Concert Diary 2005 - 2006

September

October

November

December

January

February

March

April

May

  • 15-20 May - Loch Shiel Spring Festival [Loch Shiel link]
  • 23 May - Strathclyde University lunchtime [Strathclyde link]
  • 29 May - 2 June - Education project in Fife with Kenneth Dempster - "The Cold Dancer" after "A Reel of Seven Fishermen" by George Mackay Brown [SAC link]
  • 29 May - St Monan's Primary School
  • 30 May - Colinsburgh Primary School
  • 31 May - Crail Primary School

June

  • 29 May - 2 June - Education project (continues) in Fife with Kenneth Dempster - "The Cold Dancer" after "A Reel of Seven Fishermen" by George Mackay Brown [SAC link]
  • 1 June - Pittenweem Primary School
  • 2 June - Anstruther Primary School
  • 10 June - Edinburgh Quartet with Alan Hacker (clarinet) play two clarinet quintet premieres, by William Sweeney and Harrison Birtwistle. Part of Musica Nova, Glasgow University concert hall, 7.30pm, admission free. [Glasgow link]
  • 18 June - A Russian Ballroom - music by Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Beethoven in the Adam Ballroom, Hopetoun House, 6pm (tickets include a pre-concert visit to the house) [Hopetoun House link]

July

  • 22-29 July - Dartington International Summer School [Dartington Link]
  • 25 July at 10.30pm in The Great Hall, Dartington
    Naresh Sohal - String Quartet No.2
    Naresh Sohal - Three Songs from Gitanjali (Rabindranath Tagore)
    with Sally Silver (soprano) and Sanju Sahai (tabla)
  • 26 July at 8.15pm in The Great Hall, Dartington
    Elizabeth Lutyens - Quartet No.6
    Mozart - Quartet in A K169
    Hans Gal - Quartet No.1
    Schubert - Quartet in G D887

August

  • 5-12 August - NYOS variations, Ullapool [NYOS link]
  • 8 August at 7.30pm in the MacPhail Centre, Ullapool
    Earl of Kelly - Quartet in A
    Britten - Quartet No.3
    Elgar - Quartet
  • 11 August at 7.30pm in the MacPhail Centre, Ullapool
    Haydn - Quartet Opus 54 No.1
    Prokofiev - Quartet No.2
    Tchaikovsky - Quartet No.2
  • 22 August - Valvona and Crolla - The Edinburgh Quartet plays Haydn [Valvona and Crolla link]
    at 11:00 Opus 54.2/Opus 55.2 "Razor"
    at 15:00 Opus 54.3/Opus 55.1
    at 17.45 Opus 55.3/Opus 54.1
  • 23 August - Valvona and Crolla - The Edinburgh Quartet plays Haydn [Valvona and Crolla link]
    at 11:00 Opus 54.3/Opus 55.1
    at 15:00 Opus 55.3/Opus 54.1
    at 17.45 Opus 54.2/Opus 55.2 "Razor"
  • 24 August - Langholm and Eskdale Festival
    Haydn - Quartet Opus 54 No.1
    Prokofiev - Quartet No.2
    Tchaikovsky - Quartet No.2
  • 26 August - St Cecilia's Hall, Edinburgh, 6pm - A feast of British string quartets
    Earl of Kelly - Quartet in A
    Elgar - Quartet
    McEwen - Quartet No.8 "Biscay"
    Britten - Quartet No.3
    played on a quartet of Matthew Hardie instruments

September

  • 4-8 September - Visit to Orkney with Kenneth Dempster - "The Cold Dancer" education project after "A Reel of Seven Fishermen" by George Mackay Brown [SAC link]