Aaron McGregor will be appearing as invited speaker and performer at a symposium at Dalkeith Palace, as the launch of an exhibition into the past musical life at the house.
The symposium explores Dalkeith Palace’s musical past in vivid detail, bringing to life themes from the exhibition. Specialists from leading universities and conservatoires investigate how Scottish dance bands promoted traditional music, how opera travelled from the stage to the home, and how country houses supported wider cultural trends and aspirations. In the concluding concert, soprano Mhairi Lawson and Lu Ren are joined by historical performance experts Jean Kelly, Aaron McGregor, and David McGuinness in the Great Gallery, bringing the music that once sounded at Dalkeith Palace back to its former home.
Aaron will be presenting on the life and work of violinist-composer Nathaniel Gow (who taught music at Dalkeith Palace), and performing as part of ‘Dalkeith in Music, A Concert in Four Lessons’.