New Voices: Patsy Reid (Reviewed for www.glasgowwestend.co.uk)
Strathclyde Suite 3rd February 2008 
I'm not heavily into classical music so violin concertos I can take or leave but I was dazzled by Sunday afternoon strings in the Strathclyde Suite. Young Patsy Reid's music ranges from haunting slow melodies to the madly throbbing beat of Celtic rock. Her 'backing group' included Mhairi Hall on piano, Aidan O'Rourke on fiddle and Michael Bryan on guitar. The programme notes explained the differing modes in which the music was created using words beyond my vocabulary. 'Dorian, Lydian, Locrian and Phrygian' are frankly a foreign language to me but are apparently scales. But never mind that - the music was brilliant. The sheer energy of the compositions coupled with the exuberance of the players produced something memorable.  At times cheerful and harmonic, at others almost discordant but still with a strange beauty, the perfo