Research Questions:

1. What happens when I cross-pollinate my three musical practices?

• Traditional Scottish fiddle music
• Traditional Norwegian Hardanger fiddle music
• Experimental/improvised music

2. How can experimental amplification affect my cross-pollinated music?

Sarah-Jane Summers is a versatile, free-thinking & impassioned performer. Her expressive style blends the lyricism of traditional music with improvisation. She has performed with many top folk, jazz, pop & contemporary music artists, including GRIT Orchestra, Highasakite, Quatuor Bozzini, Susanna Wallumrød, and Julie Fowlis. She has released four completely solo albums, the most recent on the highly respected experimental music label Another Timbre. Her four albums with Juhani Silvola all received Songlines’ Top of the World status, with The Smoky Smirr o Rain nominated for a Norwegian Grammy. In Sølvstrøk (2023), they supersized their repertoire for their duo plus chamber orchestra. As a composer, she has written several large commissions, as well as music for the BBC. Sarah-Jane was taught by the legendary Donald Riddell, who learnt from a relative of hers, Alexander Grant of Battangorm. She recently started a PhD in Artistic Research at the Norwegian Academy of Music.