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​​​17th November '24 - defunensemble to perform am fàsach at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

2nd November '24 - Royal Scottish National Orchestra, side by side with children from Sistema Scotland, to premiere Change is Coming at Nordic Music Days - Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

 

30th October '24- defunensemble to perform am fàsach and a new collaborative piece by Lisa and Ása Önnu Ólafsdóttir at Nordic Music Days - CCA Glasgow 3.30pm

 

26th October '24 - am fàsach to be performed at Sound Festival as part of the Northern Connection project

 

24th October '24 - Tiffany Vong to premiere dorchadas, duilichinn, dòchas (darkness, regret, hope) for solo harpsichord at Sound Festival

 

23rd October '24 - selected as a Royal Philharmonic Society composer, including a commission for The Hermes Experiment

 

6th October '24 - Performance of deglaciation at the Cumnock Tryst by The Cumnock Tryst Ensemble. 

 

29th September '24 - Louise McMonagle to perform the light through forest leaves at Kings Place London. She has also recorded the piece for her new album Ancient Modernity (Delphian Records)

 

29th August '24 - Signed with Composers Edition for worldwide publication

 

20th August '24 - Attended Ung Nordisk Musik Festival in Örebro, Sweden as part of the UNM x NMD Composer Exchange

 

7th July '24 - On a Wing and a Prayer performance at Drimnin Chapel, Morvern. The conclusion of a collaborative project with Nordic Viola (Katherine Wren) including a new piece by Lisa and improvisations.

 

29th June '24 - On a Wing and a Prayer podcast released. 

29th June '24 - Delivered a paper at the Royal Musical Association Music and/as Process conference - Environment, Space & Place, at the University of Glasgow

27th June '24 -Musica Vitae performed The Old Man of Hoy at Kings Place, London

 

21st June '24 - Musica Vitae performed The Old Man of Hoy at St Magnus International Festival, St Magnus Cathedral Kirkwall

14th-16th May '24 - Attended Classical:NEXT in Berlin as part of the Scottish delegation, with support from the Scottish Music Centre and Creative Scotland.

5th May '24 - Premiere of a new large-scale piece, Ar Coilltean, for Maxwell Quartet, Dopey Monkey, Mezzo Soprano Katie Coventry, local student brass players and Gaelic choir of local children at Loch Shiel Festival

 

2nd May '24 - Joined Music Patron - an innovative new platform connecting composers and patrons

26th March '24 - Commission for the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, side by side with Sistema Scotland announced. Premiere 2nd Nov 2024

 

11th January '24 - Recording of Among the Ashes: Requiem or Celebration for Ash released online

 

15th November '23 - Lucy Schaufer and Lana Bode performed Speak Up at the Laidlaw Music Centre, St Andrews

 

2nd November '23 - Presented to almost nothing: an unnatural silence in the air at the Making Amidst Extinction symposium at the University of Bristol, Centre for Environmental Humanities

7th October '23 - Shortlisted by the Scottish Section of the ISCM to represent Scotland at the ISCM World Music Days 2024.

28th September '23 - Stephanie Lamprea premiered to almost nothing: an unnatural silence in the air at Twilight in the Crypt at the Glasgow Cathedral Festival. 9pm

 

15th August '23 - Shortlisted for the Scottish Awards for New Music PRS Award for large scale work with Amidst the rising tides - we rise.

 

9th August '23 - Performance of am fìor-eun, performed by the RSNO, released on YouTube.

 

23rd June '23 - Glisk Quartet premiered Among the Ashes: Requiem or Celebration for Ash as part of their Stories of People and Trees project at the Hidden Gardens, Glasgow, 7pm

23rd April '23 - Into the Sea was performed by Kantos Chamber Choir

 

27th March '23 - Psappha released a video of a performance of The Old Man of Hoy

 

22nd March '23 - Sequoia released their new album WATER MUSIC: Source to Sea which includes Clōta's Song

 

1st March '23 - am fàsach was premiered by defunensemble at Musica Nova Festival in Helsinki

 

27th/ 28th Jan '23 - am fìor-eun premiered by the RSNO, conducted by Thomas Søndergård - 27th Jan in the Usher Hall, Edinburgh and 28th Jan in Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.

