St Stephen’s Church, Friday 21st April 2023 at 1.00pm
Ciorstaidh Chaimbeul is a 22-year-old musician from the Isle of Skye. Her music is largely influenced by her Gàidhlig roots as well as her extensive classical training. She went to the prestigious St Mary’s Music School in Edinburgh and is currently in her final year of studies at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, where she studies accordion with the distinguished Serbian accordionist, Djordje Gajic. In 2021, Ciorstaidh went on exchange studies to the Royal Danish Academy of Music where she studied with the maestros, Geir Draugsvoll and Bjarke Mogensen. In 2019, she was a semi-finalist in the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year, and NAAFC Overall Senior Accordion Scottish Champion. She regularly performs as a chamber musician, playing at Hidden Doors with Trio RCS and at RCS Plug Festival with Six Accordions. Ciorstaidh plays an extensive repertoire, from original works on accordion (Kusyakov, Semyonov, Makkonen, Lohse) to transcriptions (Bach, Scarlatti, Piazzolla). She plays a Bugari Armando compact button accordion made in Castlefidardo, Italy.
Ciorstaidh’s 20 year old brother Eòsaph Caimbeul also hails from the Isle of Skye. At age nine he started playing guitar, taught by Duncan Kennedy of Strathpeffer. In 2014 Eòsaph successfully auditioned for St Mary’s Music School in Edinburgh where he studied Classical Guitar with Jamie Parker as well as Bagpipes with Allan MacDonald and Percussion with Tom Hunter. Eòsaph now studies guitar at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff, under the tuition of Helen Sanderson, Zoran Dukic and John Mills. He has played with the Na colortional Youth Guitar Ensemble of Scotland and also with the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland. Eòsaph has performed in numerous Masterclasses with guitarists such as Craig Ogden, Sean Shibe and Xuefei Yang. Eòsaph has also developed a keen interest in composition. He recently wrote a work for the well-known Albanian Guitarist Petrit Ceku, which he performed at a masterclass at RWCMD, and is currently composing a symphony for orchestra. Upcoming projects include playing banjo with the chamber winds of the Royal Welsh College as well as Chamber Music duo work with Saxophone and Guitar. In his spare time, he plays for Cardiff Bay Football Club and Bristol Shinty Team.
Opening Set : Eosaph Caimbeul : Pipes (5 mins)
Ciorstaidh Chaimbeul : Accordion Set : Music by Vyacheslav Semyonov, Isaac Albeniz and Jean-Philippe Rameau (20 mins)
Eosaph Caimbeul : Guitar Set : Music by Takashi Yoshimatsu, Francisco Tarrega and Heitor Villa-Lobos (20 mins)
Closing Set : Eosaph and Ciorstaidh Duet : Music by Astor Piazzolla and Will McNicol (10 mins)
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