the cottier chamber project 2015

the cottier chamber project

5th June - 26th June 2015

It is dancing and music that make me at peace with the world

Nelson Mandela

Welcome to the �fth edition of The Cottier Chamber Project!

We are looking forward to a packed three weeks in June, when many of Scotland’s top musicians and dancers will come to the West End. Five years on from the �rst series of concerts as part of Glasgow’s West End Festival, the programme has grown to include 58 performances of chamber music, dance (The Cottier Dance Project was fantastic last year, so we’ve expanded it...), jazz and world music. There are opportunities for the audience to get involved in our Late Adventures gigs, and there will also be a photography exhibition, slowly unfolding on Byres Road as the festival goes on.

There are well-known names alongside emerging artists, with pieces that are central to the repertoire as well as some less frequently performed works and some new commissions. In short, there’s a bit of an adventure for everyone in every show!

Most of the evening performances will last for around an hour, with unreserved cabaret seating and a relaxed, welcoming approach to things. The bar at Cottier’s will be open, so you are welcome to bring a drink in (try to avoid the ice cubes rattling in the quiet bits though!), and there is an hour between performances, just in case you fancy eating and seeing two (or three...or four!) shows in the same day. We will be back at The University of Glasgow, at the Hunterian Museum this time, for another free lunchtime series, exploring the world of Lieder this year.

Enjoy looking through the brochure, and planning your festival diary!

If you are still swithering over whether or not to book your tickets...

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.Leonard Bernstein

Dance is the hidden language of the soul.Martha Graham

Jazz is rhythm and meaning. Henri Matisse

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv. Henri Cartier-Bresson

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.Mata Hari

He who sings scares away his woes. Cervantes

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Chamber Music at Cottier’s

Two concerts each night (apart from Saturdays), each of an hour in length. There are some quite unusual groups and pieces in amongst more familiar repertoire! It might be worth using your loyalty card to try something a little di�erent...Dates: mostly 5th - 19th, with some collaborative performances between the 21st and 26th June

The Cottier Dance Project

Last year’s dance programme was a huge success, and great fun. The Dance Project expands this year, with 9 live performances and 3 visits to the Grosvenor Cinema. There are collaborations with some phenomenal musicians, and a visit to the Western Baths as The Cottier Dance Project takes to the skies!Dates: mostly 19th - 26th, with some collaborative performances between the 5th and 12th June

Currie & Quirk Shostakovich Series

The second instalment of a three year journey through all of Shostakovich’s string quartets. Each ensemble chose the works that partner their Shostakovich quartet in a series that promises to be very revealing!Dates: 7th, 11th, 12th, 15th, 16th June

Lunchtime Lieder

Free concerts each weekday lunchtime at the Hunterian Museum (over the road from the Art Gallery, in the main University building). Each concert contains just one work - a song cycle. They go in chronological order, forming a survey of the history of lieder, with some unusual repertoire along the way.Dates: 8th-12th and 15th-19th June

Performer Portraits

A slowly expanding photography exhibition that will be on display in the main window of Waitrose, on Byres Road.Dates: 5th - 27th June


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Shostakovichseries

Grosvenor Cinema

Due to the lack of large stage theatres with an orchestra pit in the West End, we are teaming up with the Grosvenor Cinema and embracing the magic of celluloid.Dates: 6th, 13th and 20th June

Late Adventures

Some music is impossible to sit still to! Our late night concerts on each of the Fridays in the festival will include a demonstration and open class for anyone who has brought their dancing shoes along. Talking of shoes, please wear something sensible - no steel toe caps!Dates: 5th, 12th and 19th June

The Cottier Jazz Project

In collaboration with the Glasgow International Jazz Festival, our programme ends with two nights where Cottier’s Theatre becomes a jazz cafe. The performers include some amazing players, with past winners of the Young Scottish Jazz Musician of the Year and some very special international guests taking to the stage.Dates: 25th and 26th June

In Conversation

Exactly what it says on the tin. This is a conversation worth eavesdropping on!Date: 18th June

Western Baths

So, you think that we should put on an opera and an aerial dance show this year? OK. The Western Baths opens its doors to The Cottier Chamber Project.Dates: 8th and 22nd June

Some of our concerts will be recorded for broadcast at a later date on


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Friday 5th June

6.30pm Cottier’s Theatre Susan Tomes & Daniel’s Beard

Samuel Barber: Summer Music Op.31Judith Weir: Airs from Another PlanetWolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Quintet for Piano and Winds K.452

8.30pm Cottier’s Theatre Royal Scottish National Orchestra Chamber Ensemble

Joseph Haydn: Quartet Op.20 No.2Composition Competition Winner: new work (première)Felix Mendelssohn: Octet Op.20

10.30pm Cottier’s Theatre Mr McFall’s Chamber

Late Adventures:Viva Tango!

