The annual Weekend for Art Lovers at Gleneagles Hotel by Auchterarder in Perthshire organised by Ealain Gallery and Brave Original Art is at Easter this year, from the evening of Friday April 3 to Monday April 6.
Tickets for the champagne preview on the Friday are £10, in aid of Forth Valley neonatal, maternity and paediatric support charity So Precious, and thereafter admission is free. The exhibition in the hotel ballroom is now in its ninth year and will be open from 10am to 8pm on Saturday and Sunday and until 3pm on Easter Monday. Over 100 original Scottish works of art and ceramics will be on sale.
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The National Youth Orchestra of Scotland chose the first day of the Chinese New Year of the Pig to launch its new season brochure for auspicious reasons. At the start of August the young musicians are playing three concerts in three of the amazing new concert halls that have been built recently in China, in Shanghai, Beijing and Tianjin, following in the footsteps of the BBC SSO and the RSNO. Their conductor for the trip will be another dynamic young Scot, Rory Macdonald and they will be joined by pianist Danny Driver, the soloist for the Piano Concerto No1 "Piobaireachd", by Scots composer Erik Chisholm.
Before all that excitement, however, the orchestra has spring concerts at the City Halls in Glasgow and Caird Hall, Dundee on April 7 and 8 when Nicolas Collon, pictured, who was on the podium with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra last weekend, will be conducting Rachmaninov's Second Symphony, another of the works to be played in China. For these concerts it is teamed with the world premiere of John McLeod's new revision of his piano concerto, which the composer himself will conduct, with James Willshire the soloist.
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Cellist Oliver Coates, who was one of the musical contributors to Cryptic's memorable Pacific Quay Sound to Sea event last summer, is teaming up with director Cathie Boyd again for concerts in Glasgow and London next month. The performances, at the Art School in Glasgow on April 15 and King's Place in London on April 19, will also feature visuals by video artist Laura Colmenares Guerra for a programme ranging from
Squarepusher and Mica Levi to Olivier Messiaen and Michael Gordon.
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