My account here was hacked. I've had to restart it empty of content, but with same user name. Composer from small solo pieces to operas & things in between.

Aberchirder, Aberdeenshire
Joined August 2026
Farm workers with horses ready for ploughing, early 20th century. I don't know the name of the farm but the image was captured by an #Invergordon-based photographer. If you recognise it, I would love to know [source: HLH Archives, D1751/2/2/7]
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Tonight at 7pm at @Guggenheim NYC, I am honoured to be presenting/moderating @santafeopera’s ‘Works and Process’ event for OF ONE BLOOD. Musical excerpts of the opera + in-depth chat with the work’s creators (mum and dad). Big Apple friends come along! guggenheim.org/event/works-p…
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What an endless Sunday! Daylight saving + #StormBoelo 😫 That MWIS symbol feels like a metaphor for my life!
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Sitting in the back garden with Buzz the border collie, having a decaf, listening to the birds, wren, starlings, twites and a warbler the leaves mostly stripped from the trees . A moment of #calm
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Getting a bit breezy #StormBoelo #Shetland – at Sandwick, Scotland
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After spending several hours trying to track down the pod of six ORCAS that we'd seen over consecutive days here in Shetland we struck lucky and relocated them off Weisdale. Here's three of them - including the huge male - as they passed us heading south.
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This is next Friday!! @BBCSO
More season announcements! So very excited to debut with @BBCSO early next season in the UK Premiere of Caroline Shaw’s intergalactic oratorio ‘The Listeners’, conducted by @DaliaStasevska — Oct 30 at @BarbicanCentre. Lyatoshinsky and Barber also on prog! bbc.co.uk/events/ewdhj5
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Red sky in the morning... mighty Baosbheinn with his storm hat on. #StormBoelo
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dawn: my favourite writing time.
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Definitely no Storm Austen here in South Uist. Bracing for Boelo though.
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#StormAusten blowing seaspray over the clifftop path #cliffsofmoher #ireland not a day to forget waterproof trousers.
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Which One are you? #music #art
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It was so lovely to make my Swedish debut last night singing Schumann with @SCO_Orebro !! Takk så mycket to the whole orchestra and very lovely audience. Hope to be back soon :)
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Turandot curtain call @ScottishOpera
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Residents of the #Aultbea Hotel being driven around the local area, c1910 [HLH Archives, D1751/2/1/06]
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Tonight I am thrilled to be making my Swedish debut with the fabulous @SCO_Orebro, singing Schumann’s beloved “Frauenliebe und -leben” in Sally Beamish’s orchestral arrangement conducted by @brettdeanmusic, plus his arrangement of Schumann’s “Herzeleid”. orebrokonserthus.com/evenema…
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Piglet felt so Foolish and Uncomfortable that he had almost decided to run away to Sea. “Well done, Piglet,” said Christopher Robin. And at these encouraging words Piglet felt happy again, and decided not to be a Sailor after all. ~A.A.Milne #encouragement
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What could be more beautiful than a snippet of Mendelssohn Trio with these three brilliant artists!
Cuarto concierto del Festival #Argerich 2021, en el que la pianista argentina se une a la violinista alemana #AnneSophieMutter y el chelista letón #MischaMaisky en este «Trío con piano en re menor n.º 1», de Felix #Mendelssohn: 18:55 🇦🇷🇨🇱🇵🇾🇺🇾 | 17:55 🇧🇴 | 16:55 🇨🇴🇪🇨.
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1/29 Everyone knows the Marie Celeste, the ghost ship found drifting with nobody aboard. Her name was actually the Mary (not ie) Celeste, and while her empty decks are still a mystery, her ending is not. She ended as an insurance scam on a reef off Haiti. #maritimehistory
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Alas, Bernard Haitink d otd 2021. On rehearsing: "I want to create a communication in a way which you have to do during a concert...Words don’t help then...I come with a perception of how I want it, but I leave something open because I don’t know what will come to me." Wonderful!
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