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13th November 2023

Kerry Lynch is a Scottish flautist, instrumental teacher and entrepreneur who is very active within the Scottish chamber music scene. Music was present in Kerry’s life right from the very start, and she has always had instruments around her. However, her formal musical training didn’t begin until she was admitted to study at the Junior Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Kerry highly values creative freedom and expression, and has been lucky enough to learn from artists who have fiercely protected and nurtured this in her playing such as Hilary Abagana, Hadar Noiberg, Lorna Thompson and Morgan Davis. She has also partaken in courses and masterclasses with renowned flautists such as Ian Clarke, Lorna McGhee, Matthias Ziegler, Camilla Hoitenga and Jane Rigler. Some of her most recent performances include: the Dumfries and Galloway Arts Festival, St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh, The Sound of Gigha Festival and The Green Shoots Festival in Oban. Kerry is currently an ambassador for ‘tonebase – flute’ and plays on a Sankyo.

John Anderson, my Jo

Tristeza

Jacopo Lazzaretti is a guitarist from Rome currently based in Glasgow. He is active as a soloist, educator, recording artist. In addition to that he is also active within Scotland’s chamber music scene, playing with Scottish flautist Kerry Lynch in the JKL DUO, Cuban violinist Eddy Betancourt in the Saudade Duo (Live Music Now Scotland Artists), and Lithuanian clarinetist Matas Ščerbauskas. He graduated from the Conservatoire of Santa Cecilia in Rome in 2017 and completed a Masters Degree in Performance at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in June 2019. During that period, he performed in many masterclasses with some of the world’s most well-known guitarists and has been strongly inspired by musicians such as Arturo Tallini, Giulio Tampalini, Matthew McAllister, Allan Neave and Pavel Steidl. Taking part in many National and International competitions, Jacopo won several prizes such as the 8° International Competition Alirio Diaz of Rome (2019), North East Scotland Classical Guitar Society Award (2017) and the International Istanbul Guitar Festival (2015). Since 2018, he has been an artist for Live Music Now Scotland, bringing music to care homes, ASN schools and performing through them in festivals such as the St Magnus International Festival (Orkney) and the Emerging Artists Series at the Usher Hall (Edinburgh). Jacopo is currently an ambassador for ‘tonebase – guitar’ and plays on a Leonardo de Gregorio.

Autumn Leaves

Auld Lang Syne Samba

Sample Programme 1

Suite BWV 997 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Arpeggione Sonata by Franz Schubert
Suite II by Roberto di Marino
Libertango by Astor Piazzolla
Selection of Jazz Standards (JKL DUO Arrangements)

Sample Programme 2 – The International Poet (Album – Live)*

Breton Fantasy on Ye Jacobites by Laura Snowden
The Lea Rig by Stevie Lawrence
The Deil’s Awa wi’ the Exciseman & Ye Banks and Braes O’ Bonny Doon by Savourna Stevenson
John Anderson, My Jo by Amit Anand
The Betrayed Melody (after Robert Burns) by Francesco Leineri
Red, Red Rose by Stevie Lawrence
Whare hae ye been sae braw, lad? (Fantasia on a Theme by Robert Burns) by Vasily Antipov
Auld Lang Syne Samba by Celso Machado
Ae Fond Kiss by Roberto Kuhn Versluys

*all the works have been commissioned by and written for the JKL DUO

Performances

7pm, Thursday 17 July 2025: Thirsk, St James, Baldersby

7.30pm, Saturday 29 March: Carradale

7pm, Friday 28 March 2025: Hawick Music Club

1 – 1:40pm, Wednesday 12 March 2025: St Mary Magdalene’s Church, Dundee

3pm, Sunday 16 February 2025: The Barn, Banchory

2pm, Saturday 15 February 2025: Music at Aden

7.30pm, Saturday 15 February 2025: Monymusk Village Hall

Thursday 25 July 2024, 12 noon Aberdeen Art Gallery and 2pm Maritime Museum

Celebrating … Irving Berlin/Celebrating George Gershwin/Jerome Kern/Rodgers and Hammerstein

