Wonderful day reconnecting with our Seen & Heard family at Craigmillar Now as we explore art & music in a series of workshops with artist Karolina Glusiec and Scottish Chamber Orchestra Su-a Lee & Lewis Banks 🎨 🎶 Lots of creative ideas flowing already!

Phenomenally surreal, superb, strange & sci-fi performance (minus the actual spaceship 🚀) of Tippett’s “New Year” tonight BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra BBC Singers plus incredible soloists Rhian Lois Ross Ramgobin Roland Wood Rob Murray Rachel Nicholls et al & conductor Martyn Brabbins! Out of this 🌍

Looking forward to this tomorrow!

Music by Bach, Jay Capperauld , Chick Corea (arr. Rob Buckland🇪🇺💙#BrokenRecord ), Graham Fitkin , Piazzolla, Schulhoff, Ravel and Santiago Baez!

Going to be fun :)

Jean-Yves Fourmeau delivered a wonderful saxophone masterclass last week Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Sponsored by Yamaha Music UK and with support from The Wind Section Ltd

Thrilled to see the launch of Scottish Chamber Orchestra Summer Tour! Including my piece The Night Watch with SCO Chorus & Gregory Batsleer and gorgeous words by Niall Campbell plus I’m delighted to host Un:Titled Assembly Roxy & Saint Luke's in the culmination of Soundbox! sco.org.uk/summertour

Tonight!

A great couple of nights celebrating the music of the legendary John Williams with conductor Richard Kaufman!

Dundee & Edinburgh ✅
Next stop... Glasgow!

Concert kindly sponsored by Agilico

Bandcamp Friday is pretty saturated! But here's a link to my new album just incase!
carlraven.bandcamp.com/album/m-moire-…

Loads of fun playing in Dundee tonight with this amazing group. Roll on Edinburgh!

A little blog post on what to expect Royal Conservatoire of Scotland brand new saxophone summer school, directed by Andrew Somerville and I. Do pass this on to any young saxophonists!

rcs.ac.uk/blog/lewis-ban…

Now then. I've made a new CD of beautiful music by Jurg Frey. On pre-release. It'd be lovely if you had a listen.
carlraven.bandcamp.com/album/m-moire-…

Fantastic to have our saxophone tutor Lewis Banks lead a workshop for our woodwind students today! What a great week of music making it has been!

It was so much fun to play my album ‘Chrysalis’ live Royal Conservatoire of Scotland last year, and work with the talented saxophone students afterwards.

For some extra fun at the end, I threw in a bit of folky madness from Will Gregory of Goldfrapp. Enjoy! :)

Delighted to share this recording from my recital with Alison Procter last July 1901 Arts Club. Thanks to Tom Gant for the video!

youtube.com/watch?v=YUSEU6…

Another recommendation - Schubert in English Vol. 4 on Signum Classics, with the incredible trio of Roderick Williams, Rowan Pierce and Chris Glynn

A stunning standalone listening experience, but also a real gateway into the original text versions. Highly recommended

Some recommendations to start 2024, which I've been enjoying very much

Book - 'Quartet' by Dr Leah Broad. An illuminating portrait of 4 incredible women whose music (to my shame, previously unknown to me) I enjoyed checking out whilst reading the book. Highly recommended!

I've enjoyed many of Alexandra Wilson 's articles, but I highly recommend this one

thecritic.co.uk/excellence-for…

The original lyrics were “You make me feel like B Double Flat woman” but Aretha Franklin thought that sounded clunky

Now at the mid-point of our five-year Craigmillar residency, we have enjoyed looking back at this project which is reaching all ages in the locality.

Want to get involved? Learn more here: sco.org.uk/join-in

bit.ly/3tscRCM Craigmillar Now Scotsman Arts Alzheimer Scotland

Very proud to have played a small part in delivering this initiative with the fantastic Scottish Chamber Orchestra