Kathryn Tickell: The Open Fund for Music Creators
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“I have been working with my own band for over 20 years and this has always been the main outlet for my music – various combinations of musicians, but always working with traditional folk musicians – tending to work very much by ear. Over recent years I have become more and more interested in notated composition for classical players, but this feels very different to my work with my band. With any new combination of instruments – and musicians – it takes a while to get to the heart of how the instruments and musical minds of the players can best work together. I want to really work on the musical ideas in advance, in the way I would do with notated composition: challenging myself to find new ways into the music and the harmony. And to have enough time to rehearse like we would in the folk scene: to really absorb the music, to work with it together so that the individual personalities of the musicians does start to affect and possibly alter the original scored parts.” Kathryn Tickell.
Kathryn Tickell is the world’s foremost exponent of the Northumbrian pipes, a composer, performer and recording artist, recipient of the Queen’s Medal for Music, and current BBC Folk Awards “Musician of the Year.” With Kathryn, The Side consists of Amy Thatcher, accordionist and clog dancer, member of The Shee and The Monster Ceilidh Band; classically trained Scottish harpist Ruth Wall, who performs as a soloist and in ensembles (Goldfrapp, Fitkin) as well as working extensively with composers, orchestras, electronic and visual artists; and Louisa Tuck, principal cellist at Northern Sinfonia, who performs as a soloist and with the RPO, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the John Wilson Orchestra.
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