Celtic Connections 2018
Having never met or played together, we bring two exceptional artists together for the first time in a thrilling and dramatic improvisational encounter.
Raymond MacDonald is a saxophonist and composer who has released over 60 CDs and worked worldwide. He has written music for film, television, theatre, radio and art installations and much of his work explores the boundaries and ambiguities between what is conventionally seen as improvisation and composition. He has collaborated with musicians such as Marilyn Crispell, George Lewis, Evan Parker, David Byrne and Jim O’Rourke, is a founding member of
The Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra and has long standing collaboration with Scottish guitarist George Burt. He plays in many collaborative free improvisatory contexts and his roots in jazz and pop music can also be heard in his playing and writing.
Alois Kott`s work developed through studies and examinations of double bass, live electronic composition and Guitar. He composed chambermusic from the classic piano trio and string quartett to large ensembles, including commissioned works for the
NDR Big Band, the Big Band of the Hessian Broadcasting, the
Concept art Orchestra of radiostation Prague and the
Collegium Vocale Cologne.
He also developed commissioned works for the
art disco of Seoul, some works of theater music and voice and sound oratory
Babylon_reconstructed for the program
acoustic art of WDR. He founded and directed Ensembles like
nuBox, Ensemble Indigo, Ensemble Nuevo_2010, ATHOS_II and
ATHOS_III.
The concert takes places within Celtic Connections 2018 as support for Richard Dawson
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