Red Note

Brian Eno: MUSIC FOR AIRPORTS LIVE
2011-10-30 20:15 - 22:00 (Europe/London) | Glasgow Royal Concert Halls, 2 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3NY
Red Note with the Bang on a Can All-Stars
Bang on a Can is a major force in the presentation of new concert music, and has presented hundreds of musical events worldwide. It is best known for its marathon music events during which an eclectic mix of pieces are performed in succession over the course of many hours while audience members, who are encouraged to maintain a “jeans-and-t-shirt informality,” are welcome to come and go as they please. For the twentieth anniversary of their Marathon Concerts, Bang on a Can presented twenty- six hours of uninterrupted music at the World Financial Center Winter Garden Atrium in New York City.
Music for Airports was designed to be continuously looped as a sound installation, with the intent to defuse the tense, anxious atmosphere of an airport terminal and has enchanted audiences and musicians since its release in 1978. Eno conceived this idea while being stuck at Cologne Bonn Airport in Germany in the mid 70s when he had to spend several hours there and was extremely annoyed by the uninspired sound atmosphere. The Bang on a Can composers made their own arrangement of it for live performance – come chill out in style.

www.glasgowconcerthalls.com

Torsten Lauschmann: Inconsistent Whisper
2012-04-07 04:00 - 18:30 | The Arches, 253 Argyle Street, Glasgow, G2 8DL, United Kingdom
Glasgow-based German artist Torsten Lauschmann explores the limits of communication in an experimental performance-installation 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.
“Melancholic, romantic, yet optimistic and somehow thrillingly human, Lauschmann’s work casts unexpected light on the fundamentals.”
The Scotsman on The Coy Lover (2011)

4pm and 5.30pm (30 mins in Arches derelict space)

Tantallon! These Lands This Wall
2012-09-17 08:30 - 22:30 | Tantallon Castle, North Berwick, EH39 5PN, United Kingdom
Music William Sweeney
Words Aonghas MacNeacail
Red Note Ensemble
Culture Creative
For the third year running Lammermuir Festival presents a spectacular site-specific music event unique to East Lothian.
One of Scotland’s most spectacular historic sites, Tantallon Castle is the setting for a brilliant music and light show which will bring the building, its story and East Lothian’s extraordinary past spectacularly alive.
Hear Tantallon tell its tales of intrigue, battle, witchcraft and downfall with a powerful musical score. Marvel at unforgettable images projected on the castle’s walls using amazing, state-of-the-art technology.
“Tantallon vast;
Broad, massive, high
and stretching far,
And held impregnable in war,
On a projecting rock it rose,
And round three sides the
ocean flows.”
Sir Walter Scott
TANTALLON CASTLE – PARKING AND TRANSPORT ARRANGEMENTS
Please refer to our Tickets page to book parking and transport for this event.
Monday the 17th of September is a local holiday.
Running time 50min approx
Tantallon tickets and transport must be booked in advance. Tickets will not be available on the door. Cars without a car parking ticket cannot be accommodated.
This is an outdoor promenade event. Attenders are able to move around during the event, but are asked not to disturb other audience’s enjoyment of the show.
There are no covered areas and no seating is provided on the grass area where the show is projected. Therefore you may want to bring something to sit on, be it a rug or a folding chair. Also please wrap up warmly and wear robust footwear.
We advise you bring at least one torch with your party as the site will be very dark on exit, and this will assist when leaving the castle after the event.

The Intoxicating Rose Garden
2012-11-15 - 2012-11-22 | Various Venues, United Kingdom
Music: Sally Beamish and Anoosh Jahanshahi
Text: Divan e Hafez trans. Jila Peacock
Choreographer, dancer, singer: Michael Popper
Artwork: Jila Peacock
Video: Laurie Irvine
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!