Travel between the nightclubs of pre-war Warsaw and the tango clubs of Argentina, as our �rst Late Adventures session sees Cottier’s Theatre host a Milonga. The night begins with an open dance class led by professional tango specialists, before Mr McFall’s Chamber take to the stage to perform milonga and concert sets.This show will �nish at around 00.30am.Price Band B

Our �rst string concert begins with music by the ‘father of the string quartet’, along with Mendelssohn’s youthful Octet. These two masterpieces from the classical and romantic repertoire frame the �rst performance of the winning work from the 2015 composition competition. Six works will be selected for a workshop, led by composer William Sweeney, following which the winning work will be selected.Price Band A

Pianist Susan Tomes joins the wind players of host ensemble Daniel’s Beard for the opening concert. They begin with Barber’s beautiful wind quintet, followed by a typically inventive piece from Judith Weir, exploring the way that Scottish music would evolve in a Martian environment, before ending with Mozart’s sublime Quintet.Price Band A

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Saturday 6th June

4pm Grosvenor CinemaDisney’s Fantasia

Released 75 years ago, it has appeal for children and adults alike. Will you shed a tear

as the dinosaurs die out to Stravinsky’s music? Or start to feel a little nervous as Mussorgsky’s

opening notes are heard? Maybe Mickey’s housework ethic will make you feel a little

guilty, or the sight of the balletic hippos will inspire you to book some tickets for

The Cottier Dance Project?

We bring a large stage and orchestra pit to the West End, thanks to the magic of celluloid.

£8 (tickets from Grosvenor Cinema Box O�ce)

A chance meeting led to Leopold Stokowski and Walt Disney’s moving pictures empire joining forces to create one of the most famous �lms ever made.

Get involved with The Cottier Chamber Project!

There are lots of ways to help and be involved...- distribute brochures and �yers- host visiting artists- steward at concerts- proof read the brochure and programme notes - to avoid spilling misssssteaks- telling people about the festival- bringing cake for rehearsals- making suggestions- moving pianos (!)- if you’d like to give us money, we won’t say no, but it’s not essential!

Joining The Cottier Chamber Circle is free and easy (just email us!). We’ll send you an invitation to the programme launch, with a week of priority booking, plus there

are a few surprise bene�ts that will crop up throughout the year.

Email us at [email protected] or come and say hello!

Sunday 7th June

3pm Cottier’s Theatre Stefan Grasse

The Guitar Music of Thomas Wilsonand John Maxwell Geddes

German virtuoso guitarist Stefan Grasse travels from Nuremburg, Glasgow’s twin city, tocelebrate the music of two West End composers, Thomas Wilson and John Maxwell Geddes.This concert is supported by the University of Glasgow.Price Band A

6.30pm Cottier’s Theatre Daniel’s Beard

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Divertimento in B �at major K.137 (125b)Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 6 Op.101Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 11 ‘Serioso’ Op.95

8.30pm Cottier’s Theatre Wonderful Things

Music students from the University of Glasgow

The Group Exercise that forms part of the Performance Course at the University of Glasgow is a legendary element of the course. Students are put into seemingly incompatible groups, and given the task of collaborating to create a 10 minute show. The results are alwayssurprising, unusual, astonishingly creative and often more than a little bizarre! This performance showcases some of the best productions from the 2015 programme.Price Band C

Shostakovichseries

The strings of Daniel’s Beard introduce the second instalment of the Currie & Quirk Shostakovich Series with his Sixth Quartet, written whilst on honeymoon, during a thaw in the political landscape of the USSR following Stalin’s death. Beethoven commented that his ‘Serioso’ quartet should not be heard in public - it was so full of experimental compositional techniques that he felt it should remain private. The programme opens with Mozart’s beautiful Divertimento in B �at.Price Band A


Monday 8th June

1.10pm Hunterian MuseumLunchtime Lieder: Mhairi Lawson & David McGuinness

Joseph Haydn: Canzonettas Book 1 H.26a

7.30pm Western BathsMusic Co-OPERAtive Scotland

Erik Chisholm: Simoon(première of full version)


Our exploration of the history of the song cycle begins with a set of six songs that Haydn wrote in

collaboration with the poet Anne Hunter. The texts tend to be very serious and heavy, whilst Haydn’s music

is full of the wit and sparkle for which he is known.Free

In 1930, The Active Society for the Propagation of Contemporary Music was set up in Glasgow, led by composer Erik Chisholm. He

invited friends to come and perform their own works, including internationally known composers such as Bartók, Hindemith,

Walton and Bax. Chisholm lived in the West End (on University Avenue) for many years, before moving to South Africa, where his

trilogy of murder mystery operas, Murder in Three Keys, was written. The last of these, Simoon, is a psychological murder thriller, in which the hot, violent desert wind plays a key role. Last performed in New York during 1954, where the run was

extended to last for six weeks, Simoon has only ever been performed in a reduced orchestration for two pianos.

Supported by the Erik Chisholm Trust and Western Baths, Music Co-OPERAtive Scotland perform

the world première of the full orchestral version.

soprano: Jane Irwin conductor: Ian Ryan

�lm: Roddy Simpson

Price Band A

Photo: Ricardo Alcaide

Music Co-OPERAtive perform at The Cottier Chamber Project in 2014

Tuesday 9th June

1.10pm Hunterian Museum Lunchtime Lieder: Jamie MacDougall & Susan Tomes

Ludwig van Beethoven: An die ferne Geliebte Op.98

6.30pm Cottier’s Theatre Daniel’s Beard with High Heart Dance Company

Lenny Sayers: Complete NonsenseLenny Sayers: The Lady of Shalott

8.30pm Cottier’s Theatre High Heels and Horse Hair: TRANSPLANTED

James Oswald: selection from Airs for the SeasonsNew works by David Fennessy, Martin Kershaw, Stuart MacRae, Eddie McGuire, Chris Stout, Hanna Tuulikki, David Ward and Judith Weir

Beethoven’s only song cycle was written in 1816, to text by poet and physician Alois Jeitteles. An intensely emotional and passionate work, Beethoven’s cycle - often taken to be autobiographical - deals with the pain of separation from a loved one. Free

