Red Note

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 | 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.

soundfestival 2019: Red Note with Nicholas Daniel (oboe) and Any Enemy
2019-11-01 19:30 - 21:00 | The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen, AB24 5AT
Three new works by three very different composers featuring Nicholas Daniel’s virtuosic oboe-playing, Red Note’s “wit and bright spirit” and a star appearance by local new music ensemble in a piece specially composed by Linda Buckley for the joint forces of both ensembles.

There will be a soundconversation with the composers after the performance.

Luke Styles Neon Highway for oboe and ensemble* (UK PREMIERE)
Tansy Davies Soul Canoe** (UK PREMIERE)
Linda Buckley Fire and Ice*** (WORLD PREMIERE)

Red Note Ensemble, Nicholas Daniel and Any Enemy (North East New Music Ensemble)
Simon Proust Conductor

*Dedicated to Ben Opie. Co-commissioned by Red Note Ensemble, sound, Ben Opie, Timothy Phillips and anonymous donor. Supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council and soundbytes investors.

**Co-commissioned by Het Concertgebouw, sound and Red Note Ensemble
***Co-commissioned by sound and Red Note Ensemble with support from soundbytesinvestors

Red Note is a PRS Foundation Talent Development Partner.

Noisy Nights 2019 - Call for Scores!
2019-11-06
A general call for scores is made, maximum length 5 minutes, for our new edition of Noisy Nights on 20th November (change of the original date) at The Drake Pub, Glasgow.
Instrumentation for this call for scores is flute, trumpet and double bass. Please note the scores should not include electronics or any pre-recorded parts.
Full score and parts in pdf format to be submitted to John Harris (john@rednoteensemble.com) by 5pm on Wednesday 6th November. Late submissions will not be accepted.

You can now rewatch our first online instrument demo that took place on the 9th October on Facebook and on our youtube channel.

Red Note is a PRS Foundation Talent Development Partner.

Noisy Nights - Glasgow
2019-11-20 20:00 - 22:30 | The Drake, 1 Lynedoch St, Glasgow, G3 6EF, United Kingdom
After a 3-year hiatus, Noisy Nights returns to Glasgow!
They’re a place to meet music-lovers, curious minds, musicians, composers and artists in an informal space and hear some of the best examples of brand new music while having a beer. They’re fun, free and your chance to listen to the musicians of Red Note.
Alison Beattie Morning in a City Park
Amy Stewart Between the Beats
Chris Litherland In Nomine Suites Vol. V
Gillian Walker The Gallery
Florence Anne Maunders Power Moves VI
Mauricio Cristales Armas Ælteratio
Michael Szpakowski five small pieces
Oliver Hawker Sweet Eggs
Sonia Killmann Wie Bitte?
Stefan Paparozzi As Above, So Below
Red Note is a PRS Foundation Talent Development Partner.

Leverhulme Conducting Workshop
2019-12-09 - 2019-12-12 | Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Red Note players, conductor Garry Walker and professor Oliver Searle will be working with students and Leverhulme Fellowserhulm from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland as part of our work as Contemporary Ensemble-in-Residence.

Red Note on BBC Radio Scotland - Classics Unwrapped
2019-12-15 21:00
Marking the end of Red Note’s 10th Anniversary year, we will be performing on BBC Radio Scotland with a special session for Classics Unwrapped: tune in on Sunday 15th December 9pm.
Eddie McGuire Euphoria
Aileen Sweeney Ceilidh
Bill Sweeney Oran Buidheachas

