Chamber music concerts in Inverness Town House go from strength to strength during November with two events by internationally recognised musician, all making their Inverness debuts.

At One With Music will be presenting a lunchtime concert on Monday 7^th November by violinist Harriet Mackenzie and pianist Christina Lawrie, known collectively as The Sutherland Duo, a name chosen when they discovered their families originated in two adjacent Sutherland glens.  They bring their programme of works by Brahms, Elgar and Sarasate to Inverness as a concert under their Enterprise Music Scotland Residency.

Harriet Mackenzie is now based in London, having graduated from the Royal Academy of Music with First Class Honours.  She is a dedicated chamber musician and her involvement with a number of ensembles takes her all over the world  –  her next engagement after Inverness is a tour of China.

Dundee based Christina Lawrie is one of the most exciting piano talents to emerge in Scotland in recent years.  She is well known in the area following solo recitals in Nairn and Invergordon, but this is her first concert in Inverness Town House.  She broadcasts regularly on BBC Radio 3, has performed at the Wigmore Hall and is a member of both the Park Lane Group Young Artists Scheme and the South Bank Centre’s prestigious Fresh Young Musicians Platform.

Tickets for The Sutherland Duo will be available on the door from 12.30pm, costing £5 for adults, £4 for concessions and £1 for children.  The concert starts at 1.00pm and will last for about fifty minutes.

On Wednesday 16^th November, Inverness Chamber Music brings the acclaimed Vida Guitar Quartet to the Town House for a full evening concert.  The Quartet features two of the top Marks in the classical guitar world, Mark Ashford and Mark Eden, along with Christopher Stell and Helen Sanderson, all playing a set of identical guitars made especially for them by Christopher Dean.

Having just returned from a tour of the United States playing to full houses from California to New York and receiving plaudits for their new CD “Love The Magician” The Vida Guitar Quartet will be performing a wide selection of the guitar repertoire arranged by or written for them, including works by Turina, de Falla and Bizet.

Tickets for the Vida Guitar Quartet are available from Eden Court Box Office or at the door on the night from 7.30pm, costing £12 for adults, £11 for Eden Court Friends and £3 for students etc.  The concert will start at 8.00pm.

Source: James Munro