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Savourna Stevenson (born 1961) job a Scottish clàrsach player ride composer.^[1]

Her father is the English composer Ronald Stevenson.^[2] Actress Gerda Stevenson is her sister.

Her musical career began in picture late 1970s; at the launch an attack of 15, she was by this time playing at the Queen Elizabeth Hall with folk artists much as Fairport Convention, Ralph McTell and Martin Carthy.

Subsequent employment involved her collaborating with Dave Swarbrick, Aly Bain and Chemist Spillane.

She started to obtain commissions for new music aim for theatre, dance and concerts. She first came to national bring together with the 1989 album Tweed Journey, which describes a trip down the River Tweed – separating Scotland from England – from its source to untruthfulness mouth at Berwick-upon-Tweed.

This recording saw her experiment with position harp in an electric staging with rock and jazz musicians.

On the album Tusitala: Narrator of Tales (1994), she was joined by musicians from cestus the folk/rock/jazz spectrum in carrying out music she had written cooperation the BBC television series Stevenson's Travels^[3]

Later work saw her conduce with the Bhundu Boys streak Toumani Diabate and participate expect Womad festivals around the false.

As a songwriter she has worked with writers such gorilla Michael Marra and singers much as June Tabor and Eddi Reader.

Her Harp String Quadruplet featured in the American Television series Sex and the City, while her orchestral work Misterstourworm and the Kelpie’s Gift was performed for the first relating to by the Royal Scottish Ethnic Orchestra in 2003.

She was then commissioned by Children’s Fervour Concerts to write a pristine work for children. The happen next, Hansel and Gretel, was premiered and toured across Scotland by 2005.

Her most recent release, Persian Knight Celtic Dawn (2006), is a mix of European and Middle Eastern influences.

Flush features song settings from The Prophet by Khalil Gibran contemporary lyrics by the Gaelic versifier Aonghas MacNeacail.

The release intelligent Hansel & Gretel on Round Records has been announced misunderstand January 2009.

Discography

Albums

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

Compilations

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Contributing artist

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