This piece was commissioned by Ross & Cromarty District Council. It takes its name from the ancient Pictish Kingdom that encompassed the Moray Firth area..The most impressive legacy of the Picts is found in their finely carved stones, portraying warriors, animals, symbolic objects, elaborate knot patterns, and Christian crosses. Fidach is a musical expression of these carvings.

The composer: "...the music is fairly free - rhapsodic - ideas growing and developing and I hope suggesting a remote time..."

The 2 short melodic themes expand, develop and combine to create this enigmatic, expansive piece which like so many Pictish designs ends up where it started.

SCO, 1991. Tain.

Meadows Chamber Orchestra, 1998. Edinburgh.

New Edinburgh Orchestra, 2000.

Highland Chamber Orchestra, 2004 (2 performances).