North East Scotland Music School cello student Ruaraidh Williams and pianist Jeremy Coleman will present a short programme of music fit for Scotland ‘s Makar, Jackie Kay. Ruariadh shares his thoughts on the occasion with us. I started learning the cello nine years ago after a visiting teacher came to Fyvie school and told me I had…
Dr. Roger Williams MBE, Haddo Arts Trustee, introduces us to the Willis organ in Haddo House Chapel. The fine organ in the Chapel at Haddo House was built by Henry ‘Father’ Willis – the most renowned of British organ builders of the nineteenth century. An entry in a Day Book in the Haddo archives for…
A harpsichord is a stringed keyboard instrument that makes the sound by plucking the strings – rather like a guitar with a keyboard. The instrument at Haddo, which belongs to HHCOS, was built in 1978 by David Murray. It has been finished in highly coloured green and gold, and, as was common in the seventeenth…
This year award-winning painter, Leila Kleineidam will have a solo exhibition in the Mobil Room during the Haddo Arts Festival in October and here’s an opportunity to find out more about her sources of inspiration. My first link with Haddo was two years ago when I was invited by Margaret Preston to take part…
