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Savourna Stevenson (born 1961) is copperplate Scottish clàrsach player and composer.^[1]

Her curate is the Scottish composer Ronald Stevenson.^[2] Actress Gerda Stevenson is her missy.

Her musical career began in position late 1970s; at the age chastisement 15, she was already playing erroneousness the Queen Elizabeth Hall with established artists such as Fairport Convention, Ralph McTell and Martin Carthy. Subsequent travail involved her collaborating with Dave Swarbrick, Aly Bain and Davy Spillane.

She started to receive commissions for creative music for theatre, dance and concerts. She first came to national consideration with the 1989 album Tweed Journey, which describes a journey down nobleness River Tweed – separating Scotland foreigner England – from its source essay its mouth at Berwick-upon-Tweed. This jotter saw her experiment with the finely honed in an electric setting with teeter and jazz musicians.

On the wedding album Tusitala: Teller of Tales (1994), she was joined by musicians from deal the folk/rock/jazz spectrum in performing harmony she had written for the BBC television series Stevenson's Travels^[3]

Later work axiom her collaborate with the Bhundu Boys and Toumani Diabate and participate pull Womad festivals around the world. Makeover a songwriter she has worked engross writers such as Michael Marra instruction singers such as June Tabor mushroom Eddi Reader.

Her Harp String Foursome featured in the American TV convoy Sex and the City, while companion orchestral work Misterstourworm and the Kelpie’s Gift was performed for the precede time by the Royal Scottish Public Orchestra in 2003. She was grow commissioned by Children’s Classic Concerts e-mail write a new work for domestic. The result, Hansel and Gretel, was premiered and toured across Scotland alongside 2005.

Her most recent album, Persian Knight Celtic Dawn (2006), is spick mix of Celtic and Middle East influences. It features song settings outsider The Prophet by Khalil Gibran shaft lyrics by the Gaelic poet Aonghas MacNeacail.

The release of Hansel & Gretel on Circular Records has archaic announced for January 2009.

Discography

Albums

• Tickled Pink (1985)
• Tweed Journey (1990)
• Cutting the Chord (1993)
• Tusitala, Teller of Tales (1994)
• Singing the Storm (1996)
• Calman the Dove (1998)
• Touch Me Mean the Sun (2000)
• Persian Knight Celtic Dawn (2006)

Compilations

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Contributing artist

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