Nordic Viola with Katherine Wren and friends
Saturday, November 19th 2016 7:00pm
Boat Hall
The viola’s dark colour and the islands of the North Atlantic seem made for each other! It seems every bit as difficult to avoid pieces for viola entitled “Elegy” or “Lament” as it is to escape the dark, brooding quality of music by Icelandic composers such as Jon Leifs or Hafliði Hallgrímsson or the traditional drum dances of Greenland.
Katherine Wren is a viola player with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and also works in the orchestra’s contemporary group, RSNO Alchemy, which specialises in finding new ways to improvise, create new music and to collaborate with musicians across a range of traditions and genres.
Between August 2016 and March 2017 she is travelling to small communities in the Faroe Islands, Iceland the Northern Isles of Scotland, and Greenland seeking innovative ways to create, improvise and share music with local musicians.
The project includes commissions from two flautist-composers: Lillie Harris, who was part of the RSNO’s Composers’ Hub, who will join Katherine in Shetland and Arnannguaq Gerström from Greenland.
Katherine travelled to the Faroe Islands and Iceland in September and you can follow her journey so far at https://nordicviola.wordpress.com/
The musical performance will take place in the Shetland Museum and Archives Boat Hall on Saturday 19th November at 7.00pm.
Tickets are priced £10.00 (£6.00 concessions) and are available atwww.thelittleboxoffice.com/smaa
*Please note this is an independently managed event and not organised by Shetland Museum and Archives.
Category: Film/Music