Studio and live recordings

DEBUT SOLO ALBUM "DIALOGUES"

DEBUT SOLO ALBUM "DIALOGUES"

Su-a collaborates in a series of duos with 15 prolific musicians from Scotland and abroad.

Fiddle players: Donald Grant, Duncan Chisholm, Jenna Reid, Patsy Reid and Pekka Kuusisto; pianists Donald Shaw and James Ross; flautist Hamish Napier; harper Maeve Gilchrist; bandoneonist Carel Kraayenhof; accordionist Phil Cunningham; Scots singer Karine Polwart; Gaelic singer Julie Fowlis; and fellow cellist Natalie Haas.

Fiddle players: Donald Grant, Duncan Chisholm, Jenna Reid, Patsy Reid and Pekka Kuusisto; pianists Donald Shaw and James Ross; flautist Hamish Napier; harper Maeve Gilchrist; bandoneonist Carel Kraayenhof; accordionist Phil Cunningham; Scots singer Karine Polwart; Gaelic singer Julie Fowlis; and fellow cellist Natalie Haas.

Available now at sualee.bandcamp.com

“Playing solo is not really my thing. I am energised by working with other people, especially these people.” Su-a Lee

Live at Celtic Connections Festival 2024

Glasgow City Halls

Below are some of the recordings that I have made with Mr McFall’s Chamber over the years.

Every album showcases one of the many different styles that the band encompasses.

Please click on the CD cover to access a sample track from the album.

These are McFall's commissions from jazz-based composers, alongside a sprinkling of big band cartoon classics by Raymond Scott.
The legend that is Michael Marra. On tour. I loved driving him around the highlands! Such a kind, funny, deeply thoughtful man with such a dry humour.
Women are at the heart of this disc: warm-hearted South American mothers, women on the town, little girls hanging scared on their mothers’ coat-tails, blondes kissing fruitsellers in the Buenos Aires rain … The disc brings together two areas of repe
No one knows quite when tango was established in Finland, but the style has a long history there – still little known to outsiders – and combines rhythmic interest and yearning melody with a distinctively Nordic melancholy. In this ingeniously curat
This is the music of the iconic Martyn Bennett, arranged by Robert McFall.
Astor Piazzolla and Horacio Ferrer’s “operita”, María de Buenos Aires, was written in 1967 and premiered in 1968. Outside any existing genre and suffused with the adventurous spirit of its times, it embraces not only the radical tango nuevo pioneered
In 2001 there was a great deal of discussion (and disagreement) about what to include in releases. One or two of us were happy to mix repertoire as we had done on Like The Milk. Others wanted to try and separate out the various strands of what we did
This, our first release on Delphian Records, is a recording of a piece which we commissioned from Gavin Bryars in 2007, "The Church Closest to the Sea", alongside two other recent works. "Eight Irish Madrigals" is a setting of poems by Petrarch in a
Like The Milk was released by Robert Fripp in 1999 on his DGM (Discipline Global Mobile) label. It was produced by percussionist Rick Bamford and recorded both in his front room and in Stockbridge Parish Church, Edinburgh. It features singer Dave Bra
Upstart Jugglers, released in 2001 at the same time as "Revolucionario", was the catch-all CD to include everything else that wasn't tango. The majority opinion in the group was that we should avoid mixing the various kinds of repertoire. We even con
A chamber opera with music by Tom Cunningham to a libretto by Alexander McCall Smith. Set in the Botswana Okavango Delta, it tells a story of the struggle for power among competing baboons in their matriarchal society - thus drawing parallels with th
This CD contains music by Kathryn Tickell, Agustín Fernandez and Tim Garland, to name but a few. This is a really unusual coming-together of composers from different backgrounds and contains some stunning music. It was recorded under the auspices of

A selection of tracks from various albums on Spotify that I’ve played on over the years.

Am also delighted to be playing on these lovely albums below…

The wonderful highland fiddle player Duncan Chisholm is inspired by Sandwood Bay, one of the most beautiful and least accessible beaches in Scotland.

In this album from 2017, “Alterum”, Julie explores the Gaelic songs of other worlds…exploring stories of fairies and water horses, legends and myth, unexplained natural events and places that may or may not exist.