted singer and dancer/choreographer, Michael Popper, and the outstanding young Iranian setar player Anoosh Jahanshahi, who will perform his own Songs from Hafez in traditional Persian classical style.
>> SPECIAL FAMILY CONCERT AND WORKSHOP Woodend Barn 10:30am 17 November: Red Note and Michael Popper will introduce and perform parts of The Intoxicating Rose Garden for younger audiences. Expect animals, fish and birds, playing, singing and dancing!
This is a one-off, site-specific music-and-theatre piece about the predicted apocalypse, for an audience of 100 people only. With new work by Gareth Williams, John Harris, Oliver Emanuel, Hanna Tuulikki, Colin Broom and Ludwig van Beethoven about beginnings and endings, time and nothingness, the things we leave behind and what we want to take into the future.
“Who can bear himself forgotten?” (WH Auden)
Director Andy Arnold
Performers Red Note Ensemble
Composers Gareth Williams, John Harris, Hanna Tuulikki, Colin Broom, Ludwig van Beethoven
Writer Oliver Emanuel
In Partnership with Summerhall and the Traverse Theatre
RED NOTE Autumn Programme 2012
Programme:
Arvo Pårt “Fratres”
Henryk Gorecki “Songs are Sung” (5th Mvmnt)
Toru Takemitsu “a way a lone”
Beethoven “Hymn of Thanks” (Op. 132 3rd Mvmnt)
From Reels | To Ragas
Red Note and Kuljit Bhamra’s
“Around the World” Tour
Globetrotting concerts and workshops on
Coll, Barra, Harris and Skye
11 - 14 April
Inconsistent Whisper
Behaviour and Counterflows present
a new commission for Red Note
by visual artist Torsten Lauschmann
The Arches, Glasgow 7 April, 4pm £3
Pass the Spoon
Magnetic North and Red Note re-perform
David Shrigley and David Fennessy’s “Sort-of Opera”
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh 26 - 28 April
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London 5 - 6 May
The Magic Flute
Bath International Festival production with pianist Joanna MacGregor
FRIDAY 8TH JUNE 7.30PM
SUNDAY 10TH JUNE 2PM & 7.30PM
RED NOTE Spring Programme 2012
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
Red Note, RCS Associate Contemporary Ensemble
1 March 7:30pm Note Rouge - New Music from Paris
A side-by-side concert with RCS MusicLab to celebrate the newly formed partnership between the conservatoires of Scotland and Paris.
24 April 7:30pm Plug 4 - The New Auld Alliance
The Paris Conservatoire invited the RCS to work with them on a long term composition project. They didn’t have to ask twice: the New Auld Alliance was formed. A side-by-side concert with RCS MusicLab.
27 April 1pm Plug 9 - Red Note and Richard Ayres
The winner of the RCS Dinah Wolfe composition prize, and music by featured composer Richard Ayres.
Noisy Nights
New music, new composers, new ideas
>> 9 May @ The Jam House, Edinburgh
Red Note with ICC
Inventor Composer Coaction (ICC) is a first-of-its-kind event, bringing composers from Edinburgh University together with creators of unique digital musical instruments to explore new sounds and new ways of controlling sound.
Over 30 expert designers from around the world have contributed a variety of instruments, interfaces and sound generators for the
seven resident composers from the University of Edinburgh to work with. These range from 3D-printed spheres that respond to touch, to software modelled on neurons firing inside a human brain. The composers will create chamber works written specifically for their chosen instrument, to be performed by Red Note at a special edition of Noisy Nights at The Jam House, 5 Queen Street, Edinburgh at 8pm on Wednesday 9 May.
For more information, and to watch and listen to examples of the instruments, please visit:
>> 28 May @ Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
New music in 4/4
Noisy Nights resumes normal service on 28 May, with a Noisy Night for Violin, Cello and Accordion.
What is Noisy Nights? Noisy Nights is fun, free and your chance to listen to (and compose for!) some of the best musicians in Scotland. Noisy Nights is a place to meet music-lovers, curious minds, musicians, composers and artists in an informal space where you can hear some of the best examples of brand new music while having a beer. All sorts of music are welcomed here - as are all sorts of listeners. And, with the now-famous 10 Minute Composer’s Challenge, you get the chance to write your own piece to be played by the ensemble during the interval!
