Red Note

Red Note & Rogalski – Adams, Barber, Bingham & Vaughan Williams
2014-07-11 08:00 - 17:00 (Europe/London) | 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

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).

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

The Cottier Chamber Project - Red Note Improv Music Theatre
2014-06-13 20:30 - 22:30 | Cottier’s Theatre, 93-95 Hyndland St, Glasgow, G11 5PU
Red Note’s players join forces with Brian Irvine and a cast of Scotland’s quickest-witted singing actors to make a unique evening of instant new music theatre. Audience suggestions for plot lines will be mashed in with spontaneously-created melodies and harmonies to create a wild, unpredictable and hugely-entertaining evening.

Artists:
violin: Greg Lawson
cello: Robert Irvine
horn: Andy Saunders
piano: Ed Cohen
vocals: Frances Thorburn & John Kielty

Elbow Room by Thomas Butler
2014-05-21 20:00 - 2014-05-22 22:00 | Various Venues, United Kingdom
Red Note’s Sound and Music Embedded Composer in Residence, Thomas Butler‘s new work Elbow Room explores the psychogeography of cites; how we affect the city and how the city affects us.
The culmination of an 18 month residency with Red Note, Elbow Room uses composition, performance and field recording techniques to tell the story of the mid-twentieth century plan to demolish the city of Glasgow and replace it with a futuristic concrete utopia; an architect’s view of a healthier, more rational and productive city, for a healthier, more rational and productive population.
Mixing period films from the Scottish Screen Archive, which extol the virtues of the Glasgow of the future, with new sound recordings made in the city and a virtuosic score featuring violin, cello, percussion, electric guitar, synthesizer, clarinet and bass clarinet, Elbow Room is a nostalgic reflection upon fantasy and reality, ideal and actuality.
21 May – Summerhall, Edinburgh 8pm
22 May – The Arches, Glasgow 8pm

A VERY CHRISTMASSY NOISY NIGHTS!
2013-12-09 20:00 - 22:00 | Traverse Theatre Bar, 10 Cambridge Street, Edinburgh, EH1 2ED, United Kingdom
We’ve decided to don our Red Note Santa Robes this Monday Night, 9th December, for a very special Christmas Noisy Night, and we really hope you will join us. With a santa hat, if you wish …
All of the usual ingredients will be there – brand new pieces from new, emerging and established composers, and the 10-minute Composer’s Challenge where YOU get to write a piece for us – but there’s the added twist that all the new pieces must include a well-known Christmas Carol, in some form. We’ve got sing-a-long Noisy Night pieces for you, the audience to join in with, we’ve got funny pieces, we’ve got serious pieces, and we’ve got wild pieces that’ll leave you scratching your head in bewilderment.
Who said contemporary music wasn’t supposed to be fun?!
Do come to the Red Note Noisy Night Christmas Special, Monday 9th December 8pm, in the Bar of the Traverse Theatre, FREE!
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Derek Ball: Three Zombie Kings
Martin Gaughan: (Not a) Silent Night
Charles E Gaskell: Christmas!
Rachael Forsyth: I Don’t Want to be Resting
Lucy Hollingworth: Over the Horizon
John Hearne: Xmas in the Shopping Mall
Conrad Molleson: Good King Winceless
Vroni Holzmann: Memories of Things Not True
Philip Smith: Three Men in a Boat
Paul Chilver: Buss or Beild
Amble Skuse: Untitled (probably “let’s get shot of Christmas”)
John and all at Red Note (Nose) x
What is Noisy Nights? Noisy Nights is fun, free and your chance to listen to (and compose for) the musicians of Red Note. Noisy Nights is 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.
All sorts of music are welcomed here – as are all sorts of listeners. And, with the established 10 Minute Composer’s Challenge, the audience also get the chance to write their own pieces to be played by the ensemble after the interval.

Enough Already
2013-11-17 16:00 - 18:00 | Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, HD1 2SP, United Kingdom
LOD|muziektheater / Red Note Ensemble / François Sarhan
A music-theatre performance created by French composer and artist François Sarhan, ENOUGH ALREADY tells the story of Bobok, a man whose reading of a mysterious encyclopaedia drives him to take extreme action. Performed by an actor, five musicians and two live foley artists, and featuring film, stop-frame animation and fantastical costumes, ENOUGH ALREADY is a secular parable of real life versus idealism in which meanings and relations between people, objects and events become ever more unclear and ambiguous.
Co-produced by LOD|muziektheater and Red Note Ensemble; supported by Diaphonique and Creative Scotland

