Sat 30 May
|Clonter Opera Theatre
Bubblyjocks @ Clonter Opera
The Bubblyjock Collective present QUINES: their programme celebrating Scottish women.
Time & Location
30 May 2026, 20:00
Clonter Opera Theatre, Swettenham Heath, Trap Rd, Congleton CW12 2LR, UK
About the event
Event Link and Ticketing: https://clonter.org/event/the-bubblyjock-collective-quines/
‘QUINES’ is a brand-new project celebrating the chamber music and art-songs of Scottish female composers. It features works by Helen Hopekirk (1856-1945), Isobel Dunlop (1901-1975), Marie Dare (1902-1976) and Claire Liddell (b. 1937), four extraordinary women whose music has not previously received the attention it deserves. At the heart of the programme is a newly commissioned song-cycle by Lisa Robertson, which sets texts from Gerda Stevenson’s QUINES poetry collection, written in the voices of neglected women from Scottish history.
The QUINES commission grew out of Gerda Stevenson’s celebrated poetry collection, written in the voices of women from Scottish history. We wanted to honour these women by setting Gerda’s poetry to music, to create a new song-cycle that placed them at the fore in art-song and chamber music. The texts have been set to music by composer Lisa Robertson.
“QUINES is a vivid explosion of thought,…