The Glasgow School of Art Choir has been invited by artists, Ross Birrell and David Harding, to perform at the Edinburgh Art Festival 2018, as part of their new work, Keep me like the echo.
During their 12 year collaboration the artists have explored the thresholds between music and politics, poetry and place, composition and colour. Their new project for the 2018 Festival reflects on themes of flight and dispossession.
During the closing weekend of the Festival the artists present two related live performances and the GSA Choir will be performing in the second of these, hosted by the Scottish Parliament in the Garden Lobby.
Members of the ensemble will perform the UK première of Syrian composer and violinist, Ali Moraly’s work, Psalmus Syriacus, alongside Syrian soprano, Rasha Rizk. The event will also feature musicians from the Syrian Expat Philharmonic Orchestra (SEPO), and the Damascus Quintet.
The performance of Keep me like the echo will take place on 25 August 2018, 6.00 – 8.00pm. Doors open at 6.00pm with the performance beginning at 6.30pm. Tickets can be bought online here.
Photo: Ali Moraly performing Fugue: Quatrain for Solo Violin after Paul Celan’s Death Fugue. Photo by Ross Birrell.