London-based Whirlwind Recordings presents a two-night “mini fest” to showcase the Scottish bands on the label and mark the release by Whirlwind founder, American bassist Michael Janisch’s sextet, Paradigm Shift on Monday, September 28 and Tuesday 29 at Stereo in Renfield Lane, Glasgow. Janisch’s group will appear on both nights, with saxophonists Konrad Wiszniewski and Rachael Cohen presenting their respective groups on Monday and pianist Tom Gibbs and trumpeter Ryan Quigley’s leading their groups onstage on Tuesday. Ticket buyers will each receive a free 15-track Whirlwind Recordings sampler album drawn from the label’s extensive catalogue.
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The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra has named John Wilson, pictured, as the successor to Andrew Manze as Associate Guest Conductor. A great champion of British and American music, he is a regular conductor of stage and screen repertoire at the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall and first appeared with the SSO in 2002. Together their repertoire has included Bax, Walton, Holst, Gershwin and Bernstein and a recent appearance was for a weekend devoted to the music of Bernard Hermann, including a concert screening Hitchcock's Psycho.
Orchestra director Gavin Reid said: "We are delighted that this formal appointment means we can explore whole new areas of repertoire together, both in the concert hall and the studio."
bbc.co.uk/bbcsso
Drummer Ken Mathieson’s Classic Jazz Orchestra, which specialises in new arrangements of music from the 1920s through to the 1960s makes its first appearance at Cumbernauld Theatre on Saturday, October 3. Expect the show to heavily feature saxophonist Konrad Wiszniewski, for whom this is a "home town" gig, and who is joined by his regular associate Euan Stevenson and Scottish National Jazz Orchestra colleague, trombonist Chris Greive.
classicjazzorchestra.org
Musician PJ Harvey and poet Paul Muldoon will launch an new series of "in conversation" events at the University of St Andrews on Wednesday November 4. The initiative of the university's new International Writer in Residence Reif Larsen and Professor of English, poet Don Paterson, the aim of the series is to pair internationally renowned figures from the worlds of music and literature who have influenced one another. The Soundings series, in the Byre Theatre, will have two further events before April of next year.
byretheatre.com
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