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June update:
It’s summer… although there was a bit of snowfall on top of the mountains in the last few days, hehehe and a chill in the air. You’ve got to be prepared for anything with a Scottish summer!
I’m excited to share some news this month, as I’m one of the composers in the Sound of Music “In Motion” 2025 cohort. Over the next 18 months, I’ll be working on a new project which also ties in with my research at RCS. I’ll write a bit more about this next month once things get going!
Later this month, I will be conducting two online workshops: one for the National Open Youth Orchestra, an inclusive orchestra, and another for my Chamber Music Scotland EDI Project on the use of live descriptive captioning in music improvisation.
New Project
Chamber Music Scotland EDI fund
I am one of the awardees of the Chamber Music Scotland EDI Fund 2025, which promotes diversity and inclusion in Scotland’s classical music sector. With this new project, I am exploring the application of descriptive live captioning in music and bringing this to a broader audience of musicians and other interested folks. In July, I’ll be getting up to musical mischief in an online workshop on live descriptive captioning with Ali Robertson.
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 July, we’ll be doing the first rehearsal for Adventures in Captioning at RCS in Glasgow. This new work explores text, improvisation, live descriptive captioning, and AI auto-captioning. It should be fascinating!