THE shortlists for the MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards for 2017 have been announced.
The winners will be revealed during an award ceremony on December 2, at Paisley’s Lagoon Centre.
Organising body Hands Up for Trad will hand out a total of sixteen awards.
Voting for the shortlisted acts are now open, until November 24, and votes can be cast online.
The night will include performances from The Shee Big Band, as well Elephant Sessions and Siobhan Miller.
The Album of the Year has 10 nominee including Elephant Sessions, Mànran, and Ímar, alongside Ryan Young who last year won the Up and Coming Artist of the Year award.
Oban Live and the Killin Music Festival are among the nominees for the Event of the Year category while Community Project of the Year includes the Tiree Songbook and EPL Events, among others.
Elephant Sessions, Ímar, Tide Lines and Skippinish make up the shortlist for Live Act of the Year.
www.scotstradmusicawards.com.
Greek, Scottish Opera's modern re-telling of the Oedipus myth by Mark-Anthony Turnage, is coming to Glasgow on February 2 and 3, following a run at Edinburgh International Festival in August.
Based on the play by Steven Berkoff, this co-production with Opera Ventures, directed by Young Vic Artistic Associate Joe Hill-Gibbins is revived by Daisy Evans, and designed by Johannes Schütz.
Conducted by Scottish Opera’s Music Director, Stuart Stratford (2 Feb) and Finnegan Downie Dear (3 Feb), Emerging Artist Alex Otterburn (La traviata 2017), winner of an International Opera Award bursary, reprises the role of Eddy and is joined by Susan Bullock, Allison Cook and Henry Waddington.
Those who are visually impaired can enjoy the opera at an audio-described performance of Greek on February 3.
www.scottishopera.org.uk
DANIEL Kidane’s Zulu is to receive its first performances as part of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra’s Remembrance Week concerts.
Zulu has been chosen to receive its first public performances, at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh on Friday 10 November and the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on Saturday 11 November.
Both concerts are presented in partnership with Scottish charity Poppyscotland, who will be holding collections following each concert.
Daniel Kidane was one of five participants of the RSNO’s emerging composer-nurturing initiative RSNO Composers’ Hub.
The concerts, conducted by guest conductor Sergey Neller, making his RSNO debut, also present Rachmaninov’s Vocalise and Piano Concerto No3 (performed by the winner of the 2017 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Yekwon Sunwoo) and, in the 100th anniversary of its subject matter, the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, Shostakovich’s Symphony No12.
www.rsno.org.uk.
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