Leverhulme concert: Eight Songs for a Mad King
2020-02-25 19:30 - 21:30 | Cottier’s Theatre, 93-95 Hyndland St, Glasgow, G11 5PU
Enter the compelling world from which Maxwell-Davies drew his remarkable 8 Songs For A Mad King.
Founded by King George III in 1817, the Worshipful Company of Aviarists served to source and look after his tuneful birds and now present this flight of fancy from inside a birdcage of absurdity as the worshipful company create the regal mind of the mad monarch. We’ll sing a song of sixpence with four and twenty blackbirds, and have a Lark doing it!
The score (to a text by Randolph Stow) offers a searing examination of madness, and this tour de force music theatre piece for male voice and ensemble gives a visceral thrill in performance.
George, our mad king, is suffering from hallucinations and is painfully aware of his failing mental state. During his first episodes of madness, he is subjected to torture, starvation, reproach; he is kept in a stable where he is treated like an animal.
Performing alongside Red Note, in the role of the Mad King, will be MMus Opera student Oskar McCarthy, and the piece will be conducted by one of the Leverhulme conducting Fellows. The performance will also feature works by Mark Simpson, Harrison Birtwistle and two RCS composers, Sean O’Callaghan and Rylan Gleave.
Mark Simpson Straw Dogs
Harrison Birtwistle Carmen Arcadiae
Sean O’Callaghan New Work
Ryan Gleave New Work
Interval
Peter Maxwell Davies Eight Songs for a Mad King
RCS Music Lab and Red Note Ensemble
Conductors: Teresa Riveiro Bohm, Joel Sandelson and Sergej Bolkhovets
Soloist: Oskar McCarthy
Director: Mark Hathaway

Oceans Tour 2020
2020-03-25 - 2020-04-03
Announcement: Due to the recent developments related to the Covid-19 (coronavirus) and much to our disappointment, we have decided to cancel the upcoming Oceans Tour. This decision is in the interest of public health, thinking of the safety and our responsibility towards our musicians, employees and audiences.

Celebrating Scotland’s Year of Coasts and Waters, Red Note string players Jackie Shave (violin) and Robert Irvine (cello) blend their styles with Eliza Marshall on flutes and whistles and iconic Indian tabla player/composer Kuljit Bhamra to explore the theme of ‘Oceans and Journeys’.
The musicians are joined by actor Crawford Logan in a concert integrating poetry and music of great power and beauty, performing specially written works by members of the ensemble and others.
The ensemble will tour the Highlands and Islands in Scotland, interleaving poetry from local and international poets celebrating and exploring the passions of the Oceans.
The programme will include:
Jackie Shave ‘Sea Fever’
Kuljit Bhamra ‘Indigo Sunrise’
Eliza Marshall ‘Fear A’Bhàta
Robert Irvine ‘The Fable of the Mermaid and the Drunks’ (Neruda)
Jackie Shave ‘Machair to Myrrh’
Irvine/Bhamra ‘Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner’
Marshall ‘Lord Franklin’s Lament’
Bhamra/Marshall ‘Billy Bhangra’s voyage’ (drowning and reincarnation)
Poems and text from Mackay-Brown, Elliot, Neruda and Scottish writers

Noisy Nights go Digital - Call for Composers
2020-04-03
Due to the coronavirus outbreak, we have had to cancel the next Noisy Night scheduled for the Sunday 3rdMay in Glasgow. While we hope to resume normal activity after the summer and reschedule in September, we felt we couldn’t go this long without an outlet to hear emerging new musical ideas and voices.
So we are glad to announce that Noisy Nights are going digital! We are planning not just one but four nights of brand new music with Red Note musicians that you can enjoy from your own home.
How does it work?
If you are a composer and interested in writing a 5min long piece for a solo instrument, submit your name and contact email to admin [at] rednoteensemble.com by Thursday 26 March.
On the morning of Friday 27 March, we will get back in touch to inform you about the instrument you have been assigned to write for from the options below. Please note this will be a random allocation. On that day, you will also receive the link to a brief instrument demo filmed by each player outlining capabilities, techniques, notation, etc.

Ruth Morley – Flute,
Sasha Savaloni – Classical guitar,
Tom Hunter – Percussion,
Jackie Shave – Violin,
and Robert Irvine Cello.

