Tickets £19 // Concession £16 // Under 30 £5
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Red Note Ensemble
Geoffrey Paterson conductor
James Dillon (Scotland, 1950)
EMBLEMATA: Carnival (2020-21) 35’ World Premiere
Luke Styles (Australia, 1982)
Five Phase Sphere (2021) 17’ UK Premiere
Aileen Sweeney (Scotland, 1994)
The Land Under the Wave (2021) 8’ World Premiere
Leading Scottish ensemble Red Note has been a prominent purveyor of James Dillon’s work for the last decade, bringing premieres of his large-scale works to the festival in 2013, and then again in 2017. This continuous relationship with the composer is palpable: they perform his seemingly insurmountable music with poise, carrying it carefully while also conveying its fragile breaking point. In this concert, they deliver the world premiere of his immense new work Emblemata: Carnaval.
Red Note delivers Dillon’s new composition alongside music from Luke Styles, who describes his new piece Five Phase Sphere as ‘abstract, with no programme whatsoever’. Written more for the instrumentation it uses than for any narrative reason, it comes from a place of unbridled intuition, focusing on resonances and combinations. Its title is a candid explanation of the material: five phases, musically connected, orbiting in a sphere. Red Note completes the programme with a new work from emerging Scottish composer Aileen Sweeney, an accordionist who uses her folk roots as a vessel for protesting the growing social inequalities in our environment.
Produced by hcmf// supported by the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung and hcmf// Benefactors Allan & Mo Tennant and Martin Staniforth
EMBLEMATA: Carnival is commissioned by Red Note Ensemble with support from Creative Scotland and the PRS for Music Foundation
Five Phase Sphere is commissioned by sound, Red Note Ensemble, Ask Duets and hcmf//
The Land Under the Wave is commissioned by Red Note Ensemble with support from Creative Scotland and the PRS for Music Foundation
The Land Under the Wave Photo © Julie Howden
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