 

26th Jan '23 - Lucy Schaufer and Lana Bode performed Speak Up on BBC Radio 3's In Tune programme

 

9th Dec '22 - Arrangement of Seinn an Duan Seo was premiered by Jamie MacDougall (tenor) and Scott Mitchell (piano) as part of the St Andrews Voices: St Andrews Songbook launch at the Laidlaw Music Centre, St Andrews, 19.00

 

2nd Dec '22 - cellist Louise McMonagle to perform the light through forest leaves at the Scottish Arts Club, Edinburgh, 19.00

 

29th/30th Oct '22 - Presented work from the Fast & Dirty Residency - a collaborative project between composers and dancers - at the Sound Festival, Aberdeen.

 

29th Oct '22 - òran nan sgàt (song of the skate), was premiered by the Endangered Instruments Ensemble at the Sound Festival. Queen's Cross Church, Aberdeen, 19.30

 

23rd Oct '22 - Presented work from the Fast & Dirty Residency - a collaborative project between composers and dancers - at DanceLive Festival, Aberdeen.

12th Oct '22 - Presented "Exploring Compositional Dùthchas", at the "A dream of walking: practising music of place" symposium at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London.

 

28th Aug '22 - Into the Sea was performed by the National Youth Choir of Great Britain's Girls' Choir at Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden

20th Aug '22 - Into the Sea was premiered by the National Youth Choir of Great Britain's Girls' Choir at Princess Alexandra Auditorium, Yarm

 

 2nd July '22 - ...a link in a chain... was premiered by The Sixteen and amateur singers as part of their Writing for Voices: London workshop day - St Stephen's Church Walbrook, London

19th June '22 - Kantos Chamber Choir performed to tell it like it is at The Stoller Hall, Manchester

9th June '22 - am fìor-eun selected from the RSNO Composers' Hub to be performed by the RSNO as part of their 22:23 season. Concerts - 27th Jan '23 Usher Hall, Edinburgh and 28th Jan '23 Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.

3rd June '22 - The Sixteen's new album, A Meditation, featuring ...a link in a chain... out now and available on digital platforms.

 

17th May '22 - am fìor-eun for symphony orchestra was workshopped by the RSNO as part of the RSNO Composers' Hub

6th May '22 - The Sixteen's new album, A Meditation, featuring ...a link in a chain... now available to pre-order.

16th April '22 - National Youth Choirs of Great Britain Training Choir premiered Tell it to the bees at Saffron Hall

31st March '22 - Psappha premiered The Old Man of Hoy as part of The Last Island concert at Hallé St Peter's

 

3rd March '22 - Heather Roche performed

Heartwood at De Montfort University, Leicester as part of the Cultural eXchanges Festival

20th January '22 - The Sixteen recorded

...a link in a chain... at Temple Church, London

 

12th January '22 - RSNO Composers' Hub workshop including where still the current flows (for chamber orchestra)

 

27th December '21 - performance of meet you at the beach released by Nevis Ensemble

 

16th December '21 - Nevis Ensemble recorded meet you at the beach at St Andrews West, Glasgow

 

30th November '21 - Lucy Schaufer and Huw Watkins recorded Speak Up for The Wild Plum Songbook at Stapleford Granary

 

26th November '21 - Heather Roche performed Heartwood at Bishopsgate Institute, London 1pm

 

11th November '21 - Sequoia Duo performed Clōta's Song as part of 'Water Music: Source to Sea' - University of Glasgow Concert Hall and online - 1.10pm

 

7th November '21 - Sequoia Duo premiered Clōta's Song as part of 'Water Music: Source to Sea' at Govan & Linthouse Parish Church, Glasgow - 3.30pm

 

30th-31st October '21 - ...a link in a chain..., a new commission for The Sixteen, was workshopped by Genesis Sixteen at Dumfries House with Sir James MacMillan, Harry Christophers and Eamonn Dougan.

