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Hebrides Ensemble
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Hebrides Ensemble is an award-winning Scottish collective of musicians that commissions, performs and records the best of contemporary classical chamber music.
✨ Throwback to an unforgettable moment in 2010! ✨

We’re reflecting on the incredible experience of working with Hans Abrahamsen - one of the greatest Danish composers - at Aberdeen Music Hall.
March 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
🌍 The classical music world is making moves towards sustainability! 🌱

We know international touring is a key part of what we do, but it also has a big carbon footprint. So the Scottish Classical Sustainability Group asked over 100 musicians how we can change the way we tour to be more eco-friendly.
March 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
🎶 Throwback to 2007 at @hcmfuk.bsky.social! 🎶

Huddersfield has long been a vital hub for new music, and as our Artistic Director William Conway put it: “No group performing new music would feel content unless they had appeared at this daring festival...
March 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
🎭 From the Archive: Good Angel Bad Angel (2005) 🎶

Our first chamber opera - an intense, claustrophobic tale by Robert Louis Stevenson - was brought to life by the incredible Allison Cook, Richard Burkhard, and Martin Robson.
February 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
🎶 Summer 2005 was a milestone moment for Hebrides Ensemble! 🎶

This all-Carter programme, broadcast live on BBC Radio 3, was one of the most challenging we had ever performed.
February 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
🎭✨ Throwback to one of our first forays into music theatre!

Back in 2003, we commissioned "Room" by the extraordinary David Fennessy—an artist who never delivers the expected but always something original and even better.
February 12, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Balkan Dances and Laments (commissioned in 2001 by Hebrides Ensemble) saw the beginning of a long, fruitful relationship with the unique composer and humanitarian worker Nigel Osborne.
February 7, 2025 at 11:19 AM
An update from all of us at Hebrides following this morning's Multi-Year Funding announcements from @creativescots.bsky.social
January 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Our first commission in 1994 was with the composer John Bevan Baker. Eclogue was a beautiful and enigmatic work, which saw the beginning of a long line of commissions, beginning Hebrides Ensemble's commitment to enabling and performing new music.
January 28, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Hello BlueSky! We're new here, but we recently celebrated a whopping 35 years of incredible music making!
January 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM