Calendar of Events
21 November, 2014
26 July, 2013
Recital at ClarinetFest 2013
Programme details -
Judith Weir (arr. Alex South) “Sketches from a Bagpiper’s Album”
Francine Trester “Many Miles Away… Five Quotations from Sir Walter Scott”
Becky Milne “Waulking Bass”
23 November, 2012
Encounters
ENCOUNTERS brings together the usually distant worlds of contemporary classical music, electronica, and film, featuring the four musicians of SCQ, London-based composer Matt Rogers (recent recipient of a Paul Hamlyn Foundation award) and international filmmaker Matt Hulse (artist in residence at the Cucalorus Film Festival, North Carolina). SCQ and Matt Rogers have a long creative partnership going back to time spent together at the RSAMD, and in 2011 were funded by Creative Scotland to collaborate with Matt Hulse. The outcome: an audiovisual exploration of the drama of communication between Earth dwellers and alien visitors, The Parlour Guide to Exo-Politics. Tonight’s event will include performances of The Parlour Guide to Exo-Politics and earlier work by Matt Rogers, short films by Matt Hulse, and chiptune music by Matt Rogers’ alter ego: Gameshow Outpatient.
10 November, 2012
Sound Festival 2012
With support from Creative Scotland, the Hope Scott Trust, and Sound.
27 October, 2012
The Big Shed Concert
Around the World in Eighty Minutes
A musical tour of the globe in the capable hands of the Scottish Clarinet Quartet. The well-known Arrival of the Queen of Sheba by naturalized British composer G.F. Handel sets the theme of travel, and sends us across the English Channel to encounter the music of the villages and gypsies of rural France. Passing through the Black Forest to take the Air by Handel’s German contemporary J.S. Bach, we go further East to discover exotic rhythms and instruments in Bulgaria, Borodin’s beautiful Notturno, and celebratory Klezmer music in Russia. Travelling on to the New World in jazz clarinettist Benny Goodman’s footsteps, we swing across New York and California in the company of Stephen Sondheim, George Gershwin and Dave Brubeck, before flying south to Argentina for a dancing lesson, the Histoire du Tango. Finally, we sail home over the Atlantic to our own temperate island, to the strains of the cheerful Colonel Bogey march.
Ticket price includes a glass of wine.
5 October, 2012
Motherwell & District Music Society Recital
Around the World in Eighty Minutes
A musical tour of the globe in the capable hands of the Scottish Clarinet Quartet. The well-known Arrival of the Queen of Sheba by naturalized British composer G.F. Handel sets the theme of travel, and sends us across the English Channel to encounter the music of the villages and gypsies of rural France. Passing through the Black Forest to take the Air by Handel’s German contemporary J.S. Bach, we go further East to discover exotic rhythms and instruments in Bulgaria, Borodin’s beautiful Notturno, and celebratory Klezmer music in Russia. Travelling on to the New World in jazz clarinettist Benny Goodman’s footsteps, we swing across New York and California in the company of Stephen Sondheim, George Gershwin and Dave Brubeck, before flying south to Argentina for a dancing lesson, the Histoire du Tango. Finally, we sail home over the Atlantic to our own temperate island, to the strains of the cheerful Colonel Bogey march.
21 May, 2012
Glasgow Southside Festival Concert
As part of the Southside Festival, SCQ is bringing its “Bach to Benny Goodman” programme to Shawlands Kirk. Works inspired by JS Bach and made famous by jazz clarinettist Benny Goodman frame contemporary versions of favourite organ pieces. Preludes and Fugues as you’ve never heard them before!
Programme to include
Benny Goodman – Four Once More
22 April, 2012
The Osprey Music Society Recital
From Bach to Benny Goodman
- G.F. Handel – Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
- Alfred Uhl – Divertimento
- Oleg Paiberdin – Sob Out
- Mike Curtis – Bulgarian Bat Bite
- Dave Brubeck – Blue Rondo à la Turk
- Stephen Sondheim – Send in the Clowns
- George Gershwin – Liza
interval
- Benny Goodman – Four Once More
- J.S. Bach – Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659
- J.S. Bach – Prelude and Fugue in D major, BWV 532
- J.S. Bach/Michael Riessler – Intro/Air
- Mark-Anthony Turnage – A Deviant Fantasy (after J.S. Bach)
- Michael Riessler – Bachmachine
- Alec Templeton (arr. Henry Brant) – Bach Goes to Town!
where and when
27 November, 2011
University of Salford Arts Programme
SCQ is very happy to have added a new date to our forthcoming Songs of the Earth tour.
We will be performing at the University of Salford’s state of the art digital facility at MediaCityUK.
26 November, 2011
Cheltenham Music Society
SCQ is pleased to announce that it will be taking Songs of the Earth, its audiovisual programme of original music for four bass clarinets and Terry Williams’ photographic images from the Isle of Skye, to Cheltenham Music Society in November 2011. Songs of the Earth includes works by recent Paul Hamlyn Foundation award-winners David Fennessy and Anna Meredith; also music from composers Stephen Davismoon, Sadie Harrison, Oliver Searle and Iain McLarty.