Music Events

New members welcome!

Every Tuesday at St Mary’s Church Hall, North Back Road , Biggar at 7.30pm

Biggar RBL Pipeband practice on a Wednesday evening from 6.30 pm – 8.30pm in the RBL Hall, South Back Road, Biggar. We are always on the lookout for new players / learners. If you want to learn then feel free to come along.

A good night if you appreciate the old rock classics !

Doors open 7.30 , band on at 8pm !

New members welcome!

Every Tuesday at St Mary’s Church Hall, North Back Road , Biggar at 7.30pm

Biggar RBL Pipeband practice on a Wednesday evening from 6.30 pm – 8.30pm in the RBL Hall, South Back Road, Biggar. We are always on the lookout for new players / learners. If you want to learn then feel free to come along.

New members welcome!

Every Tuesday at St Mary’s Church Hall, North Back Road , Biggar at 7.30pm

Biggar RBL Pipeband practice on a Wednesday evening from 6.30 pm – 8.30pm in the RBL Hall, South Back Road, Biggar. We are always on the lookout for new players / learners. If you want to learn then feel free to come along.

New members welcome!

Every Tuesday at St Mary’s Church Hall, North Back Road , Biggar at 7.30pm

Biggar RBL Pipeband practice on a Wednesday evening from 6.30 pm – 8.30pm in the RBL Hall, South Back Road, Biggar. We are always on the lookout for new players / learners. If you want to learn then feel free to come along.

Last Thursday of each month, from 8pm in the Elphinstone Hotel

For programme details goto www.clydesdalefolkclub.net

Last Thursday of each month, from 8pm in the Elphinstone Hotel

For programme details goto www.clydesdalefolkclub.net

ALBA CHALLAH

Ruaridh Bakke, clarinet; Masha Zhuravlova, violin; Josiah
Duhlstine/cello; Isidor ten Hooven/bass guitar; Michael O’Rourke/percussion; Duncan
Ritchie/accordion

While studying at the Royal Conservatoire of
Scotland, clarinettist Ruaridh Bakke got a few friends together to play some
klezmer music. They were invited to play at the Spire concert series on
14 May 2022, and six-piece band Alba Challah was formed. Not
only do they play klezmer repertoire, but there is also so much more in the
form of thrilling classical/operatic repertoire arranged specifically for the
band.

The members of this group are from Scotland, Ukraine,
Netherlands and the USA. All have interesting backgrounds, within a wide range
of collaborations and across genres from classical, to traditional Scottish, to
folk music.

We
believe that they will bring a lively and energetic start to our season!

Programme-

Overture to
Freylekhs in C minor

Baym Rebns Sude  (At
the Rabbi’s Table)

Shostakovich Concerto-ish

Nakhes
Fun Kinder

Krivo Sadovsko Horo

Firn Di Mekhutonim Aheym / Moldovan Hora /
Odessa Bulgarish 

The
Osprey flies to Samarkand

Hungarian
Dance no 6 

Der
Heyser Bulgar

Trugnal Mi Jane
Sandanski

Hanero
Halalu/Kaval Sviri /Scheherezade

New members welcome!

Every Tuesday at St Mary’s Church Hall, North Back Road , Biggar at 7.30pm

Biggar RBL Pipeband practice on a Wednesday evening from 6.30 pm – 8.30pm in the RBL Hall, South Back Road, Biggar. We are always on the lookout for new players / learners. If you want to learn then feel free to come along.

New members welcome!

Every Tuesday at St Mary’s Church Hall, North Back Road , Biggar at 7.30pm

Biggar RBL Pipeband practice on a Wednesday evening from 6.30 pm – 8.30pm in the RBL Hall, South Back Road, Biggar. We are always on the lookout for new players / learners. If you want to learn then feel free to come along.

New members welcome!

Every Tuesday at St Mary’s Church Hall, North Back Road , Biggar at 7.30pm

Biggar RBL Pipeband practice on a Wednesday evening from 6.30 pm – 8.30pm in the RBL Hall, South Back Road, Biggar. We are always on the lookout for new players / learners. If you want to learn then feel free to come along.

A fantastic line up of events for Biggar little Festival 2025

Details at https://www.biggarlittlefestival.com/

New Focus is a musical project featuring Scottish pianist
and composer Euan Stevenson and saxophonist Konrad Wiszniewski. Their
collaboration has produced two albums, “New Focus” and “On
Song,” known for blending classical, jazz, and Scottish folk
elements. They also present a program called the Classical Connection which
explores the influence of classical composers on jazz musicians and features a
mix of original compositions and reinterpretations of classical pieces in a
jazz style.

Euan Stevenson is a composer, pianist, and improviser who
often starts his compositions on the piano, favouring tightly written, melodic
narratives with simple song structures.

Konrad Wiszniewski is a virtuoso saxophonist known for his
solo work, and exciting. Konrad has performed all over the world and
recorded/toured with artists such as Curtis Stigers, Martha Reeves and the
Vandellas, and Deacon Blue. He has appeared on television and radio numerous
times.

New members welcome!

