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The Distil Showcase was held in the Tolbooth in Stirling on Friday 8th April 2016 at 8pm. The concert showcased the new and exciting music of traditional music composers. Mr McFall’s Chamber was the resident house band once again. Mhairi Mackinnon has wrote music called The Hebridean Collective. This is a suit comprising of four melodies inspired by […]

This is a piece based on a Scottish reel – The Merry Lads of Ayr found in the Athole Collection. I chose it because I thought it would fit well with the instruments of the quintet. I’ve tried to make the piece fun to play (time will tell!) whilst keeping a ‘traditional’ sense about it. […]

This pieces was commissioned by Nigel Richard’s Garvie Bagpipes in 2007. The Garvie Bagpipe Concerto is a new piece of music in three movements by composer Simon Thoumire written to demonstrate the range and beauty of the Garvie Scottish Smallpipes with their newly developed fully chromatic chanter. The soloist of the piece, will be Dr […]

This was commissioned by Creative Scotland in 2007 and performed by Mairi Campbell at the Scots Fiddle Festival – Nov 2007. This was the first of the pieces I wrote in the series of 3 solos, 1 duet and concerto for the Scots fiddle. The idea is that the musician uses their own ornamentation and […]

This was commissioned by Creative Scotland in 2007 and performed at the Scots Fiddle Festival in November of the same year. It was performed by Aidan O’Rourke. Composer website: http://www.simonthoumire.com Publisher: PRS for Music Tune type: Score Listen: If you have a question for Simon Thoumire you can contact them here. If there is no […]