James Ross is a pianist and composer who pushes the boundaries of Scottish traditional music. James released his debut album on the Greentrax label, a mix of his piano arrangements of traditional and original material. Chasing the Sun, Ross’s second recording, is a seven-movement suite, evoking a day’s and a year’s westward journey along Scotland’s north […]
Clara Gillam Grant is an emerging cellist and singer-songwriter from Adelaide/Tandanya, Australia. Clara is interested in intergeneric works, and developing a fluid understanding of classical, folk and contemporary practices. Clara has played cello with the Adelaide and Australian Youth Orchestras, local Australian pop, folk, and improvisation projects, Womad Festival, and in theatre shows in Australia […]
Quincy Grant is a freelance composer and musician based in Adelaide/Tandanya, South Australia. He has written and performed music for the theatre, working with companies such as Slingsby, Flying Penquin, Circa, Brink Productions, Queensland Theatre, and State Theatre Company South Australia, and has toured extensively to the USA, UK, Japan and Ireland. He writes for […]
Shonagh Murray is a musical director, composer/writer and teacher based in Glasgow. Her most recent MD credits are A Mother’s Song (Macrobert Art Centre & KT Producing); Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World (Kick Ass Theatre Productions Ltd, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022); Orphans (National Theatre of Scotland, Associate Music Director); Bairns in the Woods […]
Genevieve Dawson is a songwriter-composer, performer, and community music worker originally from Edinburgh and now based in London. Her work weaves together elements of folk, jazz, choral and electronic textures. Her debut album was championed by BBC 6 Music and Jazz FM, and featured on Guy Garvey’s finest hour. Her most recent release what’s mine […]
Lydia Green is a Glasgow based theatre-maker. She writes, directs and produces new work. She is also a lecturer at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She is currently directing Into the Woods for Perth Theatre and Noisemaker’s Snow Queen for The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s Junior Performance Department. She has worked in South Korea with […]
In 2011 the composer Shiori Usui was commissioned jointly by Cove Park and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra to write a new piece. This work, Digested Resonance, was produced during a three-week residency at Cove Park and was performed as part of a public workshop with BBC SSO in February 2011. The piece is now in […]
Neel Chaudhuri is a playwright and theatre director based in New Delhi. He is a founder-member of the Tadpole Repertory, where he was formerly Artistic Director (2009-2019). His plays with Tadpole include Godspeed (TFA Award for Creative Writing 2009),Taramandal (The Hindu MetroPlus Playwright Award 2010), Still and Still Moving (written in collaboration with the Royal Court Theatre, UK), and Quicksand. Neel […]
Ranjana Ghatak is a singer and composer embedded in the classical and devotional Hindustani vocal tradition. Born and raised in London, Ranjana has collaborated and performed with a host of celebrated artists including Nitin Sawhney, Jason Singh, and recently alongside James Yorkston and Jon Thorne (as Yorkston/Thorne/Ghatak). Her debut solo album, ‘The Butterfly Effect’, was […]
Born in Tehran and based in Belgium, Shahab Azinmehr is a vocalist and virtuoso player of the tar – a long-necked, narrow-waisted lute-type instrument (from Persian: تار, literally “string”), found in many cultures in Iran, Azerbaijan, and further afield. With a background in the restoration of historical monuments, Shahab began his music career as a singer, later […]
Iona Lane is a Leeds-based folk singer and songwriter. Fascinated by folklore and folk stories, Iona’s music is inspired by natural landscapes, scientific discoveries, human relationships and the supernatural, all tied together by a strong sense of place and a love for being in wild places. Her long-awaited debut album, ‘Hallival’ (2022) – named after […]