Neil Sutcliffe
Accordionist, pianist and singer
Roo and Neil
In this duo with Roo Geddes, we write original music for accordion and violin, drawing on our shared backgrounds in classical, folk, and jazz music. In May 2022, we released our debut CD Homelands, featuring music inspired by places and people in our lives.
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Storytelling Collaborations
For a number of years I have been working with alongside storytellers working in Scotland to create storytelling and music collaborative performances. These include Svend-Erik Engh, Alice Fernbank, Claire Hewitt, and Shona Cowie. Over time I became increasingly interested and involved in the storytelling, and now incoporate this into my own performances. Svend and I have created and performed three shows together at the Edinburgh Fringe and Scottish International Storytelling Festival: Wolves Within, Walk the Oars and Three Rivers Rising (with Claire Hewitt). And most recently, With the Devil's Assistance, a storytelling show by Shona Cowie and myself, was warmly received bu audiences and reviewers at the Edinburgh Fringe 2022.
Find out more : https://svendandneil.com/
Svend and Alice : https://giantstorytellers.com/
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With the Devil's Assistance : Shona Cowie and Neil Sutcliffe. Photo by Elly Lucas (2022)
Sarah Wagner
Sarah and I began playing together at the RCS in 2019, developing a repertoire of American classical music arranged for accordion and violin, including music by Gershwin, Copland and William Grant Still. We have also explored contemporary repertoire, in particular the works of Kasper Rofelt, a wonderful contemporary Danish composer.
In 2020, Scottish composer Aileen Sweeney wrote "Pale Blue Dot" for our duo, a piece inspired by the famous 1990 photograph of the earth taken by Voyager 1 from about 6 billion kilometers away.
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