Performances & Events

FORTHCOMING PERFORMANCES & EVENTS

 

Forthcoming Performances & Events


2024


The Giant Folk & The Wee Folk (Excerpt & Interview)

BBC Ulster Radio

17.8.2024



New work: title tbc (Premiere)

Choir and 2 trombones: Nordic Music Days Festival

3.11.2024




The Haunted Concert Hall (Premiere)

RSNO orchestra, RSNO children's chorus 

Children's classics concerts

Glasgow Royal Concert Hall: 26.10.24

Edinburgh Usher Hall: 27.10.24



2025


The Ballad of Mulan - (Live premiere)

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, RSNO children's chorus - date tbd


Previous Performances

2024


The Giant Folk & the Wee Folk - Song Cycle (World Premiere)

National Youth Choir Northern Ireland Junior Choir

David Campbell College, Belfast: 19th July 2024


2023


Flicker... 

The Glasgow Barons @ The Night With... 



In Pursuit... (Double Trombone Concerto)

NYOS Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Soloists: Blair Sinclair, Cillian Ó'Caellachain


Aberdeen Music Hall 14th July 2023

Perth Concert Hall 15th July 2023 


"Scotland- it all belongs to me!"

RSNO Children's Chorus 1 and Youth Chorus 1

Glasgow Science Centre - 12 March 2023


2022


Baloo, lammy, balulalow

National Youth Choir of Scotland - National Girls Choir

BBC Scotland Television, Christmas day broadcasts, 25th December 2022


There's an Alien in my Spaceship {Premiere)

RSNO, RSNO Children's chorus

Glasgow Royal Concert Hall , 29th October 2022

Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 30th October 2022



Kneeling

The Choir of Old Saint Paul's (SATB), Calum Robertson (clarinet), Dr. John Kitchen (Musical Director), Edinburgh Fringe sacred music festival, August 2022


"Lost & Found: No Ear-rest for the Nearest"

Ruth Morley, solo flute

BBC Radio 3 New Music Show (Kate Molleson), August 2022


"Lost & Found: No Ear-rest for the Nearest"

Ruth Morley, solo flute

International Flute summer school, August 2022


Baloo, lammy, balulalow (Premiere)

National Youth Choir of Scotland - National Girls Choir

16th April 2022, GRCH New Auditorium


AN T-EUN NACH D'RINN SGÈITH (Premiere)

(THE BIRD THAT NEVER FLEW)

Mezzo-soprano / piano

8th April 2022, 6pm


2021


"Scotland - it all belongs to me" (Premiere)

RSNO Junior Chorus

@COP26 Green Zone,

November 2nd, Glasgow Science Centre, 11pm / 3pm



"Ghost Ship" (Premiere)

Children's Classics Concerts

RSNO with RSNO Junior Chorus Probationary choirs

October 30th, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall 3pm

October 31st, Usher Hall Edinburgh 3pm


"Lost & Found: No Ear-rest for the Nearest" (Premiere)

Ruth Morley, solo flute

October 23rd, Sound Festival, Aberdeen 3pm



"Lost & Found: No Ear-rest for the Nearest" 

Ruth Morley, solo flute

12th Spetember 2021: Online release


2020


"Ghost Ship"  (Premiere)

Children's Classics Concerts 

Cancelled (due to Co-vid 19)

RSNO with RSNO Junior Chorus Probationary choirs

October (date tbd) Glasgow Royal Concert Hall


The Wee Folk & the Big Folk - Song Cyle

Tell Us Who We Are (Excerpts):  

(i) It's On The Rise,  (ii) Press Of A Button (Nuclear)

Cancelled (due to Co-vid 19)

Gala Concert 

August 8 2020 , Ulster Hall, Belfast


The Wee Folk & the Big Folk - Song Cycle  (Premiere)