 

20th October '21 - to tell it like it is included in Creative Scotland's #ClassicAll playlist, exploring Scotland's classical and new music

20th October '21 - Heather Roche performed Heartwood at the Sound Festival

- The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen - 6pm

 

12th October '21 - Selected for the RSNO Composers' Hub 2021:22

1st October '21 - Through the International Percussion Institute (IPI) and Sound, Janellie Maldonado (Texas) premiered awakening the shadow of the storm - online 6pm

 

8th September '21 - to tell it like it is. has been published by Stainer & Bell as part of their Choral Now series

 

1st September '21 - Scottish Freelancers Ensemble gave an online premiere of Amidst the rising tides - we rise. - Youtube

31st August '21 - Commissioned by Psappha for 'The Last Island' concert on the 31st March '22

 

1st July '21 - The score of Tell it to the bees, commissioned by Choir & Organ magazine for NYCGB, made available to download and an interview was published in the Jul/Aug edition

 

16th June '21 - Shortlisted for the Scottish Awards for New Music Dorico Award for Small/ Medium Scale New Work for Archipelago: transmissions between islands.

 

27th April '21 - Nordic Viola's Art-Making in the Anthropocene concert to include Machair

21st April '21 - Featured on Ear to the Ground podcast, New Music Scotland

16th April '21 - Nordic Viola's "Histories and Herstories" concert at UHI's 5th International St Magnus Conference to include Machair.

 

3rd April '21 -Extracts of Heartwood broadcast on The Arts Hour on the BBC World Service in a round-up of hcmf// 2020

 

5th March '21 - Selected as a finalist for Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra

(Los Angeles) call for scores

1st March '21 - Commissioned by Scottish Freelancers Ensemble

 

19th February '21 - Interviewed on Max Reinhardt's Late Lunch Show for Soho Radio

 

15th January '21 - NMC Recordings released NYCGB Young Composers Scheme album including to tell it like it is.

 

21st November '20 - Heather Roche premiered Heartwood at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival - BBC Radio 3

1st November '20 - NYCGB Fellowship premiered It was necessary to depart. at Snape Maltings

26th October '20 - Sound Festival review in The Scotsman describes Almost. as having a "soft yet intense focus"

 

24th October '20 - Any Enemy performed Archipelago: transmissions between islands at the Sound Festival in a livestreamed performance - YouTube 12pm

 

23rd October '20 - EXAUDI premiered Almost. at the Sound Festival in a livestreamed performance followed by a Q&A with composers- YouTube 4pm

17th October '20 - to tell it like it is. was recorded by the NYCGB Fellowship for digital release with NMC Recordings.

 

7th October '20 - Rolf Hind premiered is it too soon to start talking about this? at Kings Place, London. 

 

4th September '20 - Nordic Viola performed Machair at Orkney International Science Festival as part of 'Histories and Herstories' online performance.

 

23rd August '20 - ebb and flow, commissioned by the Nevis Ensemble, played by Jesús Lorente González, was broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland's Classics Unwrapped programme.

8th August '20 - Featured in sound's Composer Spotlight Q&A

 

27th July '20 - Premiere of the light through forest leaves by cellist Jennifer Langridge, Psappha Ensemble on YouTube 8.30pm 

 

9th July '20  - Featured in BBC Music Magazine's 'Rising Stars' column, August 2020 edition

 

26th June '20 - Any Enemy's Lockdown Composing performance made available online including Archipelago: transmissions between islands (starting 7'45'')

15th June '20 - Rolf Hind released an online premiere of piano miniature is it too soon to talk about all this?

 

14th June '20 - Any Enemy premiered Archipelago: transmissions between islands. - a piece designed for Zoom performance and commissioned by the Sound Festival as part of Lockdown Composing.

 

8th June '20 - Participated in Eventide's Quarantide online discussion panel on 'Music, Silence, Nature in a Time of Quarantine'

 

13th May '20 - Commissioned by the Nevis Ensemble to write a 'Lochan Sketch' for solo trombone

16th April '20 - Nordic Viola to perform Machair at 'North Atlantic Lives and Landscapes' concert as part of Histories and Herstories conference, Islesburgh Community Centre, Shetland 7pm - cancelled

 

2nd April - BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra to perform Seabird Cities, conducted by Thomas Dausgaard, City Halls Glasgow 7.30pm. - cancelled

7th March '20 - Premiere of Acheulean Sounds by members of Devon Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter.