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

Enough Already
2013-11-12 19:45 - 2013-11-13 21:15 | Summerhall, Summerhall Pl., Edinburgh, EH9 1QH, United Kingdom
François Sarhan/Red Note Ensemble/LOD Music Theatre
“Enough Already” (French title “Lâchez Tout”) is a major new music-theatre performance created by French composer-artist François Sarhan, featuring actor Claudio Stellato, five musicians from Red Note Ensemble, two live sound effect artists, extensive stop-frame animation, and film. “Enough Already” is a secular parable in which meanings and relations between people, objects and events become increasingly absurd and ambiguous as time goes on.
The 5 musicians from Red Note Ensemble – previously seen at Summerhall with “The End of the World Show” – virtuosically sing, narrate and play a strange assortment of musical instruments including a tubax, a Stroh violin, and the mysterious Sixxen …
“Enough Already” is a co-production between LOD|muziektheater (Belgium) and Red Note Ensemble (Scotland).

Enough Already
2013-11-07 19:30 - 2013-11-09 22:00 | Tramway, Glasgow Tramway, Glasgow, G41 2PE, United Kingdom
LOD|muziektheater / Red Note Ensemble / François Sarhan
François Sarhan’s Enough Already is a concert, a film and a play rolled into one, about how irresistible — and impossible — it is to achieve utopia.

Enough Already is centred around two characters — Professor Glaçon, author of an imaginary encyclopaedia full of wonderful, absurd, funny and uncreatable things — and Bobok, a fanatical, naive man who wanders around with the same encyclopaedia under his arm. Bobok desperately wants the wonderful things in Professor Glaçon’s book to be true, against all the evidence that they can’t be — and he is prepared to go to almost any lengths to make them happen.

We follow Bobok’s journey as it begins on stage, and then becomes a silent film with live music and live sound effects. On-stage sound artists provide the accompanying slamming doors, footsteps and lorries passing by, and the musicians of Red Note Ensemble accompany Bobok by singing and narrating live at the same time as playing their instruments.

The five musicians from Red Note Ensemble – previously seen at Tramway in David Shrigley’s Pass the Spoon – play a strange assortment of musical instruments including a tubax (which is a sort of ultra-bass saxophone), a Stroh violin (a violin with a gramophone horn attached), and an electronically-controlled church pipe organ.

More than a story, Enough Already is an all-embracing theatrical, musical and filmic experience. Come and let yourself be carried along in Bobok’s absurd, upside-down and hugely entertaining world!

This is the world premiere; the show will tour Europe in 2014.

Enough Already is a co-production between LOD|muziektheater (Belgium) and Red Note Ensemble (Scotland).

Go Compose! Course for Young Composers
2013-10-21 - 2013-10-23 | Woodend Barn, Burn O’ Bennie, Banchory, AB31 5QA, United Kingdom
Go Compose!
For young composers and creative musicians aged 12 – 17
What is Go Compose?
Go Compose! is an intensive composition course for young composers aged 12 – 17 who are still at school. It’s a unique opportunity to work with professional composers and musicians to create your own, original piece of music which will be performed in the Red Note Ensemble’s Noisy Night on 26th October as part of the soundfestival. You will also receive a recording of your piece.
Who is it for?
Go Compose! Is for anyone aged 12 – 17 who has tried composing and who would like to learn more. We are looking for people with potential and commitment, who are enthusiastic about creating their own, original music and keen to try out new ideas.
When is it?
Go Compose takes place between 24 and 26 October 2012. It will be a challenge to complete a whole composition in three days, so we expect you to commit to the whole project.
Timetable for the project
Wednesday 24 October, 10am – 5pm
Thursday 25 October, 10am – 5pm
Friday 26 October, 10am – 5pm, plus performance including your piece at 8pm
Where is it?
All workshops and performances take place at Woodend Barn, Burn O’ Bennie, Banchory AB31 5QA.
What does it cost?
Go Compose! costs £45 for the whole course. We will provide drinks in breaks but not lunch. We can waive the fee for anyone for whom this is too expensive – you are welcome to contact us to discuss. In addition, you will have the opportunity to attend two performances (one of which will include your piece) free of charge. Anyone coming with you will be asked to pay £5 for their ticket.
Who is leading Go Compose?
The project will be led by composers Kerry Andrew and Gabriel Jackson with soprano Sarah Dacey and professional musicians from the Red Note Ensemble. There will be additional support from students from the University of Aberdeen’s music department.
What happens after I’ve submitted my application?
We will let everyone know if they have been selected to participate by 8 October. You will then be asked to confirm that you still wish to attend and for the fee of £45.
Find out more
Visit www.soundandmusic.org/gocompose or contact Judith Robinson, judith.robinson@soundandmusic.org
How to apply
To apply, you can either contact Judith Robinson for an application form in hard copy, or go to www.soundandmusic.org/gocompose where you will be able to download an application form which can then be e-mailed or posted to us.
Go Compose! Is a collaboration between Sound and Music, sound festival, University of Aberdeen, Red Note Ensemble and Woodend Barn and has been funded by the Scottish Youth Music Initiative.

