Project Earth: The Green Chapter
Wednesday 27 May 2026
7:30 – 9:00 pm
Laidlaw Music Centre, McPherson Recital Room
Friday 29 May 2026
7:30 – 9:00 pm
The Barn Arts Centre, Banchory
£10 (all proceeds to benefit restoration of The Barn’s walled garden)
Please join us for this StACCS-relevant event! Project Earth: The Green Chapter brings the internationally celebrated Iris Trio, Forward and T.S. Eliot Prize-winning poet Karen Solie, and the work of composers Sarah Slean and Andrew Downing to Scotland.
An interdisciplinary address to environmental crises and to beauty worth protecting, The Green Chapter has been praised by Miranda Massie, Founder and Director of New York City’s Climate Museum as “striking and beautiful, its presentation of spoken poetry combined with musical performances perfectly calibrated, and the principals’ performances staggeringly accomplished, in sync, and alive”.
The Iris Trio, Christine Carter (clarinet), Zoë Martin-Doike (viola) and Anna Petrova (piano), have performed on major concert stages from Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall to the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and Sydney Opera House.
“…a beauty of sound and striking expression that is rarely surpassed.”
– Bremen Weser Kurier (Germany)
“These mysterious works are uncannily beautiful, and this rendition is absolutely breathtaking.”
– The WholeNote (Canada)
“These are extraordinarily, mutually attuned practitioners that deserve our acclaim. They take on the classic and the present-day with equal poise and authentic fluency.”
– Classical-Modern Music Review (United States)
“The Iris Trio plays with great beauty, clarity, prowess, authenticity, and teamwork…”
– American Record Guide (United States)
“…joy and risk without restraint…”
– Ritmo Magazine (Spain)
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