had the immense privilege of playing my favourite piece (okay fine one of many but still MY FAVOURITE PIECE) back home in the highlands last night ❤️❤️❤️❤️ hard work is worth it when you get to shred in a ball gown. Grateful ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠 here are some videos my mum took and some recordings of the rehearsal to remember it by
friends of the highlands!
playing the Glière harp concerto with the highland chamber orchestra on the 9th of May @ crown church, 7pm!
Playing this piece of music with orchestra has been my dream since I first heard it after I (allegedly) ripped a library CD of the Moscow RTV symphony orchestra onto my dad’s computer when I was 13. It is an absolute honour to be afforded the chance to perform it and it would mean the world and then some should people be able to come! Extremely grateful to Aberdeen City Music School for loaning me their harp, the harp I named Roxanne and spent every waking moment with between the ages of 12 and 14. This concerto launched me into a monumental research journey as a teen, as Reinhold Glière won multiple Orders of Lenin- curious about the criteria for such awards I spent YEARS of my life studying and researching Soviet Realism, formalism and the politics of sound and beyond (I challenge you to provide me with a JSTOR publication on Soviet music education policy which I have not read). This concerto has shaped my adolescent and young adult life beyond even the playing of it. Extremely blessed to be playing the biggest and best and loveliest of tunes on my home turf!
After this I will be launching into Parsifal, but hopefully with more time to spend in the sun and work on my second great passion after classical music- getting a tan
love may not be black and white but my Valentine’s Day gig outfits certainly are
(fully edited out the background of a photo because it wasn’t pretty. Sue me)