6th June 2023

I’ve Got My Love to keep me Warm, recorded 29/06/24

American mezzo soprano Jane Monari hails from Philadelphia. Jane graduated from the Juilliard School with a Bachelor of Music in voice performance with scholastic distinction. During her time at Juilliard, she was a Morse Fellow and a Teaching Assistant for Music Theory and Italian Vocal Literature. She graduated from the Master of Arts programme at the Royal Academy of Music, where she received Distinction and a DipRAM. She is also a graduate of the Alexander Gibson Opera School at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Jane has appeared as a soloist in concert with the City of Glasgow Chorus and the Orchestra of Scottish Opera, singing Händel’s Israel in Egypt, the Beethoven Missa Solemnis, the Mozart Requiem, and Die Erste Walpurgisnacht by Mendelssohn. She sang in the premiere of The Hours by Diana Burrell in 2011, and the world premiere of Elgar Howarth’s Venice – A Portrait, a piece commissioned by the academy to open their 400+ series in 2012. Jane was the winner of the 2012 Ludmilla Andrew Russian Song Prize. She has performed in masterclasses with Gerald Finley, Susan Bullock, Ann Murray, Barbara Bonney, Helmut Deutsch, Phillip Thomas, and Daniel Ferro. In October 2013, Jane participated in the Oxford Lieder Master Course led by Roger Vignoles.

Jane’s operatic roles include Suor Dolcina in Suor Angelica (Scottish Opera), Filippyevna in Eugene Onegin (Opera Holland Park Young Artist), Suzuki in Madam Butterfly (Opera Up Close), Carmen in Carmen (Opera at the King’s Head); La Tasse Chinoise in L’Enfant et les Sortilèges (The Virtual Opera Project), The Page in Rigoletto (Scottish Opera); Paquette (Cover) in Candide (Scottish Opera), Inez (Cover) in The Gondoliers (Scottish Opera), Vittoria (Cover) in The Gondoliers (Scottish Opera), Third Boy (Cover) in The Magic Flute (Scottish Opera), Voice 3 (Cover) in The Diary of One Who Disappeared (Scottish Opera), The Prince in Cendrillon (Fife Opera); Popova in The Bear (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), The Sorceress in Dido and Aeneas (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), La Ciesca in Gianni Schicchi (Juilliard Opera Workshop), Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Juilliard Opera Workshop), Veronica in Sunday Excursion (Juilliard Opera Workshop), Sally in A Hand of Bridge (Juilliard Opera Workshop), and the Maid in Schwergewicht (Juilliard Opera Center).

Jane also sings regularly across Scotland with ladies a cappella quartet, The All Sorts.

Mezzo soprano Sarah Shorter was born in Winchester and began her musical career by singing in every school choir which would have her. She continued this pattern at Cambridge where she managed to fit an English degree around her responsibilities as a choral scholar in Clare Choir, and where the heady mix of singing and drama accidentally left her with the opera bug.

She now lives in Glasgow and performs regularly with the chorus of Scottish Opera. On the concert platform, she has appeared as the alto soloist in Helensburgh Oratorio Choir’s performance of Breathing Place in Glasgow City Halls and as Daniel in the Thomas Coats Memorial Choral Society’s performance of Handel’s Belshazzar. She sings frequently with the Dunedin Consort, most recently appearing in their Christmas tour of Messiah and on their recording of Mozart’s Mass in C Minor. As a founding member of The All Sorts and as the Musical Director of The Close Shave Chorus, she delights in bringing close harmony to the unsuspecting public all over Scotland. She trained at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Anne Howells and Iain Ledingham.

Easter Parade, recorded 29/06/24

As a prizewinning graduate from Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, tenor Christian Schneeberger has appeared throughout the UK as a recitalist, oratory soloist and opera singer.

The Glasgow born tenor graduated with BMus (Hons) in Vocal Performance in 2013, completing his Masters of Music in Performance at RCS. As a scholarship student, he studied under Iain Paton and Amand Hekkers, after his early nurturing with Wilma MacDougall. He excelled as a recitalist at RCS and won the Glasgow Grand Society Opera cup; Hugh S Roberton Prize for Scottish Singing including the William Allan Prize and was the sole male finalist in the Governors’ recital competition.

