Podcasts about Scottish Ensemble

How can puppetry and music work together? The Scottish ensemble have a new audio-described show combining striking music and visuals for performances at the Dundee Rep Theatre on the 14th February and New Auditorium at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on the 15th February. Amelia spoke to Executive Producer Stuart Burns and Audio Describer Jonathan Penny to learn more. Learn more about the show and how to book tickets on the Scottish Ensemble website - The Law of Gravity - Scottish Ensemble Image shows the RNIB Connect Radio logo. On a white background ‘RNIB' written in bold black capital letters and underline with a bold pink line. Underneath the line: ‘Connect Radio' is written in black in a smaller font. 

Welcome to faustforward ep.3 Say Hello, No wave Goodbye...... Artwork: Detail from 'For all time' by Steven Follen 2016 - currently displayed at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford upon Avon, UK   Playlist: Jim Reeves – Welcome to My World (excerpt) Malaria! – Kaltes Klares Wasser The Mummies – The Fly ThxSoMch – SPIT IN MY FACE! Beak>  - The Seal NEU! - Negativland Teenage Jesus & The Jerks – Instrumental; Live at CBGB's NYC Teenage Jesus & The Jerks – Freud in Flop; Live at CBGB's NYC James Chance & The Contortions – Hell on Earth Sun Ra - Lanquidity Pictish Trail – Natural Successor (Makeness Remix) 13th Floor Elevators – Step Inside This House (original single edit) The Fall – Pay Your Rates Throbbing Gristle – After the Fall Mad Professor – Afrocentric Dub BaBa Zula – Sipa Dub (The Foal Dub) Gagarin – Wonderdusk 1 Erland Cooper, Scottish Ensemble & Simon Armitage – Movement 2: Movement 2 Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Static

Tom Service meets Finnish soprano, Karita Mattila as she prepares for her role as Klytämnestra in Strauss's Elektra at the Royal Opera House in London. She talks to him about the roles her voice now allows her to sing 40 years after winning the Cardiff Singer of the World competition. Tom drops in on rehearsals at Song in Sign, the latest project from FormidAbility, the opera company founded to put accessibility at the centre of creativity. Tom talks to director, Caroline Parker and to founder and soprano, Joanne Roughton-Arnold ahead of the company's forthcoming tour.Musicians, Mary Dullea and Darragh Morgan and composer, Matthew Shlomowitz join Tom in studio to pay tribute to composer, John White who died earlier this month. And finally, Tom talks to double-bassist, Edgar Meyer as he prepares for his visit to Glasgow to perform his Concertino with the Scottish Ensemble at this year's Celtic Connections. He talks to Tom about his collaborations, his sound and how he is influencing the next generation.

This time of year isn't just the season of goodwill it's also the season of “Best Of” lists and it's part of the musical year that I love.It's always good to know that things you like are also enjoyed by others but the real joy for me is gaining new insight into albums I've enjoyed or discovering albums that I have missed.My hope is that this episode will do some of that for you.As in previous years I am joined by my Podcast pal Steven Routledge and we both talk through our Top 10 albums and play a short clip from each of them.In this part we count down from 10 to 5 and in Part 2 (released on 28/12/23) we go from 5 to 1. 'Chapter Markers' contains full details of songs/artists/albums and there is a summary list below. You can also use 'Chapter markers ' to play individual choices  if you wish.Steven's Album Choices: 10 - 'Stone' by BARONESS   9 - 'In Between Thoughts ...A New World' by Rodrigo y Gabriela   8 - 'The Storm Rages On by James McKeiver & The Starry Sky Band    7 - 'Bird Machine' by Sparklehorse   6 - 'Oromet' by OrometMy Album Choices:10 - 'Black Bay' by Silver Moth   9 - 'Folded Landscapes' by Erland Cooper & the Scottish Ensemble    8 - 'My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross' by Anohni & The Johnsons   7 - 'First Two Pages of Frankenstein' by The National     6 - 'Every Acre' by H.C. McEntire  Please do let me know what you think of these choices and particularly if there is new music you like. You can do that by emailing me at musictalkspod@outlook.com , I really look forward to hearing from you. Have a great Christmas and here's to 2024 being another great year for music. If you would like to be on the show then please contact me at musictalkspod@outlook.com Please follow and like Music Talks on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/musictalkspod . You can also find me on Twitter @musictalkspod .