The nonsense poems of Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll have appeal for any generation - the tale of the Owl and the Pussycat could bring a tear to a glass eye, whilst unravelling the tale of Jabberwocky takes a bit of thought! Sayers’ latest work, a setting of Tennyson’s The Lady of Shalott, with choreography from Freya Je�s and Miranda Sheehy, explores a tragic tale that captures the imagination. Commissioned by Daniel’s Beard, the works were performed as part of the 2014 Made in Scotland Showcase, and were supported by Crear, Space to Create, and a relative of the Hutchings family.Price Band A

TRANSPLANTED explores the rich variety of Scotland's music and its plant life. Inspired by Baroque masterpiece "Airs for the Seasons', the unique performance combines a selection of James Oswald's miniatures with new plant pieces by leading Scottish contemporary composers. Violinist Alice Rickards and cellist Sonia Cromarty perform, with images by nature photographer Laurie Campbell making this a feast for ears and eyes!Price Band A

Illustration:Laura MacDougall


Wednesday 10th June

1.10pm Hunterian MuseumLunchtime Lieder: Francis Church & Jeremy Silver

Franz Schubert: Schwanengesang D.957

6.30pm Cottier’s TheatreJames Ehnes & Steven Osborne

Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Sonata No.10 Op.96Johannes Brahms: Violin Sonata No.3 Op.108


The longest of our song-cycle programmes, Schubert’s last collection of songs was drawn together in a cycle

after his death, by publisher Tobias Haslinger. The fourteen songs, to texts by Heine and Rellstab, include

some of Schubert’s �nest and most intimate music.Free

A �rm favourite at The Cottier Chamber Project, Steven Osborne is joined by Canadian virtuoso violinist James Ehnes, who plays

the 1715 ‘Marsick’ Stradivarius, in a programme of the �nal violin sonatas by two towering �gures of 19th century romanticism.

Brahms was often regarded as the natural successor to Beethoven’s musical legacy, so hearing the two sonatas, each

written with a lifetime of experience as composers and performers, side-by-side promises to be an intriguing hour!

Price Band A

Photos: Ben Ealovega

8.30pm Cottier’s TheatreAlastair Savage, Eddie McGuire & Stefan Grasse

Callanish - Modern Folk Fantasies

Three musicians who each have a foot in both the classical and traditional worlds join forces for a programme that places the two side by side. A familiar

face to Glasgow audiences, �ddle player Alastair Savage plays with Daniel’s Beard and the BBC SSO as well as with his own folk trio. He is joined by

composer and Whistlebinkies �autist Eddie McGuire, recently inducted into the Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame, and German guitarist Stefan Grasse.

Price Band A

6.30pm Cottier’s Theatre Catherine Manson & Alasdair Beatson

Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 6 Op. 30 No.1Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 7 Op. 30 No.2Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 8 Op. 30 No.3

Photo: Bob Jones

Thursday 11th June

1.10pm Hunterian Museum Lunchtime Lieder: Lorna Anderson & Lynda Cochrane

Robert Schumann: Frauenliebe und - leben Op. 42

6.30pm Cottier’s Theatre Edinburgh Quartet

Alfred Schnittke: Prelude in memoriam Dmitri ShostakovichJoseph Haydn: String Quartet Op.54 No.2Felix Mendelssohn: Fuga & Capriccio Op.81 No.3Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 7 Op.108

8.30pm Cottier’s Theatre Scottish Chamber Orchestra Ensemble

Darius Milhaud: Trio for clarinet, violin and piano Op.157bBohuslav Martinů: Madrigal Sonata for �ute, violin and piano H.291Arnold Schoenberg (arr. Anton Webern): Chamber Symphony No.1 Op.9

Schumann’s 1840 song cycle uses Adelbert von Chamisso’s poems to re�ect on the path that a woman’s love for her man takes, from the moment that they �rst meet, through life together, to his death and then beyond. Scottish soprano Lorna Anderson returns to the festival, with pianist Lynda Cochrane.Free

Two key �gures in the development of string quartet feature in this programme, which begins with one of Haydn’s most intense works. France was on the brink of revolution, with shockwaves being felt in courts across Europe, and Haydn’s quartet seems to re�ect this. Price Band A

An ensemble from the Scottish Chamber Orchestra perform Webern’s rarely heard reduction of the Schoenberg’s work. Prepared for the Society for Private Musical Performances in Vienna, the virtuosic arrangement loses nothing from the original. Flautist Alison Mitchell and clarinet player Maximiliano Martin join Ruth Rogers on violin and pianist Peter Evans for the opening two works of a programme which travels across Europe!Price Band A

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Friday 12th June

1.10pm Hunterian MuseumLunchtime Lieder: David Horton & Timothy Dean

Maurice Ravel: Histoires Naturelles

6.30pm Cottier’s TheatreSusan Tomes & Aurea Quartet

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto in A Major K.414Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartet No.8 Op.110


The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s vocal department join us for Ravel’s witty and humourous setting of Jules Renard’s poems. Controversial at the

première, Debussy was o�ended by Ravel’s use of ‘Americanisms’, though he did admit that they contain some stunningly beautiful music.

