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About Classical Musicians Scotland

Providing professional performers for any type of event - soloists/ensembles, singers/instrumentalists

Opera company

Glasgow

Public liability insurance of £10 million

I'm a professional opera singer, working mainly with Scottish Opera for over twenty years. I now also represent a variety of classically trained musicians. I like to find professional performers for any type of event, and am happy to tailor the correct ensemble to fit the needs of prospective clients. I run Pollok House Arts Society and manage the Spire concert series, and have also put on several opera gala evenings in Central Scotland. I formed and manage Opera Alba, Coro Alba, Scozzesi and The Ivor Novello Story and also fix ensembles to accompany choral societies in Scotland. My musicians have performed at weddings, funerals, birthday events, corporate events, music festivals et al.

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Musicianship

Genres:

Classical, Opera

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Types:

Opera company, Classical duo, Classical ensemble, Classical trio, Wind ensemble, Orchestra, String duo, String trio, String quartet, String ensemble, Choir, Carol singers, A cappella group, Barbershop quartet

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Event types:

Concert, Wedding, Wedding proposal, Funeral / Memorial service, Church service, Hotel / Restaurant event, Bar / Club / Venue event, Private event, Corporate event, Charity event, Recording session, Theatre / Show, Cruise, Burns night, Birthday party, Christmas party, New Year's Eve

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Song list

Songs and music will vary from group to group.

Material is suitable over a wide range of genres.

wind quintet selection:

Arnold Three Shanties, Op. 4

Arnold Dream City

Berio Opus Number Zoo

Bozza Scherzo

Bresnick Just Time for Wind Quintet

Danzi Wind Quintet in B-flat major, Op. 56, No. 1

Danzi Wind Quintet in D minor, Op. 68, No. 3

Dvořák (arr. B. Holcombe) Andante (Mvt III from Serenade, Op. 44)

Francaix Wind Quintet No. 1

Greaves Beethoven's Fifth Bossa Nova

Hallam Dance Suite

Hindemith Kleine Kammermusik für fünf Bläser

Ibert Trois Pièces Brèves

Milhaud La Cheminée du Roi René

Mozart 12 Variations on "Ah! Vous dirai-je, Maman

Newman '66', '92' **première

Nielsen Quintet, Op. 43

Nowak Fantasia

Patterson Comedy for Five Winds

Pierné Pastorale

Schifrin La Nouvelle Orléans

Zemlinsky Humoreske (Rondo)

violin/piano selection:

Artist’s Life - Johann Strauss Roses from the South - Johann Strauss Autumn Leaves - Joseph Kosma They can’t take that away from me - George Gershwin Méditation - Jules Massenet Under Paris skies - Hubert Giraud Songs my mother taught me - Antonín Dvořák La Cumparsita - Gerardo Matos Rodriguez Liebestraum - Franz Liszt Danny Boy - Irish traditional Habanera, “Carmen” - Georges Bizet  Bring him home, “Les Misérables” - Claude-Michel Schönberg  Loch Lomond, The Tartan, My love is like a red red rose - Scottish Medley

Csárdás - Vittorio Monti  INTERVAL

A Foggy Day - George Gershwin O mio Babbino caro - Giacomo Puccini It Had To Be You - Isham Jones La Vie en Rose - Louiguy/ Édith Piaf Waves of the Danube - Ion Ivanovici Moon River - Henry Mancini Sentimental Journey - Brown/Homer Theme from The Godfather - Nino Rota

Makin’ Whoopee - Walter Donaldson Nocturne - Frédéric Chopin Falling In Love Again - Friedrich Höllander

Hungarian Dance no 5 - Johannes Brahms Hymne à l’amour - Marguerite Monnot/Édith Piaf

SATB selection:

Brindisi, La Traviata, Verdi

Soave sia il vento, Cosi fan Tutte, Mozart

O mio babbino caro, Gianni Schicchi, Puccini

La ci darem, Don Giovanni, Mozart

Flower Duet, Lakmé, Delibes

Birdcatcher’s aria, Magic Flute, Mozart Les tringles des sistres tintaient, Carmen, Bizet

