Wed 14th February 2024 Originally formed by a group of friends and fellow-students at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2018, the Resol Quartet is already a well established group with an impressive record of public performance, prestigious awards and…
Wed 10th January 2024 Looking back on the archive of recent Strathearn Music Society concerts one doesn’t have to search far before encountering a glowing review of the Gaia Duo (Katrina Lee, violin and Alice Allen, cello) who played for…
Wed 15th November 2023 The Strathearn Music Society has a proven track record of successfully promoting young performers at the start of their career and, as a Royal Conservatoire of Scotland graduate of only one year’s standing, Singaporean pianist Jia…
Wed 27th September 2023 The first concert of another SMS season and the first storm of another autumn, so it was a fairly reduced audience to welcome the four clarinettists who form Silver Keys. Formed five years ago as a…
Wed 8th March 2023 Rachel Podger has established herself as a leading interpreter of music from the Baroque and Classical periods, and her concert of solo violin music seemed a fitting culmination to the current SMS season, focussing on the…
Wed 15th February 2023 Less than six months after his solo recital last October, guitarist Sasha Savaloni returned to Crieff last week to rescue an unavoidable change to this season’s SMS schedule. This time, as half of the Holland-Savaloni Duo,…
Wed 25th January 2023 Two young men at the outset of what by rights should be a stellar career, violinist Anthony Poon and pianist Galin Ganchev, are worthy winners of a Tunnell Trust Award which is currently enabling them to…
Wed 19th October 2022 Autumn concert-going routines are now firmly re-established and it felt good to be part of a pretty full house in St Andrew’s Halls last Wednesday for an evening of guitar music with Sasha Savaloni. Crieff is…
16 March 2022 This past season the Strathearn Music Society has given us six concerts featuring five different forms of chamber music, ranging from solo piano through to wind quintet. In between there have been a string quartet, a string…
23 February 2022 Concluding a short Scottish tour in Crieff last Wednesday, the members of the Oliveros Ensemble appeared upbeat despite having experienced some challenging weather events en route. Continued high winds and rain also plainly deterred some of the…