Free

Susan Tomes joins the Enterprise Music Scotland residency group and winners of the 2014 St.Martin-in-the-Field chamber music competition

to perform the �rst of a series of concertos that Mozart wrote to be played with either orchestra or quartet. The Currie & Quirk Shostkovich

Series then continues with the best known of the quartets. Opening with his signature DSCH motif, the �ve linked movements form one of

Shostakovich’s most personal and emotional works.Price Band A

8.30pm Cottier’s TheatreRed Note Ensemble

Improv Music Theatre

Composer, pianist and Belfast Music Laureate Brian Irvine joins the players of Red Note and our cast of actors for a night of improvised contemporary music theatre. Past years have seen trips to Mars, the French revolution, the banking

crash and an unlikely romance in Paisley...who knows what 2015 will hold?!Price Band A

10.30pm Cottier’s TheatreMoishe’s Bagel

Late Adventures:Bagelised

Festival favourites Moishe’s Bagel return for a klezmer-inspired musical adventure. Bring your dancing shoes!

This show will �nish at around 00.30am.Price Band B

Shostakovichseries

ENTERPRISEMUSICSCOTLAND

Saturday 13th June

4pm Grosvenor Cinema Guys and Dolls

Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of one of MGM’s �nest �lms!Set in New York, and starring Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, Jean Simmons and Vivian Blane, the musical takes us into the gambling and petty criminal scene of the 1940s, featuring hit songs such as 'Luck Be A Lady', 'Sit Down You're Rocking The Boat' and 'Adelaide'. Join Skye Masterson (Brando) as he tries to take the cold missionary Sarah Brown (Simmons) to Havana, while Nathan Detroit (Sinatra) tries to balance his gambling and relationship with showgirl Adelaide (Blane)!

£10 including welcome drink(tickets from Grosvenor Cinema Box O�ce)


Sunday 14th June

3pm Cottier’s TheatreRoyal Scottish National Orchestra Chamber Ensemble

Franz Schubert: Quartettsatz D.703Franz Schubert: String Trio No.1 in B �at major D.471

Johannes Brahms: String Sextet No.1 in B �at major Op.18

6.30pm Cottier’s TheatreSax Ecosse

Henry Purcell (arr. Steve Martland): Fantazia 6Caryl Florio: Quartette: Allegro de Concert

Edward McGuire: Hidden DialectsDiana Salazar: Bailes Mecánicos

Barbara Thompson: Quartet No.3 - Body Language


This programme should carry a health warning, as an overdose of romantic melody is virtually guaranteed! Schubert’s beautiful works

both began as movements of larger works, but are perfect without anything added. The �rst Sextet shows a youthful Brahms at his best.

Price Band A

Sax Ecosse celebrate their tenth anniversary with a programme of intriguing works that range throughout musical history (including pre-Adolf Sax!). Regular visitors to The Cottier Chamber Project, the quartet demonstrate the versatility and range

of an instrument that has been at the cutting edge of music since its invention.Price Band A

8.30pm Cottier’s TheatreAlec Frank-Gemmill and Friends

Franz Schubert: Nachtgesang im Walde D.913Richard Wagner: An Weber’s Grabe WWV 72

Volker David Kirchner: Torso (première)Robert Schumann: Jagdlieder Op.137 Friedrich Dionys Weber: Sextet No.1

Johannes Brahms: No 1 & 5 from 5 Lieder Op.41Franz Schubert: Wein und Liebe D.901

Carl Maria von Weber: Der Freischütz J.277 Act III: Jägerchor

Virtuoso horn player and BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Alec Frank-Gemmill leads a horn ensemble in an unusual programme of music for horns and male voices. Rarely performed works by Schubert, Schumann and Weber sit alongside a new piece from

German composer Volker David Kirchner and some stunning a cappella works. Price Band A

Photo: Becky Duncan

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Monday 15th June

1.10pm Hunterian MuseumLunchtime Lieder: Andrea Baker & Yuval Zorn

Nadia Boulanger & Raoul Pugno: Les heures claires

6.30pm Cottier’s Theatre Glasgow String Quartet

Sally Beamish: String Quartet No.2 - Opus CaliforniaDmitri Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 9 Op.117

8.30pm Cottier’s Theatre Daniel’s Beard

Johann Sebastian Bach: Ricercar a 3 from BWV 1079Ha�iði Hallgrímsson: Ricercare (world première)Johann Sebastian Bach: Ricercar a 6 from BWV 1079Leoš Janáček: ConcertinoA familiar �gure in Scotland’s musical circles, Ha�iði Hallgrímsson’s new work is dedicated to the memory of pianist Sam Hutchings, who died tragically in 2012. Its unusual scoring recalls elements of many of the works which Sam performed with Daniel’s Beard. Organist Christopher Rathbone performs two masterpieces by Bach on the newly restored Father Willis organ in Cottier’s, before the programme concludes with Janáček’s Concertino. The youthful work, with Lynda Cochrane as the solo pianist, is full of wit and humour. Price Band A

The commissioning of Ricercare was supported by Michael and Elisabeth Hutchings and the Britten Pears Foundation

Shostakovich’s ninth quartet was written in 1961, but in a particularly self-critical mood the composer consigned the score to the �ames of the kitchen stove. It was another 3 years before he �nished re-writing it, with a very di�erent approach to the lost original. Sally Beamish’s Opus California was written in response to another towering �gure in the history of the string quartet - Beethoven. Using motifs from his Fourth Quartet, the work is a snapshot of life in California...a world completely the opposite to Shostakovich’s!Price Band A

Nadia Boulanger was one of the most in�uential composition teachers of the 20th century, with a list of students that ranges from Aaron Copland to Quincy Jones, with Elliott Carter, Philip Glass and Astor Piazzolla. Mezzo-soprano Andrea Baker is joined by Yuval Zorn for a rare performance of a song cycle that, unusually, she composed in collaboration with another musician, virtuoso pianist Raoul Pugno. Free

Photo: Jane Reid

Photo: John Need


Tuesday 16th June

1.10pm Hunterian MuseumLunchtime Lieder: Anna Flannagan & Yuval Zorn

Lili Boulanger: Clairières dans le ciel

6.30pm Cottier’s TheatreMaxwell String Quartet

Carl Nielsen: String Quartet No.1 Op.13Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartet No.10 Op.118


The younger of the two Boulanger sisters, Lili was a child prodigy who was attending classes at the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 5.

