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My piano piece 'The Passing Spring'  is being performed by Richard Deering on 10th October at 13.10pm at concert hall, Glasgow University. The programme will include music by Helen Grime and Eddie McGuire. Recognised as an authority on British music through his lectures, concerts, broadcasts, recordings and writings, Richard Deering performs a piano recital concert of music by Scottish Composers.

Dr Gemma McGregor's composition, Wave Form, is to be performed as part of the Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition that will run from the 11th May until the 16th June.

Wave Form is the soundtrack for an abstract film called Beside the Ocean of Time. The piece was created in collaboration with artist, Anne Bevan and is a duo for flute and cello, played by Gemma McGregor and Emily De Simone. It will be broadcast as part of the installation for the period of the exhibition. This AHRC funded project was a collaboration between artist, musician, film maker, energy researcher and tidal energy specialists. It is a collage of water images created by artist, Anne Bevan, and film of Orkney shorelines by Mark Jenkins. Anne Bevan and Gemma McGregor gave a presentation about their collaboration before the film was shown at the inaugural energy conference at the Orkney Research and Innovation Campus.

WayWORD festival have commissioned Gemma McGregor and Christine De Luca to create an event that will mix poems about Orkney and Shetland with music by Gemma. The poems are in Shetland dialect - Wirds kyerried on ocean’s shiftin tides. Christine will read her poems and The Outwith Ensemble will perform the new work at The Blue Lamp, Aberdeen, at the WayWORD Festival on 19th September, 2023.

On Easter Sunday (9th April, 2023) BBC Scotland will broadcast a recording of Gemma McGregor's choral work, Love Was His Meaning. This piece was recorded in St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh, by the National Youth Choir Girls Chorus, conducted by Christopher Bell. The work will be part of the programme, Reflections at the Quay, and will be made available on BBC iPlayer after the broadcast.

Sculptor Anne Bevan and Gemma McGregor, composer gave a presentation about their collaboration on the film, Beside the Deep Ocean of Time (filmed by Mark Jenkins) as part of the Creative Islands: Land, Sea, Pasts, Futures - Seminar workshop that was held on 24th February 2023. The film was screened after the presentation at the Orkney Research and Innovation Campus, Stromness, Orkney.

 'Sagas and Seascapes' - a performance of live music and film by Nordic Viola on 15th-17th August 8:30pm Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh and online with composer Q and A with Katherine Wren & composers Gemma McGregor, Linda Buckley and Eli Tausen á Lava on 18th August at 7pm via Scottish Storytelling Centre website. More information at sagasandseascapes.com/events. Part of the Made in Scotland Showcase.