Creative Cultures Scotland Opportunities

DaffyD

2012-04-18

Dave Phillips (aka DaffyD) is an Earth based writer, performer and eccentric currently existing in Aberdeen, Scotland. His unique songwriting and scriptwriting talents have been garnered from years of world travel, film viewing and headphone use. His writing credits include jingles, themes and sketches for international radio station, ASR; collaboration with jazz singer and pianist, Luiza Staniec; correspondence for Chortle and IMDb and many others. His performances have taken him from Aberdeen to Mauritius to uptown Manhattan, entertaining the crowds with his music, comedy and a little light magic. For more insight, please visit: www.insiderphil.wordpress.com http://soundcloud.com/itsdaffyd/sets

Con Anima

2012-04-18

North-East Scotland's premier choir. Since its foundation in 2001, Aberdeen's Con Anima Chamber Choir has built up an impressive reputation in the north-east of Scotland and further afield. It gives an average of five performances a year in and around Aberdeen, and has performed in several other places in Scotland including Glasgow, Paisley and Fochabers.

Con Anima performs sacred and secular music from the 16th century to the present day, ranging from Renaissance polyphony (Byrd, Gibbons, Carver) and well-loved classics such as Mozart's Requiem to world premières of new British works. Under the baton of its principal conductor, Dr Paul Mealor, the choir is becoming known for its skilled and sensitive interpretation of contemporary European and American choral music. As well as regularly performing Paul Mealor's music, including several world premières, it has developed a particularly fruitful link with the renowned American composer Morten Lauridsen and has featured his music in several concerts since 2007.

Daniel James Ross

2012-04-18

Daniel is a composer & performer of experimental electronic music. He specialises in combining live instruments and sonic algorithms with real-time digital effects. Most of Daniel's work is designed to be performed live, allowing for improvisation and reaction to audience feedback. Daniel is also a film composer and sound artist. Recently, he has worked as a Creative Practitioner for the Royal Opera House.

Ross Whyte

2012-04-18

Ross Whyte is a composer based in Scotland. He is a PhD student at the University of Aberdeen where his field of research is concerned with multi-sensory perception in music. He composes works in various mediums including piano, electroacoustic, audio-visual, and dance.

Flares n Seagulls

2012-04-18

An alternative music magazine for the Kingdom of Aberdonia. We hope to cover alternative, indie, punk, ska, northern soul and other interesting events in and around Aberdeen.

Cindy Douglas

2012-04-18

A jazz vocalist and lyricist who clearly takes the music seriously but has a lot of fun with it too. A hard swinging, risk taking, exuberant and versatile performer, Cindy's love of bebop and her creativity distinguishes her from the many jazz vocalists around. Her repertoire focusses on compositions by the many great jazz instrumentalists who inspire her, Monk, Clifford Brown, Bill Evans, Bobby Timmons, Coltrane, Parker, et al. Featuring alongside some of their compositions, are unusual arrangements of more familiar standards.

Music by Marie

2012-04-18

I was brought up in Burghead in Morayshire, Scotland and my first musical experiences are still an influence today. At the age of five I began playing the piano with the late Barbara Stewart and was introduced to the world of classical music which I greatly enjoyed. A few years later I began singing Gaelic song with it's own pure sound. Today my musical tastes range from Mozart to modern age spiritual music with much in between. When the harp came into my life some fifteen years ago, it was almost as if it provided a link between piano and voice. It too has a unique acoustic quality which I find inspiring. I now thoroughly enjoy bringing the harp and song combination to those who have perhaps never heard one before. In 2005 I obtained a DipABRSM in Singing Teaching and I hope to be able to add to this in the future. I am currently a pupil of Alice Dennis. I regularly teach singing and harp from home privately and also in Morayshire and Aberdeenshire. New beginners of all ages are most welcome.

Music Prize

2012-04-18

The University of Aberdeen Music Prize, a collaboration between the University of Aberdeen and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, has earned a reputation as one of the most prestigious contemporary composition prizes across the globe.

Aberdeen Youth Choir

2012-04-18

Aberdeen Youth choir provides free group singing tuition to children aged 8 - 18yrs. We are based in Northfield Community Centre, Byron Square and meet Thursdays 6pm - 7.30pm.

Mockoulo Sawane

2012-04-18

Moctar 'Mockoulo' Sawane is from the rich musical culture of the Casamance region of Senegal. He has been returning to the UK since 2003 as an inspirational drum teacher and outstanding soloist performer. Now based in East Scotland, he offers workshops in the serouba, djembe and dundun arrangements of the West African Mandinka, as well as performing with his bands.