Les Clairières en Ciel, a setting of poems by Francis Jammes, was written in 1913 (the year in which she won the Prix de Rome) and is

regarded as one of her most important secular works. Free

The Maxwell Quartet celebrate Carl Nielsen’s 150th birthday year with a performance of his �rst string quartet. Still a

young composer at this point, there are hints of the unique voice that he was to �nd later in his career through the work. The programme ends with the last of this year’s Shostakovich

quartets, the tenth. Written whilst in Armenia on retreat, it contains some of Shostakovich’s most memorable music,

particularly in the stunning Passacaglia movement .Price Band A

Photo: Penny Brad�eld

8.30pm Cottier’s TheatreCatherine Manson & Alasdair Beatson

Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Sonata No.1 Op.12 No.1Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Sonata No.10 Op.96

Returning to complete the cycle of Beethoven Sonatas that they began last year, classical violin specialist Catherine Manson and

pianist Alasdair Beatson begin by pairing Beethoven’s �rst and �nal sonatas. How much did his writing change and evolve over the years?

There’s only one way to �nd out...!Price Band A

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Wednesday 17th June

1.10pm Hunterian Museum Lunchtime Lieder: Joshua Ellicott & Timothy Dean

Richard Strauss: Der Krämerspiegel Op.66

8.30pm Cottier’s Theatre Ensemble Marsyas

Georg Frederic Handel: Apollo e Dafne HWV 122

The virtuosic period group Ensemble Marsyas perform one of Handel’s most ambitious dramatic cantatas. In some ways a chamber opera, the work is a setting of the Greek myth of the same name, and contains some of Handel’s most beautiful writing as he follows the twists and turns of the plot.Price Band A

In 1918, Richard Strauss was less than amused to �nd that the small print of his publisher’s contract included an obligation to hand over a set of songs. He turned to his friend, satirist Alfred Kerr, who produced a set of wickedly satirical verses about the publishing industry, in particular a certain �rm named Bote & Bock. The text is full of in-jokes, but the music that Strauss used is glorious, with quotes from Der Rosenkavalier and Ein Heldenleben, and melodies that later appeared in several other works. He sent the new song cycle to Bote & Bock. They sent them back.Free

Tsar Alexander 1st of Russia was, not unlike today’s Russian premier, a controversial �gure. Believed to be responsible for the assassination of his father and the subsequent massacre of 25,000 Circassians, he was also highly cultured, and a patron of many composers. This patronage included a commission for three violin sonatas from Beethoven (though it took him 12 years to pay the fee!). Written with his friend and violin teacher, Ignaz Schuppanzigh, in mind, the three sonatas encompass all the emotions - optimism, despair, fun, frivolity, gravity and tragedy are all there.Price Band A

Photo: Jack Liebeck


6.30pm Cottier’s TheatreCatherine Manson & Alasdair Beatson

Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Sonata No.6 Op.30 No.1Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Sonata No.7 Op.30 No.2Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Sonata No.8 Op.30 No.3

Thursday 18th June

1.10pm Hunterian MuseumLunchtime Lieder: Jamie MacDougall, Andy Saunders,

Edward Cohen & Naomi Paxton

Benjamin Britten: The Heart of the Matter

6.30pm Cottier’s TheatreBrass Lab

Witold Lutosławski: Mini Overture Jay Capperauld: new work (première)

Judith Bingham: A Dream of the PastPhilip Wilby: Classic Images


Poet Edith Sitwell was so impressed by the �rst performance of Britten’s Canticle III: Still Falls the Rain that they immediately agreed to collaborate on some further works to perform the

following year. The �nal result of this became The Heart of the Matter, which includes readings of her poems alongside new settings, with the Canticle at the centre of the cycle.

Free

The sound of a top brass quintet at full tilt is unforgettable! Brass Lab’s players bring a programme of works that begins with a short, sparkling overture and

ends with a classic of the repertoire. In between they play a new work by a young Scottish composer making a name for himself, and a beautifully nostalgic

piece, that conjures up images of a Salvation Army band. Price Band A

8.30pm Cottier’s TheatreAlexander Janiczek & Vision Mechanics

Johann Sebastian Bach: Chaconne BWV 1004Heinrich Biber: Sonata

Luciano Berio: Sequenza VIII for solo violinAlexander Janiczek explores the music of three pioneering and experimental composers

whose violin writing pushed technical and musical boundaries. He is joined by the puppet masters of Vision Mechanics, who will bring a new and unusual angle to the programme!

