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Nordic Viola with Icelander Arnhildur Valgarðsdóttir in Stromness

Adrian Vernon Fish, Arnhildur Vargarðsdóttir, Contemporary Music, Gemma McGregor, Greenland, Grieg, Iceland, Jón Thorarinsson, Nordic Culture, North Atlantic, Orkney, Orkney Norwegian Friendship Association, Qaanaaq, Shetland, Tom Deyell, Traditional music, Viola

Whale Song

Sunday 8th August, Fishmarket Arbroath 2020+1 12pm A new collaborative performance of music and poetry inspired by whale song, devised … More

Alex South, Arbroath 2020+1, clarinet, composition, Contemporary Music, Greenland, Iceland, Improvisation, Lesley Harrison, North Atlantic, Viola

Sea Stories – A competition for Young People

Sea Stories-konkurrence – See below Sea Stories keppni – See below Are you fascinated by the sea, the sound it … More

Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, North Atlantic, Orkney, Sea, Shetland, Workshops

Sagas and Seascapes Launches

2020 saw Nordic Viola’s first foray into online concerts with our popular Histories and Herstories video performance. As our lives … More

Aud, Competition, Danish Music, Dávur Juul Magnussen, Eli Tausen á Lava, Gemma McGregor, Icelandic Sagas, Kári Bæk, Landscape Art, Lillie Harris, Linda Buckley, Norse, North Atlantic, Orkney, Orkney International Science Festival, Orkneyinga Saga, Orla Stevens, Sagas and Seascapes, Workshops

Histories and Herstories – Meet the Composers

I should should have been in Shetland for the next two weeks with my colleagues Emily Nenniger, Anne Bünemann and … More

Fiddle, Hjaltibonhoga, Margaret Robertson, North Atlantic, Shetland, The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, Tom Anderson, Traditional music, Trevor Hunter, UHI, Yell

Shoormal Conference Shetland

Sometimes it feels like the places I love most don’t want to let me go. The time I almost missed … More

flute, geese, Gemma McGregor, Greenland, Iceland, Inuit music, Mareel, Morag Currie, Mykines, Nordic Culture, Nordic Music, Norse, North Atlantic, Ntalie Cairns-Ratter, Orkney, Renzo Spiteri, Rural Arts, Shetland, Shetland arts, Shetland Place Names, Shoormal Conference, UHI, Viola

2 Violas – Concert at Mengi, Reykjavik

Back in September 2016 I met Charles Ross at Seyðisfjörður in East Iceland. I confess to feeling a little nervous. … More

Charles Ross, Contemporary Music, Electronics, Emily Doolittle, Iceland, Improvisation, Kristian Blak, Mengi, Nordic Culture, North Atlantic, Reykjavik, Viola, Whales

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  • Gemma McGregor’s Pilgrim’s Path: A Musical Journey comes to Dunblane
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  • The Sound of Ice: Interpreting Polar Soundings by Karen Power

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