Then the challenge is on! You have 1 week to write your piece for that specific instrument. Please submit in pdf format by 5pm on Friday 3rd April to admin [at] rednoteensemble.com. Please note the scores should not include electronics or any pre-recorded parts.
The 20 compositions selected by the players will be recorded and shared on our YouTube channel on 4 separate concerts: 10 April, 17 April, 24 April and 1 May.
Challenge accepted? Please help us spread the word by sharing this call with your network. Looking forward to keeping Noisy Nights alive in these times of social distancing, connecting new music lovers online.

Digital Noisy Nights - 1
2020-04-10 15:00 - 16:00
Red Note is embracing the digital world and providing an outlet to continue listening to emerging new musical ideas and voices. We are presenting not just one but four nights of brand new music with these exceptional Red Note musicians that you can enjoy from your own home:

Ruth Morley – Flute,
Sasha Savaloni – Classical guitar,
Tom Hunter – Percussion,
Jackie Shave – Violin,
and Robert Irvine – Cello.

After opening a challenge to composers by randomly assigning them an instrument to write a solo piece, we are performing the 20 compositions selected by the players on our YouTube channel (click on the link or on BUY TICKETS and you will redirected to YouTube) on four separate concerts.
Noisy Nights – 10 April, 3PM (BST)
Robin Haigh Nasubi
Charles Gaskell The Moon Reaching Down to Touch The Reflection
Anna Claydon Manichean
Pàdruig Morrison Fragile Distance
Ronnie MacNiven Sentinel
Join us from your home to ours and connect with other new music lovers online, as we hear some of the best examples of brand new music from new, emerging and established composers.
Red Note is a PRS Foundation Talent Development Partner.

Digital Noisy Nights - 2
2020-04-17 15:00 - 16:00
Red Note is embracing the digital world and providing an outlet to continue listening to emerging new musical ideas and voices. We are presenting not just one but four nights of brand new music with these exceptional Red Note musicians that you can enjoy from your own home:

Ruth Morley – Flute,
Sasha Savaloni – Classical guitar,
Tom Hunter – Percussion,
Jackie Shave – Violin,
and Robert Irvine – Cello.

After opening a challenge to composers by randomly assigning them an instrument to write a solo piece, we are performing the 20 compositions selected by the players on our YouTube channel (click on the link or on BUY TICKETS and you will redirected to YouTube) on four separate concerts.
Noisy Nights – 17 April, 3PM (BST)
Michael Burslem Cello Idea
Dorian Kelly Way Home
Rylan Gleave Unpitched Skin
Georgina MacDonell Finlayson This is the River
Joshua Brown Capriccio Ricercare
Join us from your home to ours and connect with other new music lovers online, as we hear some of the best examples of brand new music from new, emerging and established composers.
Red Note is a PRS Foundation Talent Development Partner.

Digital Noisy Nights - 3
2020-04-24 15:00 - 16:00
Red Note is embracing the digital world and providing an outlet to continue listening to emerging new musical ideas and voices. We are presenting not just one but four nights of brand new music with these exceptional Red Note musicians that you can enjoy from your own home:

Ruth Morley – Flute,
Sasha Savaloni – Classical guitar,
Tom Hunter – Percussion,
Jackie Shave – Violin,
and Robert Irvine – Cello.

After opening a challenge to composers by randomly assigning them an instrument to write a solo piece, we are performing the 20 compositions selected by the players on our YouTube channel (click on the link or on BUY TICKETS and you will redirected to YouTube) on four separate concerts.
Noisy Nights – 24 April, 3PM (BST)
Carol J Jones Selkie
Florence Anna Maunders Black Ants/Red Ants
Stefano Paparozzi A Chord Chart
Mauricio Cristales Armas Longing for Hope
Colin Johnson Grimpen Mire
Join us from your home to ours and connect with other new music lovers online, as we hear some of the best examples of brand new music from new, emerging and established composers.
Red Note is a PRS Foundation Talent Development Partner.

Digital Noisy Nights for young composers
2020-05-01
Noisy Nights are adapting to these social distancing times, going digital and providing an outlet to hear emerging new musical ideas and voices. We are planning not only 1 but 4 nights of brand new music with Red Note musicians that you can enjoy from your own home – but there’s more news: the last one of these is reserved for young composers who are still at school!

