From Bach to The Beatles and beyond, South Australian cellist/songwriter William Jack presents a free (non-ticketed) multi-style cello recital in the heart of Edinburgh.
Using The Trojan Women by Euripides as a starting point, After Troy interweaves the stories of those women left behind, awaiting their fate with the stories of the women who have s…
Revealing the man behind the myth.
A Festival of Elgar! Overture In the South (Alassio) opus 50.
A recital presenting some of the varied piano textures and rich harmonies of the Romantic period: Handel in the Strand (Grainger); a delightful miniature from Greig – his opus 1/…
Under new director Timothy Coleman Cadenza performs music of three women composers: a new commission for choir by Janet Wheeler dedicated to our former Director Jenny Sumerling, Th…
For his 25th Fringe Luca Villani plays guitar masterpieces and his own world premiere.
Christine invites you to enjoy JS Bach’s expressive, contemplative Cello Suite No.
Soprano Silvia Mirarchi and guitarist Luca Villani give an exciting new recital, starting with brilliant Spanish songs by Garcia-Lorca such as El Cafè de Chinitas and classy La Ma…
Jennifer Witton, soprano, Bethan Langford, mezzo-soprano, and Dylan Perez, piano, present Souvenirs D’été Édimbourgeois, a recital of music by French composers – Berlioz, Bize…
Join the talented young musicians of Big Noise Raploch’s Rinconada Chamber Orchestra as they showcase their skills at this extraordinary concert.
The orchestra rehearses each Monday evening from October to April, and is well-supported by Perth and Kinross Council.
Nominated for Best Composer in the Fringe (MTM: UK Awards) for Sailing to Tomorrow (2007), Peter D Robinson brings a new setting of the Passion.
For over two decades, The Celtic Tenors, have been charming audiences the world over with their rich harmonies and disarming wit, as well as radiating their love for all that is Ir…
Arbroath-born Morris Pert (1947-2010) was best known for his legendary session work with Kate Bush, Mike Oldfield and others.
Returning to the Fringe for the third time with a new show, please join guitarist Tony Randle on a journey through the different shades and flavours of the acoustic guitar, with a …
Long-time Fringe favourite, Stefan Warzycki, will this year perform, in two recitals, works by Bach, Sergei Bortkiewicz, Chopin (a waltz, a nocturne and some etudes), Moszkowsky an…
Fresh from their sell-out run at the Dell, EBC Theatre present a radical, abridged take on Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy.
Where would school theatre be without A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Twelfth Night? The latter is certainly a popular Shakespeare play for drama educators, with its saga of shipwr…
O what a piece of work is man! And O, how the character of man is so timelessly and universally depicted as Shakespeare flings the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune at his mo…
Popular South African production, Baked Shakespeare, is coming to the Edinburgh Fringe! Baked Shakespeare – a group of professionally trained actors – performing Shakespeare ho…
It’s 1930 – silent movies are out and talkies are in! The once-successful film producer turned theatre impresario, Mr Scruples, has been given the gruelling task of bringing op…
Enjoy an hour of beautiful music from Beethoven sonata no 3 op 69, Schumann Fantasiestucke, and Nigel Don Bits and Pieces played by two remarkably talented musicians.
The Edinburgh Renaissance Band is back for 2023 with a fresh programme of their ever-popular Viol Rackett Show, the much-loved programme of instrumental music, from the Middle Ages…
The Orchestra of the Canongait and conductor Robert Dick are joined by cellist Martin Storey for Elgar’s ever-popular masterpiece, framed by two of the most iconic works of the e…
On his annual visit to the Fringe, William Alexander performs a piano recital of popular pieces by Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Chopin, Ravel and Liszt.
Hannah is a violinist from Aberdeen, Scotland.
Our new young conductor is nearly as old as the orchestra.
In the stunning setting of Canongate Kirk on the Royal Mile, David Hamilton presents a concert of some of Bach’s earliest organ compositions.
Sixty musicians perform one of the most popular works in the modern Chinese classical canon, in which Western orchestral influences combine with Chinese folk opera, conducted by it…
The SCO’s brilliant classical cellist Su-a Lee is continually reaching beyond the classical genre.
The Spinacino Consort presents a concert of the finest music from Renaissance Italy, exploring the influence of Isabella d’Este, ‘La Prima Donna del Mondo’.
Christine and Nancy invite you to a lunchtime recital of beautiful music including the joyous Beethoven Variations on a Theme of Mozart, Cesar Franck’s passionate Sonata for pian…
Duruflé Requiem: Life and Death in Music with Poetry.
Arbroath-born Morris Pert (1947-2010) was best known for his session work with Kate Bush, Mike Oldfield and many others.
A song recital of music by British and French composers – Reynaldo Hahn and Roger Quilter.
The internationally renowned Choir of St Mary’s Cathedral sings music from coronations and royal occasions past and present.
Downtown Edinburgh, 2023.
God’s Craftsmen.
A programme with Gypsy roots, including music by, among others, Haydn, Bartók, Sarasate, Doppler, Falla, Liszt, and Rimsky-Korsakov.
The Bach Ensemble of Edinburgh return to the beautiful surroundings of Canongate Kirk for their tenth Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Nominated for Best Composer in the Fringe (MTM: UK awards) for Sailing to Tomorrow a musical tale of the Highland Clearances, (2007), Peter D Robinson brings an intimate collection…
These London-based performers team up again this year to perform a programme of music for cello and piano by Boccherini, Schumann and Richard Strauss.
New Zealand classical and jazz pianist Charles Whitehead returns to the 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe with Piano Masterworks Recital: La Valse, featuring works by Mozart, Bartok, …
This talented London-based cellist performs the Preludes and Gigues from all the Bach Cello Suites in one lunchtime recital, in the stunning surroundings of St Cuthbert’s Church.
Composing Sacred Music: A New Generation.
Michael Harris, Organist of St Giles’ Cathedral, puts the world-renowned Rieger organ in St Giles’ through its paces, with a programme including Kenneth Leighton’s Introduction, …
The piano solo version of the award-winning soundtrack for the 2002 film The Hours, composed by Philip Glass, played by Scottish musician Mark Spalding.
An abstract representation of the philosophy of Sufism in thrilling choreography.
Harpsichordist Dominika Maszczynska presents poetic and virtuosic pieces on the original 1755 double-manual harpsichord by Luigi Baillon.
Scottish Voices and friends perform settings of poetry in Gaelic and English by contemporary Scottish composers and poets.
The Princesse de Polignac, patron of the arts.
Modern Studies frontwoman Emily Scott performs new melancholy folk-tinged solo record Leave No Shadow with lush string chamber orchestra and band.
Modern Studies frontwoman Emily Scott performs new melancholy folk-tinged solo record Leave No Shadow with lush string chamber orchestra and band.
Maximiliano Martin is well known to Scottish audiences, both as principal clarinet of the SCO and as a brilliant soloist.
Rising to the Life Immortal: Organ Music for Easter and Ascension.
Where there is charity and love: Schola Cantorum sings the music of Paul Mealor.
In Robes of White.
London, 18th century.
This talented London-based cellist returns to the Fringe to give her annual recital of all the Bach Cello Suites over three consecutive days.
