Category: Music Coll

Coll- Escaping to the beach

Day 3 and 4 on Coll

Monday was a hectic yet rewarding day with 4 coaching sessions with Pippa, Lis and Tim. All 3 were approached differently yet equally exciting which made for a productive day. We finished by performing to each other in an informal concert and really enjoyed getting to listen to the other groups!

After a fun filled evening with everyone, we woke up on Tuesday morning ready to go again. We had another 2 fantastic coaching sessions from Charles and Lis, but what really got us through the day was the field trip to the beach. It was so beautiful and nice to get some down time all together. Chris unfortunately ventured too far and suffered the consequences- sandy, soaked jeans. We then returned back to rehearse alone, consolidating all the useful advice from the tutors and developing our own ideas.

Aimee and Chris

Our trio’s trip to Coll

We are very happy to return to Coll for another week of music making in idyllic surroundings. We were deeply moved by the beauty and peacefulness of the island last time we came and returning has been a very satisfying experience for all three of us.

                                          

After a long journey up from London, we arrived at the island for another week of intensive and rewarding rehearsals and coachings. We have been fortunate to work again with Michael Dussek, Richard Deakin and Charles Tunnell.

We are also very happy to share the experience with wonderful musicians from Festivo Winds, Bowker Myslek Duo and Clark Michie Duo.                                                                                                                                                                                                             

 

A day at the beach…

Tuesday was our favorite day yet. After a busy morning of rehearsals and a coaching session on our ‘new’ piece with Tim, we got our suits on and drove to the beach. To say the water was beautiful would be an understatement…

As soon as it was time to wave goodbye to the beach it was back to our lovely rehearsal space for a final coaching from Lis before she hopped onto the ferry back to Oban.

Safe to say we’ve completely fallen in love with the Isle of Coll, and are excited and inspired… We feel the guidance from our coaching sessions sinking in and are sounding like a more cohesive group by the day.

Festivo land on Coll!

Smiles all round on the ferry last night before we arrived at our destination: the Isle of Coll. Having been excited about this opportunity for many weeks, and after 14 hours of travel – we were very happy to alight and meet Jonathan.

We woke up today refreshed, and were shown to our beautiful rehearsal space with a view…

After some time to rehearse we had two relaxed and productive coaching sessions with Tim and Lis. We are already incredibly excited about what will hold! Stay tuned…