Since his early years with Scottish Opera Connect, Christian has relished singing operatic roles in collaboration with RCS and Scottish Opera. As part of the West End Festival, he was honoured to be conducted by John Butt in a modern version of Handel’s “Acis and Galatea” in a role the Herald critic noted he sang “with aplomb”. His opera career has grown from being a founding member of À La Canto, touring with Opera Bohemia and in recent years as a regular member of the Scottish Opera freelance chorus.

Most recently he has played the Crook and Charles Edward in Scottish Opera’s production of “Candide” which received many glowing five star reviews. Along with recitals, Christian appears in Scottish Opera’s performances of Marx in London and La Traviata in Spring of 2024.

Christian has been very well received in continental competitions – NOMEA International and Neapolitan Masters – being awarded Distinction in both, while reaching the second round of the prestigious Neue Stimmen.

He also appears regularly across Scotland with Opera Alba, Celebrating Irving Berlin and Scozzesi, a male vocal quartet.

Between performances, Christian is a voice teacher at Hutchesons’ Grammar School, George Heriot’s School and St Andrews University.

Always, recorded 29/06/24

Derek Clark was born in Glasgow, and is an Honours graduate of the RSAMD and the University of Durham. He also studied at the London Opera Centre before joining Welsh National Opera as a repetiteur in 1977, making his professional conducting debut in 1981 with Handel’s Tamerlano.

He has recently retired as Head of Music at Scottish Opera, a post he’s held since 1997, and has conducted more than 30 operas for the company, including major works by Handel, Mozart, Rossini, Verdi, Tchaikovsky, Massenet, Puccini, Bizet, Bernstein and Gilbert & Sullivan. His final conducting performances were of new productions of Candide and Il Trittico.
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, including ENO and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and by 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 award-winning opera 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 – his music has been performed in venues ranging from village halls to Westminster Abbey.

He was appointed Musical Director of Dundee Choral Union in 2011, and since 2014 has been Director of Music at Helensburgh Parish Church, where his annual ‘Come and Sing’ Christmas concerts, and concerto performances have raised many thousands of pounds for charities such as MacMillan Cancer Care and Christian Aid.

Derek is sometimes deputised for by Edward Cohen who has established himself as one of the most versatile and in-demand pianists in Scotland. Equally at home as a concerto soloist, recitalist, or chamber musician, he regularly collaborates with leading musicians in major performance venues and festivals in his home country and beyond.

In concert, Ed has performed under the baton of Ryan Bancroft, Pierre Boulez, Peter Eötvös, Neeme Järvi, and Yan Pascal Tortelier, amongst others. His recent concerto appearances have featured works by Beethoven, de Falla, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich, and Strauss.

As the pianist for the choruses of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Ed works closely with prominent conductors, including Sir Andrew Davis, Tan Dun, Kristjan Järvi, Peter Oundjian, and Thomas Søndergård. Other renowned choirs he has collaborated with recently include the Edinburgh Festival Chorus with Martyn Brabbins, Gustavo Dudamel, and Daniel Harding, the National Youth Choir of Scotland with Sir John Eliot Gardiner, and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra Chorus with Richard Egarr and Emmanuel Krivine. Edward has also played for masterclasses given by Nicola Benedetti, Karen Cargill, Malcolm Martineau, János Starker, and David Watkin.

Beyond Europe, Ed’s recital activity has taken him to India, Russia, the Far East, and across the USA, including a solo performance for HM Queen Elizabeth II. He has appeared as a soloist, in chamber ensembles, and with mezzo-soprano Catriona Morison at the BBC Proms. His playing has been heard extensively around the globe, most recently at Eurovision Young Musicians, which was broadcast live on television and radio worldwide.

Ed frequently performs with the Artisan Trio, Daniel’s Beard, flautist Katherine Bryan, clarinettist Jean Johnson, Scozzesi and Saanjh, with whom he won Chamber Music Scotland’s Underrepresented Composers Tour. He regularly appears in the RSNO Chamber Series, and additional recent Scottish engagements included at the Cumnock Tryst, Westbourne Music, and the University of Glasgow recital series.

Ed learned with some of the world’s finest pianists, including Kathryn Stott, Yevgeny Sudbin, and André Watts. He began his studies at London’s Royal College of Music when he was ten, and is a first-class, prize-winning graduate of the Royal Academy of Music. He is also an alumnus of Indiana University and the Lucerne Festival Academy.