Price Band A

3pm University Concert HallIn Conversation: Naomi Paxton, Bryony Randall

Photo: Colin Jackson

Throughout the twentieth century, women have become increasingly more integrated into the mainstream arts world. Has this changed the way in which the industry works, and if

not, why? BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker Naomi Paxton leads a panel in conversation.Free

Photo: Peter Devlin

Friday 19th June

1.10pm Hunterian MuseumLunchtime Lieder: Ya�a Quan-Weinreich & Daniel’s Beard

Luciano Berio: Folk Songs

6.30pm Cottier’s Theatre Alison McGillivray’s Glasgow Gamba Club

Orlando Gibbons: Fantazias cut with Psalms, Solos and Dances from 16th & 17th century Scotland

10.30pm Cottier’s Theatre Concerto Caledonia

Late Adventures:Bass Culture

Niel Gow’s family �ddle dynasty dominated the Scottish music scene for 50 years from the 1780s onwards, and his son Nathaniel’s dance band was the most successful in the country, in demand just as much in London as at home in Scotland. Some of today’s most exciting �ddle players come together to recreate the sound of Nathaniel’s band, playing on historical instruments and working with tunes from the Golden Age of Scottish �ddle music. Price Band B

The chest of viols, to be found in every self-respecting household in the 16th and 17th centuries, was the real focus of domestic musical life. The Glasgow Gamba Club share a keenness for the consort music written for the viola da gamba, aka the viol. For this unmissable programme of the amazing Fantazias by Gibbons, they are joined by David McGuinness on virginals and Gabi Maas on nyckelharpa.Price Band A

Berio’s astonishing set of eleven folk songs from across the world brings our lunchtime exploration of song cycles to a close. Host ensemble Daniel’s Beard are joined by classically trained traditional singer Ya�a Quan-Weinreich as musical worlds collide!Free

8.30pm Cottier’s Theatre Independent:BALLET

Dancers of Scottish BalletThis evening is a chance to see selected dancers and choreographers from Scottish Ballet, Scotland’s National Dance Company, present their own choreographic work. The new creations are not in the Company‘s repertoire, making this a rare opportunity for audiences to see the dancers performing up close, their own choreographic creativity shining through.Price Band A


Saturday 20th June

4pm Grosvenor CinemaGrosvenor: Dance on Film - Archive

Houseparty (BBC 1964)

4.45pm Grosvenor CinemaGrosvenor: Dance on Film - Independent

Roddy Simpson: Traces of PlacesLewis Landini: REPLAY

Katrina McPherson & Simon Fildes: There is a PlaceFoundlight Productions: Beastie


choreography and scenario: Peter Darrell, John Hopkinsmusic: Francis Poulenc

Commissioned by BBC2 in 1964, ‘Houseparty’ is an experimental ballet created especially for television and inspired by Poulenc's score for 'Les Biches' (a ballet

commissioned for Diaghilev in 1924). Choreographed by Peter Darrell for Western Theatre Ballet (now Scottish Ballet) with the scenario by John Hopkins,

the �lm sees a group of friends attend a houseparty over a weekend, with the actions re�ecting and commenting upon the social changes of the 1960s.

Originally produced by Margaret Dale, shown with kind permission from the British Film Institute.

£6/£8 for both shows

Four dance �lms made by Scottish-based �lm makers will be shown after the archive footage event. There are three shorts, including McPherson/Fildes’ award winning There is a

Place (Best short: San Francisco International Dance Film Festival 2010), before Foundlight Productions’ longer �lm Beastie. The �lm was created alongside Matthew Bourne’s produc-

tion of Lord of The Flies, which used boys and young men from local schools all over Scotland and wowed UK theatre audiences in 2014. Beastie is a raw, �lmic interpretation of Golding's key themes of order and chaos, tribal identity and survival, and includes the boys

who were involved with the �rst production in 2011. £6/£8 for both shows

(tickets from Grosvenor Cinema Box O�ce)There is a Place

Traces of Places

8.30pm Cottier’s Theatre Hathor Consort & Femke Gyselinck

The Seven Tears of John Dowlandchoreography: Femke Gyselinckmusic:John Dowland: Lachrimae or Seaven TearesAnnalies Van Parys: Creation (UK première)

Sunday 21st June

6.30pm Cottier’s Theatre Stephen Pelton Dance Theatre & Gavin Bryars Ensemble

Lauda Adrianna (première)choreography: Stephen Peltonmusic: Gavin Bryars: Laude Cortonese

Lauda Adrianna was created by Stephen Pelton using Bryars’ settings of 14th century Italian songs called ‘laude’. These songs were religious in nature, but not liturgical; sung only outside of the church. Considering these songs, where Bryars hovers between early and contemporary music, Lauda Adrianna asks what it is that devotional music o�ers to a contemporary, non-religious listener. In a rare UK appearance, the Gavin Bryars Ensemble are joined by tenor John Potter and soprano Peyee Chen to play alongside the dancers in this special, one-o� performance. Price Band A

In its day, Dowland’s lute song - based on his own Lachrimae pavan - was so popular that it was more or less England’s melancholic anthem. Contemporaries, and even the composer himself, continuously reinterpreted its melody and characteristic bass line, and in 1604 Dowland published a series of seven pavanes, for a viola da gamba and lute consort. Basing her work on Dowland’s falling tear motif, Romina Lischka decided to make her own version, and in 2012, at her invitation, Rosas rehearsal director and dancer Femke Gyselinck created a choreography for the Lachrimae. Annelies Van Parys has also used this framework for her new creation, which was premièred at Concertgebouw Brugge in May 2015.Price Band A

Photo: Heidi Alexander


Monday 22nd June

7pm Western BathsAll or Nothing Aerial Dance Theatre

Three’s A Crowd


Three's A Crowd is an aerial dance theatre show with harness �ying, aerial acrobatics, circus, dance and theatre.

Set around a reunion of friends, six characters are brought back together after several years. Have things moved on?

Three's A Crowd explores how the characters connect with each other, what is really going on for all of them and what

happens when a third element becomes involved.