***Cancelled (due to Co-vid 19)

National Youth Training Choir Northern Ireland

July 24, details tbd, Belfast



Baloo, lammy, balulalow  (Premiere) -

***Cancelled (due to Co-vid 19)

NYCoS National Girls Choir

April 18, 2020, Central Hall Edinburgh, 3pm


In Pursuit  (Premiere) - Double Trombone Concerto c.17'

Edinburgh Contemporary Music Ensemble,

Soloists: Dávur Magnussen & Simon Johnson

Saturday 11th January 2020, Reid Concert Hall, Edinburgh, 7.30pm

https://www.facebook.com/events/2825089540864309/



2019

 


"Kneeling"

The Choir of Old Saint Pauls (SATB) & Calum Robertson (clarinet)

Wednesday 21st August,  Edinburgh

Details

https://www.osp.org.uk/event/the-wounds/


 

If I Were King/Queen

Have You Ever Met a Squirrel at a Ceilidh?

There's a Dinosaur in my Garden

RSNO Junior Chorus / Preliminary choirs 40th Anniversary Concert

May 2019, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow



Have You Ever Met a Squirrel at a Ceilidh?

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland pre-juniors choir

Glasgow New Auditorium

May 2019


Rollercoaster Ride...Are you tall enough? (Premiere) 

NYCoS boys training choir

April 2019, Edinburgh

 

  

 

2018

 

Live interview with Jamie MacDougall & Juice, BBC Classics Unwrapped, 

BBC Radio Scotland

11th December 2018, 9pm

 

 

There's a Dinosaur in my Garden

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Pre-junior choir

Sunday 16th December, 4pm, City Halls, Candlerigs, Glasgow

 

 

 

I Regret Your Sex c.15' (Premiere)

The Night With...Juice

13th November 8pm, The Hug and Pint, Glasgow

14th November, 8pm The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh

 

 

Tell Us Who We Are c.60' (Premiere)

National Youth Performing Arts Companies

7th, 8th, 9th August, Old Fruitmarket, Candleriggs, Glasgow

 

 

 

2017

 

 

Ghost Train

Children's Classic Concerts / RSNO Junior Chorus / RSNO

28th October  2016, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow

 

 

Ghost Train (premiere)

National Youth Choir of Scotland (NYCoS) boys training choir

April 2017, Perth

 

 

Have You Ever Met a Squirrel at a Ceilidh? (premiere)

National Youth Choir of Scotland (NYCoS) girls choir

April 2017, New Auditorium, RSNO Centre, Glasgow

 

 

How Will Earth Look? (premiere)

National Youth Choir of Scotland (NYCoS) girls choir

April 2017, New Auditorium, RSNO Centre, Glasgow

 

 

Common Complaints 

13th Jan - 30th April   Wallace Arts Award winners and travelling finalists,

Travelling Art Show, New Zealand,

 

 

2016

 

 

Game? (premiere)

Choreography by Thomas.J.Baylis.

June 2016, Cottiers Theatre, Glasgow

 

 

Common Complaints (Premiere)

Intersections, Glasgow New Music Expedition with visual artist Jennifer Mason

26th April 2016, 20:00, Glasgow Schoool of Art

 

 

If I Was King/Queen (Premiere)

National Youth Choir of Scotland (NYCoS) girls choir

26th April 2016, 20:00, Caird Hall, Dundee

 

 

Flicker (Premiere)

Sound Thought Festival 2016, Glasgow New Music Expedition (Composer in residence)

1st April 2016, 19:30 CCA, (Centre for Contemporary Arts), Glasgow

 

 

For Now I Am...

Marc Brew (Dancer / Choreographer), Cello (Andrew Huggan), piano (Claire McCue), sound design

10th, 11th March 2016, Sadlers Wells, London

 

 

 

2015

 

 

For Now I Am...

