New Voices (Celtic Connections musical commission)

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New Voices is an award for emerging composers made by the Celtic Connections festival annually since 1998. It is a musical commission which enables recipients to compose and perform a significant new suite of music of about forty-five minutes, based on traditional themes. Usually there are three commissions each year, with each composer performing their work at a lunchtime concert on one of the three Sundays of the festival. The funding provides for the musician both to develop the work, and to direct its performance, typically by five to ten musicians, at its première. In the earlier years, the composer was invited to further develop the work and revisit it at the festival the next year, but this is no longer practised. [1] [2]

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The selection process for the commissions is informal. Sometimes a musician may approach the festival with an idea for a new work, other times festival director Donald Shaw proposes participation to a musician he thinks would benefit and create something worthwhile. [3]

Various sponsors have supported New Voices over the years. In 2020 the awards were sponsored by the Scottish edition of The Times and Sunday Times, and the composers were Marit Fält, Pàdruig Morrison and Catriona Price. [4]

New Voices commissions

All of the concerts were premières unless otherwise noted.

yearcomposertitle of compositionnotes and references
2023Alice Allen
Ali Levack
Charlie Grey
2023Beth MalcolmBy Process of Folkmosis [5] [6] [7]
Malin LewisHalocline [5]
Eric LinklaterOut in the Flow [5] [8]
2022 Jack BadcockLife in Three Dimensions [9] [10]
Esther SwiftEmergence [9] [11]
Ross Couper [9] [12]
2021 Charlie Stewart [13] [14]
Josie Duncan [13] [14]
Steven Blake [13]
2020Marit FältIrrationalities [15]
Pàdruig Morrison [16] [15]
Catriona Price [15]
2019Gráinne BradyBeyond: The Story of an Irish Immigrant [17] [18]
Mischa MacphersonBho Èirigh gu Laighe na Grèine (Sun | Moon | Land | Life | Sea)First commissioned for the 2018 Blas Festival. [18]
Megan Henderson [18]
2018Sarah-Jane SummersOwersetReprised at the 2020 festival. [15] [19]
Innes White [19]
Ailie RobertsonSeven Sorrows [19]
2017Seán GreyThe Hammering Tongue [20]
Hannah FisherAround this View [20]
Freya ThomsenCommunity and Stardust [20]
2016 Hamish Napier The RiverReleased as a CD in 2016. [21] [22] [23]
Ewan RobertsonTransitions [23]
Kate Young Umbelliferae [23] [24] [25]
2015Graham MackenzieCrossing BordersLater released as a CD. [26] [27] [28]
Ross Ainslie Remembering [29] [27]
Siobhan WilsonThe Great EyeWilson performed as "Ella the Bird". [27] [30]
2014 Sarah Hayes Woven [31]
Lorne MacDougallCollisions [32] [33]
Rachel Newton ChangelingReleased as a CD later in 2014. [34] [35]
2013 [lower-alpha 1] Rona WilkieCeangailte (Connected) [36] [37]
Sorren MacleanWinter Stay Autumn [3] [38] [37]
2012Duncan LyallInfinite ReflectionsReprised at the 2013 festival. [39] [40] [41] [42] [37]
Fiona RutherfordSleep Sound [41] [43]
Laura-Beth SalterBreathe [44] [41]
2011Angus Lyon3GReprised at the 2013 festival. [45] [46] [42] [37]
Rachel Sermanni Tramping [47] [48] [49] [50] [46]
Innes Watson The Glasgow Guitar Colloquium [46]
2010 Iain Morrison Ceol Mor/Little Music [51] [52] [53]
Mike VassString Theory [52] [53]
Lori Watson Sanctuary [54] [52] [53]
2009Rick TaylorThe Call of the Wild [55]
Griogair Labhruidh Fear-ealaidh [56]
Mairearad GreenPassing PlacesReleased as live CD, and also a DVD of a journey through Wester Ross in music and film. [57] [58]
2008Gavin MarwickJourneyman [59] [60]
Catriona McKay Flöe [61] [62]
Patsy ReidBridging the Gap [63]
2007 Nuala Kennedy Astar: Journey [64]
Kris Drever [65]
Calum MacCrimmon Outside the Circle [66]
2006 Martin Green First Sighting [67] [68]
Anna-Wendy StevensonMy Edinburgh [69]
Fraser Stone & Paul JenningsJSP Voyager [70] [71]
2005Anna Massie [72] [73] :80
Christine HansonThe Cremation of Sam McGee [74] [75] [73] :81
James RossAn Cuan (The Ocean) [76]
2004 Maggie MacInnes Òran na Mnà (A Woman's Song) [77] [78]
Adam Sutherland [78]
Jennifer PortSilver Lining [78]
2003Gillian FrameKinship TheoryReprised at the 2004 festival. [79] [80] :58 [78]
Aidan O'Rourke SiriusReprised at the 2004 festival, and released as an album. [81] [79] [78] [82] :53
Tom Richardson [79] [83] :53
2002 Finlay MacDonald [84] [85] [1] [86] :49
Alyth McCormack [87] [88] [89] [1] [86] :47
Mary Macmaster Three Days [90] [1] [91] :52
2001Fraser FifieldTraditions (for saxophone quintet)Reprised at the 2002 festival. [92] [93] [86] :47
Chris Stout [94] [95] [96] :33
Wendy WeatherbyDaybreak on the World's EdgeReprised at the 2002 festival. [97] [98] [91] :52
2000Rory CampbellPurely Whistles [99] [100] :19
Phamie Gow LammermuirA live recording of this concert was released as a CD in 2002. The work was reprised at the 2020 festival. [101] [102] [103] [104] [105]
Colin Reid Reprised at the 2001 festival. [106]
1999Andy ThorburnTuath gu Deas (North and South)Reprised at the millennial (2000) festival, together with a new work by Thorburn called Heartful of Friendship. Reprised again at the 2013 festival. [107] [108] [109] [100] :19 [37]
Karen MarshalsayJourneyingReprised at the millennial (2000) festival, together with a new work by Marshalsay, called Promise to Keep. [110] [111] [112] :18 [113] :21
Karen WimhurstThe Stones and the SeaPerformed by the Cauld Blast Orchestra. Commissioned by An Tobar and the Highlands Festival, and premiered in May 1998 at the An Tobar Arts Centre, Isle of Mull. [114] [113] :22
1998Corinna HewatMaking the ConnectionReprised at the millennial (2000) festival. [115] [116] [112] :20 [117] :33
David MilliganLifting the LidReprised at the millennial (2000) festival. [118] [116] [112] :20 [119] :34
Simon Thoumire Celtic Connections SuiteFirst presented at Celtic Connections 1997 as a stand-alone commission. Also reprised at the millennial (2000) festival, together with a new work by Thoumire called Scottish Requiem. [120] [121] [100] :20 [122] [117] :32

Notes

  1. The third New Voices slot in 2013 was used for a double bill of the commissions by Angus Lyon and Duncan Lyall from the previous two years.

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