ILLUMINIGHT, the new fire and light spectacular in Kilmarnock’s Dean Castle Country Park opens today, October 25.
Visitors can enjoy light shows and illuminated stories as they walk along the 1.5km trail through the historic woodlands.
Kilmarnock Water will be illuminated and there will be a "sensory fairy woodland."
There will also be light and fire shows at the Old Quarry Pond and a grand finale in the Courtyard of Dean Castle.
The event runs until November 19, every night except Mondays, and some allocated time slots are already sold out.
www.illuminight.co.uk
North American violinist Sharon Roffman has been appointed as the new Leader of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
Roffman will share the role with current Leader Maya Iwabuchi, who was appointed to the position in 2011.
Roffman succeeds previous Leader James Clark, who departed in 2015.
Graduate of New York’s Julliard School of Music, Roffman has performed with some of the world’s leading symphony and chamber ensembles.
She has forged a career as a soloist, making her debut in 1996 with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, made her Carnegie Hall debut with Itzhak Perlman performing Vivaldi’s Concerto for Four Violins in 2004.
Roffman joins the RSNO as the twenty-third Leader of Scotland’s national orchestra in early 2018.
Her first appearance with the Orchestra was with Music Director Peter Oundjian in a programme which included the Scottish premiere of James MacMillan’s Little Mass, Szymanowski’s Violin Concerto No2 (with soloist Nicola Benedetti) and Berlioz’ Symphonie Fantastique, in 2016.
Roffman plays a 1776 Giovanni Battista Guadagnini violin from Turin and an Étienne Pajeot bow.
www.rsno.org.uk.
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts in Scotland (BAFTA Scotland) has announced that Armando Iannucci and Doug Allan will receive Awards for Outstanding Contribution at the British Academy Scotland Awards on 5 November.
The ceremony will take place at Glasgow’s Radisson Blu Hotel and will be hosted by Edith Bowman,
Multi BAFTA-winning writer, producer, director and political satirist, Armando Iannucci, will be presented with the Award for Outstanding Contribution to Film and Television.
Born in Glasgow, Iannucci started his career with BBC Scotland in the early 1990s. went on to gain recognition for numerous productions including his work on BBC situation comedy, I’m Alan Partridge, the political sitcom and film, The Thick Of It, which led into In The Loop, and provided further inspiration for the Emmy award winning Veep. This year has seen the premiere of his second feature film, The Death of Stalin.
Cameraman Doug Allan will receive the Award for Outstanding Contribution to Craft (In Memory of Robert McCann).
www.bafta.org/scotland
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