Arianna Ranieri

Looking forward to performing in this fabulous concert series! 🤩

I’m so honoured that my PhD research project and initiative, Community Instrumental Music Service for Rural Scotland (CIMSRS) Edinburgh Napier University has not only been nominated, but a finalist in the Scottish Land & Estates Helping It Happen Awards for 2025! I’m very grateful, and this wouldn’t have been possible without my fabulous supervisory team, Prof. Zack Moir, Bryden Stillie, ENU press and communications team, ENU Public Engagement, the local community support in Millport, Auchtermuchty, & Glencoe, and all the amazing musicians involved with CIMSRS! 🎊🎻

🌿✨ Breaking news! ✨🌿

We’re delighted to announce the finalists for the Helping It Happen Awards 2025, sponsored by NatureScot.

This year’s nominees highlight the innovation, resilience and community spirit that keep rural Scotland thriving 💚

🏆 Working With Communities Award – sponsored by The Exiteers
▫️ Ardnamurchan Estate/Ardnamurchan Trust
▫️ Arrochar Community Hydro
▫️ Coigach Community Development
▫️ Community Instrumental Music Service for Rural Scotland

🌍 Enhancing Our Environment through Land Management Award – sponsored by NatureScot
▫️ Bright Spark Burning Techniques Ltd
▫️ Caledonian Climate Partners
▫️ Joyce Campbell / Armadale Farm
▫️ Upper Deeside & Donside Land Management Group

🐟 Conservation Award – sponsored by Levy & McRae
▫️ Bob Kindness / River Carron Conservation Association
▫️ Michael Bruce / Firebreak Services Ltd
▫️ Tweed Foundation

📚 Education Award – sponsored by Terra Magna
▫️ Ben McCallum
▫️ Forth Valley College
▫️ Royal Northern Countryside Initiative

📰 Good News Award – sponsored by Media House International
▫️ Katharine Hay
▫️ River Tweed Salmon Season Opening / Anne Woodcock
▫️ Women in Wellies Podcast

🚜 Innovation in Farming Award – sponsored by EQ Chartered Accountants
▫️ Digital Dairy Chain
▫️ Mycoforestry for Carbon Negative Food Production
▫️ Tardoes Farm – Cora & David Cooper

🌱 Iver Salvesen Award for Combatting Climate Change – sponsored by Murray Beith Murray
▫️ Argyll Countryside Trust
▫️ Cairngorm Bothies
▫️ MAKAR Ltd
▫️ River South Esk Catchment Partnership

💼 Rural Business Award – sponsored by Shepherd + Wedderburn
▫️ Natural Power
▫️ The Free Company
▫️ The Rhynd
▫️ Treeline Woodlands Ltd

🏠 Rural Property Award – sponsored by Bidwells
▫️ John O’Groats Mill Trust
▫️ Kilbeg Affordable Homes (Sabhal Mòr Ostaig)
▫️ Wemyss & March Estates

🌟 Rural Rising Star Award – sponsored by Scottish Woodlands
▫️ Ben McClymont
▫️ Iona Campbell
▫️ Lucy Pattinson
▫️ Sammi Kinghorn

🎒 Tourism & Visitor Management Award – sponsored by GLM
▫️ Boswell Book Festival
▫️ Crawick Multiverse
▫️ Luss Estates
▫️ Moffat Distillery

✨ Plus: the Outstanding Contribution to Rural Scotland Award will be revealed at the ceremony!

📅 Winners announced 1 October 2025 at the Sheraton Grand Hotel, Edinburgh.

👉 Read the full press release and book your tickets now: https://www.scottishlandandestates.co.uk/news/inspiring-rural-stories-take-centre-stage-helping-it-happen-awards-2025

Spotted someone familiar in Haymarket station! 🙈

Thank you so much Edinburgh Napier University for asking me to be a part of the latest campaign, what an honor! 🔻🎻

To see the case study on my PhD research and initiative, ‘Community Instrumental Music Service for Rural Scotland’ visit the link below!

https://www.napier.ac.uk/about-us/must-be-napier/arianna-ranieri?fbclid=PAQ0xDSwLsZoNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABpxVr6qs6XocCmX78dllTMyWHe3elS_N8qRdUb1fr0J15PBcWQrACkoETKym4_aem_Sud_BriHaAl8wOPJqShHHQ

GLENCOE, HERE WE GO! 🌄🎻

Calling all adults (18 years+) living in Glencoe/Ballachulish (or nearby rural villages) for FREE violin and viola group lessons + jam session for all levels of experience, for a 10 week session, as part of a research study and lasting initiative!

A bit about me: I am a professional violist, instructor, and PhD researcher at Edinburgh Napier University, and the director of Community Instrumental Music Service for Rural Scotland (CIMSRS) which is a research project that looks to discover the impacts of providing accessible music tuition/opportunities for adults living in rural Scotland, who are often excluded based on age and geographic barriers.

TO SIGN UP: please email me at [email protected] by FRIDAY 04 APRIL!

This project has had SO MUCH success and been such a blast in Millport (Isle of Cumbrae) and Auchtermuchty (Fife) and is now coming to Glencoe! For more information, see the link below for stories, news, and publications! https://linktr.ee/ariannaranieri...