Ed holds two Master of Music degrees with Distinction from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, where he earned top awards in solo and chamber music performance, including the prestigious Governors’ Recital Prize. Currently, he maintains positions as School of Music Manager and Lecturer there, while also teaching at the University of Glasgow and delivering masterclasses in higher education institutions at home and abroad.

Performances

3pm, Monday 28 August 2026: Ross Priory Gartocharn (Rodgers and Hammerstein) (to book tickets, please contact daisy@classicalmusiciansscotland.com)

7.30pm Sunday 20 September 2026: Cowal Music Society, Dunoon (Irving Berlin)

1 – 2pm, Wednesday 21 October 2026: Westbourne Music, Glasgow Art Club (Celebrating Jerome Kern)

1.30 – 2.30pm, Tuesday 8 December 2026: Northesk Church, Musselburgh (Celebrating Irving Berlin)

3pm, Sunday 21 February 2027: Music in Dollar (Rodgers and Hammerstein)

tbc 7.30pm, Friday 4 February or 3 March 2028: Bute Arts Society (George Gershwin)

3pm, Sunday 7 June 2026: Stranraer Music for All, St John’s Room (Irving Berlin)

7.30pm, Friday 13 February 2026: Bute Arts Society (Jerome Kern)

7.30pm, Friday 5 December 2025: Stranraer (Irving Berlin) CANCELLED DUE TO ILL HEALTH

1 – 2pm, Wednesday 3 December 2025: Glasgow Art Club, Westbourne Music (George Gershwin)

7.30pm, Saturday 27 September 2025: Kilmallie Free Church (Jerome Kern)

2.30pm, Thursday 4 September 2025: Ross Priory (Jerome Kern)

2pm, Saturday 14 June 2025: Music at Aden (George Gershwin)

1 – 2pm, Saturday 15 February 2025 : Spire Concert Series, Glasgow (George Gershwin)

7.30pm, Friday 7 February 2025: Bute Arts Society (Irving Berlin)

1 – 2pm, Wednesday 5 February 2025: Westbourne Music Society (Irving Berlin)

7.30pm, Saturday 21 September 2024: Biggar Municipal Hall (Irving Berlin)

2.30 – 4.30pm, Monday 5 August 2024: Ross Priory private event (George Gershwin)

1-2pm, Saturday 29 June 2024: Spire concert series, Glasgow (Irving Berlin)

2pm, Saturday 1 June 2024: Old Deer Church (Irving Berlin)

7.30pm, Friday 31 May 2024: Cowdray Hall, Aberdeen (Irving Berlin)

2.30pm, Saturday 2 March 2024: Crail Community Hall (Irving Berlin)

2.30pm, Monday 17 April 2023: Ross Priory (Irving Berlin)

Mary Reid

8th August 2021

With a varied musical appetite, Mary performs as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral harpist, and in the community. She has a passion for giving recitals that showcase the harp’s full potential, especially in rural communities, and previous solo performances include Skye Chamber Music, Isle of Arran Music, Just Festival in Edinburgh, Classic Music Live! Falkirk, Ripon Cathedral, the Bowes Museum, Music at Junction 50, Holkham Hall in Norfolk, and Hove Music Society, as well as at London’s Wigmore Hall. She has performed on recordings with Trevor Pinnock, the Gabrieli Consort and on Paul Patterson’s CD of harp works. Mary has been concerto soloist with the King’s Chamber Orchestra, Kingston Chamber Players, the Dacorum Symphony Orchestra, the Thames Consort, and St Cecilia Orchestra in Yorkshire, playing works by Handel, Debussy, Mozart and Rodrigo.

