A magnificient and emotional day in Japan

In the Shinto Temple of Akama Jingu in Shimonoseki...a traditional ceremony to celebrate the wedding of Pascal & Ami...close family and special friends joined us for a beautiful and simple celebration...there was music and dance...we drank sake and clapped our hands to wake up the Gods and remind them to bring us their blessings... Read More...

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Stephen Hough Concert on Friday 4th December 2009 will be held at a new venue for Pollok House Arts Society - The Fotheringay Centre.

Only about 2 miles from Pollok House, The Fotheringay Centre has excellent acoustics and can accommodate 400. During December Pollok House is not available to Pollok House Arts Society.

The format and times for concerts is exactly the same as for a concert at Pollok House

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Pollok House Arts Society has just been registered as a charity- number SCO40759

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Stephen Hough who plays for us on 4th December has played five times this year, twice more than any other soloist. This is clear evidence of the respect with which the musical society holds him. Here is part of an article that appeared in the Times.

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Artists who have or are about to perform for Pollok House Arts Society have done well in this year’s Proms

Stephen Hough piano - 5 performances

Llyr Williams piano - 3 performances
Ashley Wass piano - 3 performances

Natalie Clein cello - 2 performances
Steven Isserlis cello - 2 performances
Elizabeth Watts soprano - 2 performances

John Mark Ainsley tenor - 1 performance
Claire Debbon, soprano - 1 performance
Stephen Osborne piano - 1 performance
Malcolm Martineau piano - 1 performance

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Glasgow

Pollok House Arts Society are delighted that UNESCO have recognised that Glasgow has such a strong musical heritage. In the fields of classical music we are home to the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, The BBC Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Opera, Scottish Ballet and smaller groups like the Scottish Ensemble.

Seville, Spain - 30 March 2006; Bologna, Italy - 29 May 2006; Glasgow, Scotland UK - 21 August 2008

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Katrina, Jack and I witnessed a tour-de-force performance of Mendelssohn’s Octet at Òran Mór on Monday 23 June 2008. As one of the highlights of the West End Festival, the Alba Quartet and the Fejes Quartet played a wonderful and mixed programme eventually teaming up to play Mendelssohn’s Octet.

Michael Tumelty awards the performance five stars. The Alba Quartet will be playing for us next season and it will be a crime if we do not persuade the Fejes String Quartet to play in the near future.
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Tuesday 12 August - Royal Albert Hall
Ashley Wass will make his BBC Proms Debut performing Vaughan Williams Piano Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Vassily Sinaisky. He will also be performing with the BBCPO again next season at Bridgewater Hall.

However he is not being allowed to rest up.

In June, Ashley has been invited to perform Messiaen’s ‘Oiseaux Exotique’ with the Orquestra Real Filharmonia de Galicia at the Festival Mozart, Coroña. Later this month commissioned by Naxos he will record Bax piano and orchestra works with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra .

Make a date on 13 August 2008 to go through to the Usher Hall and see Claire Debono, one half of ¡Canto vivo!, signing in Handel's "Israel in Egypt"

The Scottish Chamber Orchestra is reunited with baroque conductor Emmanuelle Haïm, having triumphed with their 2003 performance of Handel's Poro. The soloists are…

Soprano - Lucy Crowe, Claire Debono
Countertenor - Robin Blaze
Tenor - Mark Tucker
Bass - Matthew Brook, Henry Waddington

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