Ruth Morley – Flute,
Sasha Savaloni – Classical guitar,
Tom Hunter – Percussion,
Jackie Shave – Violin,
and Robert Irvine Cello.

Noisy Nights – 1 May, 3PM (BST)
Eliza Sinclair Kidd, To a Mouse
Fergus Butt, The Goldfish Are Relentless
Neo Korths, In The Shade Of Tangier
Isak Persson, Kvadratiska Vattenvågor
Louis Opit, Predatory Prelude
Join us from your home to ours and connect with other new music lovers online on our YouTube channel (click on the link or on BUY TICKETS and you will redirected to YouTube), as we hear some of the best examples of brand new music from the most emerging composers, the next generation in contemporary music.
Red Note is a PRS Foundation Talent Development Partner.

Red Note Fridays@3: Aeolian
2020-05-15 15:00 - 16:00
Join us on our YouTube channel every Friday afternoon at 3PM for a session of new music where we release unseen performances, delve into our recorded albums and meet the composers.
Friday 15th May: Enjoy the full performance of Aeolian, filmed in the beautiful Sentralen at Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival, introduced by the creative minds behind this part performance part kinetic-sculptural work: Norwegian composer Maja S. K. Ratkje, UK installation artist Kathy Hinde and Danish accordionist Andreas Borregaard.

New Digital Noisy Nights - Call for Composers!
2020-05-22
Digital Noisy Nights provide an outlet to hear emerging new musical ideas and voices in our new social distanced reality. Every Friday at 3PM for the month of June, these five outstanding Red Note musicians will bring you the best examples of brand new music played from scratch from their homes to yours:

Ruth Morley – Flute,
Jo Nicholson – Bass Clarinet,
Tom Hunter – Percussion,
Jackie Shave – Violin,
and Duncan Strachan – Cello.

Call for Adult Composers (18+)
(18 or younger? Check out the call for younger composers)
If you are an emerging, student (18+) or amateur composer interested in writing a 5-min long piece for a solo instrument, send your name and contact email to admin [at] rednoteensemble.com by Friday 22 May (12:00PM).
That same day, we will get back in touch to inform you about the instrument you have been assigned to write for from the options above – this will be a random allocation. You will also receive the link to a brief instrument demo filmed by each player outlining capabilities, techniques, notation, etc.
Then the challenge is on! You have 1 week to write your piece for that specific instrument. Please submit in pdf format by 5pm on Friday 29th May to admin [at] rednoteensemble.com. Please note the scores should not include electronics or any pre-recorded parts, and consider that concerts are rehearsed and performed in a short timeframe.
The 15 compositions selected by the players will be performed on our YouTube channel on 3 separate concerts: 5th June, 12th June and 19th June.
Challenge accepted?
Please help us spread the word by sharing this call with your friends and contacts.
We are looking forward to keeping music alive and new music lovers connected online.

Red Note Fridays@3: David Wilde's String Quartet
2020-05-22 15:00 - 16:00
Join us on our YouTube channel every Friday afternoon at 3PM for a session of new music where we release unseen performances, delve into our recorded albums and meet the composers.
Friday 22nd May: We look back into our album on Delphian Records ‘The Cellist of Sarajevo: Chamber Music by David Wilde’. This album presents the works that emerged from 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. (click on this link or on BUY TICKETS and you will redirected to YouTube)

New Digital Noisy Nights - Call for Young Composers
2020-05-27
Digital Noisy Nights provide an outlet to hear emerging new musical ideas and voices in our new social distanced reality. Every Friday at 3PM for the month of June, these five outstanding Red Note musicians will bring you the best examples of brand new music played from scratch from their homes to yours:

Ruth Morley – Flute,
Jo Nicholson – Bass Clarinet,
Tom Hunter – Percussion,
Jackie Shave – Violin,
and Duncan Strachan – Cello.

