Journeys String Quartet Tour
2017-08-26 19:30 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | The Big Shed, Goshen Farm Steading, Musselburgh, EH21 8JL
Red Note presents a programme of short pieces from around the world that deal with the idea of journeys of music and peoples across borders.
This eclectic and very exciting performance of extremely varied music, ranging from beautifully melodic and rich folk-based works to wild, fast and powerful extracts from some of the 20th century’s greatest string quartets. There is something for everyone; love songs and keening elegies juxtaposed with crazy thumping rhythmic dances from around the globe. All played with the greatest passion and commitment by the strings of Red Note Ensemble.
On Saturday we are holding a FREE edited highlights performance for parents & carers with young children at 4pm at The Big Shed.
Featuring Jackie Shave, Kathy Shave, Tom Hankey and Robert Irvine.

Journeys String Quartet Tour
2017-08-27 19:30 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | The Lime Tree, The Old Manse, Achintore Road, Fort William, PH33 6RQ
Red Note presents a programme of short pieces from around the world that deal with the idea of journeys of music and peoples across borders.
This eclectic and very exciting performance of extremely varied music, ranging from beautifully melodic and rich folk-based works to wild, fast and powerful extracts from some of the 20th century’s greatest string quartets. There is something for everyone; love songs and keening elegies juxtaposed with crazy thumping rhythmic dances from around the globe. All played with the greatest passion and commitment by the strings of Red Note Ensemble.
Featuring Jackie Shave, Kathy Shave, Tom Hankey and Robert Irvine.

Journeys String Quartet Tour
2017-08-28 20:00 - 21:30 (Europe/London) | Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Sleat, Isle of Skye , IV44 8RQ

Journeys String Quartet Tour
2017-08-29 19:30 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | Gairloch Community Hall, Gairloch , Ross-shire, IV21 2BH

Red Note at Tyninghame part of Lammermuir Festival
2017-09-22 12:00 - 12:45 (Europe/London) | Tyninghame Village Hall, Tyninghame, Dunbar, EH42 1XL
Here, with members of the Red Note Advanced Academy (advanced students from the conservatoires of Paris, Helsinki, Oslo and from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), we present a pair of events in venues new to the festival.
Red Note at Tyninghame is a lunch-time taster concert of contemporary sounds which acts as an upbeat to the afternoon performances.
Thomas Butler introduces his new commission.
Lunch is available at the end of the concert from Tyninghame Tea Room.
Kindly supported by the French Institute for Scotland.

Red Note at The Granary part of Lammermuir Festival
2017-09-22 14:30 - 17:15 (Europe/London) | The Granary, Eastfield Farm, Whittingehame, East Lothian
Red Note Ensemble and Red Note Advanced Academy inaugurate it with two highly dramatic pieces by one of Britain’s most original composers.
The 1928 silent film The Life and Death of 9413 is a pioneering work of avant-garde cinema for which David Sawer has composed a wonderfully atmospheric score. The Lighthouse Keepers is a terrifying story of a keeper and his son trapped in their lighthouse, portrayed in the manner of a radio play for two actors with highly-coloured and tension-filled music.
Also featuring a new work by Thomas Butler (commissioned by Red Note Ensemble).
Please note there are two afternoon concerts 2.30pm and 4.15pm lasting approx. 1 hour.
Kindly supported by the French Institute for Scotland.

Go Compose! concert at soundfestival
2017-10-17 18:00 - 19:00 (Europe/London) | Woodend Barn, Burn O’ Bennie, Banchory, AB31 5QA, United Kingdom
Following a 3 day workshop with professional composers John De Simone and Eleanor Alberga and musicians from Red Note Ensemble, students original piece of music is performed and recorded on 17 October at The Woodend Barn, Banchory.
This is a free concert open to the public.
Go Compose! is supported by D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust, David and June Gordon Memorial Trust and Aberdeen Endowments Trust.

