Harmonie at the Operatic Table – Music For 8 Winds In eighteenth-century Europe, the finest Harmonie wind players of the age entertained aristocrats as they dined in their finery, performed to townsfolk on the street or played for operatic noblemen who dared to invite the dead to supper….. Join McOpera …
A Song for Haddo – 2020
A Song for Haddo 2020 – Haddo Arts Festival Fables and Foibles – A Song for Haddo 2020 Songs by Moira Morrison & Instrumental Music by Peter Kemp A Song for Haddo is back but not as we know it… Watch the full performance at the Haddo Arts Festival 2020 …
McOpera Ensemble plays Stravinsky and Brahms – 2019
Linlithgow Arts Guild St Michael’s Parish Church Linlithgow EH49 7AL 7.30pm on Saturday 19th October, tickets £14/ £6/ free for children Join us at Linlithgow Arts Guild for a concert of music for trio with players from McOpera (Music Co-OPERAtive Scotland), Presented by Flora Munro, featuring a commissioned animated film, …
A Song for Haddo – 2019
A Song for Haddo 2019 – Haddo Arts Festival On October 10th, 143 local Aberdeenshire children, young people and instrumental tutors will perform side-by-side with our professional McOpera musicians as part of the 2019 Haddo Arts Festival. The song-cycle A Song for Haddo – Witnesses of Time was created for …
Opera @ the Spire – 2019
A spectacular concert of opera classics with orchestra and singers. McOpera Orchestra soprano Catriona Clark mezzo Christine Sjölander tenor Roger Paterson baritone Frances Church musical director Derek Clark Sunday 19th May at 7:30pm (St Andrew’s West, formerly Renfield St Stephens Church) 260 Bath Street, Glasgow. G2 4JP £30 includes “nibbles & bubbles” in the …
Music for Maxwell – 2019
James Clerk Maxwell, a Man of Science, Poetry & Music performed by Andy and Flora Munro Saturday 11th May @ 7:30pm St Cyprian’s Church, Lenzie Tickets £10 on the door, under 18 free To coincide with UNESCO International Year of Light marking the 150th anniversary of James Maxwell’s Electromagnetic Theory …
Friday Afternoons – Song for Flight – 2019
Friday Afternoons – A Song for Flight marks the culmination of a wide ranging inter-generational project for over 120 primary school children and high school instrumentalists, and is the third in a series of outreach projects for Milngavie Music Club. Focusing on the music of Benjamin Britten and his contemporaries, …
A Song for Haddo – 2018
A Song for Haddo 2018 – Haddo Arts Festival In an exciting development of last year’s outreach project at the Haddo Arts Festival, McOpera Outreach and conductor Andrew McTaggart returned to work with over 100 children drawn from 6 local primary schools, performing a selection of songs composed for Snape …
20 Seaward Street – Rehearsed Singing – 2018
20 Seaward Street is an unconventional fusion of opera, musical hall and jazz performed in Glaswegian vernacular by an international cast exploring what it is to be migrant. Set in 1960 we follow the fate of one family as they prepare to migrate from Tradeston to start a new life …
East Dunbartonshire Young Musicians 2018
The concert given by Jess Gillam on Friday 8th December at Cairns Church in Milngavie marked the launch of the McOpera Outreach East Dunbartonshire Young Musicians 2018 programme, devised for Milngavie Music Club and continuing the work in the community begun last April with The Tales’ Project. Prior to the …