Noisy Nights
2013-09-30 20:00 - 22:30 | Traverse Theatre Bar, 10 Cambridge Street, Edinburgh, EH1 2ED, United Kingdom
Join us at the Traverse Theatre Bar for another new music extravaganza!
Your host for the evening – our very own, John Harris!
Trumpet: Mark O’Keeffe
Viola: Liam Eoin Lynch
‘Cello: Robert Irvine
Charles Gaskell – Forty for Three
Dorian Kelly – Drip Drop
Euan Ferguson – Fatigue Avoidance Scheduling Tool
Jay Capperauld – Restraint
Marcello Messina – Alleggiu
Norbert Stammberger – Epilogue

Noisy Nights Jr
2013-09-28 14:30 - 16:00 | City Halls, Candleriggs, Glasgow, G1 1NQ, United Kingdom
Red Note is working with composition students at King’s Park Secondary School on Noisy Nights Jr as part of the Glasgow UNESCO City of Music Family Fun Day at City Halls . The line-up for this is exactly the same as for the 30th September (trumpet, viola and ‘cello), so if you’d like to hear what they’ve written for us, please do come by City Halls at 2:30pm on Saturday 28th September: http://www.glasgowfamilyday.com/city-halls/

Reels to Ragas
2013-09-19 12:45 - 15:00 | Westbourne Music, 7 West George Street, Glasgow, G2 1BA, United Kingdom
We will be still reeling from the buzz and excitement of our #ReelstoRagas CD launch at Club Inégales in London and from our already sold-out performance at The Lammermuir Festival as we arrive at Westbourne Music in String Trio form with acclaimed tabla player Kuljit Bhamra to perform material from our brand new CD!
A mixture of old favourites, new compositions, and old pieces played in new ways, this critically-acclaimed global musical fusion.
Look out for the CD release on Keda records this November 18th or pick up a copy at the concert!
Kuljit Bhamra – Tabla/Percussion
Jackie Shave – Violin
Clare Finnimore – Viola
Robert Irvine – cello
Stephanie Irvine – Vocals/ Clarsach

Reels to Ragas
2013-09-18 22:00 - 23:00 | Poldrate Mill, The Elizabeth Hamilton Buildings, Poldrate, Haddington, EH41 4DA, United Kingdom
Programme includes music by Kuljit Bhamra, jazz composer John Mayer, Lutosławski, Arvo Pärt, Jackie Shave, and traditional tunes
Red Note Ensemble
Kuljit Bhamra Tabla
World-renowned tabla player and Bhangra pioneer Kuljit Bhamra joins Red Note’s strings for a programme that journeys from toe-tapping Western Isles melodies, through contemporary sounds, to the mesmerising rhythms of Indian raga and back again. Come and enjoy a fantastic jam session with great musicians and a relaxing drink!
“Kuljit Bhamra – born to the Bhangra beat!”
The Daily Telegraph

Reels to Ragas CD Launch, London
2013-09-17 19:30 - 22:00 | Club Inegales, 180 North Gower Street, London, NW1 2NB, United Kingdom

Reels to Ragas 2013: FREE Drumming Workshops with Kuljit Bhamra
2013-07-18 - 2013-07-23 | Various Venues, United Kingdom
18 July Children’s Drumming Workshop, An Cridhe, Arinagour, Isle of Coll www.ancridhe.co.uk
19 July 5:00pm Adult Drumming Workshop, An Cridhe, Arinagour, Isle of Coll www.ancridhe.co.uk
22 July 5:00pm Drumming Workshop for All, The Missionhouse Studio, Finsbay, Harris www.missionhousestudio.blogspot.co.uk
23 July 5:00pm Drumming Workshop for All, The Big Shed, Aberfeldy www.thebigsheds.blogspot.co.uk
FREE and fun drumming workshops with tabla player Kuljit Bhamra introducing Indian rhythms and music to everyone. Come and join us!

