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february update:
We are well into February already and there are the tiniest signs of Spring. I always love when the evenings begin to be just that little bit brighter and you know that winter will hopefully not last forever (although you do wonder in Scotland sometimes!). I have been to Illuminate Scotland concerts in Dundee and Edinburgh in the last week or so. It’s rare to have a new work performed multiple times but with an Illuminate commission, this is the added bonus! The concert series continues to Kinlochard and Paisley before closing. I am staying put for the rest of February and working on research at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and beginning work on a new project with the Chamber Music Scotland EDI fund. I’m also doing an online workshop later this month with Sonic Bothy for CoMA “Join the Dots 2025” composer professional development programme.
New Project
Chamber Music Scotland EDI fund
I am one of the awardees of the Chamber Music Scotland EDI fund 2025 which exists to promote diversity and inclusion in Scotland in the classical music sector. With this new project, I hope to explore the application of creative captioning in music and audio description and bring this to a wider audience of musicians.
PERFORMANCE
Click to watch a performance of new Illuminate commissioned work The Goddess of Ballachulish which took place at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow in December 2024. A new work commissioned by Illuminate Women’s Music 2024/25 and performed by soprano Stephanie Lamprea and cellist Jessica Kerr. A 2,500-year-old five-foot tall wooden effigy of a woman was dug up in the 1880s by Loch Leven in Scotland. This work imagines her reawakening.
I also wrote a blog about this commission which you can read by clicking here.
coming up
February 2025: The Illuminate Scotland tour travels to Kinlochard on 16th February and Paisley on 17th February.