Call for Young Composers
If you are a young composer, still at high school full time and interested in writing a 2 – 5min long piece for a solo instrument, send your name, high school and contact email to admin [at] rednoteensemble.com by Wednesday 27th May (12:00PM).
That same day we will get back in touch to inform you about the instrument you have been assigned to write for (no choice – that’s part of the challenge!). You will also receive the link to a brief instrument demo filmed by each player outlining capabilities, techniques, notation, etc.
Then the challenge is on! You have 3 weeks to write your piece for that specific instrument (if you’re in touch with your school music teacher online, you can ask them for advice and help). Please submit in pdf format by 5pm on Wednesday 17th June to admin [at] rednoteensemble.com. Please note the scores should not include electronics or any pre-recorded parts, and consider that concerts are rehearsed and performed in a short timeframe.
Our players will then select 5 compositions from those submitted, to be performed on our YouTube channel on our final Digital Noisy Nights concert, 26th June.
Challenge accepted?
Please help us spread the word by sharing this call with your friends and contacts.
We are looking forward to keeping music alive and new music lovers connected online.

Red Note Fridays@3: Eddie McGuire's Euphoria
2020-05-29 15:00 - 16:00
Join us on our YouTube channel every Friday afternoon at 3PM for a session of new music where we release unseen performances, delve into our recorded albums and meet the composers.
Friday 29th May: We take a closer look at Euphoria, the second track from Eddie McGuire’s ‘Entangled Fortunes’ (Delphian Records). Eddie McGuire is one of Scotland’s greatest living composers. A renaissance man, his compositional voice is informed by a broad wealth of cultural experience and by an unlimited melodic creativity. In this intensely beautiful and unpretentious music, folk-like tunes appear naturally, taking their place in a world of invention large enough to contain minimalist gestures, intense romanticism, meditative silence and sudden drama. (click on this link or on BUY TICKETS and you will redirected to YouTube)
Click here to read the programme notes.

Revisit Digital Noisy Nights on YouTube
2020-05-31
During these social distancing times, Noisy Nights adapted and went digital, providing an outlet to hear emerging new musical ideas and voices together every Friday at 3PM for one month. After opening a challenge to composers by randomly assigning them an instrument to write a solo piece, Red Note musicians selected 20 compositions to perform online that you can enjoy from your own home. You can now revisit Digital Noisy Nights on our YouTube channel.

Ruth Morley – Flute,
Sasha Savaloni – Classical guitar,
Tom Hunter – Percussion,
Jackie Shave – Violin,
and Robert Irvine Cello.

Noisy Nights – 10 April
Robin Haigh Nasubi
Charles Gaskell The Moon Reaching Down to Touch The Reflection
Anna Claydon Manichean
Pàdruig Morrison Fragile Distance
Ronnie MacNiven Sentinel
Noisy Nights – 17 April
Michael Burslem Cello Idea
Dorian Kelly Way Home
Rylan Gleave Unpitched Skin
Georgina MacDonell Finlayson This is the River
Joshua Brown Capriccio Ricercare
Noisy Nights – 24 April
Carol J Jones Selkie
Florence Anna Maunders Black Ants/Red Ants
Stefano Paparozzi A Chord Chart
Mauricio Cristales Armas Longing for Hope
Colin Johnson Grimpen Mire
Noisy Nights – 1 May (Special Young Composers)
Eliza Sinclair Kidd, To a Mouse
Fergus Butt, The Goldfish Are Relentless
Neo Korths, In The Shade Of Tangier
Isak Persson, Kvadratiska Vattenvågor
Louis Opit, Predatory Prelude
If you enjoyed this and are in a position to do so, we hope you will consider making a donation to Help Musicians’ Coronavirus Financial Hardship Fund: https://www.helpmusicians.org.uk/support-our-work/make-a-donation Thank you!
Stay tuned for further announcements about our weekly date Fridays at 3PM !
Red Note is a PRS Foundation Talent Development Partner.

