World Premiere of KEIN at 18ème Festival MUSIQUES DEMESUREES
2016-11-11 20:00 - 22:00 (Europe/London)
Composer, writer and visual artist François Sarhan will design and make a set of new, invented stringed instruments for the performers of Red Note to play on. Integrating recorded texts from historical figures, this new work explores the relationship between voice and instrument.
By reconsidering the string instrument, Francois will create around eight new musical devices, keeping only the resonating string in each. Some will be based on traditional string instruments, adapted with strange bodies and horns, and some will not be like anything you might come across in a concert hall!
The new instruments will explore the role and attitude of the player, giving him or her a much riskier, fragile and touching task as a performer; to consider the notion of performance; what it means, how to communicate, express themselves and share the music with an audience.
François has an utterly unique and distinctive voice and this project promises to be one of the most innovative and exciting works to be created this year. KEIN has its World Premiere at soundfestival’s sister festival, Musiques Démesurees, on 11 November before having its UK Premiere on 23 November at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.
Musique d’Aujourd’hui à Clermont
16 rue Degeorges
63000 CLERMONT-FERRAND
Tel : 06 17 35 80 82
www.musiquesdemesurees.net

Ring Time Music and Movement Workshops for Dalcroze UK Centenary
2016-11-19 10:30 - 2016-11-26 18:00
As part of the centenary celebrations for Dalcroze UK, Sally Beamish has been commissioned to write a 10-minute piece for three instruments (high/medium/low) for plastique animée (PA). PA is a realisation of music in movement, aiming to make the music visible where dancers are trained to create a counterpoint with any music they may use, rather than move exactly with it.
Music and movement share many characteristics. This creative workshop gives dancers and musicians the opportunity to work together and learn from one another. All participants should come in clothes they can move in, and musicians are invited to bring instruments.
The workshops will be led by two performers involved in the première of Ring Time, with Monica Wilkinson, Dalcroze consultant, musician and teacher. Cost: £20 (£15)
Saturday 19 November 2016 10.30 – 16.30
The Old School, Dumfries DG1 2JL
Tickets: Midsteeple Box Office http://
Tel. 01387 253383
Sunday 20 November 2016 10.30 – 16.30
Dance Base, Edinburgh
Tickets: Dance Base
Tel. 0131 225 5525
26 November 2016 12.00 – 18.00
Woodend Barn, Banchory
Tickets: Woodend Barn
Tel. 01330 8254318
If you would like more information on Dalcroze UK: www.dalcroze.org.uk

UK Premiere of KEIN at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
2016-11-23 20:00 - 22:00
Composer, writer and visual artist François Sarhan has designed and made a set of new, invented stringed instruments for the performers of Red Note to play on. Integrating recorded texts from historical figures, this new work explores the relationship between voice and instrument.
By reconsidering the string instrument, Francois will create around eight new musical devices, keeping only the resonating string in each. Some will be based on traditional string instruments, adapted with strange bodies and horns, and some will not be like anything you might come across in a concert hall!
The new instruments will explore the role and attitude of the player, giving him or her a much riskier, fragile and touching task as a performer; to consider the notion of performance; what it means, how to communicate, express themselves and share the music with an audience.
How the instruments work, look and sound is entirely up to François; the performers of Red Note will be working closely with François for the UK Premiere at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival on 23rd November.
François has an utterly unique and distinctive voice and this project promises to be one of the most innovative and exciting works to be created this year.
For more information on HCMF visit www.hcmf.co.uk

Leverhulme Conducting Fellows Workshops
2016-12-05 09:00 - 2016-12-09 17:00
Red Note players giving masterclasses and side-by-side workshops with advanced students from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and conductor Garry Walker as part of our work as Contemporary Ensemble-in-Residence.