 

26th February '20 - Shortlisted for the Scottish Awards for New Music Dorico Award for Small/ Medium Scale New Work for The Wet Desert: A Collection of Highland Perspectives

 

20th February '20 - NYCGB Young Composer masterclasses with Errollyn Wallen, Richard Allain, Cheryl Frances-Hoad and Toby Young

 

31st January '20 - Selection announced for the 2019-20 Young Composer Scheme with National Youth Choirs of Great Britain in partnership with NMC Recordings and the PRS Foundation. 

20th January '20 - 2019-20 Young Composers presented at the NYCGB Annual Showcase Event at the Royal Albert Hall.

17th January '20 - Commissioned by the Nevis Ensemble for a project to create a piece following community workshops in Aberdeen as part of the Year of Coasts and Waters. To be performed during the Nevis Ensemble's tour in Aberdeen in June.

 

14th January '20 - Commissioned by Devon Philharmonic Orchestra and the Royal Albert Memorial Museum to write a piece inspired by the prehistoric stone tools on display in the museum, premiere 7th March '20 at RAMM.

 

18th November '19 - Performing Can we not hear the birds that sing? at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival as part of hcmf// shorts.

13th November '19 - Premiere of flightless birds. by Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra as part of BioMusic, an interdisciplinary concert between biologists, musicians and composers -The StAge, St Andrews 5.30pm 

2nd November '19 - Performance of Speak Up by Lucy Schaufer and Huw Watkins at Wiltshire Music Centre

September '19 - Selected for Psappha Ensemble's Composing for Cello scheme

28th September '19 - Performing Can we note hear the birds that sing? at the Explorathon, Riverside Museum, Glasgow 12.00

 

7th September '19 - Performing Can we not hear the birds that sing?  for solo violin, outdoors at RSPB's Barons Haugh nature reserve as a culmination of the Sounding the Landscape residency.

 

23rd August '19 - Premiere of Right to Roam by Tritium Trio, Dartington Hall

17th August '19 - Participating in the Advanced Composition Course with

Sir Harrison Birtwistle at Dartington International Summer School.

 

10th July '19 - Premiere of Speak Up by Lucy  Schaufer and Huw Watkins at the Cheltenham Music Festival's Composium

 

27th-29th June '19 - Performances of May this House Stand by Inchcolm New Music Ensemble in Ardtornish House, Iona Abbey and St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh.

4th May '19 - Annunciations: Sacred Music for the Twenty-First Century, was officially launched. The volume includes a chapter by Lisa and is published by Open Book Publishers 

 

3rd May '19 - Red Note Ensemble premiered The Wet Desert: a Collection of Highland Perspectives in Plug: Preview concert. Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Stevenson Hall, 7.30pm

 

16th April '19 - the inimitable brightness of the air  is shortlisted for the Scottish Awards for New Music 2019 Award for Small Scale New Work

14th March '19 - BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra concert on 2nd April '20 announced, to feature Seabird Cities, conducted by Thomas Dausgaard.

8-9th March '19 - Participating in the Wild Plum Songbook Workshop

 

17th December '18 - Piobaireachd selected for the APC Modern Pibroch Library, Canada.

http://mpl.altpibroch.com/

 

25th November '18 - Cunninghame Choir performed From Bunessan

13th November '18 - The Night With... workshop with Juice Vocal Ensemble to include Birds of Migration. 10am - Scottish Music Centre

 

9th November '18 - Ligeti Quartet will workshop and record Machair  9.30am -Firth Hall, University of Sheffield

6th November '18 - Royal Northern Sinfonia Workshop to include Là Bealltainn

27th October '18 - Premiere of the inimitable brightness of the air at the Sound Festival by Red Note Ensemble. 12pm, St Andrew's Cathedral, Aberdeen

 

4th October '18 - Premiere of Leum Fèidh by Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra 

 

30th September '18 15.00 - Premiere of Seabird Cities by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Rudolfinum, Prague.

7th-8th September '18 - Sound Festival residency with Red Note Ensemble at Logie Coldstone

 

Review of Cappella Nova's concert in Edinburgh, including dona nobis pacem 

 

16th/ 17th August '18- 16.10pm and 18.10pm -performances of dona nobis pacem by Cappella Nova at Greyfriars Kirk during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

 

15th August '18 - 7.30pm premiere of dona nobis pacem by Cappella Nova in Stirling Castle. 