Freelance orchestral work has recently included performances with the RSNO, Scottish Opera, Royal Northern Sinfonia, the BBC Philharmonic, Opera North, the Royal Opera House, London Mozart Players, and at the Edinburgh International Festival and BBC Proms. With a passion for chamber music, Mary has enjoyed working with smaller groups such as OperaUpClose, the London Sinfonietta, King’s Chamber Orchestra and the Riot Ensemble on several occasions. She performed alongside Christopher Hogwood in a Gresham College lecture-recital, and featured several times in RAM’s Tuesday Chamber Music Series. Upcoming performances in 2026 include a European Tour with the CBSO and continued work with her newly-formed flute and harp duo with Matthew Howells. (see Howells Reid Duo)

Mary also loves bringing joy to schools, churches and hospital settings. Mary currently works with Live Music Now Scotland, having completed four years on the Live Music Now scheme in London and now leads workshops and mentors younger musicians in SEN settings, as well as giving participatory performances for adults living with dementia.

Sample programme: Music for a Summer’s Evening

Le Rappel des Oiseaux – Rameau

La Source – Albert Zabel

Les Annesses Grises sur la route d’el Azib and La Voliere Magique – Marcel Tournier

Carnival de Venise – Félix Godefroid

* INTERVAL *

Follets – Hasselmans

Suite Galactique – Caroline Lizotte

Extracts from Spiders Suite – Paul Patterson

Impromptu Op 86 – Gabriel Fauré

Repertoire also includes:

J S Bach – Partita no 1 in B flat major

Alfredo Rolando Ortiz – Los Árboles de las Mariposas (The Butterfly Trees), Un Vals para Soñar (A Waltz for Dreaming),  El Pájaro Campana (The Bell Bird)

Deborah Henson-Conant – Baroque Flamenco

Félix Godefroid  – Étude de Concert Op 193

trad Scots A Red Red Rose

Aram Khachaturian – Oriental Dance, Toccata

trad Welsh arr John Thomas – Watching the Wheat

Gabriel Fauré – Impromptu Op 86

Alessandro Scarlatti – Sonata in A, K113

Jean-Philippe Rameau – L’Egyptienne

Louis-Claude Daquin – Le Coucou

J S Bach – French Suite No 6 in E, BWV 817

Sophia Dussek – Sonata in C minor, Op 2, No 3

Franz Liszt – Liebesträume

Claude Debussy – Valse Romantique

Claude Debussy – Rêverie

Henriette Renié – Pièce Symphonique

J S Bach – Italian Concerto

J S Bach – Partita no. 2 in C minor BWV 826

Benjamin Britten – Suite for Harp

Mikhail Glinka / arr Balakirev – The Lark

Mikhail Mchedelov – Variations on a Theme by Paganini

Elias Parish-Alvars – Variations on Themes from Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor

Elias Parish-Alvars – Variations on Themes from Bellini’s Norma

Marcel Tournier – Images Suite

Albert Zabel – Fantasy on Themes from Gounod’s Faust

Scottish performances

12 noon, Friday 29 January 2027: Classic Music Live! Falkirk, Trinity Church

A Night at the Opera, three dates with Classical Musicians Scotland orchestra:

Sunday 12 October 2025, Newton Stewart Cinema and Theatre

Saturday 18 October 2025, Gibson Hall, Dollar

Wednesday 22 October 2025, St Andrews Hall, Crieff

1 – 2pm, Saturday 17 May 2025: Spire concert series, Glasgow

A Night at the Opera four dates with the Classical Musicians Scotland orchestra:

Sunday 13 October 2024, Crail Community Hall

Thursday 24 October 2024, North Esk Parish Church

Friday 25 October 2024, MacArts, Galashiels

Tuesday 29 October 2024, Lanark Memorial Hall

2 – 4pm, Saturday 19 August 2023, Low Parks Museum, Hamilton

12:00 to 12:45, Friday 4 November 2022, Classic Music Live! Falkirk Trinity Church

ADlibitum

25th September 2013

Violinist Andrea Gajic received her early musical training at St Mary’s Music School, Edinburgh. When she was twelve, she performed the Bruch Scottish Fantasy at St James’ Palace, London for Yehudi Menuhin’s 70th Birthday celebration. Two years later, she was invited by Sylvia Rosenberg to study at the Peabody Institute, Baltimore USA, where she won first prize at the American String Teachers’ Association Violin Competition.  From 1990, Andrea studied for five years at the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music in Moscow with Khalida Akhtiamova where she gained her Masters Degree and Diploma in Solo Performance, before continuing her post-graduate studies with Felix Andrievsky at The Royal College of Music in London.  Throughout her studies, Andrea received generous financial assistance, being the youngest recipient of The Scottish International Education Trust and also receiving awards from The Martin Trust and Sir James Caird Travelling Scholarships.