>> The Tolbooth Stirling 8pm 15 November
INFORMATION AND BOOKING
>> Woodend Barn Banchory 8pm 17 November
(with special Family Concert at10:30am)
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>> Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh 7:30pm 22 November
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Hymn of Thanks (Transcendence)
2012-12-20 19:00 - 22:00 | Wellington Church, 77 Southpark Ave, Glasgow, G12 8LE, United Kingdom
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)

Ensemble:
Vn1: Jackie Shave
Vn2: Tom Hankey
Va: Louise Williams
Vc: Robert Irvine

Dillon / Fennessy / Mantovani
2013-11-16 12:00 - 14:00 | St Paul’s Hall, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Huddersfield, HD1 3DH, United Kingdom
David Fennessy new work World Premiere
James Dillon New York Triptych UK Premiere
Bruno Mantovani D’un rêve parti
Red Note Ensemble
Garry Walker conductor
Garth Knox viola
In the first of three appearances at hcmf// 2013, Scottish contemporary music ensemble Red Note performs James Dillon’s New York Triptych, the final piece in his recent series, the first two instalments of which received their UK premieres at hcmf// in 2009 and 2011. Plus a major new commission for ensemble and solo viola from Glasgow-based Irish composer David Fennessy, and, in a brief homage to the auld alliance, Bruno Mantovani’s D’un rêve parti.
Produced by hcmf// supported by Diaphonique, PRS for Music Foundation, Creative Scotland and the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

Edward McGuire - The Cottier Chamber Project
2014-06-14 20:30 - 22:30 | St. Silas Church, 69 Park Rd, Glasgow, G4 9JE
A portrait of one of Scotland’s best loved composers, West End resident Eddie McGuire, from Scotland’s leading contemporary music group.
A familiar figure around the West End, Eddie McGuire is one of Scotland’s most well known composers. Also a well-known traditional musician (Eddie is a member of trad group The Whistlebinkies), he has written music that has been performed by all of Scotland’s major orchestras and ensembles, as well as by internationally known figures including Yehudi Menuhin.
Red Note’s programme profiles Eddie’s music with works that span his composing career, including the beautiful Elegy and his seldom performed Quintet 2 for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano.
Programme:
Edward McGuire:
String trio
Elegy
Entangled Fortunes
Quintet 2

PRSF New Music Biennial – ‘Three Fables’ by Stephen Montague
2014-07-06 13:00 - 15:00 | Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London
Part of the UK’s first New Music Biennial. Sound, Red Note Ensemble and Woodend Barn commissioned Stephen Montague to write a new children’s work for musicians and narrator. It is based on tales sent in by children from different countries across the Commonwealth with words written by award-winning playwright Zinnie Harris.
Please note, this free event requires a ticket. Please book your free ticket online, by phone or in person (no fees apply).

Red Note & Rogalski – Adams, Barber, Bingham & Vaughan Williams
2014-07-11 08:00 - 17:00 | St Andrew’s Church, Holburn, 5 St Andrew St, London, EC4A 3AB, United Kingdom
Barber’s Adagio is regularly voted one of the most popular pieces of music ever written. Away from the concert platform, it has featured in many films including The Elephant Man (David Lynch) and Platoon (Oliver Stone).
John Adams’ shimmering, minimalist masterpiece, Shaker Loops, is a mainstay of Red Note, Scotland’s finest contemporary music ensemble. It mesmorises, even hypnotises its audience!
Two JAM commissions by Judith Bingham are included. The Hythe was premiered in 2012 by Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, live on Radio 3. They performed it in London and Hythe, before Red Note took it to Edinburgh, Glasgow and St Andrews last year. Her Oboe Concerto is written for the brilliant Polish oboist, Michal Rogalski. Its subject is the eerie tale of The Angel of Mons, when a group of angels allegedly protected members of the British Army at the outset of World War 1.
Performers
Red Note Ensemble
Michal Rogalski, oboe
Jacqueline Shave, leader
Programme

John Adams – Shaker Loops

Barber – Adagio for Strings

Judith Bingham – The Hythe

Judith Bingham – Oboe Concerto (first performances)

Vaughan Williams – Oboe Concerto

Red Note & Rogalski - Adams, Barber, Bingham & Vaughan Williams
2014-07-12 19:30 - 22:00 | All Saints’ Church, Lydd, Kent, TN29 9AY

Reels to Ragas at Classics Marathon Day
2014-07-26 13:00 - 15:00 | Glasgow Royal Concert Halls, 2 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3NY
Scottish-Indian fusion as Red Note Ensemble is joined by the superb tabla player Kuljit Bhamra for new and traditional tunes. Expect love songs, dance music, a hint of Bollywood and plenty of tunes you’ll recognise immediately even in their new guise.

