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Upcoming events
Illuminate Scotland 2024-2025 season
This winter and spring Illuminate is returning to its touring seasons. We have the wonderful soprano Stephanie Lamprea and cellist Jessica Kerr, as Illuminate's performers in residence. They will be performing an array of works by women from the past and present including works by Marie Dare, Hildegard von Bingen, Babara Strozzi, Emily Doolittle and Gemma McGregor to name a few. We're also delighted that our programmes will also include five new Illuminate commissions from composers Sonia Allori, Simone Seales, Kate Sagovsky and composers in residence Ruta Vitkauskaite and Angela Elizabeth Slater.
Our season is made up of five concerts, touring around the UK between December and March visiting Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dundee, Kinlochard, and Edinburgh as well as a family friend event at Paisley Library. We hope you will join us to celebrate the creativity of women both as composers and performers!
Illuminate is very grateful to its funders, the Vaughan Williams Foundation, Creative Scotland and Marcus Trust. Their support has made the commissions and upcoming concerts all possible!
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Top row: Composers: Simone Seales, Sonia Allori and Kate Sagovsku. Bottom row: Composers Ruta Vitkauskaite and Angela Elizabeth Slater and performers Stephanie Lamprea and Jessica Kerr.
Photo credits: SA:Julian Maunder RK: Ilmė Vyšniauskaitė AS: Grace Ng SL: Sam Walton and JK:Theodora van Duin
Illuminate reviews
'This deeply rewarding concert added lustre to an invaluable concert series that never fails to delight and enlighten.'
Paul Conway, Musical Opinion
‘When Illuminate returns you should go and hear for yourself’
Richard Bratby, Spectator
The Illuminate string quartet made a splendid debut, joined by a solo soprano in a programme that featured not one, not two, but six world premieres by women composers alongside music by neglected predecessors. This important project is proving what many - yet too few, still, in the wider musical world - know already: that women have always composed music of exceptional quality, and that increasing numbers are doing so today.”
Steph Power, composer, writer, critic
'This deeply rewarding concert added lustre to an invaluable concert series that never fails to delight and enlighten.'
Paul Conway, Musical Opinion
‘When Illuminate returns you should go and hear for yourself’
Richard Bratby, Spectator
The Illuminate string quartet made a splendid debut, joined by a solo soprano in a programme that featured not one, not two, but six world premieres by women composers alongside music by neglected predecessors. This important project is proving what many - yet too few, still, in the wider musical world - know already: that women have always composed music of exceptional quality, and that increasing numbers are doing so today.”
Steph Power, composer, writer, critic
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We need your support!
Below you can support current and future Illuminate seasons and activities. We need your support to continue the work we do in shining a light on the work of women composers from both the past in present. Illuminate Women's Music is voluntary led by our composers in residence and we need your help and support in continuing this wonderful and vital work.
Photo courtesy of Christine Turner from 2018 concert series
