The Cold Dancer and Faraway Pictures

The Cold Dancer by Kenneth Dempster
Inspired by George Mackay Brown's poem, A Reel of Seven Fishermen, Kenneth Dempster's String Quartet No. 4 forms the starting point for creative and musical exploration of sounds, ideas and images.

Faraway Pictures by Kenneth Dempster
Short opera in two acts (libretto by Ron Butlin), celebrating the way of life, traditiosn and values held by the people of St. Kilda.

Kenneth Dempster - conductor 

The Edinburgh Quartet
Yuri Kalnist (leader), Philip Burrin (violin), Michael Beeston (viola), Mark Bailey (cello)

and
the children of Arisaig Primary School
with the kind assistance of Martin Jones, Harriet Bovingdon and Sheila Kingswood

Funded by ScotRail, British Alcan and Highland 2007