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The Dunedin Consort will premiere Courante at the BBC Proms on 11th September 2019. The piece is an introduction to Bach's Orchestral Suite No.3, and is one of 4 specially commissioned pieces for this Prom.
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, with conductor Matthew Halls, soprano Jenni France and baritone Paul Carey Jones will premiere Prometheus Symphony at the Lammermuir Festival. This 30-minute piece is the culmination of a series of works based on the Prometheus myth during my time as Composer in Association with the Lammermuir Festival, and sets texts by Aeschylus (trans. Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the composer) and Goethe.
ANTHROPOCENE
Anthropocene premieres on Operavision.eu
From 17th May until 16th November 2019
View the complete opera here
Scottish Opera premiered the latest opera by Stuart MacRae and Louise Welsh in January 2019. Set on a ship in an Arctic fjord, the opera is a mystery-thriller directed by Matthew Richardson with designs by Samal Blak.
'Icily resonant tale with a remorseless grip...' ★★★★
'Gripping music theatre.' ★★★★ The Times
https://www.scottishopera.org.uk/shows/anthropocene/
Anthropocene will receive a new production at Salzburger Landestheater in May 2020, directed by Agnessa Nefjodov and conducted by Leslie Suganandarajah. Details here
Piano Sonata No.2 shortlisted for the Dorico Award in the Scottish Awards for New Music
View/listen here
buy the score (pdf) here
OUT NOW on Delphian Records - Cantata for Soloists, Choir and Lyre, with the Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, Geoffrey Webber (cond.) and Bill Taylor (lyre)
The Devil Inside was shortlisted for the Achievement in Opera award at the 2016 UK Theatre Awards and the inaugural Sunday Herald Culture Awards
Performances coming up
Courante
Dunedin Consort, John Butt
Royal Albert Hall
BBC Proms
11th September 2019 7.30pm
https://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/events/performers/1cca9a39-48c5-48f8-9710-969f81c4d319
Stoic Piece No.1 (piano versions); 4 Consolations; Lento in Memoriam Peter Maxwell Davies; 3 Processions,;After Charles Munch's "Spring in the Elm Forest"; Stoic Piece No.1 (organ version)
Stuart MacRae, Michael Bonaventure and Moray Rumney
Barclay Viewforth Church, Edinburgh
14th September 2019 7.30pm
Prometheus Symphony
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Matthew Hall, conductor, soloists tbc
St. Mary's Parish Church Haddington
Lammermuir Festival
19th September 2019 7.30pm
https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ebrn5v
https://www.lammermuirfestival.co.uk/event/bbc-scottish-symphony-orchestra-2019/
Anthropocene
Salzburger Landestheater (new production)
Dir. Agnessa Nefjodov, Cond. Leslie Suganandarajah
2/9/15/17 May, 4/7 June 2020
https://www.salzburger-landestheater.at/en/produktionen/anthropozaen.html?m=261
Recent
MOBOFCROWS
World premiere
Sarah Watts, contrabass clarinet
Isle of Raasay Distillery
11th April 2019 2.30pm
https://raasaydistillery.com/raasay-distillery-events/ten-wee-drams-11th-april-2019/
Lento in memoriam Peter Maxwell Davies
Rolf Hind, piano
Hebden Bridge Piano Festival
27th April 3.30pm
(pre-concert talk at 2.30pm)
https://www.hebdenbridgepianofestival.com/rolf-hind/
Birches
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Eugene Tzigane, conductor
New Auditiorium
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
22nd May 2019 1pm
https://www.rsno.org.uk/concert/?c_id=902&action=Read+Morec_id=902&action=Read+Mor
Anthropocene (extract)
National Opera Studio Contemporary Scenes
RADA Studio
Dir. Michael McCarthy
7/8 June 2019 7.30pm
8 June 2019 3pm
https://www.nationaloperastudio.org.uk/Pages/Events/Category/whats-on
cladonia bellidiflora
High Heels and Horse Hair
The Caves, Edinburgh
25th June 2019 8pm
https://www.facebook.com/events/358466878110262/
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New works are in the pipeline for contrabass clarinettist Sarah Watts, and the Lammermuir Festival, including a major new work for the Lammermuir Festival based on the myth of Prometheus. This project has been supported by The Composers’ Fund. The Composers’ Fund is a PRS for Music Foundation initiative in association with Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
About Stuart
Biography
Born in Inverness in 1976, Stuart MacRae has established himself as one of the most distinctive composers of his generation, writing music of elemental power and emotional subtlety. His works include a Violin Concerto (2001), Hamartia for cello and ensemble (2004), and Gaudete for soprano and orchestra (2008), all of which have been performed at the BBC Proms. Works for the stage include the dance-opera Echo and Narcissus (2007) and the opera Ghost Patrol (2012), a collaboration with writer Louise Welsh for Scottish Opera and Music Theatre Wales, which won the 2013 South Bank Sky Arts Award for Opera and was shortlisted for an Olivier Award.
Stuart’s music has been performed at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and the Edinburgh International Festival, and by ensembles including the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Scottish Ensemble, Hebrides Ensemble, BCMG and London Sinfonietta, as well as numerous orchestras. Stuart was Composer in Association with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra from 1999 to 2003. He was resident composer at the Spannungen Kammermusikfest in Heimbach, Germany in 2003, and Edinburgh Festival Creative Fellow at the University of Edinburgh from 2005 to 2006. From 2006 to 2007 he was a resident composer at Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia in Bamberg, Germany.
Recent projects include the opera The Devil Inside, written for Music Theatre Wales and Scottish Opera, Cantata, for the Choir of Gonville and Caius College Cambridge, and a series of works based on the Prometheus myth for the Lammermuir Festival.