We’ve just announced the participants of our 2013 Distil Residential. It will be held again in New Lanark from the 24-27th October and we can wait! Patsy Reid Andrew Dunlop Megan Henderson Rona Wilkie Marit Falt James Mackintosh Pete Stewart Catriona Price They will be working with Chris Wood (fiddle, songwriter, traditional musician) Brian Irvine […]
Ambleskramble Productions presents: Commissioning Opportunity: Imagined / Remembered
Mr McFall’s Chamber in collaboration with Hands Up For Trad’s Distil are delighted to announce an exciting new commissioning project for emerging composers and writers (prose, poetry and lyrics), produced by Ambleskramble and supported by Creative Scotland. Established artists are also encouraged to apply, showing how this opportunity would have a benefit to their career/professional […]
Composers Lab
The Composers Lab offers a unique chance for emerging composers to meet with some of the most successful professionals in their field and to find out what the real score is in the world of moving image composition. Over five days, eight composers will attend EIFF to learn from leading film composers, directors, music editors […]
Jen Austin sketch of Mr McFall’s
Here’s a great sketch of Mr McFall’s Chamber from the pen of Jen Austin. it was drawn at the Distil Showcase in Stirling on 23rd March. You can listen to Jen’s Distil showcase here https://soundcloud.com/handsupfortrad/sets/distil-showcase-2013
Distil Showcase 2013 – what a night!
What a great night we had in Stirling for our 2013 Showcase on 22nd March 2013. Mr McFall’s Chamber did an amazing job of performing all of the composers work. The running order of the event was Day a Month – Mike Vass and Mairearad Green Croft – Gillian Fleetwood Act of Union? – Mhairi […]
Distil Showcase 2013 Programme Notes
DISTIL SHOWCASE 2013 Friday 22 March The Tolbooth, Stirling 8.00 A Creative Scotland initiative delivered by Hands Up for Trad. Distil has teamed up with the Tolbooth to present the seventh showcase of new music composed by musicians who have taken part in the Distil project. Distil was established in 2002 to give adventurous musicians, […]
Double Success for Young Scottish Composer Ailie Robertson
Scottish composer Ailie Robertson has been awarded 2nd Prize in the prestigious 17th International Edvard Grieg Competition for Composers, for her piece “Eternal Recurrence. Entries from 16 countries (Armenia, Belarus, Belgium, China, Finland, Great Britain, Greece, Iceland, Iran, Italy, Japan, Norway, Russia, South Korea, Ukraine, USA), were received, with the 1st prize given to Vladimir […]
DISTIL
Simon Thoumire and I set up Distil in 2002 in response to the fact that there was a growing number of adventurously inclined musicians from the traditional music community who were writing and performing new music, often collaborating with musicians from other disciplines. So Distil was conceived as a space for creative development for professional, […]
Rick Taylor Ensemble Course
Rick Taylor has decided it’s time to run his own ensemble course and is planning to do so on the first occasion in the Spring Break 2013, starting Monday 8th April and ending with a concert on Friday 12th April, the cost for the course only will be £250 for 5 days. This will be […]
Composition Marathon
The Scottish Music Centre is pleased to launch the 2012/13 Composition Marathon through the opening Call for Applications. Inspired by New York-based collective, Bang On A Can’s iconic Performance Marathons and established in November 2011, this unique project challenges ten composers, selected through application, to write a new work for professional première in less than […]