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Go Compose! Course 2023

A popular 3-day composition course for creative young musicians and composers aged 13-18 and in secondary education.
Go Compose! is a composition course for young composers aged 13-18 and in full time education. 

It’s a unique opportunity to work with professional composers and our musicians during a 3-day course ran in partnership with sound.  

Over 3 days you will create your own, original piece of music which will be performed at the end of the course. 
We are looking for young people with creative potential and commitment to the course. If you are enthusiastic about writing your own, original music and keen to try out new musical ideas then this is the course for you!

The course in 2023 will take place at Woodend Barn, Banchory Sunday 15 October – Tuesday 17 October. Go Compose! will be led by professional contemporary composers Bekah Simms and Elise Haller-Shannon. Bekah and Elise will be joined by our musicians Ruth Morley (flute), Fiona Winning (viola), Tom Hunter (percussion). They are all very creative and open about the kinds of music they play!

Timetable
– Sun 15 October 2-8pm
– Mon 16 October 10am-5pm
– Tue 17 October 10am-6pm plus performance @ 5pm.

Application deadline is Monday 2 October. Places are limited so apply now. 

Apply here: https://forms.gle/1ta3SkHuJuqt…

Go Compose! costs £60 for the whole course. You will also need money for lunches and evening meals. If this is too expensive for you, please contact us to discuss this as some grants are available. You can attend the performance free of charge. You can invite your family and friends to attend the final performance. Tickets for this cost £5.

If you will be travelling from a distance and would like the option to stay overnight, we are able to organise supervised accommodation for you at an additional cost of £40. Please contact us directly for more information.

We will let everyone know if they have been selected to participate by 4th October. You will then be asked to confirm attendance and to pay the course fee of £60.

Feedback from previous years:

“The best thing about Go Compose was hearing my piece being played by professional musicians!”

“Hearing my piece was like a dream come true.”

“One of the best experiences I have ever had.”

“A very interesting and informative course that I strongly recommend to others. I would love to come back again next year.”

Our album 'Emblemata: Carnival' has been shortlisted for the Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2023!

We are delighted that our album is one of the six shortlisted in the Contemporary category for this year’s Gramophone Awards. 

‘Emblemata: Carnival’ is a series of 15 character pieces composed by James Dillon. The album was recorded by Delphian and conducted by Geoffrey Paterson
Listen to the album herehttps://orcd.co/emblemata

“(…) in Carnival, Dillon is at his most playful and puckish.”
“All gratitude to Red Note Ensemble who, in high-definition audio, perform the commissioned works with razor precision” 
Excerpts from Liam Cagney’s review for Gramophone Magazine

You can read the full review in Gramophone’s special shortlist edition here
The winners will be announced on October 4th.  

 

Join us for the Northern Connection concert at soundfestival 2023!
For the opening day of soundfestival 2023, Red Note is premiering ‘Flaskepost‘  a new work by Norwegian composer and interdisciplinary artist Tine Surel Lange. This new work is part of Northern Connection, a new and innovative project that aims to connect Nordic countries and Scotland by establishing and strengthening liaisons between composers, ensembles and festivals in contemporary music.
 

Flaskepost — message in a bottle — is inspired by the ocean connecting Scotland and Norway. Based on field recordings made in the Lofoten archipelago in Northern Norway (where Tine is based) the piece is diving into the depths of the ocean, exploring the musical potential of the ocean itself as well as imagining the creatures and other things you can encounter in the depths. The piece also reflects on the ocean as pathway, both for human travel throughout the times but also for enormous amounts of plastic waste that with the Gulf Stream end up in Lofoten from all over the world. 

 
We will also perform ‘Light and Matter’, an homage to composer Kaija Saariaho, who sadly passed away earlier this year, and ‘metamold’ by Canadian composer Bekah Simms.  

Tine Surel Lange Flaskepost (World Premiere)
Bekah Simms metamold
Kaija Saariaho Light and Matter 

Red Note Ensemble
Ruth Morley, flute (bass, c, alto)/ solo flute
Tim Lines, clarinet/bass clarinet
Tom Hunter, percussion
Simon Smith, piano
Jackie Shave, violin
Christian Elliott, cello

Matthew Swan, electronics

Geoffrey Paterson, conductor

 

Northern Connection is a partnership project between Music Finland, Musica nova Helsinki and defunensemble (Finland), Music Norway, Ultima Festival and Ensemble Temporum (Norway), Scottish Music Centre, soundfestival and Red Note Ensemble (Scotland)

Details

25 October, 2023 - 18:00 to 19:00

The Lemon Tree

Aberdeen - AB24 5AT

Cost: Free – £12
Five Scottish-based composers have been selected to participate in a development opportunity with Red Note and sound and will showcase their work at soundfestival 2023.

Our players Mark O’Keeffe and Sasha Savaloni perform 5 new works written for trumpet and guitar by Scottish composers Mingdu Li, Reese Carly Manglicmot, Kate Sagovsky, Max Syedtollan, and Stephen Chase, resulting from a 3-month composer development opportunity supported by composer Karen Power.

The event is free but ticketed

Red Note Ensemble 
Mark O’Keeffe, trumpet
Sasha Savaloni, guitar
 
This development opportunity is part of the soundcreators programme which focuses on nurturing creative talent, and is organised in partnership with sound and Red Note.

Details

26 October, 2023 - 15:00 to 15:30

The Big Sky Studio, Music Hall
Union Street
Aberdeen - AB10 1QS
Aberdeenshire United Kingdom

Cost: Free
Join us for the premiere of audiovisual artist Kathy Hinde’s new children show, FLOCK.

We’re delighted to premiere FLOCK, a show for children aged 4 to 8, that we co-commissioned along sound. 

FLOCK is a show created for children aged 4 to 8.Opening with a sonically and visually captivating performance by the musicians, the children are then gently encouraged to become part of the piece until, through their collective efforts, a chirruping, chattering musical flock comes into being.

Recommended for children aged 4-8.

There will be 4 performances
   – Fri 27 Oct, 1o:00-10:45
   – Fri 27 Oct, 11:30-12:15
   – Sat 28 Oct, 1o:00-10:45
   – Sat 28 Oct, 11:30-12:15

Kathy Hinde, Artist 

Matt Addicott, Dramaturg

Red Note Ensemble
Ruth Morley, Flute
Duncan Strachan, Cello 
Tom Hunter, Percussion

Elle Taylor, Production Manager

FLOCK is co-commissioned by sound and Red Note Ensemble

Details

27 October, 2023 - 10:00
28 October, 2023 - 12:15

Anatomy Rooms
Shoe Lane
Aberdeen - AB10 1AL

Cost: Free – £4
Our players perform new works developed for them by young composers from North-East secondary schools.

Our players, Ruth, Fiona and Tom perform new works developed for them by young composers from North-East secondary schools as part of the Go Compose! course earlier in October. 

The event is free but ticketed. 

Go Compose! is a composition course for young composers aged 13-18 and in full time education and is a unique opportunity to work with professional composers and our musicians during a 3-day course ran in partnership with sound

Over 3 days you the participants create their own, original piece of music with the help of professional contemporary composers Bekah Simms and Elise Haller-Shannon

Red Note Ensemble
Ruth Morley, flute
Fiona Winning, viola
Tom Hunter, percussion



Details

27 October, 2023 - 15:30 to 16:00

The Big Sky Studio, Music Hall
Union Street
Aberdeen - AB10 1QS
Aberdeenshire United Kingdom

Cost: Free
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