Join this talented London-based cello/piano duo as they perform, in their second visit to the Fringe together, a series of three consecutive concerts of Sonatas by these musical gi…
The Bach Ensemble of Edinburgh return to the beautiful and historic surroundings of Canongate Kirk for their tenth Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Modern Studies frontwoman Emily Scott performs new melancholy folk-tinged solo record Leave No Shadow with lush string chamber orchestra and band.
From Bach to The Beatles and beyond, South Australian musician/songwriter William Jack presents a free (non-ticketed) multi-style cello recital in the heart of Edinburgh.
An enchanting concert of operatic highlights, performed by international operatic bass Brian Bannatyne-Scott and fabulous up-and-coming young singers, accompanied by Polish pianist…
Join young soloists from Coro 23: Lesley Bruce, soprano, Holly Gowen, mezzo-soprano, John Hails, tenor, Matthew Fulton-Peebles, bass-baritone, and pianist Jamie Lang as they perfor…
Scottish early guitarist Gordon Ferries makes a welcome return to St Cecilia’s with a beautiful programme featuring Baroque guitar suites by the 17th-century Italian composer Ludov…
The St Andrew Camerata celebrates its return to the Fringe with these atmospheric, late-night performances of Gabriel Fauré’s much-loved Requiem and Cantique de Jean Racine, with …
Talented flute and piano duo Leila Marshall and Ailsa Aitkenhead return to the fringe for an afternoon concert of varied repertoire.
Performing their unique take on world music, Paul Chamberlain (accordion) and Michael Haywood (saxophone, violin, whistle and clarinet) return with another thrilling, virtuosic mus…
Edinburgh Youth Orchestra performs an exciting programme of orchestral music to celebrate its summer season.
Professor Jeremy Dibble (Durham University), authority on British music from the 19th century, reflects on the life of Sir John Stainer and his most famous work, The Crucifixion.
A journey from Greece to Spain through art song.
This expressive Edinburgh duo return once again with another passionate programme of music for violin and piano including; Schubert Duo Op 162, Debussy Sonata, Bartok Romanian Danc…
Experience the wonder of the classical guitar through a reflective, thoughtful hour of music exploring the guitars allure and mystery.
A performance of some of Einaudi’s most popular, beautiful and atmospheric music brought to you live by talented pianist Ailsa Aitkenhead.
A selection from The Twenty Etudes For Piano composed by Philip Glass between 1991 and 2013: these pieces occupy a uniquely representative place among the works of one of the world…
Jordan English, Assistant Organist of St Giles’, puts the magnificent world-renowned Rieger organ through its paces in Vierne’s 2nd Symphony, Alcock’s Introduction and Passac…
The critically acclaimed team of McDonald and Kitchen join forces with soprano Jess Rucinski for a journey through Arcadian Italy, featuring cantatas by Handel, Vivaldi and Mancini…
Dvorak’s 1878 D-minor Serenade can be seen as the pinnacle of the tradition of Harmonie Musik or wind band music that flourished in the palaces of the Hapsburg Empire from about th…
Church goes to the opera in this passionate setting of the Stabat Mater.
Tenor Aitor Sorozabal and pianist Kristina Kebet present an afternoon of Lieder.
Polymnia, Milton Keynes’ premier chamber choir, returns to the Edinburgh Fringe.
Enjoy amazing classical music at lunchtime with a ROSL Recital.
This year, Jonathan begins and ends with two of Spain’s greatest composers, Albeniz and Granados, and, in between, a majestic Bach Prelude and Allemande, followed by traditional mu…
Kickstart your Fringe day with a ROSL recital, and immerse yourself in amazing classical music performed by some of the finest talent, in comfortable surroundings.
Escape the afternoon crowds and enjoy amazing classical music with a ROSL Recital.
Brass Tracks celebrate 10 years of live performances to delighted audiences across Scotland.
Join Scotland’s finest young singers and a superb jazz trio for Bob Chilcott’s Jazz Mass.
Howard Blake’s delightful settings of Robert Louis Stevenson’s poem The Land of Counterpane form the centrepiece of this concert by the critically acclaimed NYCOS National Girls Ch…
Members of The Howe Street Band return to St Vincent’s after last year’s successful concert.
John Bryden returns to St Mary’s to give two piano recitals on the superb Cathedral Steinway.
Symphonic music usually needs over 100 players to realise.
Popular organ music on the mighty Father Willis organ of St Mary’s Cathedral, played by Duncan Ferguson, David Goode and Imogen Morgan.
Peter Seivewright is one of the very few British artists in any field to have achieved substantial recognition in both Russia and the United States of America, as well as throughou…
The pianist and composer, winner of several national and international competitions, will play an exciting program including pieces by Beethoven and Rachmaninov, as well as her own…
Wolfgang David, Austrian violinist, will perform all six Sonatas and Partitas of JS Bach in three programmes, twice each: BWV 1001 & 1002, BWV 1003 & 1004 and BWV 1005 & 1006.
Critically acclaimed US artists, violist Christine Rutledge and Guggenheim Award-winning composer and pianist David Gompper, return to the Festival Fringe to present a programme of…
Hertfordshire-based choir, Classical Chorus look forward to performing a short concert in the beautiful setting of Greyfriars Kirk.
Come and hear Andrei Kymach, the world-famous Ukrainian baritone and winner of the 2019 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World opera prize, accompanied as in Cardiff by Llyr Williams, as …
Classical singer Ciara brings the magic of the silver screen to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with her concert Cinema Paradiso.
Join us in a collective trance state as we explore the connection between music, meditation and mental health with live orchestra, piano, tea ceremonies, bells and guided meditatio…
With a plethora of Sherlock Holmes shows to catch at this year’s Fringe; our fascination with the super-sleuth showing no signs of abating.
The internationally renowned classical pianist Marc Corbett-Weaver makes a welcome return to Edinburgh for a dazzling piano recital of great pianistic masterpieces, including the g…
Tim Barton plays the piano.
Scotland’s professional touring company returns with John Leo Wilkie’s highly acclaimed and intimate production of Madama Butterfly.
Lear Alone uses just King Lear’s lines from the First Folio of Shakespeare’s tragedy to explore themes of loneliness, ageing and homelessness: a study of one man’s vulnerabilit…
Ignored for centuries by a misogynistic patriarchy, it is now time to reclaim their place.
Come and revel in the earthy tones of this low member of the clarinet family.
Award-winning Daniel Martinez Flamenco Company presents its long-awaited second album Andalucia, a stunning flamenco production accompanied by a chamber orchestra.
Peer Gynt: A Jazz Revival by Cambridge company Phonofiddle! comes with an intriguing proposition: taking Ibsen's complex work and transmuting it into an hour of jazz-infused th…
Following the Scottish premiere of Howard Skempton’s 50 Preludes and Fugues for Organ, Book One, during the 2021 Edinburgh Festival Fringe at St Giles’ Cathedral, Matthew Owens…
Free lunchtime recitals every day from 2nd to 31st August, except Sundays and 16th.
