At the heart of this concert programme, charting the history of female composers’ relationships with authorship and ‘place’, is the premiere performance of award winning Scottish composer and Celtic Harpist Ailie Robertson’s new work about Craiglockhart Hill in Edinburgh. This is performed by award winning GAIA Duo (Katrina Lee – violin, Alice Allen – cello) and is the fifth of seven new music commissions by St Mary’s Music School’s Seven Hills Project. Seven composers connected to Scotland have each been commissioned to write a work inspired by the topography of one of seven hills of Edinburgh and the corresponding ‘hill’ poem by Alexander McCall Smith. 

Interpolating works by rediscovered American English composer Rebecca Clarke (1886 – 1979) Lullaby and Grotesque and pioneering English Irish composer Elizabeth Maconchy (1907 – 1994) Theme and Variations are dances by historical Scottish Female Composers of the 1850s. GAIA Duo researched these composers with help from Dr Aaron McGregor and the National Library of Scotland during their time as Ensemble in Residence (2019 – 2021) with Chamber Music Scotland. Often these composers were anonymised - their names were scored out with black pen. St Mary’s Music School pupils will be joining GAIA in the performance of these strathspeys and reels by composers
Programme includes:

Rebecca Clarke - Lullaby and Grotesque - performed by GAIA Duo
Elizabeth Maconchy - Theme and Variations - performed by GAIA Duo
Ailie Robertson - New Work Inspired by Craiglockhart Hill - performed by GAIA Duo

Historic Scottish Female Composers strathspeys and reels - performed by GAIA Duo and St Mary’s Music School pupils

Tickets cost:
Adults - £10
Concessions: £8
Under 18s: FREE
All tickets include a free programme

Book your tickets now using the 'Buy Tickets' button. Tickets will also be available at the door on the evening of the concert.
 

 
For more information about Ailie Robertson please visit:
www.ailierobertson.com
https://twitter.com/ailierobertson

For more information about GAIA Duo please visit:
www.gaiaduo.com
Instagram: @gaia_duo

If you have any further questions, please contact Valerie Pearson at:
vpearson@st-marys-music-school.co.uk