Summer 2010 concert season at Crear

Argyll’s Kilberry peninsula is already a magical place – timeless, reflective and tranquil.

Thee characteristics were part of the inspiration for the establishment there of the Crear studio, ‘space to create’. This is at once a creative refuge for artists and musicians, a venue for musical masterclasses led by top international musicians and an intimate concert venue.

Given the nature and location of Kilberry, it is a unique kind of concert venue. You can’t just ‘pop along’.  It takes time to get to Kilberry and even more time to move through it.This means that the concert season is a summer season and some of the events take place in the afternoon.

The time and the experinece of getting to Kilberry and to Crear plays to the advantage of both. It creates an almost ritual approach to an experience. One world gets left behind and another becomes progressively present so that the point of arrival marks a state of readiness for what is to come.

And after the concerts, the way of leaving enables what all completed rituals require – a managed return to the mundane, bringing the boon from the experience home like treasure to store against the future.

On a more prosaic but equally enjoyable note, the organisers of Crear know that by the time you get there and have enjoyed the concert you may welcome some sustenance.

So after the concerts, the audience join the artists for drinks and delicious canapés (included in the ticket price) – with a backdrop of the Paps of Jura, Islay, Gigha, and the Irish Coast.  And another of Crear’s strengths is that and children are very welcome.

While each individual event will be entered in our Events Listings on their performance dates,, here is the full programme for the 2010 summer concert season:

• 3pm on Sunday 9th May 2010: Roberto Prosseda (piano)
• 7.30pm on Wednesday 9th June 2010: * Scottish Chamber Orchestra Strings with Isabelle van Keulen (director/violin)
• 7.30pm on Wednesday 14th July 2010: * Kai Gleusteen (violin) and Catherine Ordronneau (piano)
• 3pm on Sunday 1st August 2010: A family concert with The Dalmeny Trio – Cheryl Crockett (violin), Joanna Nicholson (clarinet) and Ingrid Sawers (piano)
• 7.30pm on Saturday 14th August 2010 * (free admission): Word Express in collaboration with the Scottish Poetry Library and Literature Across Frontiers – Gokçenur Ç and Efe Duyan (Turkey), Katerina Iliopoulou (Greece), Marko Pogacar (Croatia), Raman Mundair and Ryan van Winkle (Scotland)
• 3pm on Sunday 15th August 2010 * (free admission): Crear open house with the Mhairi Hall Trio – Mhairi Hall (piano), Fraser Stone (drums) and Michael Bryan (guitar)
• 7.30pm on Wednesday 25 August 2010: * Lorna Anderson (soprano), Jamie MacDougall (tenor) and Malcolm Martineau (piano)
• 7.30pm on Wednesday 15 September 2010: * The Wren Players – Tom Norris (violin), Kim Mackrell (cello) and David Barnard (piano)

Note: At events marked *, the Crear bar will be open from 6pm serving supper and drinks.

TICKET INFORMATION
Admission is by Advance tickets only, booked by phone at 01880 770 369.

Tickets include drinks and canapes and under 18s are free. Ticket prices are:

• £22 per event
• £65 Season Ticket  – with a ‘buy two and get one free’ discount

For more details, visit the Crear website.