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Wed 06 Apr 2005

The Edinburgh International Festival and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh are delighted to announce the appointment of this year’s Edinburgh Festival Creative Fellow, Scottish composer, Stuart MacRae. Stuart will take up his year-long post tomorrow, on Friday 1 April 2005.

The Festival Fellowship will provide Stuart with a bursary and a work space at the Institute for one year, giving him access to cross discipline debate and the opportunity to exercise his creative thinking in a supportive environment, and to influence others in the community through his music and ideas.

During the year he will work on a commission for the Edinburgh International Festival.

Stuart MacRae was born in Inverness in 1976. He is Composer-in-Association with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Despite his youth Stuart is already in great demand as a composer. Previous Festival performances of his work include a showcase of his work performed by the Britten Sinfonia at Festival 2001, and the Scottish premiere of his widely acclaimed Second Violin Concerto conducted by David Robertson, and played by violinist Christian Tetzlaff and the Orchestre de Lyon at Festival 2002.

ENDS

For more information please contact Susie Burnet, Edinburgh International Festival press office, 0131 473 2020, press@eif.co.uk

Notes to Editors

Stuart MacRae is the third Edinburgh Festival Creative Fellow, preceded by Douglas Maxwell and David Harrower.

In April and May respectively, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and Scottish Chamber Orchestra will both shortly premiere new works by Stuart MacRae.