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Did not disappoint

Lovely evening, he’s so talented but modest and self deprecating and in his comments between sets. Needs to be seen by a wider audience

Posted by J Harrhy on 27/01/2024

C Duncan, Le Pub, Newport - 26th January 2024

Beautiful gig

Both C Duncan and supporting artists performed brilliantly. Wonderful musicianship and a lovely intimate venue. Very memorable gig

Posted by Richard on 28/04/2019

C Duncan, The Castle & Falcon, Birmingham - 27th April 2019

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Glasgow-based composer and musician C Duncan (full name Christopher Duncan) is a bridge between the world of classic music and contemporary styles.

His debut album Architect saw him nominated for the illustrious Mercury Music Prize in 2015. Duncan followed with his second record The Midnight Sun in 2016 and in 2019 he dropped his third record Health which saw him shortlisted for the Scottish Album of the Year Award.

Duncan is also an accomplished painter. He cites Grant Wood and Gerhard Richter as prime influences on his work.

Artist Bio

Glasgow’s C Duncan, born 1989, is the son of two classical musicians. Surrounded by music throughout his childhood, Christopher initially took up piano and viola. His teens led him to school bands - learning to play guitar, bass and drums - but did little to quell his fascination with the composition and performance of classical music. He eventually enrolled in Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) to study music composition, where his pieces were performed by various ensembles across the UK.
To hear C Duncan’s music now is to grasp those two common threads between his interests in classical and modern music. The pieces that make up his forthcoming debut LP are formed from lush choral harmonies and acoustic instrumentation, textured like contemporary dreampop and all recorded at home in Glasgow on his bedroom studio setup, gradually built up one layer and one instrument at a time. The results of this methodical and isolationist recording process give us charming lo-fi folk with the harmonic width of choral composition, the sweetness of barbershop and the rough eloquence that has so readily soundtracked Glasgow over the past decades.

Christopher is also an accomplished painter, naming Grant Wood and Gerhard Richter as influences. His work has been exhibited throughout Scotland and he provides cover art for his own records, expressing the same musical ideas through painted image.