Free entry on a first come first served basis

PRSF New Music Biennial - ‘Three Fables’ by Stephen Montague
2014-08-02 12:30 - 13:15 | Glasgow Royal Concert Halls, 2 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3NY
Part of the UK’s first New Music Biennial. Sound, Red Note Ensemble and Woodend Barn commissioned Stephen Montague to write a new children’s work for musicians and narrator. It is based on tales sent in by children from different countries across the Commonwealth with words written by award-winning playwright Zinnie Harris. Free entry on a first come first served basis

Sounding Brass
2014-09-15 15:00 - 17:00 | The Power House at Prestongrange Museum, Morrisons Haven, Prestonpans, East Lothian, EH32 9RX, United Kingdom
The site of Prestongrange’s museum has a fascinating industrial history going back to the 16th Century including glass, pottery and brick manufacture as well as mining. The impressive, high-roofed Power House is perfect for this exciting programme of music for brass. The Red Note Ensemble contrast sonorous pieces from the Renaissance with the amazing, spatial effects of contemporary music by composers such as Harvey and Birtwistle. The overwhelming, surround-sound beauty of Jonathan Harvey’s Ricercare played by trumpet virtuoso Mark O’Keeffe makes a fitting climax to a very special event.
“O’Keeffe’s playing was undemonstratively sensational. A stupendous performance” – The Herald

Red Note with Orchestre d’Auvergne - Aberdeen
2014-10-24 19:30 - 22:00 | The Big Sky Studio, Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, AB10 1QS, United Kingdom
Conductor – Roberto Forés Veses
Violin solo – Léonie Delaune
Laurent Cuniot Just Before (World premiere)
William Sweeney Absence for wind, percussion and strings (World premiere)
Thierry Pécou Ñawpa for violin and string orchestra (UK premiere)
Brian Irvine New work (World Premiere)
soundconversation @ 6.30pm
with the support of Aberdeen and Clermont-Ferrand City Councils, Creative Scotland, Clermont-Communauté, Diaphonique, a franco-british contemporary music fund supported by the Institut Français, the SACEM, the Bureau export de la musique, the British Council and Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, and Fondation d’entreprise Michelin.

Associated artists: Orchestre d’Auvergne | Red Note Ensemble |

Red Note with Kuljit Bhamra and Fraser Fifield
2014-11-01 15:00 - 17:00
Expect love songs, dance music, a hint of Bollywood and plenty of tunes you’ll recognise immediately even in their new guise.
Suitable for the whole family.
Children’s drumming workshop @ 1.30pm

Supported by Astor of Hever Trust
Associated artists: Fraser Fifield | Kuljit Bhamra | Red Note Ensemble |

Red Note with Kuljit Bhamra and Fraser Fifield
2014-11-02 15:00 - 17:00 | Salmon Bothy, Links Road, Portsoy, AB45 2SS, United Kingdom
Expect love songs, dance music, a hint of Bollywood and plenty of tunes you’ll recognise immediately even in their new guise.
Suitable for the whole family.

Associated artists: Fraser Fifield | Kuljit Bhamra | Red Note Ensemble |

Red Note with Orchestre d’Auvergne - Clermont-Ferrand
2014-11-10 20:30 - 22:30 | Opéra-Théâtre, 22 Boulevard Desaix, Clermont-Ferrand, 63000, France
Conductor – Roberto Forés Veses
Violin solo – Léonie Delaune
Laurent Cuniot Just Before (World premiere)
William Sweeney Absence for wind, percussion and strings (World premiere)
Thierry Pécou Ñawpa for violin and string orchestra (UK premiere)
Brian Irvine New work (World Premiere)
with the support of Aberdeen and Clermont-Ferrand City Councils, Creative Scotland, Clermont-Communauté, Diaphonique, a franco-british contemporary music fund supported by the Institut Français, the SACEM, the Bureau export de la musique, the British Council and Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, and Fondation d’entreprise Michelin.

Associated artists: Orchestre d’Auvergne | Red Note Ensemble |

Reels to Ragas Two - Mission House, Harris
2015-03-06 19:30 - 22:00 | Mission House, Harris, Finsbay, Isle of Harris, HS3 3JD, United Kingdom
Expect love songs, dance music, a hint of Bollywood and plenty of tunes you’ll recognise immediately even in their new guise.
Join internationally-renowned tabla player Kuljit Bhamra during the day for a family-friendly hands-on Indian drumming workshop, introducing some of the rhythms and musical ideas that drive Reels to Ragas.