Composer Erland Cooper is known for playful, innovative, experimental projects. For example, he buried the only audio copy of a 2021 composition – then left treasure hunt clues for people to try to find it. Which one couple, eventually, did.In this episode of CultureLab, Cooper talks to writer Arwa Haider about his newest album, Folded Landscapes, where he is deep in conversation with the environment and our changing climate. The movements of the piece were recorded with the Scottish Ensemble chamber orchestra, in both sub-zero temperatures and a sweltering studio. He then exposed the audio master tape to the sun on the UK's hottest day in history, in July of last year. Cooper describes encasing recording equipment in ice, recreating the acoustics of glacial caves in Norway's Svalbard, and why he prefers a slower kind of activism in the name of celebrating and cherishing the natural world and encouraging change. Read Arwa Haider's full piece about Cooper's work.To read about subjects like this and much more, visit newscientist.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Recordings in sub-zero temperatures and the hottest day on record have fed into the sound of Erland Cooper's latest composition. Ahead of a performance at the Barbican Centre, he discusses the way his Folded Landscape piece thaws through seven movements. New Generation Thinker Sam Johnson-Schlee is researching the social history of central heating, how its changed what we do in the home, and why climate change and global geopolitics are leading to questions about its' future. Sarah Jilani has suggested reading for the Nigerian take on the impact of the oil industry, which has produced a new style of literature 'Petropoetry'. And in her new book 'Nomad Century' science writer Gaia Vince looks at how global temperature changes are raising the prospect of mass migration in response to climate change . Matthew Sweet presents. Producer: Julian Siddle Folded Landscapes by Erland Cooper is released as an album in May and performed with the Scottish Ensemble at the Barbican Centre from May 11th-13th Sam Johnson-Schlee is a 2023 New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to put research on the radio. He teaches at London South Bank University and has written a book called Living Rooms Dr Sarah Jilani is also on the scheme. She teaches at City University London You can find out about books and articles from science writer Gaia Vince at https://wanderinggaia.com/about-me/

Born in Inverness in 1976, Stuart MacRae has established himself as one of the most distinctive of contemporary composers. Stuart's music has been performed at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the BBC Proms and the Edinburgh International Festival, by ensembles including the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Scottish Ensemble and London Sinfonietta. Often inspired by aspects of natural landscape, Stuarts music draws on various strands of European modernism including the music of Stravinsky, Carter, Xenakis and most significantly, Maxwell Davies.   I am Prometheus Ursa Minor Cladonia bellidiflora Dark Liquid With special thanks to performers: Hebrides Ensemble   Ear to the Ground keeps you in the loop with interviews and gig alerts from Scotland's top-notch composers. Hosted by Aileen Sweeney and Ben Eames. Sound edited by Mia Eames. Website Links: https://www.eartothegroundscotland.com/ https://stuartmacrae.com  

In this episode, we speak to composer Martin Suckling about his recent album This Departing Landscape released with NMC recordings in February 2021.  The album features four large scale works for orchestra including: The White Road (After Edmund de Waal), Release, Piano Concerto and This Departing Landscape. Born in Glasgow, Martin Suckling has been championed by many leading orchestras and ensembles including the London Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Ensemble, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, and the London Contemporary Orchestra.   With special thanks to performers: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra BBC Philharmonic Ilan Volkov conductor Katherine Bryan flute Tamara Stefanovich piano Ear to the Ground keeps you in the loop with interviews and gig alerts from Scotland's top-notch composers. Hosted by Aileen Sweeney and Ben Eames. Sound edited by Mia Eames. Website Links: http://www.martinsuckling.com/ https://nmc-recordings.myshopify.com/collections/new-releases-2021/products/martin-suckling-this-departing-landscape https://www.eartothegroundscotland.com/  

Samantha Barber has extensive leadership experience both in the UK and Internationally. After a successful early career in Brussels where she worked as a policy advisor, she first became a Chief Executive at the age of 30. Today she is a Non-Executive Director and mentor and she sits on the Boards of global energy company Iberdrola and Scottish Water, and she chairs the internationally renowned Scottish Ensemble. In this episode, Samantha reflects on her first CEO role, how she has shaped her non-executive career, her views on gender diversity and meritocracy and how multilingualism influences her leadership.

