Red Note

Blowing Their Own Horns
2017-05-25 18:30 - 19:30 (Europe/London) | 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.

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

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

Scottish Association for Music Education
2017-09-07 09:00 - 2017-09-08 17:00
On Thursday 7th and Friday 8th September, Red Note Director of Access, Engagement and Participation, Louise Martin, presents New Music Makers at Scottish Association for Music Education.
Launched in 2013, New Music Makers (NMM) supports the development of young composers in schools across Scotland. Designed to inspire and assist composing, NMM 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. NMM is an external opportunity taken up at the discretion of the school, however supported by the relevant local authority. Both teachers and pupils have given very positive feedback:
Ali Preston (at time of her involvement with NMM was PT Music at Woodfarm High School; she is now PT Performing Arts at King’s Park Secondary School)
“I just wanted to thank you and the team so much for the delivery of the composing project over the last month at Woodfarm. The pupils have benefited so much from working with Matt and the musicians. Each one of the team had a fantastic approach towards the young people and really encouraged and motivated them in their compositions. Speaking on behalf of the staff, we all have learnt so much which we are already carrying forwards as we work with younger pupils in the classes too.”
Annon. Barrhead High School (pupils submit feedback anonymously)
“I really enjoyed taking part with Red Note. And although frustrating at times it was quite fun composing my own music. Interesting. Inspiring. Proud of my piece.”

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

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

Go Compose! at soundfestival
2017-10-15 11:00 - 2017-10-17 19:00 | Woodend Barn, Burn O’ Bennie, Banchory, AB31 5QA, United Kingdom
It’s a unique opportunity to work with professional composers John De Simone and Eleanor Alberga and musicians from Red Note Ensemble: Robert Irvine, Jackie Shave and Ruth Morley. Students will create their own original piece of music which will be performed and recorded on 17 October.
TIMETABLE
Sun 15 Oct 11am-6.30pm (followed by Tasmin Little (violin) concert at The Barn, 7pm)
Mon 16 Oct 10am-5pm
Tue 17 Oct 10am-5pm with a performance at 6pm

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

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

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

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

Leverhulme Workshop
2017-12-13 10:00 - 2017-12-15 17:00, 2018-03-13 08:00 - 2018-03-15 17:00 | Ledger Recital Room, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, G2 3DB, United Kingdom
Red Note players and conductor Garry Walker will be working with students from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland as part of our work as Contemporary Ensemble-in-Residence.

Leverhulme Workshop
2018-01-16 08:00 - 2018-01-17 17:00

Scottish Awards for New Music
2018-03-07 20:00 - 22:00
Our school music project New Music Makers has been shortlisted for the RCS Award for Community / Education Project of the Year, co-commission Aeolian, which premiered at last year’s hcmf// 40 with Kathy Hinde, Andreas Borregaard and Maja S.K. Ratkje, has been nominated for The ISM Award for Collaboration and the ensemble have also been nominated for the Help Musicians (UK) Award for New Music Performers of the Year.
The winners will be announced at the Scottish Awards for New Music event in Drygate Brewery in Glasgow on the 7th March at 8pm.
Full details on the awards can be found here: New Music Scotlandwww.newmusicscotland.co.uk/awards2018
For information only, not a public event.

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

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

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

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

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