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Ovation - commissioning exciting new works for musicians and composers with disabilities

Ovation is Drake Music Scotland’s programme which commissions innovative new music and high profile performances which push boundaries for musical instruments and audience perceptions of what musicians with disabilities can achieve. With support from PRS for Music Foundation we are commissioning the following three new works:

The Red Planet Suite
Composer Lewis Forbes will write a sequence of pieces for a range of conventional instruments and inclusive technologies (instruments which can be played by those with limited movement) based on the theme of Mars. The work will be performed by young people with disabilities and the Edinburgh Schools Jazz Orchestra at a major concert at The Queen’s Hall.

Tiny Tarantella and other works
Commissioning 3 student composers from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland to write challenging new music for The Digital Ensemble — Drake Music Scotland’s collective for five talented young musicians with severe physical disabilities. The pieces will push the boundaries of what inclusive instruments can do and will be performed in the Stevenson Hall at the 2015 PLUG Festival (‘Scotland’s most ambitious and daring new music project — The Herald’)

Equilibrium
Disabled composer Amy Moar will write new music for a Traditional Music ensemble which brings together Electronic Harps and Pipes and ‘Trad’ instruments (i.e Fiddle, Clarsach) which will be premiered at Glasgow’s Celtic Connections in 2016.