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Auricle Ensemble
http://www.auricleensemble.org.uk
Formed in 2007, the Auricle Ensemble burst into musical life in Scotland with an array of intriguing programmes, virtuoso playing and an approachable and inclusive style to performance. It was formed by professional musicians to engage people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds with great music to make concert-going an accessible and enjoyable experience. Auricle’s first concert saw some of Scotland’s top jazz artists performing alongside classical musicians to a sell-out audience. In the following seasons, Auricle has performed works by Schoenberg, Copland, Britten, Shostakovich, Daugherty, Ives, Walton, Bernstein, Stravinsky, Milhaud, Weill, Strauss, Dukas, Gershwin, Wagner and Prokofiev collecting many favourable reviews and invitations to perform around the UK. 2010 sees the start of Auricle's residency at St. Bride's, Glasgow, and its two year 'Mini-Mahler' project performing the reduced versions of Mahler's works that were arranged for Arnold Schoenberg's Private Music Society ('Verein') in Vienna. Other projects this season include a concert version of Kurt Weill's 'Threepenny Opera' and Peter Maxwell Davies' Music Theatre Works.
Members of the Auricle Ensemble education team have worked in and helped devise educational projects for the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Scottish Opera and the RSAMD Youthworks and Outreach programmes. We are delighted to offer workshops to all ages from 1 to 100 years old encompassing mainstream schools, special needs schools, community groups and strongly believe that music education does not finish at school. Our workshops may be interactive, involve creative music-making, engage a school orchestra in our side-by-side scheme, or may simply be a mini-concert in form, but all workshops cover several curriculum concepts outlined in not just the existing 5-14 curriculum, but also in the emerging Curriculum for Excellence. We also offer a Have-A-Go instrument stall at selected concerts with our players on hand to supervise and help people of all ages get their first note and inspire them to take up a musical instrument.
Auricle is flexible in number, performing works from five to fifty players. The ensemble is available for hire for a wide range of projects. We can tailor concerts and music to suit your requirements; please see our website for more information.
"Dazzling and audacious playing from this fearless ensemble" (Glasgow West End Festival, 2008)
"a delicate, technically impeccable and sensitive reading" (The Herald - Four star review of Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, October 2009)