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Alice Elms

@Ali_Elmo

Alice is a freelance musician and piano teacher based in Pollokshields, Glasgow.

www.alicepiano.co.uk

Reviews: 11
Other Articles: 3

Close Up

Choreographer Editta Braun and her troupe of female performers unnerve with this piece of surreal dance invention.

San Francisco Symphony

The San Francisco Symphony orchestra and St Lawrence String Quartet beguile with lovingly crafted mix of the romantic and contemporary.

Angela Hewitt

Angela Hewitt combines intriguing programming with evocative pianism and fierce, Spanish fire.

Fray

Bold, graceful and refreshing: The Cottier Chamber Project bewitches with complex choreographic abstractions mirroring a weighty musical selection.

SE Songbook: A JM 10 Celebration

Scottish Ensemble marks the end of its season with a stunningly delivered assortment of American Songbook, Music Hall and ballroom classics.

Tectonics

Day 3 of Tectonics: Éliane Radigue and the BBC SSO: a welcome mix of mischief and meditation from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra’s festival of new music.

Preview

Preview: EIF Classical Music Programme

Incoming director Fergus Linehan announces a full-blooded, though less than exploratory, programme of classical music for this year’s Edinburgh International Festival

The Typist

A flamenco-infused, multi-disciplinary piece of dance theatre that ranges from exhilarating to clunky.

Tiger

A time-old tale that ensnares with choreographic flair and multi-sensory vigour.

Acis and Galatea

An intimate but energetically bold re-framing of Handel’s ‘little opera’.

PLUG 5 Go BIG or go HOME

An evening that fully embraces the brazen diversity of contemporary composition, with writing from new as well as more experienced composers.