A concert of contemporary classical chamber music featuring both compositions by musicians who served in the armed forces, and new work composed in response to the works of these …
Cadenza performs Handel’s joyous coronation anthem Zadok the Priest and his Foundling Hospital Anthem with its famous last chorus, Lotti’s Missa Sapientiae, admired by Handel (who …
Join Gwilym Bowen (tenor), Benjamin Goldscheider (cor anglais) and Jams Coleman (piano) in a love letter to Europe for Brexit – a programme of music by Schubert, Schumann, Britte…
The music making between siblings Slava and Leonard Grigoryan has a palpable ease, the unspoken affinity of kinship.
Join classical trio Oscen Ensemble as they explore works by female composers in their Song for the Forgotten Rose.
Principal Clarinettist of the SCO and international soloist Maximiliano Martin accompanied by Scott Mitchell comes to St Mary’s Cathedral to perform works by Poulenc, Saint-Saens, …
Singing sensation Thomas Cameron is a charismatic, Classic Brit Award-nominated tenor, whose powerful voice has been described as having velvet-like qualities and is making ‘wave…
Three future stars, committed and passionate chamber musicians, Irène Duval, Jean-Selim Abdelmoula and Maciej Kulakowski, met at The Kronberg Academy.
Programme marking the 85th anniversary of Philip Glass, three of his compositions are performed at the Wells Kennedy organ by Arbroath-based musician Mark Spalding: Music in Fifths…
In this new work, Peter D Robinson – MTM: UK nominee for Best Composer on the Fringe 2007 for Sailing to Tomorrow – combines ancient and contemporary, sacred and secular texts …
Three future stars, committed and passionate chamber musicians, Irène Duval, Jean-Selim Abdelmoula and Maciej Kulakowski, met at The Kronberg Academy.
A selection of music of all styles performed by the best musicians in Scotland.
A musical journey through film and dance featuring music by Mendelssohn, Arnold, Bernstein, Elgar and Toner.
Jonny Liebeck is a classical organist, jazz musician, composer, teacher and producer whose varied musical influences range from Bach to Lyle Mays and Herbie Hancock, jazz funk, Lat…
Musicians Jonathan and Dom Prag with sparkling arrangements of songs from Greece, Catalonia, Eastern Europe and Scotland.
A beautifully melodic, rich programme of universally loved music: Heitor Villa-Lobos’ Suite Populaire Bresilienne and Sublime arrangements of classic George Gershwin songs by local…
Full of fantastic music, scheming fairies and hapless peers, the University of St Andrews Gilbert and Sullivan Society is proud to present Iolanthe.
Electrifying violinist Anna-Liise Bezrodny makes a welcome return to the Fringe with the Orchestra of the Canongait and conductor Robert Dick to play one of the most beloved of all…
In the 2022 Nicolas Shackleton concert supported by University of Edinburgh, Calum Robertson, Sally Carr and Juliette Philogene present an exciting programme of music for clarinet,…
Lunchtime Organ Recital on Saturday the 20th August at 1.
Les Shankland directs the Chapter House Singers in Choral Evensong.
Musical influences on JS Bach were many and varied.
From Bach to The Beatles and beyond, renowned South Australian musician/songwriter William Jack presents a free (non-ticketed) multi-style cello recital in the heart of Edinburgh.
Bach’s most spectacular choral work, a delightful mixture of sensitive moments of peace, blistering excitement and majestic hope, performed by chamber choir and orchestra.
The Scottish Reformation: a time of conflict and transformation.
In Every Corner Sing: The Choir of Old St Paul’s with Director of Music John Kitchen MBE, Edinburgh City Organist.
Principal cellist of the London Sinfonietta and a member of the Fidelio Trio, Tim Gill joins composer/pianist David Gompper in two recitals featuring new and traditional 20th-centu…
Àirigh Orchestra celebrates the amazing depth and variety of the classical piano concerto genre: Bach D minor (BWV1052), Koželuch concerto for piano duet and a recently composed …
Music from across the ages marking important royal events from deaths and funerals to weddings and coronations, sung by ‘one of Scotland’s (indeed the UK’s) musical jewels’…
A sparkling programme of classical piano music, from Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata to the magnificent Norma Fantasy by Liszt.
Featuring some of the most famous Ibiza club anthems from the last 30 years, celebrate the European island of clubbing this summer.
Henry Purcell’s Sacred and Secular.
After a two-year break, Luca Villani returns to play for local and international guitar enthusiasts new pieces and beloved works, like the Albèniz Asturias and the Aguado Rondò.
The Bach Ensemble of Edinburgh return to Canongate Kirk for their ninth Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a baroque programme of Bach, Handel and Vivaldi.
Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time for clarinet, violin, cello and piano was written when Messiaen was a prisoner of war in German captivity and first performed in 19…
Matthew Owens, organist-renowned recitalist, gives the Scottish premiere of Book One of 50 Preludes and Fugues for Organ by Howard Skempton, one the UK’s foremost living composer…
The accomplished and versatile team of McDonald and Kitchen are joined by gifted young violinist Lydia Kirschenbaum* to present an all Handel programme of virtuoso works featuring …
A selection of music by Ludovico Einaudi, performed by talented pianist Ailsa Aitkenhead. Contemplative and beautiful classical piano in a gorgeous ambience.
On a distant island, Prospero, the deposed Duke of Milan, plots revenge on those who overthrew her.
Spend a relaxed hour with Australian living legend John Bell, as he rummages through his swag of favourite things, fishing out poems, stories, backstage gossip: things he finds ins…
Award-winning experimental composer Michael Begg’s groundbreaking Black Glass Ensemble reveals new music from the borderlands of classical and experimental music.
Algorithms are art.
After the debut in 2019 of Duo Corde InCanto, the versatile soprano Silvia Mirarchi and refined guitarist Luca Villani return with a new recital spanning five centuries of music fo…
The Bach Ensemble of Edinburgh return to Canongate Kirk for their ninth Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a baroque programme of Bach, Vivaldi and Handel.
Join us on a tour through medieval and renaissance Europe, playing period instruments of every kind: cornetts, sackbuts, serpents, viols, rebecs, fiddle, violins, shawms, curtals, …
Jonathan’s gorgeous programme starts with two beautiful Villa-Lobos preludes, then dances through a Bach Bourree and Gigue.
Stefan Warzycki’s solo recital at last year’s Fringe was rated five out of five and described as a dramatic, compelling recital.
John Bryden returns to St Mary’s to give two piano recitals on the Cathedral Steinway, with coffee available.
Join this brilliant London-based cello/piano duo as they perform highlights of the cello repertoire in three consecutive concerts by composers of the classical area.
Sacred Arts Festival 2022 Opening Service High Mass for the Feast of the Assumption, celebrated in accordance with the Scottish Liturgy of 1970 in the beautiful setting of the hist…
Gunnar Berg (1909-1989) GAFFKY’s.
Come and hear William Alexander perform, on the piano, a selection of popular pieces by Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Debussy and Liszt.
Lucia Capellaro, László Rózsa and David Gerrard, some of Scotland’s most exciting period instrument players, explore the musical offerings of two of Germany’s greatest baroque…
This London-based violin/cello duo, formed in 2018, returns to give a recital of music by composers from the 17th to 19th centuries.