Scottish EDGE Awards
2016-12-15 18:00 - 18:30 | RBS Gogarburn, House G, Ground floor, Edinburgh, EH12 9BS
The Scottish EDGE Awards are Britain’s biggest business competition and we will be performing at the final on 15 December at RBS Gogarburn, Edinburgh.
Scottish EDGE, offers Scotland’s entrepreneurial businesses the chance to pitch for up to £150,000 in funding and support. We will be performing at the Round Nine Scottish EDGE Final, following a full day pitching, and just before the awards are announced. To date, 205 businesses have received the coveted Scottish EDGE award, generating 641 Scottish jobs, producing an additional £31.80 million in turnover, and receiving £28.36 million in external investment as a result of the fund’s support.
This is really exciting opportunity for Red Note to perform in front of some Scotland’s best entrepreneurs.
For more information on Scottish EDGE please visit Scottish EDGE

Red Note seeks Board members
2017-01-18 08:00 - 2017-03-31 17:00
Red Note Ensemble is Scotland’s contemporary music ensemble, performing throughout Scotland and internationally. Building on its continued success and expansion, we are looking for two new Board members. We invite applications from suitably experienced individuals and would particularly welcome those with expertise in social inclusion and (due to one of our long-standing original Board members now standing down) in finance.
Forward-thinking and dynamic, the company plays a leadership role nationally and internationally in the development of new music and the engagement of new audiences through its busy annual schedule of events, many of them cross-artform. Our current Board members have expertise and experience at a senior level in marketing, education, law and arts management and are enthusiastic supporters of Red Note’s ethos of artistic excellence available to all.
Board meetings are held quarterly, in Glasgow or Edinburgh. In addition, Board members give occasional informal advice by phone or 1:1 meetings with the executive team. Being on the Red Note Board is a fulfilling and engaging experience, and Board Members are highly valued for the vital role they fulfil in providing professional guidance and governance for this young, ambitious and rapidly-developing music company. The Red Note Board, like the company, is friendly and informal, but strives to maintain the highest possible standards in its business.
Applicants are encouraged to contact Professor Celia Duffy (ceelsduffy@gmail.com, 07904 124 170), the Board chair, for an informal chat prior to application via CV and covering letter.

Launch party for The Cellist of Sarajevo on Delphian Records
2017-01-25 15:30 - 17:00 | The Scottish Arts Club, 24 Rutland Square , Edinburgh, EH1 2BW
The Cellist of Sarajevo: chamber music by David Wilde & Red Note Ensemble is our latest CD (out 18 November) on Delphian Records (DCD34179). David Wilde is the veteran of nine Delphian piano recordings, documenting his remarkable Indian summer as a performer. For this project we survey the works of Wilde’s ‘Bosnian’ period – when he travelled to besieged Sarajevo to help preserve the city’s cultural life, earning him the friendship of colleagues including the heroic members of the Sarajevo String Quartet.
To purchase the album please visit Presto Classical
This event is by invitation only.

Parlour Sounds by Patricia Alessandrini
2017-02-02 19:00 - 22:00 | Woodend Barn, Burn O’ Bennie, Banchory, AB31 5QA, United Kingdom
Parlour Sounds is a multimedia project involving kitchen devices, and housekeeping aids in a subversive, experimental electronic aesthetic. Coming out of Patricia Alessandrini’s Sound and Music Embedded residency with Red Note Ensemble, in partnership with the Conservatoire de Paris, it will also feature work by composers associated with the Conservatoire.
Incorporating live electronics, video and theatrical elements, Parlour Sounds will involve vocal elements and text performed by soprano and the musicians, in relation to their instruments (singing into the flute, transducing sound from the voice into instruments, etc). The project also uses interactive technology to transform ordinary household objects into electronic instruments.
Parlour Sounds is a female/feminist view of technology: set in a British home in the late 60’s, and sees the soprano interact with the technology she finds at home as well as audio technology designed for the home in a subversive, ‘circuit bending’ aesthetic.
The ticket price also includes food/dinner. Please arrive at 7pm. In partnership with sound, NEAT, Buchanan Food & the Barn
For more information on Patricia please visit: patriciaalessandrini.com

The Night With… Red Note
2017-03-01 19:30 - 21:30 | The Hug and Pint, 171 Great Western Road, Glasgow, G4 9AW
Programmed by composer Matthew Whiteside, The Night With… is a new series of salon style concerts presenting classical and new music in an informal environment.
‘I want people to experience and enjoy all music as music rather than have a separate series for new and old. In these concerts I’ve programmed a mix that will be in three short 15 to 30 minute sections giving the audience a chance to chat to the players, each other and any of the composers that are there. I want to develop this as a monthly series across the main cities in Scotland and commission new works’.
The series is kindly supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland’s Open Project Fund.