Marc Brew (Dancer / Choreographer), Cello (Andrew Huggan), piano (Claire McCue), sound design

22-30 August 2015 5.45pm.  Zoo Southside at Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

 

 

Shamal

Rachel Gadsden (Visual Artist), Lesley Shrigley-Jones (Cello) with short film by Abigail Norris and soundscape

26th July 2015 7.30pm, Liberty Festival, Queen Elizabeth Park, London

 

 

For Now I Am... (extract - 2nd Mvmt, in concert)

Ancute Nite-Doyle (piano), Quintin Doyle (cello) in aid of Hospices of Hope

6th July 2015, 3pm, Kelvinside Hillhead Parish Church, Observatory Road, Glasgow

 

Beauty & The Beastie

RSNO chamber group, (String quartet)

7th June 2015, 2.30pm Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh

 

 

Beauty & The Beastie (Premiere)

RSNO chamber group, (String quartet)

5th June 2015, 7.30pm Cottier's Theatre, Glasgow (Cottier's Chamber music festival) (Premiere)

 

 

For Now I Am (Premiere)

Marc Brew (Dancer / Choreographer),  Andrew Huggan (cello), Claire McCue, (piano, sound design)

May 2015, Tramway, Glasgow

 

 

 

 

2014

 

For Now I Am (Preview)

Marc Brew (Dancer / Choreographer),  Andrew Huggan (cello), Claire McCue, (piano, sound design)

11th December 2014, Lilian Bayliss Theatre, Sadlers Wells, London

 

 

Shamal (premiere)

Rachel Gadsden (Artist/Performer), Lesley Shrigley-Jones (Cello) with short film by Abigail Norris and soundscape

1st December 2014, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool

 

 

Kneeling

The Choir of Old Saint Paul's (SATB), Calum Robertson (clarinet), Dr. John Kitchen (Musical Director)

Monday 11th August, 1.05pm, St.Mary's RC Cathedral, Edinburgh

Thursday 21st August, 10pm, Old Saint Paul's Scottish Episcopal Church, Edinburgh

Sunday 24th August, 6pm (Evensong) Old Saint Paul's Scottish Episcopal Church, Edinburgh

 

 

Kneeling (premiere)

The Choir of Old Saint Paul's (SATB), Calum Robertson (clarinet), Dr. John Kitchen (Musical Director)

Old Saint Paul's Scottish Episcopal Church, Edinburgh, 18th May 2014

Commissioned for the choir of Old St.Paul's, Calum Robertson and Dr.John Kitchen.

 

 

 

 

2013

 

Cube of Curiousity (premiere)

Rachel Gadsden (Visual artist), Marc Brew (Dancer / Choreographer), Calum Huggan (Percussion)

Queen Elizabeth Park, London. Commissioned for Liberty festival, National Paralympics Day.

 

 

After The Before (premiere)

The Astrid Quartet & Davur Juul Magnussen (Trombone)

Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh, Wednesday 14th August 2013

Commissioned by The Astrid Quartet as part of the Five by Five series  for Edinburgh Fringe Festival, supported by Made in Scotland and the Hope Scott trust.

 

 

"The Snow" (premiere)

Grace Pei-Yu Kuo (soprano), Eva Madarasz (piano)

Kodaly Institute, Kecskemet, Hungary, August 2013

 

 

"Fast Food" (premiere)

Nola Shantz (soprano), Balazs Szekely (piano)

Kodaly Institute, Kecskemet, Hungary, August 2013

 

 

"Prey"

Fraser Langton (bass clarinet) Calum Robertson (bass clarinet), Simon Smith (piano)

Edinburgh Society of Musicians June 2013

Composed for Calum Robertson & Fraser Langton

 

 

"Prey"  (premiere)

Fraser Langton (bass clarinet) Calum Robertson (bass clarinet), Ed Cohen (piano)

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow, January 2013

(Composed for Calum Robertson & Fraser Langton)

 

 

 

2012

 

 

"Beach" (premiere) (A short film by Laurie Irvine)

Red Note Ensemble

Cor Anglais, violin, viola

Traverse Theatre Bar, Noisy Nights series, Edinburgh, December 2012

 