Digital Noisy Nights - 5
2020-06-05 15:00 - 16:00
Digital Noisy Nights provide an outlet to hear emerging new musical ideas and voices in our new social distanced reality. Every Friday at 3PM for the month of June, these five outstanding Red Note musicians will bring you the best examples of brand new music played from scratch from their homes to yours:
• Ruth Morley – Flute,
• Jo Nicholson – Bass Clarinet,
• Tom Hunter – Percussion,
• Jackie Shave – Violin,
• and Duncan Strachan – Cello.

Digital Noisy Nights – 5 June, 3PM (UK time)*
Melissa Rankin Ethereal Waters
Avril Allen Eimhir
Anthony Caulkins Stuck Out
Stirling Rutty Adagio for Cello
Chris Litherland Etude in Nomine

*click on the link or on BUY TICKETS and you will redirected to YouTube
Share and engage on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram using #NoisyNights

If you enjoyed this and are in a position to do so, we hope you will consider making a donation to Help Musicians’ Coronavirus Financial Hardship Fund: www.helpmusicians.org.uk/support-our-work/make-a-donation Thank you!

Red Note is a PRS Foundation Talent Development Partner.

Digital Noisy Nights - 6
2020-06-12 15:00 - 16:00
Digital Noisy Nights provide an outlet to hear emerging new musical ideas and voices in our new social distanced reality. Every Friday at 3PM for the month of June, these five outstanding Red Note musicians will bring you the best examples of brand new music played from scratch from their homes to yours:
• Ruth Morley – Flute,
• Jo Nicholson – Bass Clarinet,
• Tom Hunter – Percussion,
• Jackie Shave – Violin,
• and Duncan Strachan – Cello.

Digital Noisy Nights – 12 June, 3PM (UK time)*
Jack Brooks Interlocutor Transposed
Susie Winkworth Lost Marbles
Chris Tilley Rituals
Hugh Morris Etude for Cello
Stuart Mitchell Lining Out

*click on the link or on BUY TICKETS and you will redirected to YouTube
Share and engage on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram using #NoisyNights

If you enjoyed this and are in a position to do so, we hope you will consider making a donation to Help Musicians’ Coronavirus Financial Hardship Fund: www.helpmusicians.org.uk/support-our-work/make-a-donation Thank you!

Red Note is a PRS Foundation Talent Development Partner.

Digital Noisy Nights - 7
2020-06-19 15:00 - 16:00
Digital Noisy Nights provide an outlet to hear emerging new musical ideas and voices in our new social distanced reality. Every Friday at 3PM for the month of June, these five outstanding Red Note musicians will bring you the best examples of brand new music played from scratch from their homes to yours:
• Ruth Morley – Flute,
• Jo Nicholson – Bass Clarinet,
• Tom Hunter – Percussion,
• Jackie Shave – Violin,
• and Duncan Strachan – Cello.

Digital Noisy Nights – 19 June, 3PM (UK time)*
James Gerrard Walking in the Woods
Krystof Kohout Mist
Erik Lee Infinity Mirror
Sonia Killmann Seams
Matthew Burke 100% Recycled

*click on the link or on BUY TICKETS and you will redirected to YouTube

Share and engage on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram using #NoisyNights

If you enjoyed this and are in a position to do so, we hope you will consider making a donation to Help Musicians’ Coronavirus Financial Hardship Fund: www.helpmusicians.org.uk/support-our-work/make-a-donation Thank you!

Red Note is a PRS Foundation Talent Development Partner.

Digital Noisy Nights - 8
2020-06-26 15:00 - 16:00
Digital Noisy Nights provide an outlet to hear emerging new musical ideas and voices in our new social distanced reality. Every Friday at 3PM for the month of June, these five outstanding Red Note musicians will bring you the best examples of brand new music played from scratch from their homes to yours:
• Ruth Morley – Flute,
• Jo Nicholson – Bass Clarinet,
• Tom Hunter – Percussion,
• Jackie Shave – Violin,
• and Duncan Strachan – Cello.

