Dresdner Musikfestspiele: Stout — McKay — Quatour Ébène

About the Event

Founded in 1999, Quatuor Ébène is known for its virtuoso traversal of styles and genres. For its latest project, the adventurous string quartet has teamed up with two long‐time musical companions: the harpist Catriona McKay and the fiddler Chris Stout, both of whom embody Scottish folk music in its still‐vibrant and multifaceted tradition. The program's origin and source of inspiration is Fair Isle, the smallest, most remote and perhaps most beautiful of the Shetland Islands in the far north of Scotland, where the rugged rocky landscape has shaped culture and mentality. Together, the six musicians will explore the sonic diversity of Scottish music, reinterpreting existing melodies with the help of the unusual instrumentation and enriching it with their own compositions – a fascinating musical journey of discovery in which two sound worlds merge into one.