2024
McGuire's piano music selection now available on YouTube
Christopher Baxter has recorded and posted a substantial selection of Eddie McGuire piano music on YouTube. See here:
https://youtu.be/yv9VF4yc1S4
Scottish Music Centre Concert ~ February 16th at 6pm 100 Candleriggs Glasgow G1 1NQ
Huixin Hu (violin) and Baichuan Hui (piano) include Eddie's Scot in China and Air and Dances in a concert of music by Chinese and Scottish composers
Luxembourg concert ~ February 19th in Philharmonie Luxembourg at 7.30pm
Eddie's arrangement of Zi Zhu Diao and Xi Yangyang (Purple Bamboo & Song of Happiness) Chinese Dances is performed by Midori and Soloistes Europeens Luxembourg conducted by Christoph Konig
Scottish Music Centre concert ~ February 22 at 7.30pm 100 Candleriggs, Glasgow G1 1NQ
Richard Deering includes Eddie's Prelude 7 in his recital of piano music by Scottish composers
Accordion Concerto recording ~ February 27 BBC Maida Vale Studios London
Owen Murray records Eddie's Accordion Concerto with BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Sir James MacMillan. Studio recording for future broadcast, hence without audience
Kieran McCrossan guitar series ~ March 2024 various venues
Guitarist Kieran McCrossan will include Eddie's Slipjig Blues in his recitals: March 3rd 4pm Holy Trinity St Andrews; March 5th 1pm Kirkcaldy Art Gallery; March 8th 7pm Morningside United Church Edinburgh; March 23rd 7.30pm Edinburgh Society of Musicians
Interlogue at Passau Guitar Festival ~ March 2 2024 Museum of Modern Art, Passau, Germany
C-Camerata Taipei, directed by Chao-Ming Tung, perform premiere of a new version of Eddie McGuire's Interlogue - this time for voice, pi'pa, sheng, violin & guitar at Passauer Saiten (Passau Guitar Festival)
The Whistlebinkies play McGuire's music for Macbeth ~ April 19 2024 Bute Music Society, Rothesay
In 1981 McGuire wrote the incidental music for BBC Radio Scotland's production of Macbeth - The Whistlebinkies (including McGuire) performed the score alonside James and Dawn Durrant (viola & percussion). They include it in this traditional music concert
Sequoia includes McGuire violin solo ~ May 30th Glasgow University Chapel at 7.30pm
Sequoia (Alice Rickards, violin; Sonia Cromarty, cello) feature Aileen Sweeney's 2024 McEwan Commission and McGuire's Prelude 21 (Ninian's Chant) for solo violin. Entry is free
Flute and Piano recital includes McGuire works ~ June 15th Paisley Abbey, Paisley, Scotland at 12.30pm
Richard Craig (flute) and Christopher Baxter (piano) will include McGuire's Prelude 3 for solo flute and the premiere of his Five Miniature Pieces for piano which were composed in 1967