From wild dance tunes to solemn laments, frenzied improvisations to lush Baroque compositions, Highland strathspeys to Lowland ballads, join US National Champion fiddler Tim Macdon…
Award-winning Scottish marimbist and percussionist Calum Huggan performs a captivating and eclectic programme in St Mary’s Cathedral, including works by French composers Séjourné…
Stunning opera in which two famous queens are locked in dangerous power play.
Experience the romantic passion of the music of Rachmaninov, performed by the best young classical musicians out there – all ROSL prizewinners.
ROSL’s exceptional prize-winning classical musicians bring Paris to Edinburgh performing the music of one of France’s finest composers and his contemporaries.
Time to relax and listen to classical music in this beautiful historic church.
Extraordinary concert of French airs de cour and their baroque admirers – Lully, Lambert, Tessier, Purcell, Handel.
Scotland’s professional touring opera company returns with Mozart’s sublime comedy.
Michael Harris, Organist of St Giles’ Cathedral, puts the world-renowned Rieger organ in St Giles’ through its paces, with a programme including Healey Willan Introduction, Passa…
Programme marking the 85th anniversary of Philip Glass, Arbroath-based musician Mark Spalding returns with a programme of compositions from six decades performed at the piano.
Likened to Kate Bush, Anna Meredith and Bjork, Esther Swift combines her love of folk, jazz, classical and all things in-between in this brand-new commission from Celtic Connection…
A teatime concert of the poignant and passionate composer Johannes Brahms; perfect for a reflective afternoon.
Enjoy a relaxing concert of music from one of the kings of jazz and his contemporaries as performed by ROSL prize-winners; some of the finest international classical musicians arou…
Start the day with the passionate music of Beethoven and his contemporaries, performed by ROSL’s exceptionally talented prize-winning musicians.
Join talented duo Leila Marshall and Ailsa Aitkenhead for an evening recital of lyrical and rousing works for flute and piano.
Enjoy an hour of classical music performed live by the talented ensemble Classical.
Join the South African soprano and winner of the Song Prize at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition 2021, Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha, with Simon Lepper at the piano in…
Brass Tracks return triumphant after their last Fringe sell-out success with a new show bringing the excitement of brass to a beautifully balanced programme of classical and contem…
A favourite of the ROSL recital series, Bach for Breakfast concerts feature the world’s finest young classical musicians performing some of the greatest works in the repertoire.
Presented by the Barsanti Ensemble and the University of Edinburgh Musical Instrument Collection, this concert highlights a manuscript collection of music in Edinburgh University L…
A post-lunch concert of romantic and passionate music of Chopin and his contemporaries, performed by the finest international classical talent from ROSL’s renowned Annual Music C…
What would you trade to preserve a special relationship? Bassanio has squandered his wealth but plans to regain it by wooing wealthy Portia of Belmont, whose late father has impose…
The beauty of Mozart’s wide variety of music comes to life in this teatime concert, as performed by ROSL’s exceptional, prize-winning classical musicians.
Choral Evensong sung by the Choir of St Mary’s Cathedral, the only cathedral in Scotland to continue the tradition of daily worship.
Dynamic Manchester-based wind quintet Festivo Winds present an evening of French music culminating in a performance of Poulenc’s dazzling sextet for piano and winds.
Glorious choral settings of the Mass sung in their liturgical setting, with the Choir of St Mary’s Cathedral. Music by Schubert, Byrd and Kodaly.
Duncan Ferguson (St Mary’s Cathedral), Joseph Beech (Durham Cathedral) and Imogen Morgan (St Mary’s Cathedral) perform popular organ music on the Cathedral’s magnificent and recent…
Coro 22 returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to perform the celebratory first part, The Coming of Christ, from Handel’s masterpiece.
The sequel concert to 2018’s A Really Short Introduction to Scotland’s Piano Music exploring the work of 19th and 20th-century Scottish composers.
Join Cameron Shahbazi, a Persian-Canadian counter-tenor with Ashok Gupta on the piano in a series of two song recitals of music composed by Handel for the Edinburgh Musical Society…
Celebrated Viennese cellist Peter Hudler returns to the Fringe with his brand-new show.
Three years have passed since Sherlock Holmes and his nemesis Professor Moriarty vanished into the abyss of the Reichenbach Falls.
Join the young musicians of Edinburgh Youth Orchestra, directed by international conductor Sian Edwards, as they perform a varied and exuberant programme of large orchestral works.
A recital of virtuosic piano music given by the popular London-based classical pianist Marc Corbett-Weaver.
Rhythms of India by Dr Radha Krishnan, Arabhi Krishnan and students. Storytelling using complex footwork set to rhythmic music along with facial expressions.
Join us on these free guided tours of the musical treasures on display at St Cecilia’s Hall, Scotland’s oldest concert hall and home to the University of Edinburgh’s Musical …
The Christmas story, Broadway-style.
From Mozart to Muddy Puddles! Peppa Pig – My First Concert is a fun interactive introduction to a live orchestra with everyone’s favourite Pig family! Join Peppa as she discovers…
A classic tale of greed and guilt, this visceral and lucid interpretation of Shakespeare’s blood-soaked tragedy is truly Flabbergast.
Three performers.
Three Performers.
Despite Kindles and Netflix and Twitter and Podcasts, our collective love of books will never die; at least, if the audience of Classic! at Pleasance Courtyard is anything to go by…
Ben Bruant and Will Cashel play songs you know in ways you probably don’t in a style fusing flamenco, pop and classical music.
Kumi Choi, winner of the first prize and Peter Hurford prize at the 2019 St Albans International Organ Competition, presents a programme centred on César Franck’s Grande Pièce …
Join us at St Mary’s Cathedral for free lunchtime recitals every day except Sundays and August 17th.
Jamie MacDougall, tenor and Michael Barnett on keyboard, perform songs from Viennese operetta, opera and musical theatre.
SCOTTISH SINFONIA, Leader Michael Rigg, Conductor Neil Mantle.
Commissioned by Just Festival, No Alleluias is sung by professional singers and supported by a virtual NHS choir.
Classical dance genres performed by Dr Radha Krishnan, Arabhi Krishnan and students of Dr Radha Krishnan showcasing their talent.
Outstanding young Russian pianist Nikita Lukinov gives a recital of Beethoven (Sonata No.
‘It was touching, eccentric, wry, surprising, profound.
The Leconfield Singers present: Choral Classics.
Elspeth McVeigh’s an accomplished singer of baroque and early Scottish music with performances described as having a haunting, ‘entrancing voice.
The Leconfield Singers present: Choral Classics.
Matthew Owens returns to St Mary’s to play a programme of organ music from Christmas to Christmas and lots in between! Join us for an exciting programme from JS Bach to Garth Edmun…
Experience all the drama and wonder of grand opera on a miniature scale, with open-air performances brought to life by a storyteller, two singers and instrumentalists.
The 2021 Festival of the Sacred Arts concludes with a service of Choral Evensong.
Immerse yourself in a pint-sized version of HMS Pinafore, with an unforgettable journey through the opera’s musical and dramatic highlights – in just 30 minutes.
A Night at the Opera: critically-acclaimed pianist Andrew Wright performs attractive arrangements by Liszt and others, taken from operas by Wagner, Mascagni, Bellini and Rossini.