In today’s episode Elaine & Misha chat with Scottish Production Manager Fi Fraser. This brilliant conversation covers all things, industry, motherhood, the female experience & work/life balance. ABOUT FI FRASER Fi is multi-award-winning production manager. She has extensive experience managing all technical and production aspects of a wide range of live performances. With the expertise to turn almost any venue into a performance space. Fi has significant experience of production managing multiple, simultaneous projects and shows. Most recently she Production Managed her second Edinburgh International Children's Festival for Imaginate. 15 shows, 10 venues, 9 days working with companies representing over 20 countries. She is currently working on the 2020 edition - which is of course bigger! FI has Production Managed for Grid Iron since 2001 Managing over 22 productions and heading the Stage Management team who won the 2004 SMA (Stage Management Association) excellence in Stage Management Award.For Vanishing Point since 2009. Managing all National and International tours of Interiors, Saturday Night, Wonderland, The Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler, Tomorrow, The Destroyed Room, Tabula Rasa - with the Scottish Ensemble and The Dark Carnival. Most recently (before Covid-19 lockdown) Metamorphiosis. The tour of this was cancelled after opening night in the Tron Theatre due to Covid19. Website: https://www.fifraser.com/ Twitter: @fifraser Resources https://www.gofundme.com/f/black-women-in-film https://www.gofundme.com/f/bme-business-fund https://www.scottishtrans.org/support/support-groups-in-scotland/ https://www.thetrevorproject.org https://bornthisway.foundation/ https://itgetsbetter.org https://www.alerojasmine.com/ https://bespokebinny.com/ https://pelicansandparrots.com/ https://www.matuggarum.com/ https://sheniandteni.com/ https://lihabeauty.com https://ibereapparel.com/ https://blacklivesmatter.carrd.co/ https://blacklivesmatter.com/ https://m4bl.org/ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BRlF2_zhNe86SGgHa6-VlBO-QgirITwCTugSfKie5Fs/mobilebasic https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bail_funds_george_floyd https://justiceforbreonna.org/ https://www.gofundme.com/f/i-run-with-maud https://www.anothermag.com/fashion-beauty/12570/black-british-owned-businesses-to-buy-from-now-fashion-beauty-design-lifestyle https://theeverymom.com/black-history-month-books-for-kids/ https://themadmommy.com/black-owned-etsy-shops/ A reminder of all the Nasty Action with us: - Join our Zoom Coffee Morning every Friday at 11am GMT, email persistentandnasty@gmail.com - WeAudition offer: For 25% off your monthly subscription quote: NASTY25 - Backstage Offers: Get a free 12 months Actor Subscription: join.backstage.com/persistentnasty-uk-12m-free/ Or if you've got a project to cast, you can Post Castings for free: Apply promo code PERSISTENTANDNASTY at the checkout ---> If you enjoy the work we do and if this podcast made you giggle you can donate the cost of a coffee or car or clubhouse or whatever to help keep us going paypal.me/persistentandnasty Twitter: @PersistentNasty Instagram: @PersistentandNasty Facebook: /PersistentandNasty Persistent and Nasty is produced in association with Edinburgh based live-arts production house Civil Disobedience. Civil Disobedience is committed to creating and supporting queer work and theatre and art that addresses issues of inequality and injustice. You can find out more about the Persistent and Nasty project and all the work that Civil Disobedience do by visiting our website: wearecivildisobedience.com/portfolio/p…tent-nasty/ You can also find Civil Disobedience on all the usual social media platforms: Twitter: @weareohsocivil Instagram: @wearecivildisobedience Facebook: /wearecivildisobedience

