Ailie Ormston – Three-Night Residency

Ailie Ormston is a Scottish composer and musician making electronic music and music for ensembles. Ormston’s work often explores timbral abstraction, temporality, assemblage and improvisation. In 2025, Ormston produced new works for prepared electric guitar and various speakers as part of a commission from OVER/AT, which toured across the highlands of North West Scotland and was subsequently released as an album, Impressions on and of guitar. Over the years, Ormston has performed at KRAAK, Counterflows, Tectonics and LSO Saint Lukes. They have worked collaboratively with Tim Fraser on It Changes (bison; 2022) and Finlay Clark on Sunflowers Face The Sun (33-33; 2020), and released a solo album of works for tape, guitar, cello and double bass, Frames that lean, pictures that roam (Akashic Records; 2025). Earlier in 2026, Ormston premiered new work for string quartet and tape, written for and performed by New York’s JACK Quartet as part of their JACK Studio programme. We’re very happy to have been working with Ailie to present three nights of music comprising solo performances, works for ensembles and new collaborations.