At One With Music enters its Summer 2013 Season with two very special lunchtime concerts in Inverness Town House.

On Tuesday 4th June at 1.00pm, the outstanding young fiddler and violinist, Graham Mackenzie from Culloden returns home from completing his fourth year at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester to perform a selection of twenty-nine tunes in a mix of Scots traditional and light classical styles accompanied by his mother and local music teacher Alison Mackenzie at the piano.

Graham’s programme will feature traditional tunes from Orkney and Shetland, from Ireland and Cape Breton, as well as numbers written by Phil Cunningham, Fritz Kreisler, Nigel Hess and some of Graham’s own compositions. He will end with a tribute to the great Scott Skinner.

In recent years Graham has been earning plaudits and awards in many areas. He has been a finalist in both the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year and the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Awards; he has won the Scottish Fiddle Championships at both junior and senior level, won the Oban Invitational Fiddle Masters Competition and was runner-up in the prestigious Glenfiddich Fiddle Championships.

The following week, on Wednesday 12th June at 1.00pm At One With Music is delighted to welcome back the excellent Sutherland Duo of violinist Harriet Mackenzie and pianist Christina Lawrie. Both have endeared themselves to the Inverness audience on their past visits, not only together but also in a solo recital by Christina and by Harriet in her world music trio Kosmos.

Harriet and Christina have chosen two beautiful works to play at this concert; the Violin Sonata No 3 in C minor by Edvard Grieg and Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir d’un lieu cher (Memories of a much loved place), which is taken to mean Brailovo, the country estate of his benefactress Nadezhda von Meck. The third movement “Melodie” has developed an existence of its own.

For both concerts the Town House doors will be opened at 12.30pm. Admission costs £5 for Adults and £1 for Children. The concerts will last approximately 55 minutes.

Source: James Munro