July '18 - Selected as runner up in Cappella Nova Composers' Competition.

 

27th July '18 - 1pm premiere of Deglaciation at Lichtenbergschule, Darmstadt. 

 

July '18 - Selected for the Sound Festival 2018 development opportunity which will lead to a performance by Red Note Ensemble of a new commission.

 

July '18 - Participated in the 'Composing for Piano' workshop with Brian Ferneyhough and Nicolas Hodges at the 2018 Darmstadt Summer Course for New Music.

 

5th July 18'- 2pm The Beckett Quartet performed Machair at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival. 

http://westcorkmusic.ie/chambermusicfestival/programme/detail/52.-town-concert

 

1st July '18- Participated in the Young Composers Forum with Deirdre Gribbin at West Cork Chamber Music Festival.

 

July '18 -Participated in the ‘Composing for Oboe and Violin Workshop’ with Cathy Milliken and Graeme Jennings at the 2018 Darmstadt Summer Course for New Music as well as gaining a place on the composition course. 

 

8th May '18 - 8pm. The Brodick Quartet performed Lichen at the PLUG Festival. 

https://www.rcs.ac.uk/boxoffice-event/eventid/118607-Plug-5-with-Brodick-Quartet-

27th April '18 - Participated in the CeNMaS workshop with the Ligeti Quartet. 

https://cenmas.wordpress.com/ligeti-quartet-workshop-opportunity/

 

April '18 - Selected as joint-winner of the West Cork Chamber Music Festival Competition. 

http://westcorkmusic.ie/chambermusicfestival/news

April '18- Selected as runner up in the Walter and Dinah Wolfe prize. The piece was performed by Rolf Hind on 11th May, 1pm, during the PLUG Festival. 

https://www.rcs.ac.uk/boxoffice-event/eventid/118405-Fridays-at-One:-Plug-11-with-Composer-in-Residence-Rolf-Hind

March '18 St Salvator's Chapel Choir's CD, Annunciations: Sacred Music for the 21st Century, featuring Lisa's piece, The Silent Word Sounds, is now available on Spotify and iTunes. 

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/annunciations/1348560465

https://open.spotify.com/album/5p6Q91qCJVzWGwmxfgcL7k

 

5-6th March '18 - Theoartistry Festival in St Andrews. As the culmination of the Theoartistry project, in which Lisa participated, the festival showcased the pieces which were created during the collaboration. St Salvator's Chapel Choir's CD of these works was also launched. 

February '18 - Selected for the - CeNMaS Quartet Workshop with the Ligeti Quartet

 

October '17 - The Robzen Duo performed a recital of Scottish and Czech music - 'Ballads from our Homelands' - in Renfield St Stephen's, Glasgow. This included Lisa's piece Sunrise in June.

 

August '17 Lisa was appointed to be an Associate Member of the LSO SoundHub 

August '17 - Piobaireachd was played on the BBC Radio 3's Late Junction programme

June '17 - St Salvator's Chapel Choir recorded The Silent Word Sounds  for their new CD alongside works by other members of the Theoartistry Scheme and also works by Sir James MacMillan. The pieces from the scheme will also be published.

22nd June '17 - St Salvator's Chapel Choir performed The Silent Word Sounds in a St Addrews University graduation thanksgiving service.

11th May '17 - The Arctic Rose was performed at 'Plug 6: Glasgow Piano Duets' in the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland's Plug Festival.

19th February '17 - workshop on The Silent Word Sounds with St Salvator's Chapel Choir, St Andrews and Sir James MacMillan as part of the Theoartistry Scheme.

4th December '16 - Glasgow Madrigirls performed Eilean Mhathair in their advent service in the University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel.

29th October - selected for the 2016 sound festival composers day masterclass with the Bozzini Quartet (Canada).

30th May 2016 - The Robzen Duo recorded Piobaireachd.

29th May 2016 - The Robzen Duo performed 

Piobaireachd in a recital at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

6th May 2016 - The Hebrides Ensemble performed Dereliction at the RCS as part of the PLUG Festival and was a result of this piece being runner-up in the Walter and Dinah Wolfe Composition Prize.

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