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Lunchtime Concert: Hebrides Ensemble - Helen Grime Album Launch
Lunchtime listening: come along to celebrate the release of Hebrides Ensemble's recording of chamber music by composer Helen Grime. There is no charge, and all are welcome!
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Date: Thursday 25 September 2025
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Venue: University Concert Hall
Category: Concerts and music
Hebrides Ensemble will be playing select pieces from the album including ‘Snow and Snow’ and ‘Harp of the North’.
The event will also feature a special Q&A session with Hebrides Ensemble Artistic Director Will Conway and composer Helen Grime.
About Hebrides Ensemble:
Hebrides Ensemble is one of the foremost chamber music collectives in the UK. Co-founded and led by Artistic Director William Conway, it is renowned for its fresh approach to programming with a focus on music of the 20th and 21st centuries, including almost 100 world premieres. This is an international ensemble with its roots in Scottish culture which performs regularly at venues and festivals throughout the UK and Europe, including the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam, Kings Place and Wigmore Hall in London, Aldeburgh Festival, St Magnus Festival, Lammermuir Festival, Cumnock Tryst, BBC Proms and Edinburgh International Festival.
The Ensemble supports the next generation of performers, composers, artistic directors and cultural leaders through its partnerships and programme. We make recordings of music of this time and place that has meaning of audiences now, and in the future.
Hebrides Ensemble recently released their much-anticipated showcase recording, celebrating the chamber music of Helen Grime. This was the sixth volume in the Scotland’s Composers series on Delphian Records, following previous award-winning releases of music by Stuart MacRae, Judith Weir, Nigel Osborne, Peter Maxwell Davies and James MacMillan.
About Helen Grime:
The music of Helen Grime has been performed by leading orchestras around the world, among them the London Symphony Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductors who have championed her music include Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Mark Elder, Pierre Boulez, Kent Nagano, Oliver Knussen, George Benjamin, Daniel Harding, Marin Alsop and Thomas Dausgaard. Her music frequently draws inspiration from related artforms such as painting (Two Eardley Pictures, Three Whistler Miniatures), sculpture (Woven Space) and literature (A Cold Spring, Near Midnight, Limina) and has won praise in equal measure for the craftsmanship of its construction and the urgency of its telling.
Born in 1981, Grime attended St Mary’s Music School in Edinburgh and, following studies at the Royal College of Music in London, was awarded a Leonard Bernstein Fellowship to attend Tanglewood Music Center in 2008. Between 2011 and 2015 she was Associate Composer to the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester and in 2016 was appointed Composer in Residence at Wigmore Hall in London. She was Lecturer in Composition at Royal Holloway, University of London, between 2010 and 2017 and is currently Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She was appointed MBE in the 2020 New Year Honours List for services to music.