Leverhulme Workshops
2017-03-07 09:00 - 2017-03-09 17:00 | Ledger Recital Room, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, G2 3DB, United Kingdom
We support the Leverhulme Conducting Fellowship programme for young conductors on the verge of a career.
The workshops from 7-9 March, at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, are fully funded by the Leverhulme Trust, and culminate in Music Lab, a concert on 9 March of new works by some of the most important composers of our time; Oliver Knussen, Edmund Finnis, George Benjamin, Tristan Murail and John Casken. This year’s conductors are Jiří Rožeň & Simon Proust.

New Music Scotland Awards
2017-03-08 19:30 - 22:30 | Drygate Brewery, 85 Drygate, Glasgow, G4 0UT
We have been shortlisted for the first Scottish Awards for New Music ahead of an awards event in the Drygate Brewery, Glasgow, at 8.00pm on Wednesday 8 March, 2017.
There were over a hundred and eighty nominations submitted by artists, audience members and the general public, reinforcing the depth and breadth of new music activity in Scotland. Nominations ranged from amateur musicians and emerging artists, to major organisations and household names and covered a wide-range of new music.
The shortlisted nominations for the Scottish Awards for New Music 2017 are:

Dorico Award for Small/medium Scale Work sponsored by Steinberg
Flicker – Claire McCue
Panopticon – David Fennessy
The Iris Murders – Alasdair Nicolson (with libretto by John Gallas)

Large Scale Work sponsored by PRS for Music
Piano Concerto – Martin Suckling
The Devil Inside – Stuart MacRae (with libretto by Louise Welsh)
Two Eardley Pictures: Catterline in Winter and Snow – Helen Grime

Sound Art / Electroacoustic Work
Mechanical – Timothy Cooper
Pipeline – Pete Stollery
SOURCEMOUTH : LIQUIDBODY – Hanna Tuulikki

EVM Recorded New Work
Since it was the Day of Preparation… – Sir James MacMillan / Hebrides Ensemble / Synergy Vocals (Delphian)
Songs and Lullabies – Robert Irvine (Delphian)
Ūhte – Henry MacPherson / RCS (RCS / BBC Scotland)

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Award for Community / Education Project
Go compose! – sound (in partnership with Red Note Ensemble)
Songs from Above and Below – John McLeod, Emily Mitchell and Geoffrey Tanti – Live Music Now
Wagner’s School of Cool – Drake Music Scotland

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Award for Achievement in New Music
Ailie Robertson
Ilan Volkov and Alasdair Campbell
sound

Help Musicians UK Award for New Music Performers of the Year
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
MacGillivray
Red Note Ensemble
Robert Irvine

Red Note MusicLab
2017-03-09 19:30 - 21:30 | Ledger Recital Room, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, G2 3DB, United Kingdom
As Associate 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 MusicLab, a concert on 9 March of new works by some of the most important composers of our time; Oliver Knussen, Edmund Finnis, George Benjamin, Tristan Murail and John Casken. This year’s conductors are Jiří Rožeň & Simon Proust.
Concert Programme:
Knussen Hums and Songs of Winnie-the-Pooh
Finnis Seeing is Flux
Benjamin Octet
Murail Treize couleurs du soleil couchant
Casken Winter Reels

String Quartets by Lyell Cresswell
2017-03-14 10:00 - 2017-03-16 17:00
One of New Zealand’s most distinguished composers, Cresswell made Edinburgh his home in 1982 and has since become one of the most important figures in the Scottish music scene, receiving a prestigious Scottish Arts Council ‘Creative Scotland Award’ in 2001. His output comprises works for orchestra, chamber ensembles, choir, voice and solo instruments. Despite a discography that covers much of his music for orchestra, his string quartets remain as yet unrepresented on disc.
This recording will add these important works to the recorded catalogue, creating a new international platform for Cresswell’s music while making a significant contribution to the recorded repertoire of one of Scotland’s most eminent composers.

