St Patrick’s Baroque joins Christ the King 50th anniversary celebrations
May 5, 2010 by localnews
The St Patrick’s Baroque Ensemble will be performing Vivaldi’s Four Seasons at Christ the King, King’s Park, Glasgow, on May 14th at 7.30pm.
This concert celebrates the church’s 50th anniversary. Tickets are available from the parish, or at the door on the night.
Violin soloist Ani Batikian will be performing on the rarely-played ‘Sherlock’ violin, made from a sycamore tree that stood in writer Arthur Conan Doyle’s childhood garden in Edinburgh. The violin was built in 2009 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Conan Doyle’s birth.
Creator Steve Burnett hopes that a string quarter can eventually be built. Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle’s famous fictional detective, often played the violin, one of the few constants in his otherwise chaotic life.
On May 15th, St Patrick’s Baroque is making its Usher Hall debut in Edinburgh, again with Ani Batikian.
The members of the group are prize-winning students and graduates of the UK’s music colleges, including the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal Northern College of Music and the RSAMD in Glasgow.
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