Red Note Ensemble with Pascal Gallois (bassoon)
2017-11-09 19:30 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | Anatomy Rooms, Shoe Lane, Aberdeen, AB10 1AL
soundfestival shines a spotlight on the bassoon this year. Joining forces with sound and Red Note is one of the most prominent bassoon players in the world, Pascal Gallois. Together we have commissioned a new work from renowned composer Benedict Mason which will receive its World Premiere performance at this year’s festival.
This work will feature alongside works by two French composers.
Programme:
Benedict Mason New Work World Première
Philippe Hersant Huit Pieces Pour Basson Et Ensemble Instrumental
Grisey Talea for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano

HCMF 40: Dillon
2017-11-17 18:00 - 19:30 (Europe/London) | St Paul’s Hall, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Huddersfield, HD1 3DH, United Kingdom
Paired here with the UK premiere of two recent works by young Swiss composer Stephanie Haensler and two works for solo electric guitar – written almost 40 years apart but closely related – by Morton Feldman and Christian Wolff, this world premiere of Dillon’s latest work, Tanz/haus : triptych 2017, is a continuation of his relationship with Red Note Ensemble following their critically acclaimed performance of his New York Trilogy at hcmf// 2013.
Red Note Ensemble:
Jacqueline Shave violin
Robert Irvine cello
Catherine Edwards piano
Ruth Morley flute
Tim Lines clarinet
Nikita Naumov double bass
Tom Hunter percussion
Ida Løvli Hidle accordion
Geoffrey Paterson conductor
Wiek Hijmans electric guitar
Programme:
Stephanie Haensler Ganz Nah UK Premiere
Stephanie Haensler Im Begriffe UK Premiere
Morton Feldmen Possibility of a New Work for Electric Guitar
Christian Wolff Another Possibility
James Dillon Tanz/haus : triptych 2017 World Premiere
Produced by hcmf// supported by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia

HCMF 40: Aeolian
2017-11-17 23:30 - 2017-11-18 00:30 (Europe/London) | Bates Mill Photographic Studio, Colne Road, Huddersfield, HD1 3ER
Norwegian composer Maja S K Ratkje, UK installation artist Kathy Hinde and Danish accordionist Andreas Borregaard have collaborated to create this deeply-integrated new work, commissioned by Scotland’s Red Note Ensemble, combining newly-designed air-powered instruments with live musicians to create a new part-performance, part kinetic-sculptural work.
Andreas Borregaard accordion
Maja S K Ratkje music
Kathy Hinde installation
Red Note Ensemble:
Jacqueline Shave violin
Rachel Spencer violin
Tom Dunn viola
Robert Irvine cello
Nikita Naumov double bass
Joy Smith clarsach
Allan Neave guitar
Ruth Morley flute
Tim Lines clarinet
Chris Steam trombone
Tom Hunter percussion
Rhian MacLeod percussion

Leverhulme Concert
2018-03-15 18:00 - 19:30 (Europe/London) | Ledger Recital Room, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, G2 3DB, United Kingdom
As Contemporary Ensemble in Residence at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, we support the Leverhulme Conducting Fellowship programme for young conductors on the verge of a career. The workshops culminate in a concert of new works by some of the most important composers of our time.
Programme:
Matthews – Fuga
Finnis – In Situ
Davies – Neon
Reich – Radio Rewrite

Plug 4 with Red Note
2018-05-08 18:00 - 19:00 (Europe/London) | Stevenson Hall, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, G2 3DB, United Kingdom
Once again we lead an evening of new chamber music by student composers from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow, featuring new works by Matthew Holmes, Duncan Krummel, Hei Ching Lam, Patrick Shand and Qifeng Zheng.
Programme:
Hei Ching Lam, River Cloud, 10’
Patrick Shand, Piano Quartet 10’
Qifeng Zheng, Shang, 10’43
Matthew Holmes, Piano Quartet 10’
Duncan Krummel, Constellations, 10’10
Red Note Ensemble:
Jackie Shave
Tom Hankey
Robert Irvine
Huw Watkins

Red Note Ensemble & Matthew Hawkins St Magnus International Festival Vesalii Icones
2018-06-26 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | St Magnus Cathedral, Palace Road, Kirkwall, KW15 1PA
Written in 1969 this is one of Peter Maxwell Davies’s classic works of concert-hall music theatre. An extraordinarily dramatic, multi-layered fusion of dance and music, its shape superimposes the 14 stations of the Cross on a series of 16th-century anatomical drawings by Vesalius, with a dancer and a solo cellist as the protagonists.
Scored for the classic Fires of London Sextet line-up the work is ﬁlled with unconventional percussion instruments, a honky tonk piano and much allusion to foxtrots as well as medieval and renaissance music.
In contrast to the vibrant sonorities of Vesalii Icones, the first half features the atmospheric piano works inspired by Persia and written during the First World War by the proliﬁc French composer Charles Koechlin.
Programme:
Koechlin Excerpts from Les Heures Persanes
Maxwell Davies Vesalii Icones
Matthew Hawkins Choreographer / Dancer
Soraya Ham Dancer
Red Note Ensemble:
Lionel Handy, cello
Tom Hankey, viola
Ruth Morley, flute
Emma Burgess, clarinet
Tom Hunter, percussion
Simon Smith, piano
Pierre-André Valade, conductor