Director: Jennifer PatersonMusic: Luke SutherlandDesigner: Becky MintoLighting: Kate Bonney

‘The piece is enthralling and the telling full of spectacle...’ The Stage ****

Price Band A

Photo: Brian Hartley

Host Ensembles:

Daniel’s Beard is a chamber group made up of players who met working in Scotland’s orchestras, but who all share a passion for chamber music. They have been central to The Cottier Chamber Project since the �rst festival in 2011. The group has released two CDs, broadcast on BBC Radio and were part of the 2014 Made in Scotland programme.

www.danielsbeard.org.uk

High Heart Dance Company is made up of freelance dancers who enjoy using their di�erent backgrounds and specialisms to collaborate with musicians and choreographers. They were part of the 2014 Made in Scotland programme.

www.highheartdance.co.uk

Tuesday 23rd June

7pm Cottier’s Theatre Triple Bill: Jori Kerremans // Ruth Mills // Tamsyn Russell

Jori Kerremans: Yoik (première) Ruth Mills: Self Determination (première) Tamsyn Russell: In The Hearts of Humans (première)

9pm Cottier’s Theatre WATCH THIS SPACE

5 choreographers, 5 works

This is a platform for dancers and choreographers to show short excerpts of their work. Some pieces have been performed as part of a larger work and have subsequently been explored further, and some are new works in progress. Both Scottish based, and International choreographers are represented, all with links to Scotland and its professional dance community. Choreographers include Underhand Dance, Jamiel Laurence, Junebug CompanyPrice Band C

These 3 premières bring together Scottish based choreographers in a challenging programme of explorations into the unique features of being a human, the balancing act of life and the di�culties of self-agency. A wide range of music will be used; from Apocalyptica, to a new musical score by Gerry Campbell, which mixes musical motifs with spoken word and live soundscape.Price Band A


Wednesday 24th June

6.30pm Cottier’s TheatreAlexander Janiczek, Philip Higham & Alasdair Beatson

Franz Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata D.821Franz Schubert: Piano Trio in B �at D.898


Following their astonishing performance of Schubert’s E �at Trio in 2013, Alexander Janiczek,

Philip Higham and Alasdair Beatson return to perform the earlier of his piano trios, written in 1827.

Only 3 years before this, he wrote a sonata for a newly invented instrument, the Arpeggione. The

sound of the instrument, a kind of bowed guitar, was particuarly expressive and speech-like, traits which

Schubert used to full advantage. Like many of his chamber works, it lay unpublished until long after

his death, by which time the instrument had passed into obscurity and virtual extinction. Though the

instrument itself did not survive, the music has thankfully been taken up by cellists and violists alike.

Price Band A

8.30pm Cottier’s TheatreRed Note Ensemble

Anton Webern: Five Movements Op.5Witold Lutosławski: String Quartet

The strings of leading Scottish contemporary music group Red Note perform two ground

breaking twentieth century quartets. Webern’s early quartet, written before he embraced serialist

writing, is e�ciently concise. Lutosławski’s quartet counters the �rm control of the Viennese school of composers, leaving some sections of the music to

chance, with others clearly noted. Originally conceived as a studio recording by the Kronos

Quartet, there is always something new to hear in a live performance!

Price Band A

Photo: Wattie Cheung

Photo: Kaupo Kikkas

Thursday 25th June

7pm Cottier’s Theatre Double Bill: max.IMEALLdance // Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

MEITHEALchoreography:Rob Heaslipmusic:traditional Irish, Alto Novo and Rolf & Fonky The Embers of Glencoe (new production)choreography: Emma McBethmusic:Thomas Wilson and Rufus Huggan

9pm Cottier’s Theatre Peter Johnstone // The Harry Pope Trio


In a new collaboration with the Glasgow International Jazz Festival, The Cottier Jazz Project opens with the winner of the 2012 Young Scottish Jazz Musician of the Year, pianist Peter Johnstone. Harry Pope is a Glasgow-born drummer who moved to London in 2012. He returns to his roots with keyboard player Sam Jones and bassist Joe Downard to perform some of the trio’s original material, specialising in adventurous rhythmic improvisation.This performance will end at around 00.30am. Price Band B

MEITHEAL is the Irish name for a work group, conveying the idea of 'connection with neighbour'. Re-worked after its creation 5 years ago, this beautiful piece is characterised by �uid articulation of limbs, coupled with an unrelenting rhythm of partnering and physical labouring, bringing about the sense of a community at both work and play. The music contains Gaelic song, which will be performed live.

The second work is a new adaptation of Thomas Wilson's ballet 'The Embers of Glencoe', which he composed for Scottish Ballet in 1973. Utilising Wilson’s existing percussion score, the RCS have collaborated to re-imagine the original elements of traditional music and dance, with new choreography by Emma McBeth (Modern Ballet), and composition by cellist Rufus Huggan (Traditional Music).Price Band A


Friday 26th June

7pm Cottier’s TheatreHigh Heart Dance Company & Daniel’s Beard

Fray (première)choreography: Diana Loosmore

music: Christopher Rathbone: Daniel’s RazorNadia Boulanger: Trois PiècesKrzysztof Penderecki: Sextet


The world première of ‘Fray’ brings together the two host ensembles in a new production choreographed by Peter Darrell Award winner Diana Loosmore. The work developed from

the idea of the �ght or �ight response: the primitive, automatic reaction to perceived threat to our survival, which prepares us to �ght or �ee.

