PORTUGUESE soprano Filipa Portela and Edinburgh-born Gregor Forbes will drive out the chill of a Scottish winter with a programme of warm and evocative Mediterranean-influenced music this week.

It will take place on Tuesday (December 5) at 7.30pm at the Eastgate Theatre, Peebles.

The programme includes songs by Maurice Ravel, Manuel de Falla and Xavier Montsalvatge, as well as a little-heard song cycle by Barcelona composer Eduardo Toldrà.

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There will also be solo piano pieces by Ravel and Debussy.

Filipa and Gregor are both graduates of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS). Since graduating, Felipa has built a busy career in both recitals and opera. She has appeared in, as well as directed, her own production of Poulenc’s La voix humaine at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Gregor studied at Cambridge University as well as the RCS. His particular interests are in avant-garde jazz and contemporary classical music. He is director of the Glasgow Experimental Music Series.

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Future concerts in the Music in Peebles 2023-24 season feature a return visit from the Resol Quartet, and horn player Ben Goldscheider, winner of the Brass Category in the 2016 BBC Young Musician of the Year competition, and his all-star trio.

Fans of wind instruments are also catered for, with the massed winds of Scottish Opera.

The season will finish with a Patron’s Concert, when Gina McCormick chooses the programme. Full details are available at musicinpeebles.org.uk. Tickets can be bought from the box office at the Eastgate Theatre and Arts Centre or on 01721 725777.