Nordic Music Days Opening Concert: Scottish Ensemble, Aidan O'Rourke, and Qullaq

Name: Nordic Music Days Opening Concert: Scottish Ensemble, Aidan O'Rourke, and Qullaq
Start: 2024-10-30T21:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-10-30T22:30:00+01:00
Location: City Halls & Old Fruitmarket

Schedule

Wed Oct 30 2024 at 09:00 pm to 10:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

City Halls & Old Fruitmarket | Glasgow, SC

Nordic Music Days Opening Concert: Scottish Ensemble, Aidan O'Rourke, and Qullaq
Scottish Ensemble is a pioneering collective of musicians who champion music for strings, collaborate with creative minds and blur the boundaries between genres and artforms. For this concert, they are joined by musicians from Norway, Finland, and Greenland, as well as one of Scotland’s most well-known musicians, Aidan O’Rourke.
Qullaq is a groundbreaking collaboration between musicians from Scotland and Greenland. Ancient and contemporary Greenlandic drum dances typically involve a lot of descending vocal and physical gestures. Qullaq means ‘ascending’: this work is a confrontational but jubilant exploration of a long-persecuted culture which is now in the ascendence. Drawing on myths, social dynamics and post-colonial politics, the piece brings together contemporary Inuit performance practices from Kalaallit nunaat (Greenland) with Aidan O’Rourke’s unique take on Scottish traditional music and the strings of the Scottish Ensemble.
Programme:
Jukka Tiensuu (Finland): Innuo 9’
Seyoung Oh (Scotland): The platform vividly echoes 9’ first performance
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Anna Thorvaldsdottir (Iceland): Reflections 10’
David Fennessy (Scotland): An Open Field (Come Closer, Come Closer) 6’
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Aidan O’Rourke (Scotland), Nive Nielsen, Hans-Henrik Suersaq Poulsen, and Mikè Fencer Thomsen (Greenland): Qullaq 25’ first performance
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Scottish Ensemble:
Jonathan Morton (director, violin)
Tristan Gurney (violin)
Jane Atkins (viola)
Alison Lawrence (cello)
Diane Clark (double bass)
with
Aidan O’Rourke (fiddle)
Nive Nielsen (voice)
Hans-Henrik Suersaq Poulsen (voice/drum)
Mikè Fencer Thomsen (voice/guitar)
Maiken Mathisen Schau & Hanna Kinnunen (flute)
Amy Turner (oboe)
Nina Ashton (bassoon)
Qullaq: directional and dramaturgical consultation from Valerio Peroni, Alice Occhiali and Francesca Tesoniero at Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium.
Tickets (£20/£6)
1 hour 30 minutes
Read more and buy your tickets here: https://bit.ly/3zM38ud
Seating and standing will be unreserved, so please allow priority to those who need a seat.
Full festival programme: https://nordicmusicdays.org/2024/
Supported by:
Dansk Komponist Forening (Danish Composers’ Society)
Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium (Nordicl Theatre Laboratory)
Danish Culture Ministry
Creative Scotland (National Lottery Funding)