Pour le tout dernier épisode de la saison 2019-2020, une vaticination particulière vous est proposée… Tout en approfondissant, amplifiant et fortifiant notre fervente passion pour le culte du Black, nous allons entreprendre un ahurissant détour vers un tout autre genre musical, pareillement noir de méphistophélique potentiel, mais davantage élitiste, ésotérique et vilainement outrageuse pour les non-initiés et les pauvres d'esprit. Bouillonnant de haines misanthropiques, de sombres méditations existentielles, de désespoirs nauséabonds, de ferveurs ancestrales et d'anxiétés apocalyptiques, voici douze compositions de l'éternel génie des Noirceurs au cœur de la musique savante. ☩ LISTE LITURGIQUE ☩ 1. Carlo Maria Giulini avec la Berliner Philharmoniker et la Ernst Senff Chor (Allemagne) - Messa da requiem : 2, Dies irae « Tuba mirum » (de Guiseppe VERDI) 2. Charles Dutoit avec l'Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (Québec) - Carmina Burana : 1, « O Fortuna » (de Carl ORFF) 3. Anna Meredith et la Scottish Ensemble (Écosse) - Concerto no. 4 en fa mineur, op. 8, RV 297, « L'inverno » (de Antonio VIVALDI) 4. Nemanja Radulovic et Les Trilles du Diable (France) - Toccata et fugue en D mineur, BmV 565 (de Johann Sebastian BACH) 5. Georg Solti avec la Wiener Philharmoniker (Autriche) - Götterdämmerdung, WWV 86D, acte 3 : « Trauermarsch » (de Richard WAGNER) 6. Peter Oundjian avec la Toronto Symphony Orchestra (Ontario) - The Planets : 1. « Mars, the Bringer of War » (de Gustav HOLST) 7. Thomas Dausgaard avec Hetna Regitse Bruun, Peter Lodahl, la Dansk Nationalt Kor, la Dansk Nationalt Vokalensemble et la danske nationale symfoniorkester (Danemark) - Endens tid, BVN 243 : IV, « La Catastrophe » (de Rued LANGGAARD) 8. Olivier MESSIAEN avec Lise Arseguest (France) - Poèmes pour mi, no.4, « Épouvante » (de Olivier MESSIAEN) 9. Juan Pablo Izquierdo avec la Cuarteto Latinoamericano et la Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic Orchestra (International) - Black Angels (13 Images from the Dark Land), partie 1 « Return » : no. 13, Threnody III, « Night of the Electric Insects » (de George CRUMB) 10. Sir Simon Rattle avec la City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (Royaume-Uni) - Three Screaming Popes (after the paintings by Francis Bacon), for Large Orchestra (de Mark-Anthony TURNAGE) 11. Philip Glass Ensemble (États-Unis) - « Prophecies », dernier mouvement du documentaire Koyaanisqatsi (de Philip GLASS) 12. Valery Gergiev avec la Mariinsky Orchestra (Russie) - Suite scythe, op. 20 « Ala et Lolly » : II. « Tchoujbog et la danse des esprits » (de Sergei PROKOFIEV) (en fond)

Paul Pui Wo Lee was born in Hong Kong. Upon graduating from the National Ballet School in Toronto, he studied contemporary dance at the Rotterdam Dance Academy. Paul danced with IT Dansa Company in Barcelona and the GöteborgsOperans Balett in Sweden, where he performed in Stijn Celis’ “Your Passion Is Pure Joy To Me” and Wim Vandekeybus’s “Black Biist” among others. With Andersson Dance and Scottish Ensemble, he toured around Europe, to Shanghai, and the Kennedy Center in Washington with Goldberg Variations: “Ternary Patterns for Insomnia”. In 2012, he worked with Helge Letonja in the production “The Drift”. Since 2015, Pui Wo Lee is a certified Feldenkrais Method® practioner, and in 2019, the Jeremy Krauss Approach (JKA). He has taught Feldenkrais® at the Danish Dance Theatre, Theater Regensburg, Theater am Gärtnerplatz, Skånes Dansteater, Cullberg, as well as in performing arts institutions such as the Danish National School of Performing Arts and the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. Paul is currently the choreographic assistant and training director at Of Curious Nature in Bremen, Germany. My Instagram profiles are @paulsfeldenkraisproject and @paul_moves https://www.paulsfeldenkraisproject.com/fishing-rod

Miles Davis released his seminal album Bitches Brew 50 years ago this week. Saxophonist Soweto Kinch and Michael Carlson consider the impact of the double album, and discuss the recent documentary Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool. What video games should we play while we’re self-isolating? Video games expert, journalist and broadcaster Jordan Erica Webber gives us her top picks and tips for first-time gamers. And as even the World Health Organisation recommends 'playing active video games' during lockdown, we look at the mental and physical health benefits of gaming. This week The Front Row Culture Clinic is looking at how to keep children entertained and educated whilst under lockdown, with portrait painter Lorna May Wadsworth who is launching a painting competition for the under 12s - the winner will have their painting hung in a prestigious London gallery. Children's Laureate Cressida Cowell, who is reading a chapter of How To Train Your Dragon every day from her garden shed with Book Trust Home Time, considers how to keep house-bound kids happy and motivated. As the Scottish Ensemble string orchestra celebrate their 50th anniversary this year, concert violinists Jonathan Morton and Clio Gould from the Ensemble perform two short inventions by Bach, live from their home. Presenter Samira Ahmed Producer Jerome Weatherald

