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TO close this year's series of New Voices commissions at Celtic Connections, awarded to develop extended compositional skills in traditional musicians, the young Canadian cellist Christine Hanson has forged a series of links between music, poetry and art.
Born in Edmonton, and originally classically trained (from age four "I had a viola with an end-pin in it, and a bag of Smarties under my chair to make me practise"), Hanson, now 33, moved to Scotland two years ago. "I'd got...