Andrea has performed as a soloist and chamber ensemble player in Britain, United States, Russia, Lithuania, Finland, Germany, Australia, Yugoslavia and France, and she has been invited to give recitals and Masterclasses in Serbia, at the Victoria International Arts Festival, Gozo, at Dartington International Music Festival, and at the Menstrelle International Chamber Music Academy, St Petersburg.

She enjoys performing regularly with husband Djordje Gajic on classical accordion as duo Adlibitum. She has also led the Fibonacci Sequence chamber ensemble at the Conway Hall in London and worked with the Research Ensemble, which resulted in a number of contemporary music performances including birthday celebrations for Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and James MacMillan. In April 2013 she gave a recital of Beethoven Sonatas in the Max-Joseph-Saal at the Munich Residenz with pianist Michael Leslie.

For radio, she has recorded for BBC Radio, Bavarian Radio, Lithuanian Radio, Yugoslavian Radio and Radio Baltimore. On television, she has appeared on BBC, STV, ITV, and on Russian and Yugoslavian stations. CD releases include a recording of Beethoven’s Theme and Variations Op 107, performed with Michael Leslie, Thomas Rugge and Michael Shopper for Bavarian Radio and released by Büchergilde Gutenberg. In addition to her numerous performing commitments, Andrea is a dedicated teacher. International pop star, Madonna, studied with Andrea for several months before pulling out of Wes Craven’s Hollywood film “50 Violins,” also known as “Music of the Heart,” which eventually starred Meryl Streep. Andrea was also invited to be the strings advisor for the film.

Currently Andrea teaches violin at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow where she was made Professor in 2018, and this year looks forward to joining the string faculty at the Royal Northern College of Music. She has given classes and workshops for the European String Teachers’ Association, University of Music and Performing Arts (Graz), Rostov State Conservatory (Russia), Sydney Conservatorium (Australia), Sabac Music School (Serbia), Kragujevac Music School (Serbia), Victoria International Arts Festival (Malta), University of Delaware (USA), Peabody Conservatory (USA) Komitas State Conservatory (Armenia) and the Benedetti Foundation. Since 2014, she has been course leader for the String Summer Course at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, which attracts students from all round the world.

Andrea has performed at a number of international festivals throughout Europe and USA. Her most recent concerto performances include performances of the Sibelius Violin Concerto, Barber Violin Concerto, Brahms Violin Concerto. She is also a regular performer with the Malta Philharmonic at the closing concerts of Victoria International Arts Festival, Gozo having performed Brahms’ Violin Concerto, the Sibelius Concerto, and more recently in July 2022, Beethoven’s Concerto in D major.

She was a major contributor to the COP26 concert ‘Vital Signs of the Plant’ held in Glasgow’s Royal Concert Hall in November 2021, where she played excerpts from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with the RCS chamber orchestra, and recently she was interviewed by the Strad magazine. She was also honoured with a Professorship at the RCS and in August 2023 was promoted to Head of Strings.

Recently Nicola Benedetti has restarted sporadic lessons with Andrea to help regain confidence after a wrist injury that forced her to pull out of a residency last summer at the Aldeburgh Festival.

Andrea plays on a violin made by Nicolaus Gagliano in 1766.

Cinderella, Arkhipovsky

Djordje Gajic began his musical studies in Serbia at the age of six, finally graduating from the Russian Academy of Music in 1993 with a Master of Music degree and the Honorary Title of Solo Performer. He continued his post-graduate studies at the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music and was appointed Assistant to Professor Yuri Dranga.

Djordje has won first prize in International Accordion Competitions in Pescara, Stresa, Camalo (Italy), Soko Bana (Serbia), St Étienne (France) and at the CMA World Championship in Fontainebleu (France). He has also been awarded second prize in equally prestigious competitions held in Klingental (Germany) and Cheraparvetz (Russia). He has also received many awards of outstanding merit leading to television and radio broadcasts for the BBC, RTS Serbia, RTR Russia and RAI Italy.

