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April update:
It’s almost mid-April; the year is zooming by, and we have been enjoying such lovely Spring days. I’m just back from some time spent in Glasgow working with Sonic Bothy. We were rehearsing and then performing a set at Counterflows Festival. There is nothing quite like the thrill of an excellent gig with your merry band in front of a huge appreciative audience. The joyous feeling has stayed with me and I’m still smiling days later. I am staying put at
home for the rest of April and working on research at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and beginning work on a new project with the Chamber Music Scotland EDI fund.
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
In May I’ll have details of some new commissions coming up and an exciting announcement!