On a day of little cheer in both weather and world events the sun came out for two hours at least as Rossano Sportiello, on a Scottish tour away from his Greenwich Village home, coaxed moments of radiance from the Inverurie Town Hall baby grand piano. Like the town hall itself, the instrument has been […]
Review: Fundraising Concert for Inverurie Music Award Scheme; St Andrew’s Church, Inverurie, 17 June 2023
Although Inverurie Music’s 2022-23 concert series ended with the Chopiniana of Janusz Piotrowicz in May, there was still one, final, musical event to finish a wonderful season of music making in the Garioch: the annual fundraising concert for the Inverurie Music Award Scheme. The Award Scheme has been running for four Seasons and has to […]
Review: Janusz Piotrowicz; The Acorn Centre, Inverurie, 13 May 2023
2022/23 has been a concert season like no other at Inverurie Music, full of diverse music, new compositions, unusual ensembles and huge amounts of entertainment at every turn. It has also been a year of Gypsy Jazz, old friends, last minute replacements, multiple trombones and the Baroque melodrama cum pantomime that was Apollo’s Cabinet. The […]
Review: Trotovšek, Canyigueral and Bizjak; Town Hall, Inverurie, 14 April 2023
It does seem one of classical music’s oddities that a trio made of up of three of the most prominent and recognisable instruments doesn’t have a long and illustrious repertoire to draw on. You would imagine that over the years, two of the melodic superstars of the orchestra would have a dazzling and spectacular catalogue […]