Bows Art
Bows Art
Grieg 100
Bows Art presents a series of concerts around Scotland in November, commemorating 100 years since the death of Edvard Grieg.
Bows Art Classical Music Management was established in January 2005 in response to a perceived demand for local representation from classical musicians at the top end of their profession. In the two years since Bows Art was founded their portfolio of musicians has expanded to encompass a broad range of vocalists and instrumentalists working as soloists, duos and larger ensembles. These range from early music specialists through to contemporary music which often involves specially commissioned works and installations.
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Bows Art’s agency procures bookings for musicians with promoters such as music clubs, theatres, concert halls, universities and festivals throughout the UK and abroad. One particular interest is to bring music to unusual and interesting spaces such as galleries, public buildings and even on board a frigate, the Unicorn. |
Bows Art organise tours for their musicians, and past tours have included guitarist Allan Neave’s launch and promotion of his new CD Guitarra Internacional. Bows Art also have an upcoming Tune Up tour – Aye: An Affirmation of Martyn Bennett, featuring Mr McFall’s Chamber together with Fraser Fifield and Tom Bancroft.
| Bows Art also promotes classical music concerts such as the upcoming Grieg 100 mini-festival, a series of chamber music concerts commemorating the death of Edvard Grieg this year. Part of this project involved commissioning new works from composers from Scotland and Norway as well as venturing into other musical genres such as jazz. |
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The company continues to expand and develop their activities and to be increasingly involved in generating creative projects, especially those crossing musical genres and involving other art forms and international artistes. In all, they aspire to provide a creative personal management that nurtures and develops the careers of the musicians they represent.
Grieg 100 is a series of concerts taking place from 30 October – 30 November in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Stirling, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the death of Norwegian composer Edvard Greig. The series aims to present chamber works by Grieg and by composers who inspired or were inspired by him, performed by established musicians from the UK and Norway.
Three programmes will make up the Grieg 100 series:
Borrowed and Blue's (30 October - 4 November) recycled Grieg fragments and contemporary jazz provide the focus for this programme by the ever eclectic Mr McFall’s Chamber together with Thomas StrØnen, and includes a new work for the mini-festival by Scottish composer James Clapperton, who has strong links with Norway having been artistic director of the Music Factory Festival in Bergen and Composer in Residence at the Grieg Conservatory of Music, Bergen.
Encounters (10 - 15 November) focuses on music for cello and piano performed by distinguished musicians Robert Irvine and Graeme McNaught. One of the last guests in Grieg’s home, Troldhaugen, was the 25 year old Australian pianist and composer Percy Grainger. Grieg had become a paternal figure to Grainger, who in his childhood had lost his own father. He considered Grainger the ideal interpreter of his piano music and, in turn, Grainger was strongly influenced by Grieg in his own arrangements of folk tunes. Grainger’s La Scandinavie Suite is programmed alongside Liszt, who famously played the A minor piano concerto from sight, much to young Edvard’s astonishment. Grieg’s powerful sonata for cello and piano concludes the programme.
Essential Grieg (23 - 30 November) includes works hand picked by the master himself. On 30 November 1897 Grieg gave a concert in Edinburgh, his one and only appearance in Scotland, homeland of his great grandfather, Alexander.
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Madame Medora Henson sang, Mr Johannes Wolff played the violin and now celebrated musicians Jane Irwin (mezzo-soprano), violinists Susanne Stanzeleit and Alexander Janiczek perform for this series, with pianist Graeme Mcnaught as the present day Grieg. The ever popular Holberg Suite, in its original piano version, and the great C minor violin sonata are partnered by instrumental miniatures and some of his most haunting and best loved songs. |
| For more information, visit the Bows Art website. |
Grieg 100 is presented by Bows Art Classical Music Management with the financial support of Glasgow City Council, Scottish Arts Council, PRS Foundation, Royal Norwegian Consulate General and partnership support from Glasgow Concert Halls. Tune Up is supported by the National Lottery through the Scottish Arts Council. |