April 2008
30thLoganArts Management representation of duo of Gary Cooper & Rachel Podger
LoganArts management is pleased to announce the worldwide representation of the duo of baroque violinist Rachel Podger and harpsichordist and forte-pianist Gary Cooper. Immediate from 1 April 2008.
27thRachel Podger features as artist profile for BBC Radio 3's Early Music Show : 27 April, 2008, 1pm and on listen again
Rachel Podger: Lucie Skeaping meets violinist Rachel Podger, who reflects on her highly successful career to date and her relationship with the baroque violin and will also include the hugely successful series of Mozart recordings with duo partner Gary Cooper
March 2008
12thNash Ensemble unveil new Alexander Goehr work at London's Wigmore Hall
The Nash ensemble premiere the new Clarinet Quintet commissioned for them by the BBC at London's Wigmore Hall in their Nash Inventions concert on 12 March 2008
February 2008
22ndStevie Wishart premieres new "Solos for Hurdy Gurdy" at German festival
14thEdward McGuire Birthday Concert at Glasgow University
2ndStevie Wishart and La Chambre Blanche
Throughout Europe : Indefinable place, impossible to reach, La Chambre Blanche, to music by Stevie Wishart with the choreographer Michèle Noiret, becomes the scenery in which bodies of the four dances reinvent the world, the place in wich space is sculpted by gesture.
1stGary Cooper & Rachel Podger Showcase acclaimed Mozart Cycle at London's Wigmore Hall
The artists present some of their favourites from the cycle on 1st February 2008. ".. a must for Motzarteans."
January 2008
31stConcerto Caledonia's Dance Band
Ever wondered what Scottish dance music sounded like before Sir Jimmy Shand? Concerto Caledonia have assembled an all-star dance band to play tunes from before the days of accordions and fiddles.
November 2007
22ndKatherine McGillivray’s Get a Life Fund
A new charity for musicians launches at Cadogan Hall on St.Cecilia's Day
9thStevie Wishart at Music UnLimited Festival in Austria
as part of the Violet Quartet, wishart appears with John Tilbury in Carla Kihlstedt's cutting edge festival
4thAlexander Goehr 75th Birthday
A celebration at London's Wigmore Hall of the composer Alexander Goehr for his 75th Birthday including 3 world premieres
1stEdward McGuire premiere : new theatre at Glasgow's CCA
Composer Edward McGuire creates the soundscape of Sanna, performed live, for Reeling and Writhing's tragi-comedic tale 'Only the Men' at the Centre for Contemporary Art.
October 2007
25thEdward McGuire's Source with the BBC SSO
The BBC SSO perform Edward McGuire's seminal work "Source"
21stGary Cooper in Beethoven Recital
Gary Cooper gives recital of late Beethoven including the Diabelli Variations - "... sublime spirituality ... intellectual authority ... "
1stNEW REPRESENTATION : Stevie Wishart
As of one of britains most versatile and innovative composer, performers and improvisers, Stevie Wishart takes her unique mix of medieval and contemporary styles across the globe with universal acclaim.
1stGary Cooper and Rachel Podger win a 3rd Diapason d'Or award for Mozart Cycle
Showered with critical accliam the duo of Cooper and Podger continue from success to success with Mozart
September 2007
30thDaniel Grimwood in recital with Jamie Walton at the Wigmore Hall
Hear Daniel and Jamie live in Grieg Cello Sonata at the Wigmore Hall
16thHis Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts at the South Bank's The Early Music Weekend
When Schutz Met Gabrieli - Master & Pupil: Sacred Polychoral Music of Giovanni Gabrieli & Heinrich Schütz
14thConcerto Caledonia : Bach on BBC Radio 3
Lunchtime concert at 1pm on BBC Radio 3 of Bach with Katharine Fuge singing Ich Habe Genug
13thHis Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts on BBC Radio 3 In Tune
His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts play live and feature tracks from their new cd and discuss its 25th season
1stNEW REPRESENTATION : Daniel Grimwood
Worldwide representation for the Daniel Grimwood, one of Britain's youngest and moste exciting an dynamic pianists
August 2007
25thConcerto Caledonia and the Tiger Lillies at the Edinburgh International Festival
A Tribute (of sorts) to Monteverdi : Usher Hall
25thThe Whistlebinkies and John Cage
The Whistlebinkies appear in Edinburgh hot from the Lorient Festival and the studio recordin. Featuring CD The Albannach and ‘Scottish Circus’ by JOHN CAGE
14thMark Padmore and Walking to Lübeck at the Edinburgh International Festival
Tenor Mark Padmore sings Bach and Buxtehude with the new baroque ensemble 'Walking to Lübeck'
5thEddie McGuire and The Whistlebinkies at Festival interceltique de Lorient
Eddie McGuire and The Whistlebinkies appear in L'Epopee Celtique McGuire's epic work of celtic struggle for massed orchestra and folk musicians and in Le Grand Nuit d'Ecosse
July 2007
17thHis Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts give Striggio Premiere at the BBC Proms
the first performance in modern times of the lavish multi-part Mass by Alessandro Striggio - "not just at the choral event of the year but possibly of the decade"
15thHis Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts launch own record label sfz
His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts launch its own record label, marked by release of cd of the music of Giovanni Battista Grillo
15thNEW REPRESENTATION : His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts
Worldwide representation for the UK's leading ensemble of cornetts and sackbutts - "the pre-eminent group of its kind"
June 2007
29thThe Myth of Europa : Stevie Wishart Premiere
Stevie Wishart premieres her new work The Myth of Europa - "The bisected rim of the horned moon" a new oratorio for Sinfonye at the Styrarte Festival, Graz
24thThe Whistlebinkies perform John Cage
To accompany a new exhibition at Inverlieth House in Edinburgh, The Whistlebinkies wil perform the iconic 4'33" arranged for folk group and also the work commissioned by The Whsitelbinkies, Scottish Circus of 1992.
13thGary Cooper conducts and performs at Potsdam Festival
Gary Cooper will conduct the final opera production of the 2007 Musikfestspeile Potsdam Sanssouci ... plus a forte piano recital on the London Piano School
13thConcerto Caledonia: the Lion roars !
Concerto Caledonia's 'Lion' : new for 2007! Five centuries of Scottish music, and some other stuff too!
May 2007
12thGary Cooper Volume 4 of Mozart's Sonatas for Keyboard and Violin
Released this month, the next volume of the critically acclaimed series of recordings with Rachel Podger for Channel Classics. Suffering from Mozart fatigue ? ... rejuvenation is immediate! more ...
9thMatthew Wadsworth new recordings ...
Lutenist Matthew Wadsworth enters the studio to record his second disc for Channel Classics after his immensely successful "Masters of Lute"
1stGary Cooper conducts ETO's Seraglio
Musically Glorious .... Gary Cooper conducts English Touring Opera accross the UK in a new production of Mozart's Die Entfhürung aus dem Serail .. from 16 March - 26 May 2007
March 2007
13thBenjamin conducts Goehr with London Sinfonietta
George Benjamin conducts Alexander Goehr's Behold the Sun in a sold out Queen Elizabeth Hall
January 2007
20thCalgacus returns to Glasgow
Eddie McGuire's orchestral poem Calgacus a sensational hit at Celtic Connections
April 2006
12thNew CD Album from The Whistlebinkies
Albannach the new and long awaited album by The Whistlebinkies released the resounding critical acclaim ....
January 2006
17thScotland The Brave
The Whistlebinkies in Hong Kong. Scotland the Brave is a unique cultural collaboration between The Whistlebinkies (Scotland’s Traditional Music Ensemble), the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong and the Red Guard Pipe Band.