Champagne Chorus, Die Fledermaus, J Strauss

There is Beauty in the Bellow of the Blast, Mikado, Gilbert and Sullivan

Vilia, Merry Widow, Lehar

Love Unspoken, Merry Widow, Lehar

Evening Prayer, Hansel and Gretel, Humperdinck

piano solo

Barcarolle, Tales of Hoffmann, Offenbach

I was a constant faithful wife, The Bear, Walton

Poisoning Pigeons in the Park, Tom Lehrer

You’ll Never Walk alone, Carousel, Rodgers Hammerstein

violin/accordion selection:

Bach Sonata in E minor BWV: 1023

Paganini/Kreisler: La Campanella

Brahms: Hungarian Dance Nos 1 and 2

Dranga: Fantasy

Achron: Hebrew Melody Op 33

Sarasate: Carmen Fantasy

Pärt: Fratres

Sarasate: Romanza Andaluza Op 22

Massenet: Méditation

Bartók Romanian Dances

Piazzolla/Gubaidulina: Le Grand Tango

guitar/cello selection:

Antonio Vivaldi – Sonata in E minor

Felix Mendelssohn – Song Without Words

Isaac Albeniz – Cordoba

Ernest Bloch – Suite for solo cello

Carlo Domeniconi – Seven short pieces

Jaime Zenamon – Reflexos no 6

Joaquin Rodrigo – Fandango for solo guitar

Gabriel Fauré – Après un rêve

Petr Ilych Tchaikovsky – Valse Sentimentale

Pablo Casals – Song of the Birds

Manuel de Falla – Danza Espagnole no 1 from La Vida Breve

baritone/french horn/piano selection:

Frank Spedding: Old English Songs for voice, horn and piano

Vaughan Williams: The Roadside Fire for baritone and piano

Antony Plog: Aesop's Fables for narrator, horn and piano

Strauss: Nocturno for horn and piano

Volker David Kirchner: Orfeo for baritone, horn and piano

Derek Clark: Chamber Music for baritone, horn and piano

Arnold Cooke: Nocturnes for voice, horn and piano

Lehrer: Poisoning Pigeons in the Park for voice and piano

Burns arr S Adam: Ae Fond Kiss and Gae Bring Tae Me for baritone, horn and piano

string quartet: selection:

Capriol Suite, Warlock All Through The Night (Ar Hyd Y Nos,) Welsh Trad

Barwick Green (The Archers), Wood

My Love is like a Red Red Rose, Burns

All You Need Is Love, Lennon/McCartney Ladies In Lavender, Hess Irish Sherry Suite, Trad

Scots Medley, Trad

(Music o’ Spey/Mairi’s Wedding/Auld Lang Syne)

Divertimento No III in F, Mozart

Csardas, McLean Tritsch-Tratsch Polka, J Strauss

Moon River, Mancini

Cheek To Cheek, Berlin

Fandango, McLean

Cock Linnet, Collins/Leigh

Tango, McLean

Anniversary Waltz, Durbin/Franklin

Eine Kleine Bricht Moonlicht Nicht Musik, Bor

Spring (from The Four Seasons), Vivaldi

solo harp selection:

EARLY MUSIC

Bach-Grandjany: Studies 1, 6, 12

Bach, JS: Chaconne [arr. Kanga]

Bach JS: Prelude BWV 872 [transcribed Sherman]

Bach, JS: Lute Suite no. 1 in E minor

Bach, JS: Italian Concerto BWV 971

Bach, JS: French Suite no. 6 in E major

Bach, JS: Partita no. 1 in B flat major BWV 825 (7 movs)

Bach, JS: Partita no. 2 in C minor BWV 826 (6 movs)

