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Guide to Course Levels & Teaching Method

Course Levels

Beginner: You have no experience of playing the harp.
Post-Beginner: You took last year’s beginners’ class, have had relatively few lessons and/or require help with basic technique.
Elementary: You can already perform simple tunes, require further help in consolidating basic technique and wish to work slowly and carefully.
Intermediate: You already have good technique and can work at a moderate pace.
Advanced: Your technique is good and you wish to stretch yourself.
Mixed Ability: For all levels, except Beginner or Post-beginner.

For further advice about course levels please contact us on +44 (0) 131 445 2022

Teaching Method

E: teaching will be by ear with no written music given out
E+M: teaching will be by ear with written music given out during or at the end of the class or course
M: teaching will be from written music
M+E: written music will be given at the start of each course. Teaching methods will be sympathetic to all levels of skill in reading music.

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Book:: EVENT HAS PASSED
Start:: Tuesday April 3rd, 7:30 pm
End:: Tuesday April 3rd, 10:00 pm
Cost:: £14.50 (£12.50)

Event Code:: C11
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Category:: Catriona McKay, Concerts, Sally Beamish

Catriona McKay / Chris Stout / Seavaigers Concerto / Scottish Ensemble

Catriona McKay and Chris Stout

Having gigged, explored and sculpted their musical identities together Catriona McKay, Scottish harp and Chris Stout, Shetland fiddle ‘blend elemental intensity with graceful eloquence’ to create a ‘virtuosic and physically engaging’ duo sound sensation.

‘This music is breathtaking’. fRoots

Seavaigers – Sally Beamish

Commissioned by Celtic Connections and the Edinburgh International Harp Festival with funding from Creative Scotland. Seavaigers is a concerto for Scottish harp, fiddle and string orchestra and is collaboration between its composer, Sally Beamish, Chris and Catriona.

The title means “Seafarers” and refers both to the seafaring people of the North Sea and the two soloists, Catriona from Dundee and Chris from Shetland. The stretch of water between these two ports has claimed countless lives over the centuries, but is also one of the most beautiful and romantic seascapes in the world—home to seabirds, whales, dolphins and endless changes of light and weather. Strong emotions are always connected to dangerous journeys and the piece reflects the anticipation, fear, comradeship and adventure of sea voyaging.

Commissioned by the Edinburgh International Harp Festival and Celtic Connections with support from Creative Scotland.

Sponsored by the Edinburgh Branch of The Clarsach Society