In music there is no difficulty in summoning up the names of female performers and comparing them favourably with their male counterparts but does the same apply to female composers? There seems to be no lack of female writers and artists but most of us would be struggling to name all but a few female […]

In association with the North East Scotland Classical Guitar Society, Inverurie Music presented a Sunday afternoon concert last week (12th January 2020) at the Acorn Centre with the JKL duo. This was the delightful blend of music from Kerry Lynch (flute) and Jacopo Lazzaretti (guitar), who met at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. The effortless […]

On Saturday, the Kliphuis Trio, Tim Kliphuis (violin), Nigel Clark (guitar) and Roy Percy (double bass), earned enthusiastic applause for an exciting and expertly blended performance. The Trio are on tour round Scotland. The pieces were improvisations and were clearly and interestingly introduced by Tim rather than by a formal programme. Improvisation takes many forms […]

Inverurie Music presented on Saturday evening at the Town Hall, Duo B!z’art (André Roe and Geoffrey Baptiste). In a four hands on one piano performance, they earned enthusiastic applause and a reward of two encores. There is an extensive repertoire of pieces for four hands but much of this has been put in the bottom […]