Reels to Ragas 2013: Highlands and Islands Tour
2013-07-09 19:30 - 2013-07-23 23:00
Following our original From Reels to Raga tour last year (watch the video here) to Coll, Barra, Harris and Skye, we return with acclaimed tabla player Kuljit Bhamra and more Old and New Music from around the world. A mixture of old favourites, new compositions, and old pieces played in new ways, this critically-acclaimed global musical fusion, featuring violinist Jackie Shave, viola player Tom Hankey and cellist Robert Irvine, and is a wonderfully entertaining evening for the whole family. You can also join us for free and fun Indian drumming workshops with Kuljit on Coll, Harris and at the Big Shed – see times below.
9 July 7:30pm An Cridhe, Arinagour, Isle of Coll www.ancridhe.co.uk
20 July 9:00pm Breakish Hall, Near Broadford, Skye IV49 9AB Tickets on the door
22 July 7:30pm The Missionhouse Studio, Finsbay, Harris www.missionhousestudio.blogspot.co.uk
23 July 7:30pm The Big Shed, Aberfeldy www.thebigsheds.blogspot.co.uk

Songbirdsongs @ the East Neuk Festival
2013-07-06 16:30 - 17:30 | Cambo Barn, Cambo Estate, Kingsbarns, Fife, KY16 8QD, United Kingdom
“Hearing Songbirdsongs by American composer John Luther Adams is very much like taking a long walk in deep woods, passing through the seasons and times of day as birdsong surrounds you. It is a magical piece with something of the fairytale about it.” Presented with atmospheric lighting in the heart of the countryside in Cambo Barn, Fife, as part of the East Neuk Festival.
Tickets from Hub Tickets

A New Musical. Or two...
2013-06-07 20:30 - 23:00 | Cottier’s Theatre, 93-95 Hyndland St, Glasgow, G11 5PU
Red Note re-unites with improvising musical director Brian Irvine and a cast of Scotland’s quickest-witted singing actors to make a unique evening of instant new music theatre. Audience suggestions for plot-lines will be mashed in with spontaneously-created melodies and harmonies to create a wild, unpredictable and hugely-entertaining evening.
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New Music at Sloan's Bar
2013-06-05 19:30 - 2014-06-05 22:00 | Sloan’s Bar, 108 Argyle St, Glasgow, G2 8BG, United Kingdom
The last concert before the summer in our series as Associate Contemporary Ensemble at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, featuring new music from RCS composers including David Fennessy, Oliver Searle, Thomas Wilson, Rory Boyle, Gordon McPherson, and Red Note’s own Embedded Composer Tom Butler.

Tickets from boxoffice.rcs.ac.uk

Framed Against the Sky
2013-06-01 - 2013-10-23 | Various Venues, Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom
All summer long, FREE (multiple events, many venues)
Taking new music in to the nooks and crannies of Aberdeenshire
See the Framed Against the Sky website for details of all events.
Framed Against the Sky is a collaborative project between Woodend Barn, sound festival and Red Note Ensemble which introduces people to new music in Aberdeenshire and Aberdeen. Local communities will be given the opportunity to help Irish composer Brian Irvine and Scottish poet Billy Letford create a new piece of music which will be premièred at the launch of 2013 sound festival at Woodend Barn this October.
We will be performing at various festivals, shows, and other locations throughout Aberdeenshire and City over the coming months in the lead up to the 2013 sound festival. Brian and Billy will be holding workshops in schools and open workshops during events.
If you’ve taken part in one of these workshops and would like to sing in the final performance on Wednesday 23rd October at Woodend Barn (Banchory), there will be a rehearsal on Sunday 20th October.
To find out more, please visit the Framed against the Sky website

The End of the World (for one night only)
2012-12-21 21:00 - 23:00 | Summerhall, Summerhall Pl., Edinburgh, EH9 1QH, United Kingdom
Do you remember the moment you realised the world was going to end? Did you feel panic? Fear? Were you excited or frozen to the spot? Or maybe, just maybe, you felt hope for the possibility of a new beginning…?

This is a one-off, site-specific music-and-theatre piece about the predicted apocalypse, for an audience of 100 people only. With new work by Gareth Williams, John Harris, Oliver Emanuel, Hanna Tuulikki, Colin Broom and Ludwig van Beethoven about beginnings and endings, time and nothingness, the things we leave behind and what we want to take into the future.

“Who can bear himself forgotten?” (WH Auden)

Director Andy Arnold
Performers Red Note Ensemble
Composers Gareth Williams, John Harris, Hanna Tuulikki, Colin Broom, Ludwig van Beethoven
Writer Oliver Emanuel

In Partnership with Summerhall and the Traverse Theatre

www.traverse.co.uk
www.summerhall.co.uk

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

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)
INFORMATION AND BOOKING
>> Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh 7:30pm 22 November
INFORMATION AND BOOKING

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.

