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GIO Festival 1: flinders 24th & 25th October
Performances by GIO, Michel Doneda, Maggie Nicols, Tatsuya Nakatani, Catriona MacKay, Alisdair MacDonald, Age of Wire & String, Usurper and more. Flyer
Aberdeen Sound Festival 1st November
Workshop and performance at Banchory 11:00 (public workshop) & 19:00 (performance) more details
Soundtrack to Meschen am Sonntag 14th November
Film project at CCA 14 November accompanying the classic silent documentary film Meschen am Sonntag.With guests Birgit Ulher (trumpet) and Clayton Thomas (bass). Supported by the Goethe Institute. Flyer
Recent projects
Glasgow Jazz Festival
Friday 20th June with Satoko Fujii and Natsuki Tamura - featuring a new piece for the orchestra by Satoko Fujii
The Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra continues to play at the forefront of
contemporary music in Scotland, collaborating with the boldest of musical
minds and bodies from around the world. Satoko Fujii and Natsuki Tamura are
two of the most arresting, original and uncompromising musicians in new
jazz; working between New York's downtown scene and Japan with playing that
spans free jazz, Japanese folk idioms and contemporary classical music.
Following sell out GIO performances with George Lewis and Axel Dörner, this
collaboration promises another significant meeting of improvisation giants.
New CD Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra and London Improvisers Orchestra: together and seperately on Emanem records
Performances from the 2007 Freedom of the City Festival.Buy it: boa melody bar
For information on previous projects go here.
Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra has been supported by the following organisations:
