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Corrina Hewat & Dave Milligan : Maeve Gilchrist : Tarab Trio : Young Chinese Musicians : Yiota Myserli
Corrina Hewat and Dave Milligan
Corrina Hewat & Dave Milligan have been creating music together since
the early 1990s, when they formed the band Bachué. Always with the duo
of harp and piano at the heart of their music, the band evolved over the
following years, releasing three critically acclaimed albums: Bachué
Café (1996); A Certain Smile (1999) and The
Butterfly (2004). Consistently lauded for their ground-breaking and
jazz-inflected approach to Scottish traditions, their music has inspired
a whole new generation of players and their three releases are often
cited as a source of inspiration for new music being created to this day.
Their passion for exploring and fusing styles grew, eventually resulting
in the birth of The Unusual Suspects; one of the most ambitious and
successful large-scale music ensembles in modern Scottish music. In
the intimate format of duo again, Hewat and Milligan explore the
repertoire of Scottish and Celtic traditions, blended with original
music & songs and delivered through a wide lens of musical vocabulary
and style.
Maeve Gilchrist
Enjoy a rare and intimate solo concert with US Based, Edinburgh-born
Harper, Maeve Gilchrist. She will be playing solo versions of repertoire
from her latest release The Harp Weaver, as well as a couple of
new tunes and even a bit of poetry!
Tarab Trio - The Sultan’s Serenade
Tom Daun (Germany), Akad Shawayri (Iran), Saher Issa (Iraq)
Sparkling sounds of the santur, the Persian hammered dulcimer, mix with
soft harp chords and melancholic melodies on the saz, the long-necked
lute of Anatolia. Tarab Trio offer a colourful programme ranging from
Kurdish folk dances and early music of the Ottoman court to Balkan
rhythms and expressive songs in Arabic and Kurdish. The trio was formed
in 2015 and has performed frequently in concerts and festivals, winning
many fans and admirers.
Young Chinese Musicians.
We are pleased be able to include these performances which were
organised by Professor Ping Zhang of the Scottish Confucius Institute
for Business and Communication at Heriot Watt University. Thanks to
Professor Zhang and Steve King Director of Music at Heriot Watt for
permission to play these recordings at EIHF 2021.
The Guzheng Ensemble plays a 20th century piece Fighting Typhoon which
portrays dock workers fighting against the devastating effects of the
storm. The guzheng, like the clarsach, is an ancient instrument which
has been developed into its modern version which we hear today.
The Folk Music Ensemble performs The Ancient Tea Horse Road. Sometimes
called The Silk Road, this is an ancient trading road stretching over
4000 kilometres between China and South East Asia.
Yiota Myserli - Winner of The Iain Macleòid Young Composer Award
2019-20
Yiota’s award-winning composition The Path
invites the listener to dive into deeper emotions, past experiences and
nostalgic moments and to take a moment of reflection on the trajectory
of life. The piece is offered to the audience as a blank canvas where
everyone can project their own feelings and experiences. To Yiota, it
expresses a personal trip into her deeper thoughts and emotions and she
is delighted to share it with the audience through this performance.
Concert links will be emailed to you shortly before the Festival
19:00-19:30 Harp to Harp pre-concert conversation: Patsy
Seddon talks to John Hoare about himself, Pilgrim Harps and the
Festival - from its 1st to its 40th incarnation.
Music from 19:30, with an interval
All concerts will be available to watch at your leisure until midnight
on Monday 26th April
until 10 April 2021
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