St Magnus International Festival On Tour
2018-06-27 19:30 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | The Space, Rousay, The Old Kirk, Rousay, KW17 2PU
We go on tour with St Magnus International Festival with a richly diverse programme ranging across the centuries.
Trios by Haydn and Roussel are surrounded by intriguing duos and solos and music by veteran Scottish composer and traditional musician Eddie McGuire.
Tickets £5 at the door.

Aeolian at Sacrum Profanum Festival
2018-09-15 11:00 - 13:00 (Europe/London) | ICE Kraków S4, Kraków
Once again we join Norwegian composer Maja S. K. Ratkje, UK installation artist Kathy Hinde and Danish accordionist Andreas Borregaard for Aeolian. This collaboration is a deeply-integrated new work, combining newly-designed air-powered instruments with live musicians to create a new part-performance, part kinetic-sculptural work.
Commissioned by Red Note and produced by hcmf// and Red Note Ensemble.

Mark Simpson plays John Adams at Lammermuir Festival
2018-09-19 19:30 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | Loretto School, Linkfield Road, Musselbnurgh, EH21 7RE
This exciting programme finishes with John Adams’s Gnarly Buttons, a virtuosic clarinet concerto shot through with influences from hymns to bluegrass and jazz. Before that we hear two of Mark’s own works and Adams’s minimalist classic Shaker Loops. Soloist Mark Simpson, a Radio 3 Young Generation artist and – like Adams – both a clarinettist and a composer, was thoughtful and virtuosic.
Simpson Nur Musik
Adams Shaker Loops
Simpson Straw Dogs
Adams Gnarly Buttons
Red Note Ensemble and Red Note Advanced Academy
Simon Proust Conductor
21.30 – 22.15
You are invited to stay on for a free concert by Red Note Advanced Academy soloists from Glasgow, Oslo, Paris and Dublin.

Sergio Vega Dominguez. Oboe (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) – “Six Études pour hautbois” by Gilles Silvestrini: 1. Hôtel des Roches noires à Trouville & 4. Sentier dans les bois.
Johanna Aichriedler, Bassoon (Norwegian Academy of Music) – “Vertigo” by Olav Berg.
Takuya Otaki, Piano (Paris Conservatoire) – “Dos formas del tiempo” by Martin Matalon.
Cho Ha Kim, Violin (Paris Conservatoire) – “Elegy” by Toshio Hosokawa.
Adam Hall, Cello (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) – “Bunraku” by Toshiba Mayuzumi.
Matthew Mazanek, Guitar (Royal Irish Academy) – “Drei Tentos” by Hans Werner Henze.

Kindly supported by the French Institute for Scotland

Tanz/haus : triptych 2017 by James Dillon at Transit Festival
2018-10-13 17:30 - 18:15 (Europe/London)
Festival 20/21 puts its unique focus on the superb music of the 20th and 21st centuries, in all its richness and diversity and Red Note are delighted to be taking James Dillon’s RPS Award Winning Tanz/haus : triptych 2017 to Leuven in Belgium.
Transit has a soft spot for new talent, likes to support young composers and eagerly seeks out interesting new developments. But all that young power should also be combined with a Genuine Figurehead once it’s time. Tanz/haus : triptych 2017 is a new, concert-length work by master composer James Dillon, which was an immediate hit at its premiere in Huddersfield. It’s a work whose creation Transit are proud to have co-commissioned.
Co-comissioned by hcmf//, Red Note Ensemble, Sound Scotland, Transit Festival and November Music.