Edinburgh-based pianist, William Alexander, plays a recital of popular pieces by Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Debussy and Liszt.
Music by Villalobos, Mompou and Bach with Scottish lute melodies.
The Choir of St Mary’s Cathedral sings Fauré’s moving and famous work.
Stefan Warzycki presents a programme of piano music for the left hand including Godowsky’s studies on Chopin’s Op 10 Études, Scenes of Iceland by Thordur Magnusson and Scriabin’s …
Claire Barnett-Jones, BBC Cardiff Singer of the Year, winner of the Dame Joan Sutherland Audience Prize 2021, gives a 250th anniversary homage to Sir Walter Scott, the world-famous…
The accomplished German-born but London-based cellist Anne-Isabel Meyer returns to the Fringe to perform the complete set of Bach’s Suites for Unaccompanied Cello over three days i…
Lunchtime recital: Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time.
Including Peter Maxwell Davies’s Farewell to Stromness, a rousing Paco Peña flamenco, a Bach Prelude and Fugue, a beautiful traditional Russian melody, telling a tragic love story…
Charlotte Edwards (violin) and Anne-Isabel Meyer (cello) perform music by Scarlatti (his Sonata K 204a), Mozart (Duo after KV 423), Corelli (Sonata 12 op.
Mass setting: Lassus’ Missa Bell ‘Amfitrit’ altera.
Evening concert: one of Scotland’s most renowned string ensembles, The Edinburgh Quartet, plays Haydn’s Seven Last Words from the Cross, with the movements interspersed by poet…
South African artists, baritone Njabulo Madlala and pianist James Baillieu bring our ROSL recitals series to a close with a beautiful programme of Mahler, Schumann and traditional …
One of the world’s most famous musicians comes to St Mary’s to give the first organ recital on the magnificent and newly restored Father Willis organ.
Jordan English, Assistant Organist of St Giles’ Cathedral, playing the world-renowned Rieger organ in St Giles’, brings the series to a stunning conclusion with the final virtuos…
Join Richard Montgomery and Anna Michels for a programme of two colourful and contrasting French works for violin and piano.
Roberto Ruisi (violin).
King Henry, recently come to the British throne, sets forth to claim the throne of France.
ROSL alumni take on Beethoven as their inspiration for their late morning recitals.
Concerts include: Saxophonist Jonathan Radford and pianist Ashley Fripp perform with some brilliant arrangements of some of Gershwin’s contemporaries, culminating with a show stopp…
Scottish soprano Irene Drummond presents the soloists of Coro 21 in a performance of Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater and selected arias from Handel’s operas and oratorios.
Kicking off our 2021 Edinburgh Fringe series we have concerts including: 2020 Gold Medal winner, violinist Eleanor Corr performing with Aleksandra Myslek, who have put together a b…
Chopin is the inspiration for our post-lunchtime recitals.
Concerts include: Soprano Siân Dicker won our Singers Prize in the 2020 annual music competition and she returns to the Princess Alexandra Hall programme with a delightful Mozart …
A carefully selected programme for everyone returning to live public music events.
Enjoy a lunchtime recital on the fine Wells-Kennedy instrument in the Georgian splendour of St Andrew’s and St George’s West Church, George Street; Andrew Carvel, Drew Crichton…
A previous Emerging Artist with Scottish Opera, Bethan, accompanied by Keval on the piano, sings a selection of songs by Chaminade, Crumb, Dove, Haydn and Mozart.
Choral services sung by St Mary’s Cathedral Choir, the only choral foundation in Scotland with the tradition of daily services. Full details of music at cathedral.net.
Cathedral Organ Demonstration: Sunday August 8th, 5pm, 1 hour, free.
Choral Eucharist sung by the choir of St Mary’s Cathedral.
Pianodrome presents four stunning performances from exceptional musical acts who are passionate about bringing their deep understanding of classical chamber music to a contemporary…
Ciara Harvie is a classical crossover singer from Edinburgh.
Michael Harris, Organist of St Giles’ Cathedral, puts the world-renowned Rieger organ in St Giles’ through its paces, in a colourful programme including Franck’s Choral No 1 in E…
Join the Violin Orchestra and the violinists of ViolinSchool for a summer extravaganza of wonderful violin music, including: The Blue Danube, Largo from Xerxes (Handel), the Weller…
Music-theatre with solo cello plus dance, Iconnotations is extraordinary: surreal, wry, expressionistic, at times baffling, profoundly sad but at the end joyous.
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There are a handful of stories which truly stand the test of time.
Join Glasgow-born Michael Mofidian (bass-baritone) accompanied on the piano by Keval Shah as he sings a selection of songs by Jean Sibelius (1865-1957).
A unique opportunity to enjoy this award winning, ever popular Early Music group, who have performed at every Edinburgh Festival Fringe since 1973.
Pianodrome presents four stunning performances from exceptional musical acts who are passionate about bringing their deep understanding of classical chamber music to a contemporary…
In his own opinion, by far the most important, Doctor Faustus is a certified genius.
The Edinburgh chamber choir Coro Edina return to the Fringe with a socially distanced programme of Byrd, Bruckner and Stanford, recorded live at Old St Paul’s church.
The year is 1894: three years since the world-famous Sherlock Holmes and his nemesis Professor Moriarty plunged to their deaths in The Reichenbach Falls.
Free concerts every lunchtime, Monday to Saturday throughout August.
The programme features Vocalise, Piano Concerto No 4 in G (soloist Adam Davies) and Symphony No 2 in E minor.
A light-hearted afternoon of trios, duets and solos from opera and musical theatre, encompassing Mozart to Sondheim.
Felix Mendelssohn came to Scotland in 1829, drawn by myth and history, the works of Walter Scott, and our country’s natural beauty.
Luca Villani returns to play three masterworks for guitar: the virtuoso Bach Suite BWV 1006, the epic Sonata Romantica by Ponce, and the magnificent Cantos de España by Albeniz, i…
In 1880, Debussy was piano teacher and accompanist to the children of Nadezhda von Meck, a wealthy patroness.
FTLO Theater Troupe Presents Ophelia/Hamlet; seeking to offer one specific interpretation of William Shakespeare’s Ophelia and Hamlet – that their arcs are twinned and their depr…
Guitarist Geoff Robb was the winner of the 2018 Brighton Fringe Live Music Award and since then he has been writing music inspired by trees.
Schubert’s masterpiece song cycle Winterreise (A Winter Journey) performed by Scotland’s foremost operatic bass accompanied by legendary Scottish pianist, Walter Blair.
Edinburgh’s very own St Andrew Camerata return after two five-star sell-out performances in 2019 with their ever-popular atmospheric, late-night, candlelit performances of Gabriel …
What would happen if Ludwig van Beethoven met Albert Ammons!? They might play classical and boogie-woogie piano for each other, exchange anecdotes and musical facts, or perhaps eve…
Enjoy a relaxing concert of music from one of the kings of jazz and his contemporaries.
ROSL’s exceptional prizewinning classical musicians bring Paris to Edinburgh, performing the music of one of France’s finest composers and his contemporaries.
A cornucopia of music and the extraordinary life story of Winnaretta Singer, Princesse de Polignac, heir to the vast Singer sewing machine fortune.
