Drake Music Scotland is delighted to announce that we’ve been awarded a grant from the D’Addario Foundation! Thank you to the D’Addario Foundation for your ongoing support of our organization and our community.
We are delighted to confirm that Associate Musician Farhad Ahmed will lead a new creative project with disabled artists as Out of the Common. They will explore Hip Hop, Indian Dance, Algorave & experimental music. They will be working on new material during the summer 2025 with a performance planned for September. More details to...
Greta Chambers-McMillan was excited to be one of 9 artists selected to be part of the Room To Play creative project run by Tinderbox Collective at Hidden Door 2025. Working closely with Ray Interactive and Hidden Door, the 9 artists developed interactive visuals that were shared as an installation in the Paper Factory from the...
Drake Musician Rhona Smith was delighted to take part in the Distill Residency run by Hands Up For Trad at Wiston Lodge this April. 8 Musicians gathered for 4 days of workshops around improvisation, composing and developing creative ideas – led by tutors Allie Robertson and Graham Stephen. Rhona was delighted to be part of...
Congratulations! Letting the Light In – by Sarah Lianne Lewis won a prestigious Royal Philharmonic Award for Chamber Composition at a recent Award Ceremony at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. This beautiful piece written for prepared piano was part of our Beyond Borders project in collaboration with Tŷ Cerdd and NMC Recordings. Here is what the...
Filmmaker Tom Swift has been following Rhona Smith and Stephanie Humphreys as they developed a new composition for the Edinburgh International Harp Festival. “Finding Voices” offers insight into the technology that Rhona uses to create and perform on her Digital Harp and also how ideas and creative decisions are explored through a collaborative and patient...
MAKING WAVES the latest in our series of groundbreaking concerts with the renowned Hebrides Ensemble This June, Drake Music Scotland is presenting not one but two thrilling concerts celebrating the work of UK-based disabled composers and musicians in collaboration with the Hebrides Ensemble and pianist Nicholas McCarthy, world leading exponent of work for left-hand only...
Sean Logan presented Collide to a packed audience at the CCA in Glasgow as part of Cryptic Nights on Thursday 6th March. This was a collaboration with visual artist Angus Bradley. This ambitious performance included original music composed and performed by Sean with a huge backdrop projection featuring live interactive visuals of a future world...
The latest event in our CREATE artist-led programme is the culmination of the Disabled Artist Network’s Beyond Borders, Beyond Barriers project featuring new work by six composers from England, Scotland and Wales composed for outstanding Welsh pianist Siwan Rhys, a leading exponent of experimental contemporary work for her instrument: https://www.siwanrhys.co.uk Through a series of creative...
Chief Executive Thursa Sanderson shares highlights of this summer’s memorable Create Programme Call of the Mountains Clare Johnston’s Collaboration with Eegeru Ensemble, Kazakhstan – ‘An extraordinary multi-cultural union’ [Jim Gilchrist, The Scotsman] Multi-talented composer, technologist and music educator Clare Johnston has been nurturing a link with the contemporary Kazakh ensemble Eegeru since 2021. She...