Every Tuesday at St Mary’s Church Hall, North Back Road , Biggar at 7.30pm

Biggar RBL Pipeband practice on a Wednesday evening from 6.30 pm – 8.30pm in the RBL Hall, South Back Road, Biggar. We are always on the lookout for new players / learners. If you want to learn then feel free to come along.

New members welcome!

Every Tuesday at St Mary’s Church Hall, North Back Road , Biggar at 7.30pm

Biggar RBL Pipeband practice on a Wednesday evening from 6.30 pm – 8.30pm in the RBL Hall, South Back Road, Biggar. We are always on the lookout for new players / learners. If you want to learn then feel free to come along.

Last Thursday of each month, from 8pm in the Elphinstone Hotel

For programme details goto www.clydesdalefolkclub.net

Last Thursday of each month, from 8pm in the Elphinstone Hotel

For programme details goto www.clydesdalefolkclub.net

Mar Valor, piano, Ayla Sahin, violin, Finn Mannion, cello

Trio Archai met at the Musik-Akademie Basel and were quick
to recognise their distinctive bond as a trio.

Trio Archai are
rapidly building momentum in their home cities of Basel and London. With
extensive chamber music experience between them, they met at the Musik-Akademie
Basel and were quick to recognise their distinctive bond as a trio.

As prizewinners of the Orpheus Swiss Chamber Music
Competition 2023 and winners of the 72nd Royal Over-Seas League Competition
2024, they made their Wigmore Hall debut in June of the same year.

Named after the Spirits of Personality, Archai (pronounced
‘Ark-eye’) is also the plural of the word ‘Arche’, meaning the beginning or the
first principle of the world in ancient Greek philosophy. The name was chosen
to signify their origins, principles and desires to evolve and make music
together. With their roots spread across all corners of Europe, Trio Archai is
a miniature melting pot of culture from Scotland, Turkey, Spain, Ireland and
Germany. Using this to their advantage, the trio strives to expand their
knowledge beyond the standard repertoire and challenge audiences in future
performances.

Awarded the Philip and Dorothy Green Young Artist Award
(PDGYA) by MakingMusic and winners of Tunnell Trust’s Awards Scheme 2025/2026,
they look forward to concerts at festivals and music societies throughout the
UK.

As an ensemble, the trio dedicate themselves to a broad and
diverse repertoire and, in collaboration with the Swiss Arts Council
ProHelvetia, were given the opportunity to premiere a commissioned work by
composer Dominic Röthlisberger at the Swiss Chamber Music Festival 2024. They
look forward to in May 2025, where they will give the world-premiere of a new
composition for piano trio by Jeremy Sams, amongst standard repertoire.

Highlights of their season included a chamber residency at
Whittington International Festival, recitals at St George’s Bristol, Brighton
International Festival, and a 7-concert tour of Scotland in October/November.
Since 2023, Trio Archai has been studying under Claudio Martínez Mehner at the
Musik Akademie Basel and has worked with esteemed artists such as Patricia
Kopatchinskaja, Alexander Lonquich, Robert Levin, Alina Ibragimova, Dénes
Várjon and Rainer Schmidt. They are members of ChamberStudio UK, where they are
mentored in London by cellist John Myerscough. In April 2025, the trio attended
IMS Prussia Cove in Cornwall, where they worked with esteemed composer and
pianist Thomas Adés. 

New members welcome!

Every Tuesday at St Mary’s Church Hall, North Back Road , Biggar at 7.30pm

Biggar RBL Pipeband practice on a Wednesday evening from 6.30 pm – 8.30pm in the RBL Hall, South Back Road, Biggar. We are always on the lookout for new players / learners. If you want to learn then feel free to come along.

New members welcome!

Every Tuesday at St Mary’s Church Hall, North Back Road , Biggar at 7.30pm

Biggar RBL Pipeband practice on a Wednesday evening from 6.30 pm – 8.30pm in the RBL Hall, South Back Road, Biggar. We are always on the lookout for new players / learners. If you want to learn then feel free to come along.

New members welcome!

Every Tuesday at St Mary’s Church Hall, North Back Road , Biggar at 7.30pm

Biggar RBL Pipeband practice on a Wednesday evening from 6.30 pm – 8.30pm in the RBL Hall, South Back Road, Biggar. We are always on the lookout for new players / learners. If you want to learn then feel free to come along.

Beethoven
– 32 variations in C minor; Brahms – 6 Klavierstücke, Op. 118

Prokofiev
– Piano sonata no. 3, Op. 28

Debussy
– Prelude “Feux d’artifices”

Liszt – Piano sonata in B minor,
S.178.

Born in Bucharest, Romania, Robert Creimerman
attended the “George Enescu” National Music School, and in 2020, studied in
Glasgow, at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland where he won the Recital Prize.

Robert discovered composition in 2020 whilst writing and
producing the original soundtrack for “Purpur”, a feature film created by
German director Isabelle Konrad. In the following years, he continues to
explore various compositional styles and music genres, and he produces
arrangements for all sorts of ensembles ranging from jazz trio to full symphony
orchestra.

Currently, Robert is a master’s degree student at
the Brussels Royal Conservatoire, where he continues to develop as a pianist.