A teatime concert of the poignant and passionate composer Johannes Brahms; perfect for a reflective afternoon.
Experience the romantic passion of the music of Rachmaninov.
Start the day with the passionate music of Beethoven and his contemporaries, performed by ROSL’s exceptionally talented prizewinning musicians.
‘Now I am ready to tell how bodies are changed into different bodies’.
A favourite of the ROSL Recital Series, Bach for Breakfast features the world’s finest young classical musicians performing some of the greatest works in the repertoire.
A post-lunch concert of the romantic and passionate music of Chopin and his contemporaries, performed by the finest international classical talent from ROSL’s renowned Annual Mus…
The beauty of Mozart’s wide variety of music comes to life in this teatime concert, performed by ROSL’s exceptional prizewinning classical musicians.
Opera is dying! Can David bring it back to life with his one-man production of La Serva Padrona? Comedy, cocoa and questions of consent collide in this new English version of Pergo…
Charlotte Brontë’s tale of a young woman’s courageous fight through injustice and hardship was a revolution in literary fiction.
Velvet Determination – a musical journey about wrong notes, hard knocks and the keys to success.
They have toured the world, won multiple awards, broken onto London’s West End, survived nine consecutive Edinburgh Fringes and once received a zero-star review in The Times! They …
3 performers.
What’s it like to play the flute while hanging upside down? How loud is the trombone? Jazz accordion?!? Music, theatre, and dance collide in this madcap variety show, and YOU cho…
Thomas Cameron is a Classic Brit Award-nominated tenor, whose vibrant voice has been described as having velvet-like qualities.
Alasdair Cameron ‘the Master’ (EdinburghGuide.
Edinburgh-based vocal ensemble Cantica Alba, directed by Michael Harris, present Nature’s Glory, a programme of madrigals and partsongs, exploring the world of nature in music, inc…
Performing their unique take on world music, Paul (accordion) and Michael (saxophone, violin, whistle and clarinet) return to the Fringe with another thrilling, virtuosic musical j…
The Whistlebinkies’ rich blending of the tones and rhythms of fiddles, flute, concertina, lowland pipes, Scottish small-pipes, double bass and percussion has captivated audiences a…
Puccini’s beautiful Messa di Gloria, Haydn’s joyous Te Deum and energetic Insanae et Vanae Curae with orchestral accompaniment, plus first Scottish performance of Janet Wheeler’s p…
Sit back and enjoy an hour of some of the most beautiful 19th-century German lieder.
The Scottish guitarist/composer Gordon Ferries returns to St Cecilia’s with tenor Stuart Mitchell, performing Ferries’ new songs from A Shropshire Lad and from poems by Byron and S…
The Scottish Clarinet Quartet return to the Edinburgh Fringe to present the much-loved music of JS Bach, reimagined for multiple clarinets and infused with swing jazz, funk and imp…
Marking the 50th anniversary of the groundbreaking 1969 minimalist compositions of Philip Glass (born in 1937), a performance at the Wells-Kennedy organ in St Andrew’s and St Georg…
Lift your spirits with a selection of spine-tingling choral gems to inspire and delight.
Acknowledged as ‘a forerunner in the new generation of classical guitarists’ (BBC Radio 3) and a graduate of the Royal College of Music, Michael Christian Durrant presents a progra…
Forth Trio is a newly established group of Edinburgh Napier music graduates - Alexandra Prentice (violin), Joanna Stark (cello) and Max McWhirter (piano).
Experience the magnificent sound of the world-renowned Rieger organ in St Giles’ Cathedral played by Michael Harris, organist of St Giles’, in a programme featuring the music of JS…
Step aside from the frantic streets and slip into a meditative mood with the tranquil harmonies of five centuries from Gibbons and Tallis to Gjeilo, Whitacre and Lauridsen.
At the turn of the 16th century, the first music ever to be printed was published by Ottaviano Petrucci in Venice.
Acclaimed pianist Nicholas Ashton plays the beautiful music of Debussy, Daquin, Rameau, Liszt and Ravel in celebration of the natural environment – a programme inspired by the ex…
The artists have collaborated intensely on tango projects nationally and internationally, especially with the opera/tango/dance-fusion show Violetta’s Last Tango.
100% my type on paper.
Ann Liebeck is an international opera and concert singer who has sung in Vienna, Prague and many theatres in Germany.
We are a professional, Scotland-based classical music ensemble – a flexible group that explores and performs a variety of pieces from solo to chamber orchestra repertoire.
Narukami Thunder God is a Japanese tale of deception, seduction and betrayal.
One of Shakespeare’s funniest comedies brought to you by CYD.
The Scots Musical Museum, an enormous pop-song survey produced by enterprising publisher James Johnson with Robert Burns, who, enlisted as editor, became crazed with compiling, fix…
Adrian Sims, five-star reviewed Edinburgh Festival Fringe pianist, accompanies Miriam Sharrad, Australian mezzo, in an eclectic journey from the salons of Schumann, Duparc and Rach…
Russian and Scottish piano music. Tommy Fowler (born 1948): Remergence. Medtner (1880-1951): Sonata Reminiscenza, Rachmaninoff (1873-1943): Piano Sonata Number 2.
Following their recent cycle of Tchaikovsky concerts, the Orchestra of the Canongait brings together a selection of the finest local amateur, student and semi-professional musician…
Learning from the Chicago Symphony, the home of the blues, Chi-Town’s singular jazz scene, folk, roots-rock and life in the 60s-70s, Tim’s wondrous musical immersion allowed him to…
Central to Bach’s output as a composer are his chorale preludes.
For the seventh year at this wonderful venue, William Alexander again gives a recital of Chopin’s piano music and performs a selection of preludes, waltzes, nocturnes, polonaises a…
An exceptional international ensemble with its roots in Scottish culture.
The accomplished and versatile team of Anthony Robson, Gerry McDonald and John Kitchen present a programme of virtuoso concertos in miniature by five undisputed masters of the genr…
International, award-winning concert pianist Veronica Yen returns to Edinburgh.
Rock Festival Choir is Alnwick’s renowned chamber choir of 22 singers under director Peter Brown.
Soprano Silvia Mirarchi joins guitarist Luca Villani in a new wonderful duo with poignant Italian arias, refined German lieder and exciting Spanish songs.
Come and hear a lunchtime recital with music written by strong women as well as arias about the power of women.
‘You’ll have to go a long way to hear finer choral singing than this’ (International Record review).
An evening of poetry and music given by John Coutts and Ayman Jarjour.
Award-winning PipaRimba is an innovative and masterful pipa/marimba duo.
Dorian Ford, internationally acclaimed jazz pianist, performs Keith Jarrett’s brilliant 1975 iconic improvisation.
Directed by Les Shankland, Director of Music, St Vincent’s Chapel, composed in 1680, this rarely performed work is regarded as the very first Lutheran oratorio, and was intended …
The Bach Ensemble of Edinburgh return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for an eighth consecutive year for two concerts.
Scotland’s professional touring company celebrates 10 years with one of the world’s best-loved operettas.
A wonderful programme of music played by the world’s violin virtuosi at The Carnegie Hall, starring Scots virtuoso violinist Michael Foyle with Somi Kim piano.
