McOpera Early Years - Three Billy Goats Gruff

A McOpera Storytelling Project (for Early Years) with classes from 4 nurseries and primary schools in rural Perthshire in May 2023, for Perth Chamber Music Society.

Short 30 minute workshops introducing 'endangered' instruments (oboe, bassoon and horn) through storytelling, music and movement.

Bringing Music Back - 2021

A Fanfare for Milngavie
Music School of Douglas Academy, Milngavie Music Club and McOpera Outreach

A Place To Play -  Haddo 2021

written by Peter Kemp

Fables & Foibles - Haddo 2020

by Moira Morrison and Peter Kemp

A Song For Haddo - 2020

Fables & Foibles Trailer
by Moira Morrison and Peter Kemp

A Song For Haddo - 2019

Witnesses of Time
composed by Moira Morrison and Peter Kemp
performed as part of the 2019 Haddo Music Festival

The Soldier's Tale - Excerpt

music by Igor Stravinsky
text by C F Ramuz
narration by Flora Munro
film by Roddy Simpson
artwork by Derek Gray

McOpera Ensemble
leader: Anthony Moffat
conductor: Sian Edwards

Milngavie Tales - Allander Water

composed and conducted by Peter Kemp
performed by The East Dunbartonshire Children's Chorus and Youth Choir
conductor: Janet Lax
photography by Milngavie and Bearsden Camera Club

Milngavie Tales - Bennie Railplane

composed and conducted by Peter Kemp
performed by The East Dunbartonshire Children's Chorus and Youth Choir
conductor: Janet Lax
photography by Milngavie and Bearsden Camera Club

Danze dei Perduti

by Derek Ball
McOpera String Quintet

A Song For Haddo - 2017

Benjamin Britten: Old Abram Brown (from Friday Afternoons Op 7, 1935), in a new orchestration by Peter Kemp.

Simoon

an opera in one act by Erik Chisholm
libretto by August Strindberg
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Vivaldi Gloria

A virtual Performance by the Bearsden Choir and the McOpera Ensemble

Squirrel

Research and development of opera for early years.

McOpera Outreach & Education
a part of Music Co-OPERAtive Scotland

Rothchild's Violin

A short clip of McOpera's performance of Fleishman's 'Rothschild's Violin' orchestrated by Shostakovitch.

The performance was part of the Cottier Chamber Project in the West End Festival, Glasgow June 2014

Elgar Sea Pictures (Rooke reduction)
5 - The Swimmer

Elgar Sea Pictures - orchestration for Chamber orchestra single wind plus Horn and strings. Live concert recording.