There are two added stipulations for composers submitting their works in response to the call for scores for the event on 28th May:
* All of the music must be written in pop music’s favourite time signature - 4/4
*the music should, ideally (in true pop style) be played to a backing track.
If you are a composer and you’d like to submit a new work, please read the call for scores HERE.
From Reels | To Ragas ... Glasgow Edition
Red Note and Kuljit Bhamra’s
“Around the World” Tour lands on the mainland
The Cottier Chamber Project, Cottier’s, Glasgow
18 June 6:30pm
Tickets available from 14th March at £7 BOOK HERE
Tickets on the day: £9, students £5, under 16s FREE
Glasgow-based German artist Torsten Lauschmann explores the limits of communication in an experimental performance-installation for Red Note in the derelict basement space of the Arches.
Taking inspiration from a variety of phenomena, from talking drums and Morse code to the game of Chinese Whispers, this absorbing work looks at the problems and the beauty of misinterpretations, misinformation and misunderstanding.
CLICK HERE FOR BOOKING AND FURTHER INFORMATION
Programme:
‘The Bagpipers String Trio’
by Judith Weir
‘Lost Temples’ (world première)
by Kuljit Bhamra
‘Billy Bhangra & His Bolly Bongos!’
by Kuljit Bhamra
‘Canto’ for solo cello
by Giles Swayne
‘The Stream Flows’ for solo violin
by Bright Sheng
‘Machair to Myrrh’
by Jackie Shave
‘Bucolics’ for viola & cello
by Witold Lutoslawski
‘Prabhanda’
by John Mayer
(Arranged by Richard Greer)
Red Note’s 4 day tour fuses global and Indian music in a series of concerts and free workshops on the Hebridean islands of Coll, Barra, Harris and Skye. Joining tabla player Kuljit are Robert Irvine on cello, Jacqueline Shave on violin and Fiona Winning on viola.
Everyone is invited to come along to our free workshops in the afternoons before each performance to try your hand at mastering Indian drumming rhythms with Kuljit and the players.
In addition to the world première of Kuljit’s new work ‘Lost Temples’, this tour announces renowned international violinist Jacqueline Shave as the Leader of Red Note Ensemble.
PERFORMANCES:
Coll Wednesday 11 April – 7.30pm Arinagour Village Hall
No bookings, tickets on the door only – £6.00, under 12s free
Barra Thursday 12 April – 7.30pm Castlebay Community Hall
01871 810 047 Tickets on the door – £6.00, under 12s free
Harris Friday 13 April – 7.30pm The Mission House
01859 530 227 Tickets – £6.00, under 12s free
Skye Saturday 14 April – 7.30pm The Aros Centre
01478 613 750 Tickets – £10.00, under 12s free
JOIN IN WITH INDIAN RHYTHM WORKSHOPS with KULJIT:
Kuljit is a hugely inspiring teacher as well as performer, and we are delighted that he will be leading FREE workshops in each place. Participants will not be expected to bring their own instruments unless asked to, and previous experience of Indian music is not required.
Monday 9th April, Coll Hall, 3pm: Open workshop for all ages!
Everyone is welcome to this FREE 1-hour open workshop about Indian drumming, led by Kuljit. No equipment or previous experience required.
Tuesday 10th April, Coll Hall, 7pm: Open workshop for all ages!
Everyone is welcome to this FREE 1-hour open workshop about Indian drumming, led by Kuljit. No equipment or previous experience required.
Thursday 12th April, Castlebay Community Hall, 5pm
Open workshop for all ages!
Everyone is welcome to this FREE 1-hour open workshop about Indian drumming, led by Kuljit. No equipment or previous experience required.
Friday 13th April, The Mission House, Finsbay, 5pm
Open workshop for all ages!
Everyone is welcome to this FREE 1-hour open workshop about Indian drumming, led by Kuljit. No equipment or previous experience required.
Saturday 14th April, The Aros Centre, Portree 5pm
Open workshop for all ages!
Everyone is welcome to this FREE 1-hour open workshop about Indian drumming, led by Kuljit. No equipment or previous experience required.