Bach, JS: Piece en Sol

Bach, JS: Cello Suites 1 and 3

Couperin, François: 3 pieces Love in the Cradle, Magic Tricks, Trinkets

Daquin: CouCou

Handel: Harp Concerto

Nadermann: Variations on the air “L’oiseau chantant”

Rameau, JP: Le Rappel des Oiseaux, La Triomphante, L’Egyptienne, Rondeau des Songes (Renie book)

CLASSICAL

Beethoven: Adagio from Moonlight Sonata

Bochsa/Rossini: Rondeau on Zitti Zitti

Bochsa/Mozart: Variations on Voi Che Sapete

Dussek: Sonata in C minor

Haydn, J: Variations H XVII:5 in C major

Mozart, WA: Piano Sonata in F major K332 (movements 1, 2, 3)

Naderman Variations on the air L’oiseau chantant’

Parry, John: Sonata no. 3

Pescetti, GB: Sonata (movements 1, 2, 3)

Scarlatti, D: Sonata K113

Spohr, L: Fantasy in C minor

Spohr, L: Variations “Je Suis Encore dans mon Printemps”

Wright: Auld Lang Syne Variations

ROMANTIC

Glinka/Balakirev: The Lark [ed. Agazarian]

Glinka: Nocturne

Godefroid, F: Carnaval de Venise

Godefroid, F: Etude de Concert

Grandjany, M: Fantaisie on a Theme by Haydn

Liszt/Renié: Un Sospiro

Liszt/Renié: Liebestraum

Lorenzo: Barcarcolle Mary

Mchedelov: Variations on a Theme by Paganini

Oberthur: Nun’s Prayer

Oberthur: Les Gottes d’Eau

Parish-Alvars, Elias: Norma Variations

P-Alvars: Introduction, Cadenza, Rondo

P-Alvars: Lucia Fantasy

P. Alvars: Three Romances

Saint-Saens, C [arr. for harp solo Hasslemans]: The Swan

Thomas, J: Minstrel’s Adieu to his Native Land

Thomas, J: David of the White Rock

Thomas, J.: Watching the Wheat

Zabel, A: La Source

Zabel, A: 3 Concert Études

Zabel, A: Fantasy on themes from Gounod’s opera “Faust”

FRENCH

Damase, J-M: Etude de Concert

Debussy, Claude: Clair de Lune Rêverie Valse Romantique Deux Arabesques

Debussy, Claude: 3 short pieces (La Fille aux Cheveaux de Lin, The Little Shepherd, Dr Gradus ad Parnassum)

Fauré, G: Impromptu

Hasslemans, A: Follets

Hasslemans, A: Nocturne

Hasslemans: La Source

Hasslemans: Gondoliera

Jongen, J: Valse Op. 83

Presle, J: Le Jardin Mouillée

Renié, H: Contemplation Danse des Lutins Pièce Symphonique Feuillets D’Album

Roussel, A: Impromptu Op. 21

Tournier, M: Féerie Tournier, M: Au Matin

Tournier, M: Ce que chante la pluie d’automne

Tournier, M: Vers la Source dans le Bois

Tournier M: Images Suite 1 (Clair de Lune, Temple, Lolita)

Tournier, M: Images Suite 3 (Annesses, Danseuse, Sédjanne)

Tournier, M: Images Suite 4 (Aviary, Cloches, Danse de Moujik)

Tournier, M: Pastels du Vieux Japon

Tournier, M: Sonatine (movement 2)

SPANISH / Latin

Albéniz: Torre Bermeja

Albéniz: Zaragoza

Albéniz: Asturias

Granados, E: Valses Poeticos

Guridi, J: Viejo Zortzico

Ortiz: Milonga para Amar

Ortiz: Butterfly Trees

Salzedo: Concert Fantasy on Lara’s Granada

20TH CENTURY + Contemporary/Alternative

Andrès, B: Absidioles

Andrès, B: Elegie pour la mort d’un berger

Attahir, B: De L’Obscurite II

Birtwistle, H: Crowd

Britten, B: Suite for Harp (5 movements)

