This 12 months, the Cumnock Tryst is presenting 5 days of occasions to have fun its tenth birthday.
Based by composer Sir James MacMillan, the pageant runs from 2 to six October 2024. MacMillan, who grew up within the East Ayrshire city, stays the pageant’s creative director and takes his inspiration from fashions corresponding to Peter Maxwell Davies’ St Magnus Competition in Orkney and Benjamin Britten’s Aldeburgh initiative. The Cumnock Tryst has established itself as a pageant for and of its local people.
Past the 5 day pageant in October, The Cumnock Tryst continues its year-round work in the area people, and this 12 months additionally sees the inaugural Worldwide Summer time College for Composers – a chance for younger composers from throughout the globe to come back to East Ayrshire and work alongside Sir James MacMillan and Anna Thorvaldsdottir.
The pageant this 12 months options the debut of the newly fashioned Cumnock Tryst Ensemble. This new chamber group is directed by cellist Christian Elliott and consists Scottish musicians who’ve had an affiliation with The Tryst during the last 10 years. The ensemble may have a dedication to the area people and a particular deal with composers of our personal period, with performances, in Cumnock and elsewhere, and can take part in most of the pageant’s group and training tasks spearheaded. The inaugural recital contains music by Olivier Messiaen, Elliot Carter, Rebecca Clarke, James MacMillan and Frank Bridge.
Music of Land Reclamation, on the second day of the pageant, would be the end result of a composition undertaking for Greater and Superior Greater Music college students at Robert Burns Academy. In a undertaking led by Sir James MacMillan and Ayrshire composer Gillian Walker, the composers have responded to images of the native space from photographer Simon Butterworth’s sequence Summary Excavationism: The Artwork of Industrial Land Reclamation.
Through the years the pageant has developed numerous ground-breaking music tasks for kids and adults with extra assist wants, and this 12 months James MacMillan has been working in Hillside College and the close by Riverside Centre alongside Drake Music Scotland and the Hebrides Ensemble. With the assumption that incapacity ought to by no means be a barrier to a deeply partaking involvement with music, the efficiency of The Unbroken Thread, follows a sequence of artistic workshops the place all concerned devised their very own music and modes of expression.
The Cumnock Tryst Tenth Birthday Gala Live performance, All of the Hills and Vales will characteristic native ensembles with worldwide guests for a birthday celebration of brass, strings and voices. The primary work is All of the Hills and Vales Alongside, an oratorio which James MacMillan composed for the 2018 pageant to mark the centenary of the WW1 Armistice. Scottish rising composers Gillian Walker and Erin Thomson will hear the world premieres of their current Tryst commissions.
Different performers at this 12 months’s pageant embrace pianist Steven Osborne, the Maxwell Quartet, the Gesualdo Six, Joshua Ellicott, guitarist, flautist and singer Seán Grey, the Euan Stevenson Trio, Ayshire fiddler Alastair Savage and the Tommy Smith Youth Jazz Orchestra.
Full particulars from the pageant’s web site.