Digital Noisy Nights – 26 June, 3PM (UK time)* – This concert is dedicated to the work of young composers who are still in school, the next generation in contemporary music.

Erik Pettersson Night-time Forest
Eben Eyres Moving Motifs
Fiachra Galvin Atmosphere
Jack Robinson Dance for Cello
Eddie Mead Gestures

*click on the link or on BUY TICKETS and you will redirected to YouTube

Share and engage on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram using #NoisyNights

If you enjoyed this and are in a position to do so, we hope you will consider making a donation to Help Musicians’ Coronavirus Financial Hardship Fund: www.helpmusicians.org.uk/support-our-work/make-a-donation Thank you!

Red Note is a PRS Foundation Talent Development Partner.

Come and Play 4'33''
2020-07-03 15:00 - 15:30
We’ve invited members of the public to perform side-by-side with the musicians of Red Note Ensemble, in what we believe might be the first online mass-participation performance of John Cage’s 4’33” on the Friday 3rd July 2020.
Composed in 1952 for any instrument or combination of instruments, Cage’s 4’33” requires the performer(s) not to play their instruments throughout the duration of the piece’s three movements.
We’ll use Zoom to connect performers from your various remote locations, live-streaming straight onto our YouTube channel.
Don’t miss a 49-strong ensemble led by some of Europe’s finest professional musicians re-create this iconic (and still controversial) 20th century classic in a live online performance, please do come along and be part of the audience on YouTube!
“We’ve no idea what the audio on Zoom will do with silence, but that in itself brings the sense of randomness that the piece is about. It’s a bit crazy. It might of course be a total disaster and that’s a valid response too.“. Artistic Co-Director Robert Irvine
All events in our Fridays@3 series are offered online for free, if you are in a position to do so, we hope you will consider making a donation to Help Musicians’ Coronavirus Financial Hardship Fund Thank you!

Digital Noisy Nights 3rd Edition – Call For Composers!
2020-07-10
As lockdown restrictions ease, we are happy to announce a third round of new music concerts by duos with these outstanding Red Note musicians that you can enjoy from your own home.

Ruth Morley (and optional pre-recorded track) – Flute,
Sasha Savaloni – Amplified Classical Guitar with Mark O’Keeffe – Trumpet,
Jackie Shave – Violin with Robert Irvine – Cello.

Call for Composers
If you are a young (still at high school full time), or an emerging, student, amateur composer (18+) interested in writing a 5-min long piece for a duo, please send your name, school (if relevant), and contact email to admin[at]rednoteensemble.com by Friday 10 July (12:00PM – BST).
That same day, we will get back in touch to inform you about the instruments you have been assigned to write for from the options above – please note this will be a random allocation. You will also receive the link to a brief instrument demo filmed by each player outlining capabilities, techniques, notation, etc.
Then the challenge is on! You all have 2 weeks to write your piece for that specific duo. Please submit in pdf format by 5pm (BST) on Friday 24th July to admin[at]rednoteensemble.com. Please consider that concerts are rehearsed and performed in a short timeframe.
The 20 compositions selected by the players will be performed on our YouTube channel on 4 separate concerts: 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th August.
Challenge accepted?
Please help us spread the word by sharing this call with your friends and contacts.
We are looking forward to keeping music alive and new music lovers connected online.

Red Note Fridays@3: Cresswell's String Quartet
2020-07-10 15:00 - 16:00
Join us on our YouTube channel every Friday afternoon at 3PM for a session of new music where we release unseen performances, delve into our recorded albums and meet the composers.
Friday 10 July: We dive into Cresswell’s distinctive sound world in the Delphian album ‘Music for String Quartet’. Two ends of the world are bridged in this compelling survey of string chamber music by Lyell Cresswell, whose unique body of work has been a vital presence in his adopted home of Scotland for four decades now while retaining qualities of light, space and openness that evoke his native New Zealand. The imposing String Quartet plays host to a wealth of detail which enriches but never obscures the ‘long, strong tune’ that threads through the work. Instrumental virtuosity comes to the fore in Kotetetete, whose title puns on ‘quartet’ and on the Maori word for ‘chattering’.
Click on this link or on BUY TICKETS and you will redirected to YouTube.
All events in our Fridays@3 series are offered online for free, if you are in a position to do so, we hope you will consider making a donation to Help Musicians’ Coronavirus Financial Hardship Fund Thank you!