Kate Molleson heads down to Covent Garden where rehearsals are under way for a new production of Beethoven's Fidelio at the Royal Opera House. She speaks to conductor Sir Antonio Pappano, director Tobias Kratzer and soprano Amanda Forsythe, who sings Marzelline. Fidelio is sometimes considered a problem opera, with its mix of comic and serious, but Kratzer emphasises the deep themes of political revolution and unjust imprisonment, while for Pappano, Beethoven's score opened a new world for German opera, not least for Wagner. Kate also talks to Marta Gardolinska, Young Conductor in Association at the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, about the challenges of forging a career as a conductor, and about her love of Polish music. And Music Matters joins the composer Valgeir Sigurdsson and director Stewart Laing as they discuss We Are In Time, a new music-theatre piece for the Scottish Ensemble about a heart transplant. It's a profound exploration of the emotional and scientific aspects of this most risky operation, with the ensemble's string players also taking on dramatic roles and singing. Kate also investigates the effectiveness of mood-based music playlists, with James Foley from Spotify and Hugo Shirley from classical streaming site Idagio - and gets a concert programmer's point of view from Helen Wallace, programme director of King's Place in London. Are mood lists a gateway to the treasures of classical music, or just dumbing down the art form?

Professional bassoonist and professional boxer Hannah Rankin explains the connections between the two disciplines. Tom Service is in Dundee, exploring the town's musical heritage which ranges from the Scottish Ensemble and Simple Minds to the latest innovations in virtual reality and gaming. Kate Molleson reports from this month's Nordic Music Days festival in Helsinki, which has included the work of Scottish composers for the first time. Pictured is the new V&A Dundee (image © Hufton+Crow).

Composer Anna Meredith talks about mixing Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with new electronic music in a new work, 'Anno', created by her and her sister Eleanor Meredith, and premiered at Spitalfields Music with the Scottish Ensemble earlier in June 2016.

Composer Anna Meredith chats about her new work for the Scottish Ensemble.

Conductor Charles Hazlewood talks about the role of trust in musical leadership -- then shows how it works, as he conducts the Scottish Ensemble onstage. He also shares clips from two musical projects: the opera "U-Carmen eKhayelitsha" and the ParaOrchestra.

Dirigent Charles Hazlewood spricht über die Rolle des Vertrauens in der musikalischen Führung – und zeigt dann, wie es funktioniert, indem er das Scottish Ensemble auf der Bühne dirigiert. Er zeigt auch Videos von zwei musikalischen Projekten, der Oper "U-Carmen eKhayelitsha" und dem ParaOrchester.

O maestro Charles Hazlewood fala sobre o papel da confiança na liderança musical -- a seguir demonstra como funciona quando conduz o Scottish Ensemble no palco. Ele também apresenta clips de dois projetos musicais: a ópera "U-Carmen eKhaelitsha" e a ParaOrchestra.

Three works commissioned for the Scottish Ensemble form the programme of our Easter celebration in Perth and Glasgow on 1 & 2 April. Following successful performances at City of London and Edinburgh International Festivals, the Ensemble are reunited with the virtuoso chamber choir Tenebrae and music theatre company Cryptic, to celebrate James MacMillan’s 50th birthday.

Three works commissioned for the Scottish Ensemble form the programme of our Easter celebration in Perth and Glasgow on 1 & 2 April. Following successful performances at City of London and Edinburgh International Festivals, the Ensemble are reunited with the virtuoso chamber choir Tenebrae and music theatre company Cryptic, to celebrate James MacMillan’s 50th birthday. Visit our concerts page for further information.

Join Jonathan Morton at the Glasgow School of Art as we celebrate our 40th anniversary, and look forward to our exciting new season.

Join Jonathan Morton at the Glasgow School of Art as we celebrate our 40th anniversary, and look forward to our exciting new season.

To open our spring series of concerts, the Scottish Ensemble is re-united with the virtuosic percussionist Colin Currie

Meeting Colin Currie.

Jonathan Morton, the Scottish Ensemble's Artistic Director introduces the Ensemble.

Jonathan Morton, the Scottish Ensemble's Artistic Director, previews one of the most exciting seasons the Scottish Ensemble have ever done.

Jonathan Morton, the Scottish Ensemble's Artistic Director, previews one of the most exciting seasons the Scottish Ensemble have ever done.