A fabulous new guitar recital by Luca Villani playing finest guitar masterworks: the exquisite Sor Bagatelles, the thunderous Arcas Fantasia on El Paño, the Brouwer imaginative De…
Perhaps the most insightful left-handed piano player of today, Stefan Warzycki returns to St Andrew’s and St George’s West with dazzling performances of his own left-hand arrangeme…
Join everyone’s favourite dynamic duo as Wallace prepares to perform his musical masterpiece My Concerto in Ee Lad with help from his faithful canine companion Gromit.
Enjoy our popular lunchtime recital series on the fine Wells-Kennedy instrument in the Georgian splendour of St Andrew’s and St George’s West Church.
Experience the magnificent sound of the world-renowned Rieger organ in St Giles’ Cathdedral, played by Jordan English, assistant organist.
Handel was famous for making unauthorised quotations of musical material from other composers in his own works.
The tenor/countertenor duo of Hugo Mallet and Fritz Spengler perform famous airs and arias of the life and legacy of Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919).
Two alternating programmes featuring music by Scottish composers and settings of Scottish poetry.
Join this talented London-based cello/piano duo as they perform a series of three consecutive concerts of music by these composers of the classical era. Not to be missed.
Alec Frank-Gemmill directs Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll and the Serenade No 1 by Brahms in its original version for nonet.
Three alternating concert programmes over multiple days featuring music by Scottish composers and settings of Scottish poetry.
This acclaimed London-based cellist makes her annual visit to the Fringe to perform all Bach’s glorious solo cello suites in three consecutive performances.
William Shakespeare’s narrative poem The Rape of Lucrece tells the story of Lucrece, a noblewoman in ancient Rome whose rape at the hands of her husband’s friend, Tarquin, ulti…
On a High Note is a dramatic new piece of operatic theatre performed and written by award-winning soprano Erin Alexander.
Brass Tracks is back for one night only! For the fifth consecutive year, the respected brass quintet returns with a timely show paying homage to our rich cultural ties with Europe.
The 1950s: a golden era, idyllic, patriarchal.
This radical adaptation, set in a nightclub populated with drag kings and gangsters, releases Shakespeare’s famous yet controversial play from its comedic origins to foreground K…
The Bach Ensemble of Edinburgh return to the Festival Fringe for an eighth consecutive year.
Join this talented duo as they play a selection of much-loved pieces from the duo’s repertoire. An afternoon of enjoyment.
Ciara Harvie is an impressively talented mezzo-soprano from Edinburgh.
A collection of song settings from some of Scotland’s best-loved writers including George MacKay Brown, Robert Burns, Hugh MacDiarmid, William Soutar and Robert Louis Stevenson.
Accomplished Hungarian violin virtuoso Tamás Fejes returns to this year’s Fringe to perform from his recently released, highly acclaimed album.
Gioachino Rossini’s last work, the Petite Messe Solennelle (Little Solemn Mass), was composed in 1863.
Korean-ised adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic.
Traditional choral evensong and benediction with the renowned choir and organ of this historic Anglican Catholic church directed by Dr John Kitchen.
Edinburgh’s very own St Andrew Camerata return to the Fringe in 2019 with their ever-popular atmospheric, late-night, candlelit performances of Gabriel Faure’s much-loved Requiem a…
Young German countertenor, Fritz Spengler, performs iconic arias from the late-17th to mid-19th centuries to bring italianate opera to a wider world through The Carnegie Hall.
Leading Scottish Composer John McLeod launches a new album featuring his entire music, composed over 50 years, for solo piano played by outstanding pianist Murray McLachlan and new…
This year’s Shackleton memorial concert, featuring horn player Andy Saunders playing the Courtois horn from circa 1840.
After multiple sell-out performances in the last two years’ Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Edinburgh Youth Orchestra returns once again with an exciting and varied programme under th…
St Giles’ Cathedral Choir and instrumental ensemble, directed by Michael Harris, in a programme of choral classics including Vivaldi’s Gloria and Schubert Mass in G.
Once again this exciting ensemble performs Henry Purcell’s glorious masterpiece.
Natya Katha: a play of rhythmic beats, expressive music and stylised hand gestures that bring to life different stories that connect the mundane to the celestial.
After their successful Fringe debut in 2018, the Fyrish String Quartet returns to perform Haydn’s String Quartet in D minor, Op 76 No 2 (Fifths) and Grieg’s String Quartet No 1 in …
A teatime concert of the poignant and passionate composer Johannes Brahms; perfect for a reflective afternoon.
Enjoy a relaxing concert of music from one of the kings of jazz and his contemporaries performed by Royal Over-Seas League prize-winners, some of the finest international classical…
The two Early Romantic masters, Chopin and Schumann, produced wonderful masterpieces for the piano.
What happens when darkness strikes, unexpected? How do night and day affect the human soul? In a semi-staged recital, mainly sung in English, Daïmon invites you on a journey told …
Guitarist Stephen Morrison guides you on a journey with the music of Spain.
Since 1999, ROSL has brought together young classical musicians from across the Commonwealth to perform at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
A concert of close harmony, classical numbers and pop songs arranged for men’s voices and sung by St Mary’s Cathedral lay clerks.
A celebration of wonderful wildlife in songs and poetry with Joan Busby (mezzo-soprano), Brian Bannatyne Scott (bass), Walter Blair (piano) and Joshua Manning (reader).
Enjoy our popular lunchtime recital series on the fine Wells-Kennedy instrument in the Georgian splendour of St Andrew’s and St George’s West Church, George Street.
Experience the awe-inspiring sound of the world-renowned Rieger organ in St Giles’ Cathedral, in a programme featuring Liszt’s monumental virtuosic masterpiece, his Fantasia and Fu…
Captivating and evocative guitar music.
The Langonet String Quartet plays a programme contrasting a late work by Haydn, the inventor of the string quartet; an early quartet by Beethoven, the great revolutionary; and Dvor…
Time to relax and listen to classical music in this beautiful historic church just off the Royal Mile.
Experience the romantic passion of the music of Rachmaninov and his contemporaries, performed by the best young classical musicians out there, all Royal Over-Seas League prize-winn…
Royal Over-Seas League’s exceptional prize-winning classical musicians bring Paris to Edinburgh, performing the music of one of France’s finest composers and his contemporaries…
Start the day with the passionate music of Beethoven and his contemporaries, performed by the Royal Over-Seas League’s exceptionally talented prize-winning musicians.
Sheena Jardine returns, with Richard Lewis, to play the beautiful Violin Sonata No 3 in D minor by Brahms, plus Stravinsky’s Suite Italienne, in a varied programme with other delig…
A post-lunch concert of the romantic and passionate music of Chopin and his contemporaries, performed by the finest international classical talent from Royal Over-Seas League’s r…
A favourite of the ROSL Recital Series, Bach for Breakfast features the world’s finest young classical musicians performing some of the greatest works in the repertoire.
The beauty of Mozart’s wide variety of music comes to life in this teatime concert, performed by the Royal Over-Seas League’s exceptional prize-winning classical musicians.