Think You Know the Magic Flute? Think Again...
2012-06-08 19:00 - 2012-06-10 22:00 | Bath International Music Festival, Bath, United Kingdom
Directed by Richard Williams, Mozart’s iconic music is a new adaptation for chamber ensemble and Festival Artistic Director Joanna MacGregor’s farewell performance. In the immediate vibrancy of Bath premiere venue Komedia, The Magic Flute recaptures the excitement and popularity of Mozart’s first performance in Vienna’s small Freihaus Theatre in 1791.
Set in a mythical, modern city and in a super-skyscraper, Red Note Ensemble perform with a cast of young international opera singers. The once famous but now reclusive star, The Queen of the Night, has taken refuge. Tamino, the young reporter is out to get a scoop; has Pamina been kidnapped by her father, the multi-media mogul Sarastro, and why are there trials of fire and water for Tamino and Pamina?
Originally arranged for an orchestra hidden in the pit, this chamber arrangement brings the virtuosity of Red Note’s nine brilliant players, right to the front of the stage. Apart from woodwind and strings, you’ll hear Mozart’s gorgeous music played by a sensational accordionist, capturing Wolfgang’s superb populist spirit, and Joanna MacGregor directs from a magic keyboard too!
John Harris, Director of Red Note, says, “This is going to be a lot of fun for us at Red Note. We love Joanna MacGregor, we love her virtuosity, we love the way she thinks about music and makes new things happen, and we’re incredibly excited to see how she and her team re-make Mozart’s wonderful opera for the 21st Century”
The setting moves from the dark lair of Queen of the Night, to Sarastro’s contemporary penthouse hideaway. The set spills out from the stage to the auditorium, as does the action in places, and a silver tree in the audience provides the clues to Tamino and Pamina’s last trial.
This is Mozart at its very best – sparkling, witty, and faithful to the original. Performed in English, this fast-moving, modern dress production has been acclaimed for its clarity, wit and touching sensibility. Highly recommended for all ages, this is true family entertainment with a faultless pedigree, and a delight for both newcomers and opera fans.

Noisy Nights in 4/4
2012-05-28 20:00 - 22:00 | Traverse Theatre Bar, 10 Cambridge Street, Edinburgh, EH1 2ED, United Kingdom
Red Note’s celebration of contemporary composition. Listen to some cutting-edge new music in the relaxed atmosphere of the Traverse Theatre bar, and take part (if you dare) in the 10-Minute Composing Challenge: write a piece down on the free music paper provided and the best audience composition will be performed at the end of the night. The stipulations for commissions this time round are that the music has to be in 4/4, should ideally be played to a backing track, and has to be for violin, cello and accordion. (The challenge, then, is to stop it from sounding like Serbian turbo-folk…)

Noisy Nights - Red Note with ICC
2012-05-09 20:00 - 22:00 | The Jam House, The Jam House, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Inventor Composer Coaction (ICC) is a first-of-its-kind event, bringing composers from Edinburgh University together with creators of unique digital musical instruments to explore new sounds and new ways of controlling sound.
Over 30 expert designers from around the world have contributed a variety of instruments, interfaces and sound generators for the seven resident composers from the University of Edinburgh to work with. These range from 3D-printed spheres that respond to touch, to software modelled on neurons firing inside a human brain. The composers will create chamber works written specifically for their chosen instrument, to be performed by Red Note at a special edition of Noisy Nights at The Jam House, 5 Queen Street, Edinburgh at 8pm on Wednesday 9 May.
For more information, and to watch and listen to examples of the instruments, please visit:
www.inventorcomposer.net

Pass the Spoon
2012-04-26 19:30 - 2012-05-06 23:00 | Various Venues, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh // Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, United Kingdom
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh 26 – 28 April

Queen Elizabeth Hall, London 5 – 6 May
What can we say about Pass the Spoon, well…
It’s a show with actors, music and food.
It’s a bit like an opera, but with vegetables and fruit.
It’s about cooking.
It’s possibly the only show you’ll see this year featuring a dung beetle.
Oh, and someone gets eaten. Did we mention that?
Having debuted with three shows at Glasgow’s Tramway in November to rave reviews, this spectacular new performance by Edinburgh based theatre production company, Magnetic North, is created by Shrigley with award-winning composer David Fennessy and acclaimed director Nicholas Bone, and features live music played by Red Note!
Pass the Spoon is supported by Creative Scotland with thanks to PRS for Music Foundation and Hope Scott Trust.
www.magneticnorth.org.uk
www.southbankcentre.co.uk