Red Note with Garth Knox (viola d'amore)
2018-10-26 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen, AB24 5AT
Scotland’s foremost new music ensemble, Red Note, are joined by acclaimed violist Garth Knox who returns to his childhood hometown of Aberdeen to premiere D’amore by Franco-Argentinian composer Oscar Strasnoy, in the first half of this concert. The second half features the Scottish premiere of James Dillon’s Royal PhilharmonicSociety award-winning work, Tanz/haus: triptych 2017, “a work which immerses its audience in a music theatre of the mind.”
Garth Knox and Oscar Strasnoy will be in conversation during an interval at 7.30pm
D’amore by Oscar Strasnoy was co-commissioned by sound, Red Note Ensemble and Donaueschinger Musiktage.
Tanz/haus: triptych 2017 by James Dillon was co-commissioned by sound, Red Note Ensemble, hcmf//, Transit and November Music.

Sound's lunchtime concert
2018-10-27 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/London) | St Andrew’s Cathedral, Aberdeen, 28 King Street, Aberdeen, AB24 5AX, United Kingdom
Red Note premiere five new works for flute, viola and cello by Scottish-based women composers Lisa Robertson, Aileen Sweeney, Electra Perivolaris, Lucy Hollingworth, and Sarah Rimkus, developed during a residential weekend in Aberdeenshire in September.
The performance is followed by a discussion on equal opportunities for composers with Lucy Hollingworth.

Aeolian at Sound festival 2018
2018-10-27 18:00 - 19:00 (Europe/London) | The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen, AB24 5AT
“Aeolian” – relating to or arising from the action of the wind.
Aeolian draws its inspiration and title from the “breath” of the accordion.
Norwegian composer Maja S.K. Ratkje, UK installation artist Kathy Hinde, and Danish accordionist Andreas Borregaard have collaborated to create this deeply-integrated new work that combines newly-designed air-powered instruments with live musicians to create a new part-performance, part kinetic-sculptural work.
Commissioned by Red Note Ensemble, Aeolian won a Scottish Award for New Music earlier in the year following its premiere performance at hcmf//.
Aeolian is supported by Creative Scotland and Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.

There will be a soundconversation after the performance.

Tanz/haus: triptych 2017 at November Music Festival
2018-11-03 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/London) | Willem Twee Concertzaal, Prins Bernhardstraat 4-6, 's-Hertogenbosch, 5211 HE
Red Note are taking James Dillon’s RPS Award Winning Tanz/haus : triptych 2017 to the Willem Twee Concertzaal in ‘s-Hertogenbosch.
After all, the limbs are pendula, echoing automatically the movement of the centre Tanz/haus [lit.; ‘dance house’] ‘Tanz’ (‘dance’) from the (old) French ‘dancier’ itself is said to have derived from an (old) Frisian word ‘dintje’ to ‘tremble’ or ‘to quiver’. ‘House’ from Old English ‘hus’ (or low German ‘haus’ ) which simply means ‘dwelling’, can be traced back to its Indo-European root ‘hide’ – to hide, to conceal.
Co-comissioned by hcmf//, Red Note Ensemble, Sound Scotland, Transit Festival and November Music.

Aeolian at November Music Festival
2018-11-04 14:00 - 17:00 (Europe/London) | Willem Twee Kunstruimte, Boschdijkstraat 100, 's-Hertogenbosch, 5211 VD, Netherlands
Red Note are delighted to be taking Aeolian to the Willem Twee Kunstruimte in the Dutch city of ’s-Hertogenbosch.
Aeolian is a deeply-integrated new work by Norwegian composer Maja S.K. Ratkje, UK installation artist Kathy Hinde and Danish accordionist Andreas Borregaard and commissioned by Red Note Ensemble.
Combining newly-designed air-powered instruments with live musicians to create a new part-performance, part kinetic-sculptural work, Aeolian had its world premiere at hcmf//40 last year and won the ISM Award for Collaboration at this year’s Scottish Awards for New Music.

Leverhulme concert
2019-03-07 18:00 - 19:30 (Europe/London) | Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow, United Kingdom
As Contemporary Ensemble-in-Residence at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, we take part in the Leverhulme Conducting Fellowship programme for young conductors on the verge of a career.
The workshops culminate in a concert of new works by some of the most important composers of our time side-by-side RCS student ensemble MusicLab.
Programme to include:
Linda Buckley Nikuda
Oliver Searle Deathletics
David Sawer Coachman Chronos
Kagel Die Stüke der Windrose

Red Note at Plug 2019
2019-05-03 19:30 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow, United Kingdom
PLUG Festival is all about showcasing original compositions by the students of The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Red Note will be playing new works by: Amit Anand, Stuart Bramwell, Crystalla, Thomas Donnelly, William James Alexander Parker, Lisa Robertson, Stuart Rynn & Gillian Walker.

