EIHF Video: Introducing Eleanor Dunsdon & Gregor Black
We are proud to offer young harp players in the early stages of their careers a platform at the Edinburgh International Harp Festival and this week we’d like to introduce to you the duo of Eleanor Dunsdon and Gregor Black.
A Glasgow-based harp and percussion duo, they met during their postgraduate studies in Traditional Music at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. They blend respective sounds of Scottish clarsach and Irish bodhrán with contemporary percussion and vocals and if you watch the below the video we’re sure you’ll agree the result is just sublime!
Check out the below video they’ve recorded for us
They’ll be performing for the first time at the Edinburgh International Harp Festival during the Monday afternoon concert alongside the RNCM (Royal Northern College of Music) Harp Ensemble.
The concert will also feature the premiere performance of Ambaist by the 2023 winner of The Clarsach Society’s Iain Macleòid Young Composer Award, Ireland’s Donnchadh Mac Aodha.
ELEANOR DUNSDON & GREGOR BLACK
RNCM HARP ENSEMBLE
IAIN MACLEÒID YOUNG COMPOSER AWARD 2023 DONNCHADH MAC AODHA
CONCERT: Monday 8th April, 3pm
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Oh AND Gregor has agreed to teach another bodhran class for us!
Come & Try Bodhran: Tuesday 9th April, 9.00am-10.30am
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