Red Note Fridays@3: Sweeney's Cello Sonata
2020-07-17 15:00 - 16:00
Join us on our YouTube channel every Friday afternoon at 3PM for a session of new music where we release unseen performances, delve into our recorded albums and meet the composers.
Friday 17 July: We take a closer look at William Sweeney’s award-winning Cello Sonata, recipient of a 2011 BASCA British Composer Award, from his Delphian album ‘Tree O’ Licht’. Both musically impassioned and socially engaged, William Sweeney’s music is at its most eloquent when voiced by that most human of instruments, the cello. The Sonata bears a joint dedication to Delphian artist Robert Irvine and to Erkki Lahesmaa – ‘keepers’, as Sweeney calls them, ‘of the cello’s inner voice’.
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All events in our Fridays@3 series are offered online for free, if you are in a position to do so, we hope you will consider making a donation to Help Musicians’ Coronavirus Financial Hardship Fund Thank you!

Red Note Fridays@3: McLeod's A Moment In Time
2020-07-24 15:00 - 16:00
Join us on our YouTube channel every Friday afternoon at 3PM for a session of new music where we release unseen performances, delve into our recorded albums and meet the composers.
Friday 24 July: We look back to John McLeod’s landmark collection ‘Moments in Time’ recorded during the composer’s eightieth birthday year. The collection brings together McLeod’s four mythological ‘songs’ – powerful dramatic scenes in which instruments are elevated to voice-like expression – and a further work which crystallises the theme of a single moment with a long expressive ‘shadow’. Increasingly acclaimed at home and abroad, Aberdeen-born John McLeod’s music bears all the hallmarks of exuberant colour and precisely imagined fantasy that his early associations with Lennox Berkeley and Witold Lutosławski would lead one to expect.
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All events in our Fridays@3 series are offered online for free, if you are in a position to do so, we hope you will consider making a donation to Help Musicians’ Coronavirus Financial Hardship Fund Thank you!

Red Note seeks a new Chair of the Board of Directors
2020-07-30
Red Note Ensemble is Scotland’s contemporary music ensemble, performing throughout Scotland, the UK and internationally. Our Chair, Professor Celia Duffy, has decided to step down after 10 highly-successful years in the position, having guided the ensemble from its small beginnings in 2009 to its current status (since 2015) as Creative Scotland Regularly Funded Organisation.
Always 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 and many of them highly socially-engaged. Our current Board members have expertise and experience at a senior level in marketing, education, law, finances and arts.
For this role, we invite interest from suitably experienced individuals at a Chief Executive level and would particularly welcome those with a background in business and / or experience of a previous board membership and a genuine interest in music and the arts. The ideal candidate would contribute his/her knowledge and strong business contacts and commit to actively support the ensemble by promoting and supporting the organisation externally.
Board meetings are held quarterly, in Glasgow or Edinburgh or, in the current situation, in virtual meeting rooms. In addition, the Chair gives informal advice by phone or 1:1 meetings with the executive team as required and line-manages the CEO. The Chair is furthermore responsible for ensuring the Board works effectively, leading the Board team and meetings and overseeing decisions taken.
This is a voluntary position, and Board Members are rightly highly valued for the vital role they fulfil in providing professional guidance and governance for our ambitious and rapidly developing company. The Red Note Board, like the company, is friendly and informal, but maintains the highest possible professional standards in its business.
Both informal discussions of the role and formal expressions of interest will be welcomed by former Chair, Professor Celia Duffy, who may be contacted via email (ceelsduffy@gmail.com).
The deadline for formal expressions of interest is midnight on Friday 30th July 2020