Red Note at the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
2019-05-23 11:00 - 14:30 (Europe/London) | Johnstone Town Hall, 25 Church Street, Johnstone, PA5 8EG, United Kingdom
The festival takes a positive stance on mental health, celebrating artistic endeavour by those with experience of mental health issues and connecting audiences to creative and innovative work.

Aeolian at Ultima Festival (Oslo)
2019-09-14 15:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Oslo) | Sentralen Oslo, Øvre Slottsgate, Oslo, 0157, Norway
Once again we join Norwegian composer Maja S. K. Ratkje, UK installation artist Kathy Hinde and Danish accordionist Andreas Borregaard for Aeolian, performing at Ultima Festival in Oslo.
This collaboration is a deeply-integrated new work, combining newly-designed air-powered instruments with live musicians to create a new part-performance, part kinetic-sculptural work.
There will be two performances and after each concert the wind instruments can be experienced as an installation.
Commissioned by Red Note and produced by hcmf// and Red Note Ensemble.

Red Note at Lammermuir Festival 2019
2019-09-18 15:00 - 17:00 (Europe/London) | Ormiston Church, Ormiston Parish Church, Ormiston, EH35 5HT, United Kingdom
Red Note are delighted to be part of the Lammermuir programme with the talented young musicians of Red Note Advanced Academy, playing new commissions from Academy members drawn from major European conservatoires, plus works by two major British composers.
Oliver Knussen Coursing
Peter Maxwell Davies Crossing King’s Reach
New works by Red Note Academy composers:

Matei Gheorghiu Nocturne
Rufus Isabel Elliot Strip/ling
Rodrigo G. Bacelar Saturn’s 16th

Red Note Ensemble and Red Note Advanced Academy
Simon Proust Conductor

Aeolian at Lammermuir Festival
2019-09-22 15:00 - 18:00 (Europe/London) | The Mart, East Linton, EH40 3DN, United Kingdom
Aeolian, by Norwegian composer Maja S K Ratkje, artist Kathy Hinde and Danish accordionist Andreas Borregaard, combines newly-designed air-powered instruments with live musicians to create a new part performance, part kinetic-sculptural work. Inspired by the ‘breath’ of the accordion, Aeolian places Borregaard and his instrument at the centre of the work, both physically and musically.
Autonomous air-activated instruments form a sculptural installation whose sound blends with Red Note’s conventional instruments to create an extraordinary sonic experience in an extraordinary building – East Linton’s historic, beautifully restored, hexagonal Mart.
There will be three performances at 3pm, 4pm & 5pm

SPIN: Red Note with Artlink
2019-10-14 07:00 - 20:00 (Europe/London) | Tramway, Glasgow Tramway, Glasgow, G41 2PE, United Kingdom
Working to a soundscape specially commissioned for this event, musicians will move freely throughout the space. Like Cave’s glittering Kinetic Spinner Forest, sounds will thread, twine, phase and shift as Red Note’s musicians spontaneously align and respond to both the art and the audience. The audience will be invited to lie on mats provided, or recline, to experience the music from a different, more dreamlike perspective. Open to all.
This event is informed by the interests and insights of individuals with profound and multiple learning disabilities who have collaborated with Red Note over a number of years.
The event is part of Altered States and Human Threads, a season from the inclusive arts organisation Artlink, devised in response to ‘Until’, Tramway’s current exhibition by Nick Cave, and aimed at breaking down barriers of difference through shared experience.

Suitable for ages 16+
If you require additional info on access to this event please contact Artlink directly.

Sound festival: Lunchtime concert
2019-10-26 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/London) | St Andrew’s Cathedral, Aberdeen, 28 King Street, Aberdeen, AB24 5AX, United Kingdom
Sergio Vega Dominguez (oboe) and Martin Storey (cello) from Red Note premiere five new works for oboe and cello developed by Scotland based composers Andrew Blair, Kevin Leomo, Gillian Walker, Ewan Mackay and Harry Gorski-Brown during a residential composer’s development weekend in Aberdeenshire.
