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The Bubblyjock Collective
Trio - Vocal & Instrumental
Instrumentation
- Rosie Lavery - Soprano
- Anna Michels - Piano
- Neil Sutcliffe - Classical Accordion
Repertoire
The Bubblyjock Collective perform a variety of programmes - both introducing audiences to a variety of Scottish composers, and focussing in on one particular composer and their works. Our concerts usually feature a mix of solo works for piano or classical accordion, Scottish art songs, our own arrangements for the ensemble, and new works commisioned for the Collective.
A sample of the composers we feature (find out more on our website):
Isobel Dunlop (1901-75)
Marie Dare (1902-76)
Erik Chisholm (1904-65)
Ronald Center (1913–73)
Ronald Stevenson (1928-2015)
Claire Liddell (b. 1973)
Padruig Morrison
Biography
The Bubblyjock Collective is a collaboration between Rosie Lavery (soprano), Anna Michels (piano) and Neil Sutcliffe (free-bass accordion), celebrating the music of neglected Scottish composers. The collective focus on music written during the 19th and 20th centuries by people born in Scotland or with a strong Scottish cultural connection. Composers like Ronald Stevenson, Erik Chisholm, Buxton Orr, Marie Dare and Isobel Dunlop (to mention but a few) may be known by some aficionados of the Scottish classical scene, but in general their music is underperformed and much of it lies unknown in archives and libraries across the country.
We aim to revive this music – to take it out of the archives and back into public performance!
The Bubblyjock Collective performs programmes featuring Scottish art song, instrumental music for piano and accordion, as well as new works commissioned for the ensemble. This mixture of songs and instrumental music emphasises the links to wider Scottish culture – poems by Scottish poets like Hugh MacDiarmid, Violet Jacob, and William Soutar are brought to life in a rich musical accompaniment which places the Scots language to the foreground. Landscape and places are conjured up by pieces like Ronald Stevenson’s South-Uist Folk Song Suite, and Claire Liddell’s Five Orkney Scenes. And new music by contemporary composers reflects a modern Scotland, with fresh ideas and sounds that look to the future.
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