Charpentier, J: La Danse devant L’Arche

Chevis, T: Impromptu Cristatus

Davies, PM: Farewell to Stromness

Flagello, N: Sonata (movements 1, 2, 3)

Hersant, P: Bamyan

Hindemith, P: Sonata for Harp (movements 1, 2, 3)

Hosokowa: Second Japanese Folk Song

Kanga, S: Towards the Light Suite (movements 1, 2, 3)

Katchaturain: Oriental Dance and Toccata

Kikta, V: Fantasy on themes from Tchaikovsky’s Opera ‘Queen of Spades’

Macmillan, James: Knockroon Waltz

Mathias, W: Three Improvisations

Mathias, W: Santa Fe Suite

Mayaani, A: Maqamat

Maxwell Davies, P: Farewell to Stromness

Patterson, P: Armistice

Prokofiev, S: Prelude in C

Rota, Nino: Sarabande and Toccata

Schafer, RM: Ariadne’s Dance, Ariadne’s Dream, Dance of the Bull (from Crown of Ariadne)

Salzedo: Whirlwind (from 5 Preludes)

Salzedo: Turkey in the Straw

Salzedo, C: Idyllic Poem (Double notes study)

Shchedrin, R: A La Albeniz

Spring on the Moonlit River (Chinese melody)

Tailleferre, G: Sonata (movements 1, 2, 3)

Watkins, D: Petite Suite (3 movements: Prelude, Nocturne, Fire Dance)

Watkins, D: Passacaglia

Wood, G: Museum Piece (commissioned by me Dec 2013 for premiere April 5th 2014)

JAZZY/Song Arrangements

All the Things you are

Henson-Conant: New Blues

Henson-Conant: Baroque Flamenco

Kanga, S: Les Saisons de la Harpe (4 short ‘popular’ style pieces)

Kanga [arr]: My Favourite Things

Maxwell: Scheherazade Love Theme Arrangement

Arlen, H: Over the Rainbow

Hymn Arrangements (McDonald/Wood Rollo)

six-piece klezmer band selection:

Ot Azoi “That’s the way” (traditional Klezmer)

Nokh a Glezele Vayn “another glass of wine” (traditional Klezmer)

Saint-Saëns- Bacchanale from Samson and Delilah, arr Ruaridh Bakke

Set of three tunes- “Escorting the parents of the Bride and Groom” | Moldovian Hora | Odessa Bulgarish

Toby Murena- “Indifférence” (French gypsy-jazz waltz)

Kaval Sviri (Bulgarian folk song), arr Michael O’Rourke

Galatas- Mames Babegenush, arr Michael O’Rourke

Classical Musicians Scotland

5 out of 5

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Reviews

5 out of 5

“Ayr Music Club's concert series "Music in Ayr" continued on Saturday when a capacity audience enjoyed a superb concert by the vocal group "Scozzesi". This male quartet of classically trained singers, along with their first-class pianist, provided a wonderfully varied programme of music ranging from grand opera to The Beatles and including many favourites from light opera and the shows. "Scozzesi" cross all musical boundaries, their entire performance being characterised by outstanding musicianship and expertise along with real ability to communicate with the audience. Their own infectious enjoyment provided a highly entertaining evening greatly appreciated by the audience.” Ayrshire Post

5 out of 5

“You were right - lovely people, great singing (and acting!), excellent rapport with the audience, very easy to work with and they arrived on time! It all flowed so smoothly. The audience feedback was very positive and St John's church created a lovely intimate atmosphere for a concert. It was also a fabulous programme that you put together - perfectly pitched for the Stranraer audience. It appeared to be both word and note perfect and it added so much that they performed without folders for all but two pieces. Thank you also for the detailed and accurate information you provided. It made producing a programme for the concert so much easier.” Thank you so much for arranging such an uplifting end to our season! Steve and Rachel Flower, Stranraer Music for All

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