Art Music Scotland can help and support performers and ensembles to plan and deliver projects. The team has wide experience in fundraising, commissioning, tour and event planning, and project management and delivery. Some of the performing projects that we work with can be found below, and please get in touch if you would like to talk to us about a project.
Billed as a “groundbreaking new chamber opera”, I would say it more than lives up to that description.
Will Quinn, theqr.co.uk
A must-see for anyone craving innovative, atmospheric, and emotionally resonant performance.
Sinners’ Review
The brainchild of clarinetist and composer Joanna Nicholson, Aud the Deep-Minded reframes the language of modern opera. Scored for voice, clarinet, horn and electronics, and with influences from the likes of Sinead O’Brien and Yard Act blended with 9th century church music and Norwegian folk, it’s about as far away from Mozart as you can imagine - except it isn’t - the structures of aria and recitative are very much in there, just transformed for the 21st century.
Aud the Deep-Minded was a real historical figure, a Viking who lived in Ireland and Scotland and whom history has recorded as being a great leader.
“Aud is usually presented as strong and authoritative, but I wondered, what if she wasn’t like that, what if she was a more vulnerable, reluctant leader. How might she have felt about the circumstances in which she found herself?”
The show uses improvised word play on the changing pronunciations of Aud’s name in different languages to reflect on her status as an immigrant, and musical source material from church and folk backgrounds blends Aud's affinities with both Christianity and paganism.
Aud the Deep-Minded premiered at soundfestival in 2024, and was part of the curated Made in Scotland programme at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2025, and is available for booking for festivals or touring.
Reviews and audience comments can be found here.
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A glorious recital by the Glasgow-based Rookh Quartet...the diversity of music for four horns reflected the range of potential expressive possibilities of this ensemble, from brooding darkness to tumultuous resonance.
Ken Walton, Vox Carnyx
The Rookh Quartet began life in 2017 when four of Scotland's horn players decided to get together regularly to explore - and expand - the horn quartet repertoire. The original plan did not involve doing any concerts - the idea was to get together regularly, to enjoy playing chamber music. This changed when the University of Glasgow offered the Rookh Quartet a lunchtime concert, and the group has since gone on to play in venues and festivals that include The Cathedral of the Isles, soundfestival, Orkney's St Magnus Festival, The Night With…, and as featured artist in the British Horn Society’s Scottish Horn Day, as well as joining players from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Scottish Opera for an International Horn Society project during the Covid pandemic.
Their commitment to new music and to creating balanced programmes that reflect the group’s make up and interests has meant that they have commissioned new works from Lynda Nicholson, Alisson Kruusmaa, Drew Hammond, Louise Harris, and Jane Stanley, premiered a quartet by Joyce Solomon Moorman, and gave the first European performances of Tyler Taylor’s quartet. Their commissioned works are published by Editiondb.
The quartet also regularly include works from the romantic and classical eras in their programmes, as well as duos, trios, and works for natural horn. They recently recorded their first album on the TNW Music label (release date tbc) and have plans to commission a number of new works over the next few years.
The Rookh Quartet is available for performances, festivals and touring, and can combine with other musicians for chamber and orchestral concerts.
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