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Classical Music |
21st - 28th May, 2001 |
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In 1998 the festival organized a competition for the best four part string composition in the form of a minuet. The prize was won by Jamie Strachan from Lochaber High School in Fort William with an agreeable piece which was played by the Edinburgh Quartet at one of the concerts. | ||||
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Visiting instrumentalists take the opportunity whilst in the area to visit the local schools and teach. As a result of this we enjoyed the presence of around thirty small children who attended a woodwind concert in 1998 following their music lessons during the day. They sat silent as church mice throughout the two hour concert, absorbed by what they were hearing.
In 1999 the primary schools took time off to attend the lunchtime Brass concert in Acharacle when Bryan Allen, of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music, gave an interesting presentation on the workings of Brass instruments, at once amusing and instructing the children. In 2000, the Edinburgh Quartet worked with Lochaber Music School and played with them at the Lunchtime concert. Worthy of special mention were the three soloists, Philip Cardwell (trumpet) who leaves school this year, Duncan Strachan, 13, who gave a professional performance of the Sarabande and two Bourees from Bach's suite in C for unaccompanied 'Cello, and Catriona Lachlan on the Clarsach, or Celtic Harp. | ||||
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