Live Music, Theatre & Comedy

We are excited to be hosting this concert in our classical series 2021 featuring the prestigious Consone Quartet consisting of Agata Daraškaite & Magdalena Loth-Hill on violin, Elitsa Bogdanova on viola and George Ross playing cello. Programme: Haydn String Quartet op.33 no.4 Fanny Mendelssohn String Quartet in Eb major Interval Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor D.703 Mendelssohn String Quartet op.44 no. 1 Tickets: £12 Please email: info@cromartyartstrust.org.uk or tel 01381 600354 We can now also sell tickets on the door, provided there is still availability. Tea/coffee will be on sale at the interval or feel free to bring your own refreshments. No Covid bubbles or allocated seating any more - sit wherever you like! More about Consone Quartet... The first period instrument quartet to be selected as BBC New Generation Artists, the Consone Quartet are fast making a name for themselves with their honest and expressive interpretations of classical and early romantic repertoire. Their debut CD (released in 2018 on the French Ambronay Label) explores music by Haydn and Mendelssohn, and was met with great critical acclaim as a recording “that instantly leaps out of the stereo at you as something special” (The Strad, 2019). Formed in 2012 at the Royal College of Music in London, the Consone Quartet are winners of the 2016 Royal Over-Seas League Ensemble Prize in London, having previously been awarded two prizes at the 2015 York Early Music International Young Artists Competition, including the EUBO Development Trust Prize and a place on the EEEmerging Scheme in France. The quartet has been enthusiastically received at London’s Wigmore Hall, King’s Place, St Martin-in-the-Fields and at the Edinburgh, Cheltenham, and King’s Lynn Festivals amongst others. The Brighton and York Early Music Festivals have been key Consone supporters over the past few years and regularly host the group. Keen to enhance their international reputation, the quartet has performed at the Paris Philharmonie String Quartet Biennial and the Lyon Auditorium in France, at the Concertgebouw Brugge and AMUZ in Belgium, twice at the REMA Showcase, the Concerts d'été à St Germain in Switzerland and at other venues in Italy, Austria, Bulgaria, Slovenia, as well as on tour in Bolivia and Peru. Consone always enjoy collaborating with fellow musicians, including the Fitzwilliam String Quartet, members of the Hanover Band, Anneke Scott, Simone Jandl, Mahan Esfahani, Justin Taylor, Gillian Keith, Jane Booth and Ashley Solomon. The quartet has previously worked with students of the Royal College of Music and is currently appointed at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama as Chamber Music Fellows for 2020/2021. In 2020 the group was scheduled to perform at the Tanglewood Festival in the US, at the BBC Proms and at the Ryedale and Buxton Festivals amongst others, but due to the pandemic these dates have either been cancelled or postponed. In 2021 Consone is looking forward to a return to the Wigmore Hall and a tour of Japan later in the year. www.consonequartet.com     

The Tim Kliphuis Trio finally return to Scotland after nearly two years, and Cromarty has the premiere! Their trademark brand of high-octane gypsy jazz and classical mash-ups will have you swinging in your seat. Presenting the newly released album ‘The Five Elements’: a hopeful vision for our future on this planet. You will return home from this meaningful and high-spirited concert with your soul re-charged.     Tim Kliphuis: violin Nigel Clark: guitar Roy Percy: double bass “Superb … a thoughtful, provocative meeting of minds” - Sunday Times https://www.timkliphuis.com/ http://trio.timkliphuis.com/ Tickets: £15 standard; £13 concession (Students / Unwaged / OAP) Please email: info@cromartyartstrust.org.uk or tel 01381 600354 plus sales on the door (if availability) We can now also sell tickets on the door, provided there is still availability. Tea/coffee will be on sale at the interval or feel free to bring your own refreshments. No Covid bubbles or allocated seating any more - sit wherever you like! We do still ask that you wear a face mask on arrival and departure and whilst moving around the venue.   

