Six talented young musicians from St Mary’s Music School, Edinburgh will give concerts for North Highland Connections on Tuesday 7 June in Thurso High School and on Wednesday 8 June in Dornoch Cathedral.  Both concerts start at 7.30pm and tickets, price£8 (£6 concession) for Thurso, and admission by donation at Dornoch. Further information, phone 07521077053

The performers, who are all senior pupils of Scotland’s specialist music school, will play a programme of music for piano trio, string quartet and solo instruments by Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Prokofiev, Debussy and Bartok, as well as traditional Scottish music.

The string quartet, who played earlier this year in the Royal Northern College of Music’s Chamber Music Festival in Manchester, is led by local violinist Matthew Fields, from Brough.  Matthew is in his final year at St Mary’s Music School and has recently been performing with some of the most highly regarded string players in Europe, as the Scottish Ensemble’s Young Artist, a position created specially for Matthew.

Mairi Chaimbeul, from Skye, will play clarsach. Mairi has enjoyed success in both BBC Radio Scotland’s Young Traditional Musician of the Year and Young Jazz Musician of the Year competitions and is a regular prize-winner at the Royal National Mod.  She has been awarded a scholarship from Berklee College of Music in the USA.

Matthew and Mairi are joined in these concerts by Sarah Park, piano, Kirsty Main, violin, Phoebe Rees, viola and Arend Koeditz, cello.

Source: North Highland Connections