Welcome to the
Kilmardinny Music Circle 2015/16 Season
Kilmardinny Music Circle 2015/16 Season
This will be our most exciting season yet, offering 8 events across the season to celebrate the very best in chamber music from some of our leading artists and rising stars.
We will open the season with our continued commitment to celebrate the very best of music making in our own area – a theme that continue throughout the season. Join us on Saturday 12 Sept for our Come and Play | Come and Try day at Kilmardinny House. The House will be packed all day with the sound of music making: young people and adults (of all ages) can join our orchestra for the day, try out instruments, take guitar classes, enter for our KMC Young Musician Prize … or just enjoy a fun day of music.
Our long established Spotlight Series will grow this year into the KMC Young Musician Prize giving young students the opportunity to perform in our main concerts.
The main concerts will feature a fantastic range of the best of classical chamber music : opening with the Fidelio Trio (25 Sept), one of Europe's leading piano trios, followed by the Maxwell Quartet (23 Oct), a young Scottish string quartet set to be one of the greats and, for Christmas, the vocal group Canty (04 Dec) from Capella Nova bring us a very special Medieval Christmas. Each concert in the season will also include a contemporary work and we have started high including works from Michael Nyman, Sally Beamish, Gyorgy Ligeti, and James MacMillan.
Springtime continues the return of ex-Douglas Academy students and ex-KMC Spotlight Artists, Laura and Sarah Ayoub (08 Jan) – making their Albert Hall debut in 15/16 having won the Big Music Project Classical Competition. In February, maintaining our commitment to supporting the work of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, the Sirocco Winds (05 Feb) bring us a a spectacular programme of music for wind ensemble including Poulenc's sextet and the endlessly inventive and entertaining Bagatelles from Hungarian Gyorgy Ligeti.
In March, we are delighted to welcome back to KMC the clarinettist John Cushing (04 Mar), ex-principal of the RSNO and one of our finest recitalists, with the closing concert given over entirely to the stars from the KMC Young Musician (22 Apr).
Even more, in our commitments arts in the community, with the generous gift bequeathed to KMC by KMC member Terry Branston we will launch our KMC Art Programme that will be the start of a range of activities over the coming years to support arts in the community and attract more audience to the KMC events.
Subscriptions still over amazing value for money – from as little as £7.15 per concert! .. and you can also take out ½ season subscriptions allowing to either choose your concerts for the whole year or pay in two easy (and smaller) instalments.
BOOK NOW and we look forward to seeing you at our concerts.
We will open the season with our continued commitment to celebrate the very best of music making in our own area – a theme that continue throughout the season. Join us on Saturday 12 Sept for our Come and Play | Come and Try day at Kilmardinny House. The House will be packed all day with the sound of music making: young people and adults (of all ages) can join our orchestra for the day, try out instruments, take guitar classes, enter for our KMC Young Musician Prize … or just enjoy a fun day of music.
Our long established Spotlight Series will grow this year into the KMC Young Musician Prize giving young students the opportunity to perform in our main concerts.
The main concerts will feature a fantastic range of the best of classical chamber music : opening with the Fidelio Trio (25 Sept), one of Europe's leading piano trios, followed by the Maxwell Quartet (23 Oct), a young Scottish string quartet set to be one of the greats and, for Christmas, the vocal group Canty (04 Dec) from Capella Nova bring us a very special Medieval Christmas. Each concert in the season will also include a contemporary work and we have started high including works from Michael Nyman, Sally Beamish, Gyorgy Ligeti, and James MacMillan.
Springtime continues the return of ex-Douglas Academy students and ex-KMC Spotlight Artists, Laura and Sarah Ayoub (08 Jan) – making their Albert Hall debut in 15/16 having won the Big Music Project Classical Competition. In February, maintaining our commitment to supporting the work of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, the Sirocco Winds (05 Feb) bring us a a spectacular programme of music for wind ensemble including Poulenc's sextet and the endlessly inventive and entertaining Bagatelles from Hungarian Gyorgy Ligeti.
In March, we are delighted to welcome back to KMC the clarinettist John Cushing (04 Mar), ex-principal of the RSNO and one of our finest recitalists, with the closing concert given over entirely to the stars from the KMC Young Musician (22 Apr).
Even more, in our commitments arts in the community, with the generous gift bequeathed to KMC by KMC member Terry Branston we will launch our KMC Art Programme that will be the start of a range of activities over the coming years to support arts in the community and attract more audience to the KMC events.
Subscriptions still over amazing value for money – from as little as £7.15 per concert! .. and you can also take out ½ season subscriptions allowing to either choose your concerts for the whole year or pay in two easy (and smaller) instalments.
BOOK NOW and we look forward to seeing you at our concerts.
KMC 2015/16 – THE VENUES
Kilmardinny House will be closed during 2016 for an programme of refurbishment and expansion that will offer KMC better facilities. As a result KMC will be itinerant during 2015/16 and we will visit a number of different venues in the Bearsden and Milngavie area – watch out for the right venue !
Kilmardinny House will be closed during 2016 for an programme of refurbishment and expansion that will offer KMC better facilities. As a result KMC will be itinerant during 2015/16 and we will visit a number of different venues in the Bearsden and Milngavie area – watch out for the right venue !
KMC - OUR FUNDERS
Kilmardinny Music Circle is grateful to number of organisation for their support for our work :
Enterprise Music Scotland
East Dunbartonshire Arts Council
Music Matters - The John Lewis Partnership
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Haydock Music, Milngavie
Iron Chef, Milngavie
Oxfam Bookshop, Byers Road
Purple Edge, Bearsden
Kilmardinny Music Circle is grateful to number of organisation for their support for our work :
Enterprise Music Scotland
East Dunbartonshire Arts Council
Music Matters - The John Lewis Partnership
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Haydock Music, Milngavie
Iron Chef, Milngavie
Oxfam Bookshop, Byers Road
Purple Edge, Bearsden