Edinburgh arts venue Summerhall has been nominated for the Dan Crawford Award for Innovation that forms part of the 2015 Empty Space... Peter Brook Awards.
The awards are designed to acknowledge innovations made to the performing arts by smaller scale venues, studio spaces and fringe theatres. Past winners have included the Forest Fringe and Fuel, both no strangers to these pages, while last year's Dan Crawford Award winner was the Latitude festival.
Summerhall's nomination is acknowledgement of the former veterinary school building's bold programming over its five year existence under the artistic directorship of Rupert Thomson, who was recently installed as senior programmer for performance and dance at London's Southbank Centre. The winners of the awards will be announced at a ceremony in London on Monday November 2.
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The University of St Andrews is to release a second album of choral music on Sanctiandree, the first record label to be established by a Scottish university.
Ca’ the Yowes: A Traditional Tapestry will feature performances of popular traditional songs such as The Skye Boat Song, The Turtle Dove, Loch Lomond and Auld Lang Syne by the University’s St Salvator’s Chapel Choir under the direction of university organist Tom Wilkonson, pictured.
Choral singing has been a key feature of student life at the University of St Andrews since its foundation in 1413, with early sources referring to the ‘Choristi Sanctiandree’, when all students were obliged to sing in the chapel.
The arrangements on the new disc are by Ralph Vaughan-Williams, James MacMillan and David Willcocks, as well as Wilkinson and former university organist John Kitchen. To mark the release, the choir will give a concert at Haddo House, Aberdeenshire on Saturday November 21 at 1pm.
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Applications for the National Youth Choir of Scotland 2016 Jazz Programme must be submitted by Thursday of this week. Participation is open to vocalists and instrumentalists aged between 12 and 25 who are born in Scotland, living in Scotland, studying in Scotland, or who have Scottish family.
Once an application form has been received, applicants will be emailed a Dropbox link to a selection of jazz standards and backing tracks, and they must record two of these before Thursday November 12.
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