New Music Makers Workshops and Performance
2017-03-27 08:00 - 2017-06-30 17:00
What is it?
New Music Makers is a school’s composing project that takes place over four sessions, in partnership with your school’s music department staff and instrument instructors. Whatever the pupils write we take seriously; we don’t require them to produce perfectly notated works right away. Red Note composers and players work alongside staff and pupils to explore and create new music. We work with their initial ideas by interpreting them on the spot. By building a level of trust between the musicians and pupils, they progress rapidly, creating fully-formed, fully-notated, coherent pieces within three weeks. Watch our short film here. This project has been made possible with thanks to support from The Robertson Trust.
Who is it for?
We usually work with Higher/Advanced Higher pupils (though we are happy to work with Nat 5s).
The ability to use notation is useful, but not essential. Finished scores can be notated, or graphic, or written instructions – so long as it’s the pupil’s own ideas, and they can communicate these clearly using whichever method they choose. Red Note and school staff team will support pupils to be able to communicate their creative ideas to their performers.
What are the results?
Each pupil involved will create and finish a composition scored for three instruments
Schools can organise to record the performance for exam purposes
By working with two classes, the project leaves and genuine legacy of school staff who have experienced the process and are thus equipped to re-stage the project ‘in-house’ in the future.
Pupils develop their own creative voice in music composition.
How does it work?
The project will take place over four double periods plus a final performance at your school. Sessions are usually spread over four weeks (though can be condensed or spread out more if scheduling requires). The performance takes place on the same day as the last session.
We work with two classes:
Class no.1 will be led by the Red Note Ensemble team, observed by the school music staff and 3 school instrumental instructors.
Class no.2 will be led by the school music staff and 3 school instrumental instructors, supported by the Red Note team.
Session One (single period)
Class no.1 led by Red Note project leader (observed by school team). Introductory session: introduces the team(s) and project to pupils, initial chat about instruments. Classes could be combined for this one session; in which case Red Note leader would lead, with contributions from school team.
Class no.2 led by school team  (supported by Red Note)
Session Two (double period)
Class no.1 led by Red Note project leader + 3 Red Note musicians  (observed by school team + 3 school music instructors). Instrument demos, and the ‘Ten minute composing challenge’
Class no.2 led by school team + 3 school music instructors  (supported by Red Note)
Session Three (double period)
Class no.1 led by Red Note project leader  (observed by school team). ‘Work in progress’ session – help with developing creative ideas, piece structure, getting ideas down on paper. Lots of one-to-one support
Class no.2 led by school team  (supported by Red Note)
Session Four (double period) and PERFORMANCE
Class no.1 led by Red Note project leader + 3 Red Note musicians  (observed by school team + 3 school music instructors). Rehearse pupils’ pieces. Final play-through/snagging/finishing touches of all compositions
Class no.2 led by school team + 3 school music instructors  (supported by Red Note)
PERFORMANCE
Class no.2 led by school team + 3 school music instructors  (supported by Red Note)
Ideally, each finished composition will be performed at the informal end-of-project performance (friends, family, school staff invited). Class no.1’s compositions are performed by Red Note musicians, Class no.2’s compositions are performed by the school’s 3 instrumental instructors. The project will be taking place in June, after the exams period.
All we need from you:
School music department staff must be present at all sessions and school music instructor team (3 musicians) must be available for sessions 2 and 4 & the performance. Their attendance at sessions 1 & 3 is beneficial and strongly encouraged, though can be managed without if absolutely necessary.
Get in touch
If you are interested in the project and would like to take part or find out more, please contact Project Manager, Siobhan Clark, by email on newmusicmakers@rednoteensemble.com

Parlour Sounds at Edinburgh International Science Festival
2017-04-13 20:00 - 21:30 | Summerhall, 1 Summerhall Place, Edinburgh, EH9 1QH
Parlour Sounds is a live multimedia event using innovative electronics to transform and invent instruments in an imaginative exploration of women’s relationship to technology – from the advent of home hi-fi to the smartphone. Coming out of Patricia Alessandrini’s Sound and Music Embedded residency with Red Note, in partnership with the Conservatoire de Paris, it will also feature work by composers associated with the Conservatoire.
This performance will also include hands-on audience participation with an instrument-building workshop followed by an after-show jam session to try out some of the electronics. We will then be performing Parlour Sounds at the Conservatoire de Paris on 18 April.

