02/05/2025 Scottish Ensemble – Impulse: Music in Motion

A memorised, kinetic production of Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony and Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings, performed by Scottish Ensemble and developed in partnership with choreographer Örjan Andersson.

Bringing performers and audience into the very heart of the music, the Ensemble is set free to create a striking visual representation of the patterns, intricacies, and passion of these iconic works. This is music that encompasses the entire human emotional spectrum. From the darkest, most desolate despair, the kind that burrows into the corners of your psyche, to utter euphoria, the kind that sets you free. This is the human condition painted in high intensity colours.

Örjan Andersson choreographer
Albin Åkerman lighting designer and engineer

Programme

Dmitri Shostakovich arr Rudolph Barshai Chamber Symphony in C minor Op 110a (String Quartet No 8)
Piotr Illyich Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings in C major Op 48

Performers

first violins
Jonathan Morton
Jack Greed
Clio Gould
Freya Goldmark
Kate Suthers
Kirsty Lovie

second violins
Sam Staples
Joanne Green
Laura Ghiro
Ian Watson
Michelle Dierx

violas
Andrew Berridge

Alex Mitchell
Carol Ella
Asher Zaccardelli

cellos
Alison Lawrance

Naomi Pavri
Nathaniel Boyd
Niamh Molloy

basses
Diane Clark

Jamie Manson