The Night With…: Open Fund for Organisations
The Night With…’s 2020 season will feature 20 concerts with performances by Juice Vocal Ensemble, the Robinson Panoramic Quartet, Red Note Ensemble and Emma Lloyd featuring new commissions and a call for scores for solo violin and electronics.
The Night With… is a charity based in Glasgow presenting salon style concerts of interesting music in intimate, informal venues across Scotland and further afield. Run by Matthew Whiteside, it provides development and commissioning opportunities for young and emerging composers and in 2020 won the SMIA Award for Creative Programming at the Scottish Awards for New Music.
Since 2016 there has been 41 concerts with 21 world premières in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen. Performers have included Garth Knox, Red Note Ensemble, Juice Vocal Ensemble, James Turnbull, Wooden Elephant, Joanna Nicholson, Frances Cooper and Carla Rees. Premièred composers have included Claire McCue, George Stevenson, Diana Salazar, Emily Doolittle, Timothy Cooper, Sheena Philips, Matthew Whiteside and Samuel Beagles.
The Night With… runs a yearly Call for Scores for self-defined emerging composers with no age limit. In 2017 this was for the Aurea Quartet and won by George Stevenson, the 2018 call was for Juice Vocal Ensemble and won by Sheena Phillips and the 2019 call was for the Hermes Experiment won by Ruari Patterson-Achenbach.
In 2020 The Night With… Live Vol. One was released featuring a selection of music recorded during the 2019 season.
In October 2018 The Night With… was founded as a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation.