Pulling the Right Strings New Horizons for the Scottish Ensemble. And New Money to Pay for It. How Did They Do It? It's All Down to Hard Work. New Horizons for the Scottish Ensemble. And New Money to Pay for It. How Did They Do It? It's All Down to Hard Work. Michael Tumelty

The Herald › September 21, 2005

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NEW venues, new repertoire, new series of concerts, new artistic collaborations, a new artistic director, a new sponsor, and a new sense of financial optimism. Little wonder that Heather Duncan, chief executive of the Scottish Ensemble, declares that the current year represents a period of "tremendous change" for the 12strong string ensemble.

The group is coming up forwhat is being called its third "post- BT" season, and its first "post-Clio Gould" season. The former refers to the end of BT's 10-year name sponsorship of the group, which was worth at least GBP100,000 a year, while the latter refers to the fact that violinist Clio Gould, who relinquished her decisive 10-year artistic directorship of the group, is succeeded this year by violinist Jonathan Morton, who is responsible for devising the new season of touring concerts which begins in a fortnight.

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Pulling the Right Strings New Horizons for the Scottish Ensemble. And New Money to Pay for It. How Did They Do It? It's All Down to Hard Work. New Horizons for the Scottish Ensemble. And New Money to Pay for It. How Did They Do It? It's All Down to Hard Work. Michael Tumelty

Two such fundamental changes might be expected to rock the stability of any small organisation. If that is the case with the Scottish Ensemble, there is little evidence of it on the artistic side of the business as the group forges ahead with an upcoming residency in the new Perth Concert Ha...

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