Djordje has performed with several acclaimed orchestras and ensembles including the Russian State Symphony Orchestra (under the baton of Yvgeny Svetlanov), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra (BBC Proms, London), the Fibonacci Sequence Ensemble, Locrian Ensemble, Research Ensemble, Hebrides Ensemble, et al. He is a prolific recitalist throughout Europe (Andorra, Holland, France, Germany, Poland, Latvia, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Italy, Malta, Norway and Britain) and also in USA, Australia, China, Russia, Bahrain and Tunisia.

Djordje Gajic plays Scarlatti

In August 2018, Djordje was invited to be on the panel for Harbin’s International Music Festival, China. Most recent engagements were touring with Opera North and solo recitals in the USA.
Djordje is an accordion tutor at the RCS, Douglas Academy and St Mary’s Music School, Edinburgh. In October 2024, he was awarded a Professorship at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Zapateado by Sarasate

Performances

7.30pm, Wednesday 16 September 2026: Strathearn Music Society, St Andrew’s Hall, Crieff

7.30pm, Saturday 14 November 2026: Wakefield Concert Society

2.30pm, Monday 19 April 2027: Ross Priory, Gartocharn….

(for tickets please contact daisy@classicalmusiciansscotland.com)

Comfortable Unknown, Nicholas Olsen

Performances past

3pm, Sunday 15 February 2026: Music in Dumfries (48 hours’ notice)

7.30pm, Friday 19 September 2025: Ripon International Festival, St Andrew’s Church, Kirkby Malzeard

3pm, Sunday 27 April 2025: Wycliff St Mary’s

2pm, Friday 6 June 2025: Ross Priory (private event)

7.30pm, Friday 14 March 2025: Millennium Centre, Stranraer (education workshop 1 – 2:15pm Ryan Centre)

2.30pm, Sunday 23 February 2025: Dunoon Burgh Hall

7pm, Thursday 19 September 2024: Thirsk

7 pm, Thursday 18 January 2024, Fratry Hall, Carlisle Cathedral

1 – 2pm, Wednesday 6 December 2023, Westbourne Music Society, Glasgow Art Club

3pm, Sunday 26 November 2023, Penicuik Community Arts Association

3pm, Sunday 19 November 2023, Music in Aberfoyle

Wednesday 9 August 2023, Kirkharle

Sunday 23 April 2023, Newton Stewart and District Music Club

Sunday 26 February 2023, Haddington Concert Society

Sunday 29 February 2023, Music in Dollar

Tuesday 6 December 2022, The Brunton, Musselburgh

Saturday 19 March 2022, Music Arran

Thursday 3 March 2022, Ross Priory

Friday 22 October 2021, West Kilbride

Saturday 16 October 2021, Spire concert series, Glasgow

Wednesday 28 April 2021, Strathearn Music Society

Saturday 23 November 2019, with double bassist Nikita Naumov, Spire concert series, Glasgow

Sunday 3 November 2019, Pollok House Arts Society

Friday 27 September 2019, Order of st John Soirée, Ross Priory

Saturday 30 March 2019, Spire concert series, Glasgow

Friday 23 November 2018, West Coast Arts, Poolewe

Sunday 4 November 2018, Penicuik Community Arts Association

Saturday 21 April 2018, Sphere concerts

Tuesday 18 April 2017, Tuneful Tuesdays concert series, Royal Faculty of Procurators Glasgow

Friday 14 April 2017, West Kilbride

Sunday 5 February 2017, Gatehouse of Fleet

Friday 27 January 2017, Catstrand

Saturday 16 August 2016, St Conan’s, Loch Awe

Wednesday 8 June 2016, Ross Priory

Saturday 6 April 2016, Clydebank

Saturday 2 April 2016, Sphere concert series

Saturday 5 March 2016, Ayr Music Cub

Monday 16 November 2015, Portree, Skye

Sunday 25 October 2015, Cowal Music Club

Friday 31 October 2014, Ross Priory

Tuesday 14 October 2014, Lockerbie Music Society

Friday 10 October 2014, Balerno Music Festival

Saturday 16 August 2014, Edinburgh Fringe

Friday 4 April 2014, Sphere concert series

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