You can also find a clip abourt CIMSRS produced by Edinburgh Napier University here: https://youtu.be/I-mvKc_hius?si=fa1wAs-deSUfK8hT

Pinch me, I must be dreaming! 😍 My first magazine publication… and it’s for The Strad 🎻 I remember getting my first copy of the magazine when I just started violin lessons at 9 years old. It’s surreal now to have been able to contribute a POV piece about a project that means so much to me. ‘Music in Millport: How being ‘human’ as a teacher inspired a small isle’s music community’ was published today online, and is available to read via this link:

https://www.thestrad.com/playing-hub/music-in-millport-how-being-human-as-a-teacher-inspired-a-small-isles-music-community/19118.article?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1kegRo4D3zxevb9KHoEYxw3pJ4d9DBCOgyvkGrqVnrHN6SJt2WmciO7Q4_aem_5JU2nuWle1zM_7eGZjjN-A

Music in Millport: How being ‘human’ as a teacher inspired a small isle’s music community In 2024, Arianna Ranieri spearheaded an initiative to provide accessible music tuition for adult learners in rural Scotland. She shares her approach that has united a community through a love of music making

I'm so excited and humbled, my research project, 'CIMSRS: Millport' with Edinburgh Napier University is on homepage pf the Metro News this morning! This has been such an incredible learning experience and I can't wait for what the future holds! 💻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

How 20 violins transformed life on a Scottish island This is the story of how an American PhD student struck up a special friendship with a group of Scottish islanders

SO EXCITED this morning I found out that I have been featured in The Strad Magazine for my PhD research project, CIMSRS, and all the amazing things happening in Millport on Isle of Cumbrae! 🎻 😍

CIMSRS was also featured in the Largs & Millport Weekly News! Such exciting things happening, thank you for all the support!

Links below if you’re interested!

The Strad 🎻

https://www.thestrad.com/news/free-violin-lessons-enrich-adult-learners-lives-in-rural-scotland/18995.article

Largs & Millport Weekly News 📰

https://www.largsandmillportnews.com/news/24767994.violin-classes-millport-adults-cultural-impact/

Free violin lessons enrich adult learners’ lives in rural Scotland The initiative is run by PhD student and violist Arianna Ranieri who aims present her findings of the impact of music making on the local community

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Calling all adults (aged 18+) living in Auchtermuchty, Fife!

How would you like to take part in a FREE 12 week session of learning the violin or viola, and play in a weekly jam session? 🤩

All levels of experience are welcome from total beginners to advanced, tuition is bespoke! This is going to be a fun project and great atmosphere! Instruments are loaned FREE by Lochgelly Library for the project duration!

About it: I am a PhD Student at Edinburgh Napier University, professional violist and upper strings instructor with Fife IMS. My exciting research project, 'CIMSRS: Community Instrumental Music Service for Rural Scotland' will run on Saturdays in Auchtermuchty Community Centre from 11 January - 29 March 2025! This project has had a huge success in its first session in Millport, and is now coming to Fife! :-)

Lessons will be in small groups, on Saturdays in slots of 45 min, from 11:00am-2pm, with a jam session to follow from 2-3pm, at Auchtermuchty Community Centre. 🙂

I am a passionate about making music learning available to all, and looking to discover the impact of accessible music tuition for adults in rural Scotland. Instruments are being generously loaned free of charge to participants, courtesy of Lochgelly Library. Materials are free and will be provided!

Please get in touch with details below for more info and to sign up by 18 December! Spaces are limited so please get in touch with any questions.

See the flyer below, and please share! Your participation will help make music learning and playing more accessible for adults in rural Scotland. Thank you!

Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 07845011374

I am so excited to be performing with Women in Chamber Music, for ‘Carol with Us this Christmas’ -- a concert celebrates everything the season was meant to bring: togetherness. Join us for a festive evening of Christmas chamber music in the dramatic and Charles Dickens-esque St. Brides Church in Hyndland (Glasgow) with songs to sing along to! ♥️
We are joined by two special guests: Karolina Kubálkova (piano) and Bláithín Kerr (recorder) !
For tickets, please see the link in bio, or visit WomenInChamberMusic.co.uk/concerts, or cash at the door on the day.
We will also be doing a special collection drive for Glasgow Women's Aid of toys, baby formula/food, and women’s products. If you can help us make Christmas brighter for women and children sheltering from domestic abuse and violence, that would be much appreciated 🩷

This weekend, my PhD research project with Edinburgh Napier University, ‘CIMSRS: Community Instrumental Music Service for Rural Scotland’ starts for adult pupils of Millport, Isle of Cumbrae! 🌊🎻

I’m so excited to get started and discover the impact this project has, and how exciting that the project is already full of participants!
Thank you to all who have signed up, your participation contributes to making music tuition more accessible for adults in rural parts of the country 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🫶🏻

Also a MASSIVE thank you to Ronan Watson with North Ayrshire Council IMS who have loaned 20 beautiful instruments for this project! This would not be possible without your help!

To stay updated on all the happenings, follow CIMSRS on X (Twitter) and Instagram 👉🏻 !