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About Red Note Ensemble

As Scotland’s international contemporary music ensemble Red Note criss-crosses its home country each year, performing to audiences from the Outer Hebrides to the Borders in traditional settings including concert halls, and in bothies, pubs, clubs and aircraft hangars.

Internationally, Red Note has performed to great acclaim at festivals and venues across Europe, Australia and the UK. The ensemble records for the Scottish Delphian CD label, and
broadcasts regularly on Radio 3. The ensemble also undertakes an extensive programme of Access, Engagement and Participation (AEP) work, focusing particularly upon working with
younger and older people, people with multiple disabilities, and people living in areas of high multiple deprivation, as well as working to address inequalities of access and representation due to race/ethnicity and gender imbalances. Alongside this, Red Note
undertakes an extensive performer and composer development programme within schools, universities and conservatoires both nationally and internationally, through its annual Red Note Advanced Academy each September.

Red Note’s work in 2017 included tours of Scotland, collaborations with the National Theatre of Scotland, performances in Hull and London at the PRSF New Music Biennial, and opening the 40th Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival with a new commission by James Dillon. Other commissions for 2017 included works by Gareth Williams, Tom Butler, Maja Ratkje and Kathy Hinde and Benedict Mason. In 2018, Red Note will premiere
a new production of Vesalii Icones with dancer and choreographer Matthew Hawkins, at St Magnus International Festival, tour Maja Ratkje and Kathy Hinde’s Aeolian in Europe, team up with Lammermuir Festival’s Artist in residence Mark Simpson and perform the Scottish premiere of PRS Award Winning Tanz/haus : triptych 2017 by James Dillon at sound festival.

Red Note is Associate Contemporary Ensemble at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow, an Associate Company of the Traverse Theatre Edinburgh and Associate Ensemble of the sound festival Aberdeen. Red Note is a Delphian Records recording artist, recently releasing CDs of music by Eddie McGuire, John McLeod, David Wilde and Lyell Cresswell all to great acclaim.

“Red Note Ensemble’s blistering account of three radical masterpieces….a magnificent achievement in dazzling venue” David Kettle, The Scotsman

“Red Note Ensemble is a Scottish success story.” Anna Picard, The Times

“Red Note Ensemble, superb Scottish specialists in the contemporary, deliver ever piece with precision and relish.” BBC Music Magazine

“(Red Note’s pianist) Simon Smith knocked off outrageously elaborate figuration as though a tune on a pub piano.” Paul Driver, Sunday Times

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Get in touch:

CEO & Artistic Co-Director, John Harris:
john@rednoteensemble.com

Artistic Co-Director, Robert Irvine:
robert@rednoteensemble.com