Red Note Ensemble Performers:
Tabla Kuljit Bhamra
Cello Robert Irvine
Violin Jackie Shave
Pipes Fraser Fifield

Tickets £10 (£6)
Box Office: 01859 530227

Reels to Ragas Two - Ceilidh Place, Ullapool
2015-03-07 19:30 - 22:00 | The Ceilidh Place, 14 West Argyle Street, Ullapool, Highland, IV26 2TY, United Kingdom
Expect love songs, dance music, a hint of Bollywood and plenty of tunes you’ll recognise immediately even in their new guise.
Join internationally-renowned tabla player Kuljit Bhamra during the day for a family-friendly hands-on Indian drumming workshop, introducing some of the rhythms and musical ideas that drive Reels to Ragas.

Red Note Ensemble Performers:
Tabla Kuljit Bhamra
Cello Robert Irvine
Violin Jackie Shave
Pipes Fraser Fifield

Tickets £10 (£6)

Reels to Ragas Two - Universal Arts Hall, Findhorn
2015-03-08 19:30 - 22:00 | Universal Hall Arts Centre, The Park, Forres, Findhorn, Highland, IV36 3TZ, United Kingdom

Reels to Ragas Two - Victoria and Albert Halls, Ballater
2015-03-09 19:30 - 22:00 | Victoria and Albert Halls, Ballater, Aberdeenshire, Aberdeenshire, AB35 5QB
Expect love songs, dance music, a hint of Bollywood and plenty of tunes you’ll recognise immediately even in their new guise.
Join internationally-renowned tabla player Kuljit Bhamra during the day for a family-friendly hands-on Indian drumming workshop, introducing some of the rhythms and musical ideas that drive Reels to Ragas.

Red Note Ensemble Performers:
Tabla Kuljit Bhamra
Cello Robert Irvine
Violin Jackie Shave
Pipes Fraser Fifield

Tickets £10 (£6)
Box Office: 01975 641341

Reels to Ragas Two - The Big Shed, Killin
2015-03-10 19:30 - 22:00 | The Big Shed, Goshen Farm Steading, Musselburgh, EH21 8JL

Plug Festival Opening Concert: Simply Red Note
2015-05-05 19:30 - 22:00 | Ledger Recital Room, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, G2 3DB, United Kingdom
Plug is back! The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s festival of new music is a celebration of potential. As Associate Contemporary Ensemble, we work alongside student composers and guest artists and soloists. Plug starts with intent, and we get our hands on the first new scores at Scotland’s festival. #Plug2015

Programme:
Nicholas Olsen New Work
Thomas Brown New Work
Donagh Marne New Work
Jay Richards New Work
Robert Allan New Work

Red Note Ensemble Performers:
Flute Ruth Morley
Clarinet Yann Ghiro
Percussion Tom Hunter
Violin Nicolas Miribel
Cello Robert Irvine
Piano Simon Smith

Tickets £9.50 / £7.50

Plug Festival Closing Concert with MusicLab
2015-05-08 19:30 - 22:00 | Stevenson Hall, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, G2 3DB, United Kingdom
The programme features a large-scale composition from doctoral student Colin Broom, as well as last year’s winner of the prestigious Craig Armstrong Prize, Jay Capperauld. #Plug2015

Programme:
Colin Broom 7 Pictures of an Electronic Life
Jay Capperauld New Work
Jamie Wilson New Work

Red Note Ensemble Performers:
Flute Ruth Morley
Sax Gareth Brady
Percussion Tom Hunter
Piano Simon Smith
Cello Robert Irvine

Tickets £9.50 / £7.50

Leverhulme Fellows Concert - RCS, Glasgow
2015-05-13 18:00 - 20:00 | Ledger Recital Room, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, G2 3DB, United Kingdom
Two pieces from Kagel’s Windrose series and two new student compositions using the same salon orchestra set the scene for this concert to head in almost any direction!

