Nordic Music Days Opening Concert: Scottish Ensemble, Aidan O’Rourke, and Qullaq
Scottish Ensemble are joined by musicians from Norway, Finland, and Greenland, as well as one of Scotland's most well-known musicians, for the opening concert of Nordic Music Days 2024!
About Nordic Music Days Opening Concert: Scottish Ensemble, Aidan O’Rourke, and Qullaq
Scottish Ensemble is a pioneering collective of musicians who champion music for strings, collaborate with creative minds and blur the boundaries between genres and artforms. For this concert, they are joined by musicians from Norway, Finland, and Greenland, as well as one of Scotland’s most well-known musicians, Aidan O’Rourke.
Qullaq is a groundbreaking collaboration between musicians from Scotland and Greenland. Ancient and contemporary Greenlandic drum dances typically involve a lot of descending vocal and physical gestures. Qullaq means ‘ascending’: this work is a confrontational but jubilant exploration of a long-persecuted culture which is now in the ascendence. Drawing on myths, social dynamics and post-colonial politics, the piece brings together contemporary Inuit performance practices from Kalaallit nunaat (Greenland) with Aidan O’Rourke’s unique take on Scottish traditional music and the strings of the Scottish Ensemble.
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