 

"Once Upon A Time" (premiere), (Wedding Theme)

Solo piano

Sloan's, Glasgow, August 2012

 

 

"Fickle Nemesis" (premiere)

Alba Brass Quintet

Cottiers, Glasgow, West End Chamber Music Festival, June 2012

 

 

"Charged +/- : (i) Repulsion (ii) Attraction (iii) Meltdown"  (premiere)

Calum Huggan (percussion) , Elanor Gunn (electric/acoustic violin), dancers from Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

BA Modern Ballet. Choreography by Anna Clifford. Spiers Lock Studios, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, June 2012

 

 

"Frames" (premiere)

Matthew Topliss (solo dancer) pre-recorded sound (generated from recordings of hand sounds and camera clicks). Choreography by Anna Clifford. Spiers Lock Studios, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, June 2012

 

 

"Reflections"

(Music students from Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and dance students from the Dance School of Scotland)

Kings Theatre Glasgow, June 2012

 

 

"littleblacknotes" (premiere)

Jo Ashcroft (Flute (db alto))  & Calum Huggan (marimba / percussion)

Composition Marathon performance, Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow  March 2013

 

 

"Reflections" (premiere)

(Music students from Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (Recording) and dance students from the Dance School of Scotland.

Mitchell Theatre Glasgow, March 2012

 

 

 

 

2011

 

 

fRagmEnteD

Choreography: Anna Clifford with dancers from BA Modern Ballet, RSAMD

Dance and Piano, RSAMD Concert Hall, Friday 3 June 2011, 7.30pm

 

 

SURGE (premiere)

Musiclab (conductor Ilan Volkov)

BBC Hear & Now concert, (as part of Plug New Music Festival)

Saturday 7 May 2011, 7.30pm, Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow

 

 

fRagmEnteD (premiere)

Musiclab (conductor Jessica Cottis)

Choreography: Anna Clifford with dancers from BA Modern Ballet, RSAMD

Plug New Music Festival, RSAMD Concert Hall, Tuesday 3 May 2011, 7.30pm

 

 

Zing! (premiere)

Musiclab (conductor Jessica Cottis)

Choreography: Matthew Topliss, with dancers from BA Modern Ballet, RSAMD

Plug New Music Festival, RSAMD Concert Hall, Tuesday 3 May 2011, 7.30pm

 

 

A Scrap Of Life (premiere)

Northern Lights Wind quintet, Aaron Shore (piano), Catriona Morrison (mezzo-soprano). (conductor Nigel Boddice)

Plug New Music Festival, RSAMD Concert Hall, Friday 6 May 2011, 1pm

 

 

Roselein, Roselein (premiere)

Raoni Hubner de Barros (Tenor), Geoffrey Tanti (Piano)

Plug New Music Festival, RSAMD Concert Hall, Friday 6 May 2011, 1pm

 

 

The Way Of Things (premiere)

Red Note / Musiclab

Plug New Music Festival, RSAMD Concert Hall, Friday 6 May 2011, 7.30pm

 

 

 

 

2010

 

And Then There Were Four (premiere)

Flutes en Route

British Flute Society Festival/RSAMD Flute Mini-Festival, RSAMD Concert Hall, Monday 7 June 2010,

 

 

“Train To Nowhere” (premiere)

Robin Michael (cello), Mary Dullea (piano) (The Fidelio Trio)

Plug New Music Festival, RSAMD) Concert Hall, May 2010

 

 

Double Jeopardy (premiere)

Ed Cohen (piano)

Plug New Music Festival, RSAMD Jack Spruce Space, May 2010

 

 

Xi: Imaginary Numbers (premiere)

Red Note / Musiclab

RSAMD Concert Hall, Wednesday 27 January 2010

 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00223lf
https://nordicmusicdays.org/2024/
https://childrensclassicconcerts.co.uk/events/the-haunted-concert-hall/