Red Note Ensemble Performers:
Flute Ruth Morley
Violin Nicolas Miribel
Viola Jessica Beeston
Cello Robert Irvine
Bass Rick Standley
Percussion Tom Hunter
Piano Simon Smith
Harmonium Julia Lynch

Tickets £8.50

Watching Over You with Karen Cargill - Glasgow
2015-05-19 19:30 - 22:30 | St Andrews in the Square, 1 Saint Andrews Square, Glasgow, G1 5pp, United Kingdom
The premiere of a new song cycle by Scottish composer Rory Boyle, setting a specially-written set of poems by Dilys Rose, for Scottish Mezzo Soprano Karen Cargill and the Red Note Ensemble. The seven songs tell, in honest first-person detail, of the joys and trials of early motherhood. The programme also includes Janacek’s deep and personal string quartet, Intimate Letters.
Red Note Ensemble conducted by Jean-Claude Picard

Tickets £15 / £10
Box Office: 0141 559 5902

Watching Over You with Karen Cargill - Edinburgh
2015-05-20 19:30 - 22:30 | The Queen’s Hall, 85-89 Clerk Street, Edinburgh, Midlothian, EH8 9JG, United Kingdom
The premiere of a new song cycle by Scottish composer Rory Boyle, setting a specially-written set of poems by Dilys Rose, for Scottish Mezzo Soprano Karen Cargill and the Red Note Ensemble. The seven songs tell, in honest first-person detail, of the joys and trials of early motherhood. The programme also includes Janacek’s deep and personal string quartet, Intimate Letters.
Red Note Ensemble conducted by Jean-Claude Picard
Tickets £15 (£10 concession)
Box Office www.thequeenshall.net/about/the-box-office or call 0131 668 2019

Sounding Brass - Bath International Music Festival
2015-05-24 | Cleveland Pools, Hampton Row, Bath, Somerset, BA2 6QS, United Kingdom
An open air concert in the atmospheric setting of Cleveland Pools, the only remaining Georgian Lido in the UK, set by the River Avon close to the centre of the world heritage city of Bath.
Red Note Ensemble Performers to include:
Trumpet Mark O’Keeffe
Percussion Tom Hunter

Afternoon concert – Time TBC
Tickets £10
Bath Festival Box Office www.bathboxoffice.org.uk or call 01225 463362

Red Note Ensemble Improv Music Theatre
2015-06-12 20:30 - 22:00 | Cottier’s Theatre, 93-95 Hyndland St, Glasgow, G11 5PU
Composer, pianist and Belfast Music Laureate Brian Irvine joins the players of Red Note and our cast of actors for a night of improvised contemporary music theatre. Past years have seen trips to Mars, the French revolution, the banking crash and an unlikely romance in Paisley…who knows what 2015 will hold?!
Artists:
Brian Irvine Piano/director
Greg Lawson Violin
Robert Irvine Cello
Andy Saunders Horn
Ticket Price: £6.00 – £10.00 Box office call 0333 666 3366 or book online at
www.cottierchamberproject.com

Bach to Bartok - Lismore Hall, Isle of Lismore
2015-06-22 19:30 - 21:30 | Lismore Hall, Isle of Lismore, United Kingdom
Red Note String Quartet perform an exciting programme of 20th Century masterworks interspersed with quartet transcriptions of Bach’s iconic ‘Goldberg Variations’. The Bach fragments frame the sumptuous delicacy of Webern’s 5 Movements, Lutoslawski’s seminal Quartet and the virtuosic passion of one of the greatest works ever written for quartet; Bartok’s amazing second quartet.
Programme:
Bach ‘Goldberg Variations fragments’ arrangement for string quartet
Webern 5 Movements for String Quartet
Bach ‘Goldberg Variations fragments’ arrangement for string quartet
Lutoslawski String Quartet
Bach ‘Goldberg Variations fragments’ arrangement for string quartet
Bartok String Quartet No 2.
Red Note Ensemble Performers:
Jackie Shave violin
Tom Hankey violin
Rachel Roberts viola
Robert Irvine cello

Lismore Hall, Isle of Lismore – 22 June 7.30pm (£10/£5)
An Cridhe, Isle of Coll – 23 June 8.00pm (£10/£5)
Cottiers Theatre, Glasgow – 24 June 8.30pm (£12/£7)
Woodend Barn, Banchory – 25 June 8.00pm (£10/£5)
Club Inégales, London – 26 June 8.00pm (£12/£7)