Aeolian Workshop
2017-04-17 09:00 - 2017-04-23 17:00
The project draws inspiration and working title from the “breath” of the accordion. Using the accordion and its bellows to power/trigger a series of other instruments/performers to play using breath and air in the manner of an Aeolian (wind) harp.
For instance, the accordionist may trigger a bellows that blows air across the strings of a violin, or a harp, as well as performing on his own instrument. The ensemble will consist of 12 players including strings, harpist, acoustic guitarist, percussionists and clarsach. The performance will be as akin to the notion of a kinetic sculpture as to a work for ensemble. 30 mins long, audience stand around the installation / performance.
Accordionist Andreas Borregaard, composer Maja Ratkje and video/sound artist Kathy Hinde will be in Bristol to workshop Aeolian ahead of its World Première in November at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.

World Premiere The 306: Day
2017-05-05 20:00 - 2017-06-03 22:00 | Various Venues, Scotland Wide, United Kingdom
The 306: Day, the second part in Oliver Emmanuel and Gareth Williams’ powerful new First World War trilogy, is set to embark on an expansive Scottish tour between 5 May and 3 June 2017. The show, which explores how the conflict affected women, families, and communities on the home front, will open at Perth’s historic Station Hotel on 5 May before setting off on a Scottish tour. It will visit venues, town and village halls, and civic spaces across the country, including performances in Glasgow, Clydebank, Aberdeen, Dundee, Lockerbie, Galashiels, Ballachulish, Wigtown, Cove, Nairn, Arrochar, and Fort Augustus.
The first part of the trilogy, The 306: Dawn, premiered in the summer of 2016 and marked the centenary of the Somme Offensive. Audaciously staged within a barn in the Perthshire countryside,
Inspired by real events and first-hand accounts, The 306: Day will tell the stories of three women left behind in the wake of the executions, and their struggles to be heard above the clamour of the conflict. The year is 1917, and the war across the channel rages on. In Russia, a revolution is turning the social order on its head while at home in Britain, there are women fighting their own battles. Rents are rising. Food is scarce. And war work can be deadly.
The show features a contemporary score performed live by leading members of the Red Note Ensemble, who also contributed a deft and moving accompaniment to last year’s The 306: Dawn. Composer Gareth Williams is a long-term collaborator with both Red Note and Oliver Emanuel; the pair previously worked on The End of the World (for One Night Only) which Red Note commissioned, developed and staged in Edinburgh in December 2012. The National Theatre of Scotland also reunites with Perth Theatre and collaborates with Stellar Quines for the first time, under the new Artistic Directorship of Jemima Levick.
The 306: Day is co-commissioned with 14-18 NOW, the UK’s arts programme for the First World War centenary. Support for the tour comes from The Gannochy Trust, The Forteviot Trust, and The Thomson Charitable Trust.

Plug 4: All Things Red
2017-05-10 19:00 - 21:00 | Ledger Recital Room, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, G2 3DB, United Kingdom
Red Note are Associate Ensemble in Residence at RCS and Plug Festival concerts feature new music from undergraduate and graduate RCS student composers as well as the more experienced composers.
Plug 4: All Things Red will see the first performances of works by composing students Thomas Brown, Anna Grig, Juta Pranulyte and Reza Kholosi.

CLASS OF ‘17
2017-05-13 20:00 - 22:00 | Assembly Roxy, 2 Roxburgh Place , Edinburgh, EH8 9SU
Red Note Ensemble plays new work by Reid School of Music’s CLASS OF ‘17.New works from Konstantinos Vlachos / Matt Gio / Christian Ferlaino / José Rafael Subía Valdez / Afrodita Katmeridou / Andrew Blair / with Russell Wimbish, double bass.
Red Note Performers
Jacqueline Shave – Violin/Celeste
Tom Hankey – Viola
Robert Irvine – Cello
Aisling Agnew – Flute
Joanna Nicholson – Clarinet
Tom Hunter – PercussionProgramme:
Konstantinos Vlachos Data Entry for Flute, Clarinet, Violin, ‘Cello & Celesta
Matt Gio Sequence for Cello, Clarinets (Bb and Bass), Vibraphone, Celesta & Electronics
Christian Ferlaino Title for Saxophone
Russel Wimbish Bass improvisation for double bass
José Rafael Subía Valdez Oblivious (2012) for Flute & Clarinet
Afrodita Katmeridou Toccata Immaginario for Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Violoncello & Vibraphone
Andrew Blair From Dust for Alto Flute, Bass Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Violoncello & Percussion

