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Edinburgh-based Hebrides Ensemble is one of Scotland's foremost contemporary music groups, specialising in new, twentieth and twenty-first century chamber music, music theatre and chamber opera.

Led by the cellist and conductor William Conway and drawing upon the finest musicians within Scotland and Europe, Hebrides Ensemble tours frequently to venues from the far North of Scotland to the Wigmore Hall, performs at international festivals and broadcasts and records regularly.

Acclaimed for its imaganitive and innovative programming and presentation of works and outstanding quality of performance the group has recently been invited to join the prestigious Re: New network of European contemporary music ensembles.

The recent nomination and short-listing in the Chamber Music category in the 2009 Royal Philharmonic Society Awards was a welcome confirmation of our growing success.

Next Concerts: 

 

Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire .....Love Struck By The Moon.

Hebrides Ensemble performs Arnold Schoenberg's landmark work Pierrot Lunaire alongside other works by Debussy, Chopin, Beamish and Grime, all inspired by the Commedia dell'arte. Pierrot Lunaire was written in 1912 for small chamber ensemble and speaker and will go on tour throughout Scotland in March.

We will be joined by acclaimed actress Sylvie Rohrer from the Burgtheatre in Vienna in what will be a surreal and theatrical performance. 

Please download the programme notes for Pierrot Lunaire.

10th March, Victoria Halls, Helensburgh 
11th March, Mull Theatre, Tobermoray
13th March, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
14th March, Eden Court, Inverness

 

 

 

Our latest podcast episode includes interviews with Will Conway, Sally Beamish and Helen Grime, going into more depth about this programme.

Pierrot Lunaire - Preview Podcast

 

In addition to listening to the preview podcast in advance of these performances we also invite you to: 
 

1. Download the poems by Albert Giruad on which Pierrot Lunaire is based; 
2. Listen to some of Pierrot Lunaire at the website of the Arnold Schoenberg Centre; 
3. And download the programme notes. 

And, purely for fun, you might also like this rather tongue in cheek video:

  

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