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Kirsty Matheson

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Classical Musician & Artist. inbetween Music/Art: the edge: at the interface where sound becomes sight. I am a professional orchestral bass player, teacher at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland & artist. kirstymatheson.com

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You do realise you mentioned The Nutcracker and now the entire 🀬thing is now playing on loop in my head
#musicianscurse

09.03.2026 18:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My hot Chalamet take: just because someone’s famous and successful in one area of the arts, doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll have anything sensible to say about other art forms - especially more niche ones like opera. It’s not terribly surprising!

08.03.2026 12:39 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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This new graphic from @thenerve.news could be so much bigger but we wanted to show 3 essential nodes in Peter Thiel’s sphere of influence: Silicon Valley, Washington & the UK.

In Britain, our govt is so naive about Thiel & what his company Palantir really is.
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01.02.2026 14:48 πŸ‘ 556 πŸ” 299 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 24
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20 anti #ICE activists have entered #Target in downtown #Seattle in protest of ICE and the occupation of US cities like #Minneapolis. Their demands are listed on the banners. "Target is Minnesota's largest corporate citizen, where Target goes, others follow.

30.01.2026 21:53 πŸ‘ 385 πŸ” 152 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 2

I hear ya!

22.01.2026 13:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Donald Trump just announced breaking news. The legacy media ignored it. Not only is Trump repeating a lie about the conduct of the 2020 election, but he is also announcing β€” at an international conference β€” that his administration will soon prosecute his political opponen...

Trump said this: "The 2020 U.S. presidential election [was] rigged. It was a rigged election. Everybody now knows that. They found out. People will soon be prosecuted for what they did. That’s probably breaking news."

I explain why it was, in fact, breaking news.

22.01.2026 13:33 πŸ‘ 808 πŸ” 258 πŸ’¬ 49 πŸ“Œ 15

Crying parental tears both in sympathy & future anticipation. My two musicians will also fly their musical highways.

17.09.2025 02:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Good luck to your daughter in her studies. As a pro musician I know how tough a road it is but in contrast with authoritarianism, it is good for the soul & playing will keep her sane.

29.08.2025 22:37 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Like "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" in its initial release, I am lowkey banned everywhere.! If you like this article, please share it. If you *really* like it and would also like my children to stay housed and fed, please subscribe! Thank you

20.08.2025 18:52 πŸ‘ 171 πŸ” 69 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 1

It’s a pop song - Sunny Side Up by Paolo Nutini (it’s the engaged couple’s song … that’s who the painting is for)

29.06.2025 20:18 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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New Commission

29.06.2025 18:09 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Karma … 🀞

27.06.2025 14:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Janacek The Makropulos Affair - commission

19.06.2025 20:31 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Painting for sale!! ✨ … of Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁒󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 bagpipe tune Lochinside
Message me if interested.
30x30cm acrylic on board.

18.06.2025 13:24 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes to this. Strong memories of regularly watching Newsnight Review with my dad circa 2000-2003. Quite a few books and films I can roughly date form memories of discussions of them

13.06.2025 09:10 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Please respond - they need to know that unpaid work is not ok.

16.05.2025 06:43 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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@sarahkendzior.bsky.social look what was just delivered to my door!! Your book has reached Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁒󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

15.05.2025 15:57 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Eh … Shostakovich surely!!!! 😁

13.05.2025 19:32 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I can hear this πŸ₯°

11.05.2025 19:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oops I didn’t proof read my words - I meant timpani β€œgliss”!

11.05.2025 14:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s the timpani gloss that really makes me smile

11.05.2025 12:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Truls MΓΈrk is my favourite recording of the suites. I got to play Dvorak cello concerto with him - he was amazing.

02.05.2025 16:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I would have fainted! 🀣

01.05.2025 14:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m so sorry πŸ˜” (my youngest (13yrs) is a horn player & obsessed with the horn this would break his heart)
This will impact school instruments everywhere - double basses for school are all Chinese made.

01.05.2025 07:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I’m planning an online studio sale with some prints & paintings at greatly reduced prices … only for my email subscribers. Sign up here: landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/lan...

30.04.2025 23:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh my!! Are there American made horns beyond bespoke ones? No Alexs for the US πŸ˜₯ … well affordable ones, the billionaires will buy them …

30.04.2025 23:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m not surprised by your order πŸ˜‰ … mine would have Shosty & Bartok for 1 & 2

30.04.2025 19:24 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The scary point in all this is will America just put up with a failed president & limp along instead of doing anything about it. He’s undoubtedly failed already by many normal standards.

30.04.2025 10:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

He watched it frustrated from the barbican balcony totally jealous that he wasn’t playing πŸ˜‚ (his brother was playing in the basses)

28.04.2025 19:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I will find out …
He’s got loads of excerpts from this for NYO audition this year. So when I say I’m hearing it a lot, I mean a lot!! πŸ˜‚

28.04.2025 19:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0