Blowing Their Own Horns
2017-05-25 18:30 - 19:30 | The Fruitmarket Gallery, 45 Market Street , Edinburgh, EH1 1DF
This concert sees our musicians give these show-offs a chance to be played, echoing artist Mark Wallinger’s exploration of ego in The Fruitmarket Gallery’s current exhibition.
You will hear solo music for each new-fangled instrument followed by a commission from fearless composer Jim Sutherland, specially written to bring these big personalities together.
Event supported by Museums Galleries Scotland Partnership Fund.

New Music Makers at Hillhead High School
2017-06-01 08:00 - 2017-08-31 17:00
We are working with music teachers and pupils studying Higher Music, before culminating in a performance on 31 August.
New Music Makers is an exciting and ambitious programme to support the development of young composers in schools across Scotland. Designed to inspire and support composing, the project demonstrates how a professional ensemble working in partnership with a school can create a genuine practical legacy, enabling the school to take the work forward independently.
The sessions, led by Red Note’s John Harris, will give 27 pupils all studying Higher Music an insight into some of the ideas and compositional techniques used by professional composers. Four workshops, running from 1 June to 31 August, culminate in an informal performance on 31 August, featuring the pupil’s new compositions performed by Red Note musicians David Munn, Jo Nicholson, Tom Hankey and John Harris.
If you would like more information, or would like your school to participate in New Music Makers, please contact Project Manager Siobhan Clark at newmusicmakers@rednoteensemble.com
New Music Makers is made possible thanks to support from Creative Scotland, The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, The Robertson Trust and The Radcliffe Trust.

New Music Makers at Notre Dame School
2017-06-05 08:00 - 2017-06-22 17:00
We are working with music teachers and pupils studying Advanced Higher and Higher Music, before culminating in a public performance on 22 June.
New Music Makers is an exciting and ambitious programme to support the development of young composers in schools across Scotland. Designed to inspire and support composing, the project demonstrates how a professional ensemble working in partnership with a school can create a genuine practical legacy, enabling the school to take the work forward independently.
The sessions, led by Red Note’s John Harris, will give 20 pupils all studying Music an insight into some of the ideas and compositional techniques used by professional composers. Four workshops, running from 5 June to 22 June, culminate in an informal performance on 22 June, featuring the pupil’s new compositions performed by Red Note musicians David Munn, Ruth Morley, Jo Nicholson and John Harris.
If you would like more information, or would like your school to participate in New Music Makers, please contact Project Manager Siobhan Clark at newmusicmakers@rednoteensemble.com
New Music Makers is made possible thanks to support from Creative Scotland, The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, The Robertson Trust and The Radcliffe Trust.

New Music Makers at Kings Park Secondary School
2017-06-05 08:00 - 2017-08-28 17:00
We are working with music teachers and pupils studying Advanced Higher, Higher and Nat 5 Music, before culminating in a performance on 28 August.
New Music Makers is an exciting and ambitious programme to support the development of young composers in schools across Scotland. Designed to inspire and support composing, the project demonstrates how a professional ensemble working in partnership with a school can create a genuine practical legacy, enabling the school to take the work forward independently.
The sessions, led by Red Note’s John Harris, will give 29 pupils all studying Music an insight into some of the ideas and compositional techniques used by professional composers. Four workshops, running from 5 June to 28 August, culminate in an informal performance on 28 August, featuring the pupil’s new compositions performed by Red Note musicians David Munn, Pete Furniss, Ruth Morley and John Harris.
If you would like more information, or would like your school to participate in New Music Makers, please contact Project Manager Siobhan Clark at newmusicmakers@rednoteensemble.com
New Music Makers is made possible thanks to support from Creative Scotland, The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, The Robertson Trust and The Radcliffe Trust.