Yet more ridiculously talented young musicians grace the Stables stage for what promises to be an exceptional night of live music. Programme: Arcangelo Corelli - Sonata for Violin and Cello 15’ Op.5 No.9 Ravel - Duo for Violin and Cello 30’ INTERVAL Rebecca Clarke - Lullaby / Grotesque (Order TBC) 5.5’ Sally Beamish - Stone, Salt and Sky 25’ (GAIA Commission)       Tickets: £12 Please email: info@cromartyartstrust.org.uk or tel 01381 600354 We can now also sell tickets on the door, provided there is still availability. Tea/coffee will be on sale at the interval or feel free to bring your own refreshments. No Covid bubbles or allocated seating any more - sit wherever you like! More about GAIA Duo... GAIA are an award winning violin and cello duo, comprising two of Scotland’s most distinguished chamber musicians - Katrina Lee and Alice Allen. Winners of Chamber Music Scotland's highly competitive and prestigious two year residency, GAIA are at the forefront of innovative and pioneering programming with exciting, bold and daring performances that push the boundaries of string duo performance and creative programming. Their impressive and growing collection of bespoke commissions from world renowned composers includes Sally Beamish, Kim Moore (Sound designer for SuperFan, Nose Dive), and Duncan Strachan (Maxwell Quartet). GAIA celebrate and champion works by under-represented voices within classical music and their commitment to spotlight historical works by uncredited women composers sees them explore current issues of gender inequality within classical music, making them one of today's most exciting and dynamic duos of our times.  Both Alice and Katrina are previous Scottish Ensemble Young Artists and between them boast an impressive array of instrumental awards. During her time at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Katrina was recipient of every string prize awarded by the Conservatoire. She was also the recipient of the International Konigin Sophie Charlotte competition for Violin. During Alice’s two year masters at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland she was recipient of the Durbar-Gerber Chamber Music Award, Thomas and Margaret Roddan Trust Scholarship and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra’s Concerto Competition. Whilst studying at the Royal Northern College of Music Alice was winner of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra’s professional experience scheme. GAIA are regular performers at the Royal Conservatoire’s annual PLUG Contemporary Music Festival, which showcases the talent of current composition students. GAIA were recently commissioned by the world renowned Courtauld Gallery in London, to compose a piece of music inspired by Claude Monet’s 'Antibes' from the gallery's extensive collection of prized art. Other recent highlights include an award winning performance of Konstantinos Terzakis piece ‘Invisible Sound’ which saw the composer awarded second prize at the 4th International Composer Award in Vienna. This outstanding ensemble regularly work on cross-arts collaboration, and their work with award winning Glasgow based artist Jennifer Wicks has been showcased by Centre for Contemporary Arts. Alice and Katrina are co-founders of the Scottish Freelancers Ensemble, formed as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic, helping our community of freelance musicians support each other to keep our art alive. www.gaiaduo.com   

Hattie McGregor (from Rosemarkie) and Finlay Hay will be playing a series of songs newly arranged for cello and guitar. Spanning from the Renaissance to the 20th century, the programme will include lute songs, a reimagining of English folk tunes, and ends with a Spanish flair of music by Cassado, the virtuoso Spanish composer who championed music for cello and guitar. The cello perhaps being the closest to the tenor voice, Finlay’s arrangements (among those by others) are tailored beautifully to this more unusual combination of instruments. The duo, which was originally formed at the Yehudi Menuhin School, also look forward to playing the first piece they ever performed together: Schubert’s Litanei. Tickets: £10 and school kids go FREE! Please email: info@cromartyartstrust.org.uk or tel 01381 600354. We can now also sell tickets on the door, provided there is still availability. Tea/coffee will be on sale at the interval or feel free to bring your own refreshments.No Covid bubbles or allocated seating any more - sit wherever you like! Musician Biogs Hattie started playing the cello aged 6 in Rosemarkie, before studying with Bartholomew LaFollette and Matthijs Broersma at the Yehudi Menuhin School. While there, she enjoyed performing in venues such as Champs Hill Records, and in masterclasses with musicians such as Colin Carr, Gary Hoffman, Alexander Chaushian, Tasmin Little, and the Endellion String Quartet. Now a first year student at the Royal Academy of Music in London, she looks forward to returning to the Stables. Hattie has been generously supported by the Agar Trust. Finlay has grown up with the classical guitar, first plucking around ten years ago at the Portobello Music School. Since then, he has studied with Richard Wright at the Yehudi Menuhin School and at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland where he is now in his second year. Last year, Finlay was awarded the North East Scotland Classical Guitar Society Award and 3rd place at the Altamira International. More recent projects include playing in quartet with Paul Galbraith and performing for the COP26. The duo was originally formed at the Yehudi Menuhin School, and have enjoyed performing in events such as the Taproot festival.