Blog Archives

Scozzesi

Chosen for each concert from a pool of singers and accompanists, this highly talented male vocal quartet will sing harmonies arranged specifically for Tenor I, Tenor II, Baritone and Bass, some accompanied on piano, some unaccompanied.  The gentlemen perform a mixed repertoire of solos, duets, trios and quartets from the worlds of opera, operetta, Gilbert and Sullivan, songs from the shows, and include some of our best loved traditional tunes in four part harmony.  An evening (or afternoon) to be charmed and enchanted in the company of Scotland’s latest vocal ensemble!
A full octet of singers with two accompanists is also available should you wish to hear some of the world’s best male operatic choruses.

Programme includes:

Nessun dorma, Turandot, Puccini

Gloire immortelle, Faust, Gounod

Au fond du temple saint, Les Pêcheurs de Perles, Bizet

Cantique de Jean Racine, Fauré arr DJ Clark

Una furtiva lagrima, L’Elisir d’Amore, Donizetti

The Piper o’ Dundee, arr DJ Clark

When I get Older, Lennon and McCartney

This Nearly Was Mine, South Pacific, Rodgers and Hammerstein

 

Tenors:  Christian Schneeberger, Connor Smith, Roger Paterson, Matthew Kimble, Jonathan Cooke

Baritones:  Jonathan Kennedy, Colin Murray, Douglas Nairne, Phil Gault

Accompanists:  Ed Cohen, Michał Gajzler, Geoffrey Tanti, Andrew Brown

Performances:

7.30pm, Friday 4 December 2026:  Bute Arts Society

7.30pm, Saturday 5 December 2026:  Mid Argyll Arts Association

7.30pm, Saturday 12 December 2026:  Ayr Music Club

7pm, Sunday 18 April 2027:  Hawick Music Society 

2.30pm, Monday 3 March 2025:  Ross Priory

2.30pm, Sunday 1 December 2024: Eastgate Theatre, Peebles

Saturday 14 September 2024: wedding in Gatehouse of Fleet

Thursday 25 September 2014:  debut concert with drinks reception,  Winter Gardens, Glasgow Green

Friday 3 October 2014:  St John Scotland, Dunbartonshire branch,  Ross Priory, Gartocharn

Sunday 29 March 2015:  Garnethill Synagogue, Glasgow

Saturday 4 July 2015:  Wedding, Forest Hills Hotel, Aberfoyle

Friday 24 July 2015:  Private birthday party, Ross Priory, Gartocharn

Friday 2 October 2015:  St John Scotland, Dunbartonshire, Ross Priory, Gartocharn

Sunday 22 November 2015:  Newton Stewart&District Music Society, Cinema Theatre

Sunday 29 November 2015:  Beith Arts Guild

Tuesday 8 December 2015:  Lockerbie Music Society

Saturday 16 January 2016:  The Osprey Music Society, Boat of Garten (septet + pianist),

Friday 25 March 2016:  West Kilbride Village Hall

Saturday 12 November 2016:  Dollar Academy

Friday 2 December 2016:  The Institute, New Lanark

Thursday 8 December 2016:  Music in Thurso

Friday 9 December 2016:  Inverness Chamber Music

Saturday 13 May 2017: Byre Theatre, St Andrews

Saturday 15 September 2018:  Hawick Tower Mill Theatre

Wednesday 19 September 2018:  Strathearn Music Society

Saturday 29 September 2018:  Biggar Music Club, Municipal Hall

Friday 5 October 2018, Balerno Festival, Balerno Parish Church

Wednesday 14 November 2018, Kirkcaldy Music Society

Saturday 1 December 2018, Ayr Music Club

Wednesday 4 December 2019, Music Inverness

Thursday 5 December 2019, Music in Thurso

Saturday 7 December 2019, Melrose Music society

Saturday 18 January 2020, Music Nairn

Friday 1 October 2021, Classic Music Live! Falkirk

Saturday 27 November 2021, Music Nairn

Friday 18 March 2022, Stranraer Music for All

Friday 2 September 2022, McLellan Arts Festival, Arran

Friday 9 September 2022, Bute Arts Society

Friday 13 January 2023, Music in West Kilbride

Derek Clark

He was Head of Music at Scottish Opera from 1997 until March 2023, and conducted more than 25 operas for the company, including major works by Handel and Mozart, Rossini, Verdi, Tchaikovsky, Massenet, Puccini, and Gilbert & Sullivan – his most recent conducting engagement being the outstanding production of “Il Trittico” at the Edinburgh Festival Theatre.

He provided re-orchestrations for recent touring productions of Hansel and Gretel, Cinderella, Die Fledermaus, Carmen, Rodelinda and The Elixir of Love and devised twenty-two Opera Highlight/Essential Scottish Opera programmes. His re-orchestration of ‘Hansel and Gretel’ has also been used by other companies and colleges, both in the UK and in America.

He has also specialised in contemporary music, as conductor of all three seasons of Scottish Opera’s highly successful Five:15 project. He conducted the Scottish premieres of James MacMillan’s Clemency, Philip Glass’ The Trial and the world premieres of Craig Armstrong’s ‘The Lady from the Sea’ and Rory Boyle’s Kaspar Hauser: Child of Europe.

He works as an accompanist, appearing regularly throughout the country, and is a regular Guest Coach at the major conservatoires and colleges and at the National Opera Studio. Though most of his professional life has been spent in the opera house, he has also found time to compose and arrange music for a wide variety of people and circumstances.

He was appointed Musical Director of Dundee Choral Union in 2011, and since 2014 has been Director of Music at Helensburgh Parish Church.

After retiring from Scottish Opera in March 2023, his diary is quickly filling up with new and exciting projects, including concerts with The Antonine Trio, Opera Alba, and “Celebrating Irving Berlin”.

Archives

Categories

  • No categories

News about artists represented by Classical Musicians Scotland

Contact

Call Daisy to discuss your music
requirements
0141 942 0023
07798 926 508
or email Daisy here

 

Like Us On Facebook
Follow us on Twitter
Follow Us On LinkedIn