NEWS!! NEWS!! NEWS!!

Our song cycle, No Trees to Whisper was shortlisted for the Award for Small Scale Work in the Scottish Awards for New Music 2023. We are delighted and honoured that this collaborative project has been recognised by the contemporary music community.

Our first album, Turn Ye to Me, recorded with tnwmusic.com, is out NOW! Featuring our first commissioned suites and music composed and arranged by Joanna Nicholson. Available from tnwmusic.com, Amazon, Bandcamp, Spotify

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Frances Cooper, soprano and Joanna Nicholson, clarinet, performing as Turning the Elements, present programmes of spirited and lyrical music for this intimate combination of voice and woodwind.

Our name comes from two specially commissioned suites of song we first performed in 2015. As they evolved and our performances developed, we realised that their title reflected perfectly what we do as a duo; taking music, both new and traditional, and turning the elements of each piece to fit our two instruments, putting our own slant on their performance.

Alongside music written and arranged specifically for us, our programmes include 20th and 21st century repertoire for soprano and clarinet by European and American composers.

At the beginning of 2020, funding from Creative Scotland allowed us to commission poetry and music for our three part song cycle, No Trees to Whisper.

‘Turning the Elements is an intriguing blend of music and word intermingling to produce an emotive and entrancing audience experience.’ Friends of Aden Park

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Listen to our recording of …Everyone is a Child of the Inbetween … by Matthew Whiteside, with text by Helene Grøn

On Spotify – https://open.spotify.com/album/09g8KU1vgoefexFk3wLg5a?si=XY1dZvVgTOKXGO0QDXjyvw

On Apple Music – https://geo.itunes.apple.com/gb/album/everyone-is-a-child-of-the-inbetween/1443960073?i=1443960074&mt=1&app=music&at=1010lsZC&ct=everyone-is-a-child

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Watch our take on the Beck song ‘Do we? We do’ in this live recording as part of Sound Festival in Aberdeen in October 2018.