The music is as much an integral part of the performance as the dance, with a diverse programme of works by Christopher Rathbone, who wrote Daniel’s Razor for Daniel’s

Beard, the inimitable Nadia Boulanger, whose students included Phillip Glass and Quincy Jones, and contemporary Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki. The work was created

with support from Creative Scotland and Crear, Space to Create. Price Band A

9pm Cottier’s TheatreFergus McCreadie Trio // Paris Combo


The winner of the under 18 category of the 2013 Young Scottish Jazz Musician of the Year, Fergus McCreadie,

brings his trio to open our �nal event. The trio are followed by a Parisian band who blend gypsy jazz,

contemporary chanson and jazz in�uences together. Hugely popular on the continent, in the USA and

Australia, the team at The Cottier Chamber Project are very excited to be able to welcome Paris Combo

for their �rst visit to the UK, as the �fth edition of the festival closes with a party!

This performance will end at around 00.30am.Price Band B

Paris Combo’s appearance is supported by the Alliance Française

Photo: Mikah Smillie

Performer Portraits

Photographers Sean Purser and Mikah Smillie, both West End residents, will be taking portrait shots of every single performer in action. Their photos will capture and freeze moments of intense concentration, emotion, communication and drama, telling the story of the festival, day by day.

The exhibition will be displayed in the front window of Waitrose, Byres Road. With new photographs being added daily, the Performer Portraits exhibition will be a growing, evolving exploration of the moments and people that make The Cottier Chamber Project special!

Without my morning coffee, I’m just like a dried up piece

of roast goat!

J.S Bach

We feel the same sometimes, which is why our Box O�ce (open Monday - Saturday 11am - 6pm) is in Tinderbox at Hillhead Subway...!


Price Band A: £8 in advance (£10 on day); £5 studentPrice Band B: £10 in advance (£12 on day)Price Band C: £6Free entry: Unticketed (100 places)Films: Speci�c prices indicated - available from the Grosvenor Cinema Box O�ce

For advance bookings:Online at www.cottierchamberproject.com:If you would like to buy tickets for multiple performances, you can do this below, otherwise there is an individual link on each concert page. Tickets can be collected from the box o�ce, printed o� at home, posted (£1.50 extra) or sent directly to a mobile phone (50p extra).

Telephone bookings:Available on 0333 666 3366 Monday – Friday 9am – 7pm, Saturday 9am – 5pm. Telephone bookings incur an extra charge of £1.50.

Box o�ce:There will be a box o�ce situated in the Tinderbox at Hillhead Subway during May and June, open Monday – Saturday, 11am-6pm. Please note that in person ticket sales will not be available before the 1st May.

On the day:From the venue at any point from 5.45pm onwards. On the day tickets are £2 extra.

Special o�ers

SPT smartcard/myWaitrose card holders: SPT Smartcard or myWaitrose card holders are entitled to £1 o� the ticket price. Only one o�er per ticket!

Loyalty CardGet your loyalty card stamped on your way into the venue, and your 6th concert will be free. You won’t need to buy a ticket for the free concert, though it is subject to availability, so if you think a concert may sell out, don’t wait! Some of our concerts have unusual or unfamiliar programmes, so it might be worth taking a risk on one of those as your freebie…

Beard like Brahms: If you have a genuine Brahmsian beard (spot checks may take place!) then you will get in for free. Our website has an eligibility guide.

Currie & Quirk: Dmitri-esque specs will get you free entry to the Currie & Quirk Shostakovich Series, and Currie & Quirk customers will get 2 for 1 entry to the series. Collect your voucher from Currie & Quirk (142-144 Byres Road, Glasgow).


Box O�ce Information

Venues

Cottier’s Theatrewww.cottiers.com93-95 Hyndland Street G11 5PUNearest subway: KelvinhallNearest station: Partick/HyndlandNearest bus links: 4, 4a, 15 (Highburgh Rd)Cycle parking: on streetCar parking: on street

Hunterian Museumwww.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/main University BuildingUniversity Avenue, Hillhead G12 8QQNearest subway: HillheadNearest bus links: 4, 4a (University Ave)Cycle parking: bike racksCar parking: meters on University Ave

Waitrosewww.waitrose.com373 Byres Road G12 8AU Travel links as Western Baths

Grosvenor Cinemawww.grosvenorcinema.co.uk31 Ashton Lane, Hillhead G12 8SJBox o�ce: 0141 339 8444Nearest subway: HillheadNearest bus links: 8, 19 (Byres Rd) 4, 4a (University Ave)Cycle parking: bike racks Car parking: car park

Western Bathswww.thewesternbaths.co.uk12 Cranworth Street, Hillhead G12 8BZNearest subway: HillheadNearest bus links: 8, 19, 90 (Byres Rd) 6, 6a, 6b, 141 (Great Western Rd)Cycle parking: on streetCar parking: meters on street

All of our venues are fully accessible. Please contact us if you have speci�c access requirements.

Western Baths

Grosvenor Cinema

Hunterian Museum

Hillhead

Kelvinhall

Great Western Road

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University Avenue

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Highburgh Road

Tinderbox (Hillhead Subway)Cottier’s Theatre

Waitrose


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Thanks to

Artistic Director: Andy SaundersThe Cottier Dance Project curator: Freya Je�sProgramming and Planning Assistant: Karen DufourDevelopment: Judith WalshPR: Hive Media RelationsBoard: Christine Hamilton, Simon Rogers, Anne Cumberland, Dom Hastings, Jane Nicolson, Andy Saunders & Freya Je�s


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