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news in 2005
news item posted: 9 November 2005
amended: 12 November 2005 |
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EQ, the new Wizards of Oz |
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Following the cancellation of the Australian String Quartet's Scottish Tour, our heroes will leap (hop?) to the rescue. The Australian String Quartet's programme of Haydn, Mozart and Dvorak will be replaced by slightly more challenging work - Haydn, Dempster, Bridge and Gal. We hope that audiences will enjoy these fine and less familiar works. Dates for the November concerts (in Aberdeen, Kirkcaldy and St. Andrews) are given in the concert diary. |
news item posted: 27 June 2005 |
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Edinburgh Festival Fringe concerts |
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The Quartet will give three performances at Valvona and Crolla at 3pm on the 16th, 17th and 18th August playing Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Bruch. <read more>
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news item posted: 27 June 2005 |
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Naresh Sohal’s 2nd Quartet |
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Naresh Sohal’s 2nd Quartet will be premiered at the Cowdray Hall in Aberdeen as part of sound, a new contemporary music festival in North East Scotland on 17th November 2005. (Commission funded by the Scottish Arts Council and the PRS Foundation.)
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news item posted: 27 June 2005 |
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Kenneth Dempster’s String Quartet No. 4, The Cold Dancer |
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Commissioned by the Edinburgh Quartet and funded by the Scottish Arts Council and Napier University, this quartet will be the basis for a new schools project, also funded by the Scottish Arts Council. From September 2005 onwards, we will be working with schools across Scotland. Inspired by the poem The Reel of Seven Fishermen by the Orkney poet George Mackay Brown, The Cold Dancer will be used as a starting-point for a creative and musical exploration of sounds, ideas and images with the school children.
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news item posted: 27 June 2005 |
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Glasgow University residency |
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Following on from successful and ongoing residencies and associations with Napier University and the University of Edinburgh, the Quartet will now also be Quartet in Residence at Glasgow University thanks to funding from the Dunard Fund.
Glasgow University concert series
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news item posted: 27 June 2005 |
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Recordings |
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CDs of Hans Gál’s string quartets, works by Julian Wagstaff, Kim-Ho Ip and Anothai Nitibhon, and Haftor Medbøe’s suite for mckenzie medbøe & the Edinburgh Quartet (combining both classical and improvised disciplines) are all recorded and should be released soon.
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news item posted: 27 June 2005 |
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Repertoire
2006 - 2007 :: The Auld Alliance |
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During the 2006-7 season we will focus on French and Scottish repertoire, exploring where possible ties between the two countries.
John Blackwood McEwen (1868 – 1948) wrote no less than 17 beautifully turned string quartets. While the earlier ones recall Brahms, he soon fell under the spell of Debussy (and indeed of France in general) and the later works show a corresponding lightness of touch. Eugen d’Albert was a Glaswegian, although obviously of French parentage. His two quartets are influenced more by Fauré and Chausson.
Debussy, Fauré and Chausson will feature in this series, through string quartets, Chausson’s concerto for solo violin, piano & quartet and Fauré’s chamber works with piano. Also included will be Ravel’s Quartet, works by Milhaud (who wrote 18 string quartets), Saint-Saens, Lalo, Vincent d’Indy, and many more beautiful pieces by the unjustly neglected French composers Guillaume Lekeu, Alberic Magnard, Roger-Ducasse and Florent Schmitt.
For the Scottish side, the above-mentioned McEwen and d’Albert will feature alongside Mackenzie, the Earl of Kelly and perhaps Marie Dare. As usual, works closer to the present day from both countries may well feature in our lunchtime concerts at Edinburgh’s Reid Hall.
Beethoven cycle
Running alongside all these French and Scottish delicacies will be more substantial nourishment in the form of our Beethoven cycle, gradually unfolding from April 2006.
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news item posted: 27 June 2005 |
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ECAT concert (9th March 2005) |
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The Edinburgh Quartet gave a concert organised by the Edinburgh Contemporary Arts Trust – premiering a new piano quintet by Robert Crawford, as well as playing his String Quartet no 2 and Xenakis’ Tetora and Akea.
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news item posted: 29 January 2005 |
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NYOS Variations -
"making chamber music in Scotland"
Ullapool 6 - 13 August 2005 |
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The Edinburgh Quartet will be in residence throughout the week, offering coaching and guidance on request to amateur chamber musicians of all ages and abilities. Come along and join the fun.
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