Hands Up for Musicians

Scottish musicians expanding their creative horizons into other other areas of musical practice.

Distil Showcase 2014 Composers Announced

We are very happy to announce that the composers for our 2014 Showcase are: Tina Jordan Rees Catriona MacDonald Catriona Price Jen Austin Kate Young Gillian Fleetwood James MacIntosh Andrew Dunlop Pete Stewart Matt Seattle Lori Watson (solo piece) Tom Richardson (solo piece) Each of the composers with have the opportunity to work with the […]

Remembered/Imagined March 2014

Featuring new works of music and words by Amble Skuse, Ailie Robertson, Mike Vass, Sophie Cooke, Angus Peter Campbell, Charlotte Murray and Rebecca Sharp Wed 12 March 2014, Summerhall, Edinburgh 7.30pm Tickets available online and on 0845 874 3000 Fri 14 March 2014, Plockton High School, Ross-shire 7.30pm Tickets available from Kyle Pharmacy, Lochan 01599 […]

Red Note Call for Scores

Dear Everyone (especially the composers amongst you!) We have a slightly unusual line-up for our next Noisy Night at the Traverse Theatre on Monday March 3rd. We’ve acquired a fancy new synthesiser, and we thought we’d like to to give you all the chance to write for it. The Call for Scores on our website […]

Sally Beamish’s solo harp piece, Awuya live on YouTube

From Sally Beamish We are delighted to announce the online launch of Sally Beamish’s solo harp piece, Awuya. Performed by the outstanding young harpist, Anne Denholm, the piece was commissioned by Glasgow University for Professor Keith Vickerman, to celebrate his groundbreaking research in the field of African Sleeping Sickness. Awuya is inspired by the changing […]

Opportunity for young women composers (under 30)

YMT’s Triptych Programme is a three-year project offering three commissions a year to women composers under the age of 30, offering them the opportunity to write new work for some of the UK’s most talented young performers. Triptych 1 will be held in Belfast (2014), with Triptych 2 & 3 in Edinburgh (2015) and London […]

Interdisciplinary Residency Programme 2014

Hospitalfield Arts are establishing, during the spring and summer of 2014, an Interdisciplinary Residency Programme that they believe will appeal to a far wider range of groups and individuals working in the arts. These are lovely months to be here working on the east coast of Scotland and their aim is to make the wonderful […]

Enter the Distil Showcase

Distil is looking for composers to take part in our 2014 Showcase on the 9th May 2014 in Stirling’s Tolbooth. This popular event has been running for the last few years and we have heard some brilliant compositions, If you would like to write music for a string quintet + a solo musician (or any […]

Photos from our 2013 Distil Residential

Well we had another fantastic time at Distil. As usual everything was great at about it! Thanks to Chris Wood, Brian Irvine and Joost Buist for being great and inspiring workshop leaders. Here are some photos from the event taken by Martin Forry. [AFG_gallery id=’4′]

20 for 14 Funding Opportunity

The 20 for 14 programme is aimed at giving individual artists a voice and profile within the Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme by supporting the development of new work responding to, or reflecting upon, the unique cultural, social, political and historical contexts of the Commonwealth and Glasgow’s hosting of the Commonwealth Games in 2014. The programme […]

Great blog on free improvising

Dave Francis sent me this blog called “The reward from art is experiencing yourself opening up” (Joe Morris interviewed by Doug Fischer)” For one reason or another, this blog turns its attention to free jazz infrequently. That’s too bad. In a nutshell, I think it’s a lot harder to write smartly — especially with the […]