'An Inspiring Traditional Scottish Music Tutor'
Disciplines: Piano and Accordion
Qualifications: Composition PhD researching the confluence of Scottish traditional music and contemporary composition at Maynooth University.
Pàdruig is an active professional performer, performing new and old traditional repertoire, with a deep inherited knowledge of the Gaelic tradition from an upbringing in, and continued part of, the culture of the Outer Hebrides. He was a finalist in the 2020 BBC Radio Scotland Young Musician of the Year, and received a Celtic Connections New Voices commission in that same year. Pàdruig has also written eight soundtracks for films of varying lengths.
He regularly performs with Beinn Lee, performing around Scotland at festivals such as Heb Celt, Tiree Music Festival, and Celtic Connections, and has performed as far afield as Belgium. This is in addition to being in demand as a soloist and regularly leading musical projects with a variety of musicians and singers such as a recent Ceòl is Craic commission 'Tùsanaich | Indigenous' performed at the CCA in Glasgow. Other recent highlights include a commission from the St Magnus International Festival to write a work for solo cello and a commission from Scotland's newest string ensemble, Thirteen North, which resulting in a new work entitled 'These Highland Glens Once Danced' exploring the confluence of traditional music blas and contemporary string writing, as well as engaging in issues around contemporary perceptions of the Scottish Highlands and the Highland Clearances.
Pàdruig grew up on the Hebridean island of Grimsay and was brought up surrounded by the culture, the music and the language of the Gaels.
He grew up with a rich inheritance from the Gaelic oral tradition, and since an early age has strived to develop his music to new and old styles in classical and traditional music. He began studying Classical Accordion with Djordje Gajic when attending St Mary Music School, Edinburgh in 2012.
In 2013 he was the first accordionist to reach the final of the Edinburgh Competition Festival concerto competition, resulting in him performing Piazzolla's concert on the accordion with orchestra in the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, working with conductor David Watkin respectively. Pàdruig has just completed a composition PhD researching the confluence of Scottish traditional music and contemporary composition at Maynooth University.
The List featured Pàdruig on their Hot 100 list of the 100 best Scottish cultural players of 2023.
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