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
100 Renfrew Street
Glasgow, G2 3DB
Box office: 0141 332 5057
Phone: 0141 332 4101
Email: boxoffice@rcs.ac.uk
Website: www.rcs.ac.uk
What can we say about Pass the Spoon, well...
It's a show with actors, music and food.
It's a bit like an opera, but with vegetables and fruit.
It's about cooking.
It's possibly the only show you'll see this year featuring a dung beetle.
Oh, and someone gets eaten. Did we mention that?
Having debuted with three shows at Glasgow's Tramway in November to rave reviews, this spectacular new performance by Edinburgh based theatre production company, Magnetic North, is created by Shrigley with award-winning composer David Fennessy and acclaimed director Nicholas Bone, and features live music played by Red Note!
Pass the Spoon is supported by Creative Scotland with thanks to PRS for Music Foundation and Hope Scott Trust.
www.magneticnorth.org.uk
www.southbankcentre.co.uk
'The most fun I've ever had at the opera.'
**** (The Independent)
'Daft and instantly lovable.' **** (The Guardian)
'The most sublimely silly event to grace a Scottish stage in many years.'
**** (The Scotsman)
“Melancholic, romantic, yet optimistic and somehow thrillingly human, Lauschmann’s work casts unexpected light on the fundamentals.”
The Scotsman on The Coy Lover (2011)
>> Red Note with ICC
(no open call for scores)
Wednesday 9 May 8pm
The Jam House,
5 Queen Street, Edinburgh
FREE
>> Noisy Nights in 4/4
Monday 28 May 8pm
Bar of the Traverse Theatre
Edinburgh
FREE
Price: £25, UNDER 16S £12.50
Venue: KOMEDIA BATH, WESTGATE STREET
Festival Artistic Director Joanna MacGregor bids farewell to Bath International Music Festival with the highly acclaimed, fizzing production of Mozart's joyously extrovert opera, directed by Richard Williams - with Joanna both arranging and conducting Mozart's iconic music in a new adaptation for chamber ensemble.
In the immediate vibrancy of Bath premiere venue Komedia, we recapture the excitement and popularity of Mozart's first performance in Vienna's small Freihaus Theatre in 1791.
With a cast of young international opera singers, the setting is a mythical, modern city and in a super-skyscraper, where the once famous but now reclusive star, The Queen of the Night, has taken refuge. Tamino, the young reporter is out to get a scoop; has Pamina been kidnapped by her father, the multi-media mogul Sarastro, and why are there trials of fire and water for Tamino and Pamina?
This fast-moving, modern dress production has been acclaimed for its clarity, wit and touching sensibility. Highly recommended for all ages, this is true family entertainment with a faultless pedigree, and a delight for both newcomers and opera fans.
Gala Night Champagne Reception: add £12 to the ticket price (numbers limited)
The evening performance on Friday 8 June will be followed by a champagne reception at the venue, 9.30-10.30pm.
For £12 you will receive a glass of champagne and an opportunity to meet the cast of The Magic Flute.
Evening performance on Sunday 10 June supported by Lady Evelyn Strasburger
Bath International Music Festival Gala Opera presentation
Royal Academy Opera Soloists
RED NOTE ENSEMBLE
Richard Williams Director
JaneJaney Designers
Joanna MacGregor:
Music Director and piano
Programme selected from:
‘The Bagpipers String Trio’
by Judith Weir
‘Lost Temples’
by Kuljit Bhamra
‘Billy Bhangra & His Bolly Bongos!’
by Kuljit Bhamra
‘Canto’ for solo cello
by Giles Swayne
‘The Stream Flows’ for solo violin
by Bright Sheng
‘Machair to Myrrh’
by Jackie Shave
‘Bucolics’ for viola & cello
by Witold Lutoslawski
‘Prabhanda’
by John Mayer
(Arranged by Richard Greer)
We play a selection of the music from our recent From Reels to Ragas tour of the Western Isles, exploring harmony and counterpoint within a raga, a traditional form of Indian music with a single-line melodic format.
During Indian classical music recitals, the raga scale provides a rigid framework within which the performers can improvise.
In contrast, Western 'modes' and ‘keys’ are usually used for composition, working with musicians in a notational-based context.
Kuljit and Red Note will explore and combine these two worlds without sacrificing the roots of either.