To all musicians, Announcing an exciting award for young composers aged between 16-25. £500 prize money plus a performance at the 33rd Edinburgh International Harp Festival in April 2014. Closing date is Friday, 29 November 2013. It is not necessary for the composer to be a clarsach player. For more information, please open the attached document […]
Critical Response
As a follow up to the recent Showcase, Distil has been looking at an initiative called Critical Response Process, a method of giving feedback to artists developed in the US by the choreographer and dancer Liz Lerman. It has being picked up here in the UK by the theatre community in Scotland, through the Federation […]
BEYOND BORDERS: UK-wide new music funding opportunity – grants of up to £15,000 available
Following the success of three previous editions, PRS for Music Foundation is again teaming up with funding partners Arts Council of Wales, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Creative Scotland, and Colwinston Trust to run the Beyond Borders UK-wide funding programme. What activity can Beyond Borders support? In a change from previous editions, organisations and groups […]
Distil Residential participants announced!
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 […]