Richard Scott & Yijia – Candle-lit concert

Richard Scott is a musician and visual artist based in Gateshead. He mostly plays traditional dance music from Scandinavia and experimental improvised music; sometimes crystallising the two together. He has performed and recorded in the UK, France, Switzerland, Germany and Slovenia in improvising groups with Tapiwa Svosve, Silvan Schmid, Eddie Prévost, Sarah Farmer, Andrew Woodhead, Phil Durrant, Samuel Rodgers, James Opstad, Mark Sanders, Rachel Musson, Hannah Marshall, Xhosa Cole, James Malone and Joe Wright, and has played for dance at folk festivals and workshops across the UK and Sweden. His research interests in his visual art work and the cross-disciplinary area between art and music are focused on questions of perception; pattern ontology and emergent phenomena of systematic processes.

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Yijia Tu is a Chinese multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, ethnomusicologist, and music industry professional based in the UK. She holds a Music degree from SOAS University of London and a Master’s degree from the University of Oxford. Yijia has worked in International Audience Development at Universal Music Recordings and has appeared as a featured artist and presenter on BBC Radio 3’s ‘Music Planet’ and ‘Introducing’ podcasts. In 2021, she featured as the protagonist in the documentary ‘One Voice’ by Asia House, which showcased her cross-cultural musical journey before performing with the Cheng Yu & Silk Breeze Ensemble at the 2022 WOMAD Festival. Yijia gained recognition in 2014 when she became a finalist in the Chinese music show ‘Sing My Song’, which had an audience of five million viewers. She collaborated with Liu Huan, Grammy-winner Luca Bignardi, and the China Philharmonic Orchestra on her debut album ’17,’ which was released by Sony China. She became the youngest musician to win the prestigious Chinese Music Awards and was also nominated for the ‘Best New Chinese Female Artist’ award at the Chinese Media Music Awards in 2015. Through exploring her cultural identity in music, Yijia is committed to diversifying the UK music scene and bridging the Chinese and UK music industries through her multidisciplinary works. Find out more: https://linktr.ee/yijia_music