About Ipsa
Ipsa Collective is a new Scotland-based music ensemble composed of soprano Stephanie Lamprea, violinist Feargus Heatherington, flautist Richard Craig, and percussionist Darren Gallacher. They are committed to programming and commissioning experimental new chamber works that incorporate interdisciplinary elements. Ipsa Collective performs works of mixed instrumentation including duos, trios, and quartets. The group formed through their 2023 performance of Kate Soper’s Ipsa Dixit in Glasgow, which they reprised in 2024 for Sound Scotland’s soundfestival. They have also curated duo and trio performances of various players in the group, having performed in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, and the Republic of Ireland.
Artists
soprano
Colombian-American soprano Stephanie Lamprea is an architect of new sounds and expressions as a performer, composer, and multidisciplinary artist, specializing in contemporary classical repertoire. Trained as an operatic coloratura, she uses her voice as a mechanism of avant-garde performance art, creating “maniacal shifts of vocal production and character... like an icepick through the skull” (Jason Eckardt). She has performed as a soloist at Roulette Intermedium, Constellation Chicago, Sound Scotland, Kings Place, Southbank Centre, the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the Hidden Door Festival, and the Casa da Música. She has collaborated with the London Sinfonietta, International Contemporary Ensemble, the City of London Sinfonia, Sō Percussion, and Post Coal Prom Queen.
flute
Richard Craig has developed a distinctive approach to the flute that revitalises the potential of the instrument for players and composers. His performances have been described as “a primal, at times ecstatic state of Fauvist force…” (Gramophone Magazine) and his focus is contemporary music. He has performed with several new music groups including Riot Ensemble, Musikfabrik, Klangforum Wien and Elision. While a member of the group Distractfold, Richard was co-recipient of the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis for Interpretation. As a recording artist, he has released several discs of chamber music and two solo releases, Vale and Inward. He has recorded for Another Timbre, Wergo, FHR, Métier and given live broadcasts for the BBC, WDR Cologne, YLE Finland, Radio France, Radio Nacional de España and Swedish Radio.
percussion
Darren Gallacher is a percussionist and multi-discipline performer. He has received a Master of Music in Performance with distinction from the Royal Northern College of Music and a First Class Bachelor of Music at Edinburgh Napier University. Darren’s musical interests lie in musical performance that features physical and theatrical elements and is currently doing a PhD at the University of Glasgow that investigates cross-discipline perspectives between theatre and percussion performance and pedagogy. He enjoys working with composers and commissioning new works for the percussion repertoire. Notable collaborations include Kaija Saariaho, Annea Lockwood, Oscar Escudero, Thierry de Mey, Mauricio Pauly, Katrina Burton, Ellen Sargen, Robin Richards, Adam Gorb, Gareth Williams, Michael Brailey and Steven Bradshaw.
violin