New Music Makers at Shawlands Academy
2017-06-07 08:00 - 2017-06-23 17:00
Red Note are working with music teachers and pupils studying Advanced Higher and Higher Music, before culminating in a performance on 23 June.
New Music Makers is an exciting and ambitious programme to support the development of young composers in schools across Scotland. Designed to inspire and support composing, the project demonstrates how a professional ensemble working in partnership with a school can create a genuine practical legacy, enabling the school to take the work forward independently.
The sessions, led by Red Note’s John Harris, will give 20 pupils all studying Music an insight into some of the ideas and compositional techniques used by professional composers. Four workshops, running from 7 June to 23 June, culminate in an informal performance on 23 June, featuring the pupil’s new compositions performed by Red Note musicians David Munn, Ruth Morley, Pete Furniss and John Harris.
If you would like more information, or would like your school to participate in New Music Makers, please contact Project Manager Siobhan Clark at newmusicmakers@rednoteensemble.com
New Music Makers is made possible thanks to support from Creative Scotland, The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, The Robertson Trust and The Radcliffe Trust.

Brian Irvine and Jennifer Walshe 13 Vices
2017-07-02 18:45 - 20:00 | The Guildhall, Alfred Gelder Street, Hull, HU1 2AA
This piece explores the weird, humorous, dark and exotic world of contemporary vices. Written for ensemble, improvisers, conductor and voice it melts the boundaries between various disciplines including theatre, opera, poetry and contemporary music. Featuring: Paul Dunmall (saxophones), Paul Rogers (double bass), Mark Sanders (drums), and Red Note Ensemble string players Robert Irvine, Jacqueline Shave and Tom Hankey.
Brian Irvine said, “We are delighted and excited to have a further opportunity to perform the 13 Vices. It has, and continues to be, a wonderfully messy, chopped up, beautiful, bewitching cocktail of the best people making the best sounds and is a project that myself, collaborator Jennifer (Walshe) and all the gang and very proud of – we can’t wait!”
This 15-minute piece will be performed twice, with a short Q&A session with the composer between the performances.

Brian Irvine and Jennifer Walshe 13 Vices
2017-07-09 14:00 - 17:00 | Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London , SE1 8XX
Explore the weird, humorous, dark and exotic world of contemporary vices with two of the UK and Ireland’s most dynamic compositional voices, Brian Irvine and Jennifer Walshe.
Written for ensemble, improvisers, conductor and voice, 13 Vices melts the boundaries between various disciplines including theatre, opera, poetry and contemporary music.

Presented in association with the PRS Foundation
Age recommendation
For ages 11+

New work by Matthew Hawkins
2017-07-13 14:30 - 16:30 | Studio Wayne McGregor, Here East, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London , E20 3BS
Thanks to support from Edinburgh City Council and Studio Wayne McGregor, dancer and choreographer Matthew Hawkins will be working with our ‘cellist Robert Irvine on a new version of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ Vesalii Icones, to be premiered in 2018.
Robert is in London on 13 July to workshop Vesalii Icones with dancer and choreographer Matthew Hawkins.
This is not a public event, for information only.

Blowing Their Own Horns @ DCA
2017-08-10 20:00 - 21:00 | Dundee Contemporary Arts, 152 Nethergate, Dundee, DD1 4DY
A longstanding part of the exhibition programme at DCA, Echo is designed to throw new light on the works displayed in their galleries by inviting other artistic voices into the building to respond to each show.
As part of this instalment of Echo, Red Note bring to life some of the curious instruments from St Cecilia’s Hall, the home of the University of Edinburgh’s musical instrument museum, to be played in the company of Clare Woods’ new paintings.
This performance, titled Blowing Their Own Horns, will include a commission by composer Jim Sutherland, specifically written to bring these big-personality instruments together.
In advance of this performance, from 19:00-20:00 there will be three further opportunities for other voices to present ideas. In past events, participants have presented a wide variety of new and existing works that they have made in response to, or think is relevant to, the work/themes in the exhibitions. These have previously included drawings, sculptures, short films, poetry, text readings, dance, music, and performance. If you would like to share your creative response to the work on show, please submit a short proposal (no more than 300 words) to exhibitions@dca.org.uk by Thursday 27 July.
Supported by Museums Galleries Scotland Partnership Fund.
Featuring Red Note musicians Paul Stone, Mark O’Keefe, Andy Saunders and Danielle Price

Journeys String Quartet Tour
2017-08-26 19:30 - 21:00 | 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 | 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.
