An Ealdhain Arts Trust, a new body dedicated to presenting high quality exhibitions in Inverness-shire, based at the Lime Tree Gallery in Fort William, launches on July 18 with a show, A Window to the West, which runs to August 30.
The exhibition is drawn from the collection of the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh and spans almost 200 years of paintings and sketches of Fort William and the West Highlands. Mallaig by Sir William Gillies is joined by works from William Beattie Brown through to contemporary artists including Frances Walker and Alex Boyd.
The exhibition follows a 2008 collaboration between the RSA and Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee, Highland Art: A Window to the West. Dr Joanna Soden, who was one of the curators of that show, will give a talk in the gallery on August 4.
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After five years operating without a konzertmeister, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra yesterday named Stephanie Gonley as its new leader. Gonley, pictured, has frequently been seen on the concert platform as the SCO's guest leader this season and takes up the post officially as the orchestra is on a short Highland tour with conductor and soloist Alexander Janiczek, playing Fraserburgh United Reformed Church tonight and Blair Castle, Blair Atholl tomorrow.
Gonley is also leader of the English Chamber Orchestra and the Vellinger Quartet and she will lead eight weeks of the SCO's 2015/16 season, working with Principal Conductor Robin Ticciati, Principal Guest Conductor Emmanuel Krivine, Conductor Laureate Joseph Swensen and regular early music specialist conductor Richard Egarr. Before that she will be in the leader's chair for Edinburgh Festival concerts under the batons of William Christie and Sir Andrew Davis.
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Australian saxophonist Sandy Evans returns to Scotland to play at the Jazz Bar in Edinburgh on Sunday, July 19. Evans, who lived in Glasgow during the 1980s and is married to Scottish saxophonist Tony Gorman, will be appearing with Scottish bassist Brodie Jarvie's group and performing excerpts from the suite she composed as a response to her husband living with MS, When the Sky Cries Rainbows, as well as some of Jarvie's compositions. A musician of wide experience and with over forty recordings on her CV, she arrives in Scotland from Bali, where she played as guest soloist with the University of New South Wales gamelan for the Bali Arts Festival. http://sandyevans.com.au
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