Left-handed international pianist Christopher Seed performs Beethoven’s Sonata Op 109 and Schubert’s Drei Klavierstücke D 946 on his unique backwards fortepiano (high notes to the…
An uproarious tale of marriage, mischief, jealousy, lies and laundry.
This International Japanese pianist gives two recitals of music mainly by Chopin, to include his second Piano Concerto with the Fyrish String Quartet.
Pianist John Bryden, joined for one of the performances by St Mary’s Cathedral Assistant Master of the Music Joseph Beech, plays music by Liszt, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Bach, Mozart…
Stephen Hough wrote: ‘The music of Federico Mompou is the music of evaporation.
The Brunton’s series of classical lunchtime concerts.
In his one-man show, author/actor Chris Foote-Wood gives animated readings from Dickens novels in the same manner as Dickens himself: reading and acting out the parts to illustrate…
American violist Christine Rutledge returns to the Fringe with her new multimedia program combining music by Bach with newly commissioned works by poets from Detroit, Rutledge’s fi…
Organists Duncan Ferguson, Joseph Beech and John Kitchen perform popular organ works on the Cathedral’s mighty ‘Father’ Willis organ.
Traditional Catholic Anglican liturgy in this historic church with renowned choir and organ directed by John Kitchen.
The concert includes music with Middle Eastern, Latin American, European and African flavours.
Free Fringe Music.
‘You will acknowledge me.
Join Tobias Bacon as he lutes and lusts his way through Elizabethan England in this new musical comedy based on genuine Renaissance songs.
Celebrated Viennese cellist Peter Hudler returns to the Fringe with his brand-new show.
Last Life feels like a social experiment.
‘An interpretive artist fully immersed in the subtleties and considerable technical demands of each composer’s writing.
Actors from around the world rehearsed via Skype for four months and then met here in Scotland to put on Shakespeare’s romantic comedy: A Midsummer Night’s Dream! Come join us for …
Back again at St Columba’s By The Castle, with its excellent acoustics, Jonathan presents an invigorating programme taking the audience on a musical promenade beginning with trad…
Operatic soprano Louise Geller debuts her innovative show with pianist Alex Norton.
In Shakespeare’s romance, led by women’s sagacity and the vitality of youth, we are guided out of the breach of things dying to a rebirth into the miracle of art and nature, lo…
‘A long time ago in a castle far, far away.
It is 1818 and, as a bell tolls nearby, Victor Frankenstein’s monstrous creation explodes into existence.
The classic version of the show is driven by a 132-piece orchestral recording of the original Holst suite with awe-inspiring solar system visuals featuring the latest images that h…
Free concerts every lunchtime, Monday to Saturday throughout August. Wide range of music from classical to contemporary, traditional Scots and jazz. Full details at cathedral.net
Award-winning classical pianist Ingrid Cusido will give a piano recital with works including Mozart’s Fantasy in D minor, Beethoven Pastoral Sonata and works of Brahms and Granad…
The most trusted name in comedy makes his triumphant return to the Edinburgh Fringe following a three-year hiatus of soul-searching, soul-destroying, and soul-transference.
They have toured the world, won multiple awards, broken onto London’s West End, survived eight consecutive Festival Fringes and once received a zero-star review in The Times! They …
Experience the mastery of Christophe Mantoux and the magnificent sound of the world-renowned Rieger organ in St Giles’ Cathedral in a programme including Franck’s Choral in B minor…
Award-winning Fringe favourites The Owle Schreame return with a wild, rough, raucous and ridiculous reimagining; a version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream from the 1640s, originally a…
Cantica Alba, the Edinburgh-based, ten-voiced, a cappella ensemble, directed by Michael Harris, return for their annual Fringe performance.
The Whistlebinkies’ rich blending of the tones and rhythms of fiddles, flute, concertina, clarsach, lowland pipes, Scottish smallpipes, doublebass and percussion has captivated aud…
Mahler Symphony No 4 in G major.
Caritas Strings from George Watson’s College are returning to Canongate Kirk with a programme which spans three centuries; from Vivaldi’s Winter from The Four Seasons to Warlock’s …
Celebrating Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday today, culminating with his choral masterpiece, Chichester Psalms.
Susan McNaught (soprano), Taylor Wilson (mezzo) and Robert Melling (pianist) present a recital of beautiful German lieder including the Four Last Songs by Richard Strauss and Fraue…
Scotland’s professional touring company returns with Verdi’s comic masterpiece.
Piano music of Erik Satie.
Perth Youth Orchestra will perform works by Holst (The Planets Suite), Khachaturian, and Weber conducted by Mr Allan Young – with soloists Shona Rae (bassoon), Sophie Chisholm (x…
The Symphony No.
The French and Italian styles compared and contrasted by Francois Couperin, JS Bach and Telemann.
Hear the internationally renowned recitalist Maurice Clerc on the magnificent St Giles’ Rieger organ with a programme full of French virtuosity, including Franck’s Chorale No 3, …
Steadily establishing a reputation as specialists in music from the Enlightenment era, Opera dei Lumi return to the Edinburgh Fringe with a rare performance of the very first Engli…
Lawrence Dunn (violin) and Gilmour Macleod (piano) perform sonatas by JS Bach, Brahms and Kenneth Leighton and the ever-popular Danse Macabre by Saint-Saens.
Before I begin this review, I would like to clarify, as James Beagon (co-director and actor) did at the start of the show, that Aulos Productions’ Shakespeare Catalysts is a work…
Marion Lees McPherson will spend an afternoon in Stockbridge Church with her annual organ recital of music by Bach, Schumann and Brahms.
David Corkhill and the Edinburgh Festival Ensemble reunite for a special centenary performance of Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale.
Opera Allegra’s chamber version of Verdi’s popular opera La Traviata uses just three voices with piano but has a contemporary twist.
Technically brilliant, thrillingly passionate and globally in demand, Finnish violin soloist Anna-Liisa Bezrodny is ‘a real and true musician.
Music by 17th-century composer John Dowland for lute, soprano and viol.
Sackbuts and theorbos meet fiddles at teatime(!) for a razzle-dazzle, slide-slipping, bow-slapping musical frolic.
A programme that includes some of Bach’s earliest organ music as well as pieces that are decidedly youthful in spirit including the Prelude and Fugue in D and the Partita on Christ…
The highly acclaimed Rock Festival Choir (Alnwick’s a cappella Chamber Choir) under its director Peter Brown come to the Fringe for the first time to sing Rachmaninoff’s wonderfu…
Internationally acclaimed 10-string guitarist Matthew Fagan combines musical passion and virtuosity to celebrate el Vito – the Spirit of Spain.
Thomas Cameron is an English tenor whose voice has been described as having velvet-like qualities and performs classics such as Bring Him Home.
Bringing energy and charisma, the Fyrish String Quartet presents a thrilling programme including Mozart’s enigmatic Dissonance quartet, K 465, and Elgar’s quartet in E minor, Op 83…
The Bach Ensemble of Edinburgh return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for a seventh consecutive year for two concerts.
Heinrich Schütz, perhaps the most highly regarded composer in 17th century Germany, wrote The Resurrection History on returning to Germany in 1623, following a period of study in …
Virtuoso renaissance polyphony of fabulous complexity by Scottish composer Robert Carver, showcasing his Missa L’Homme Arme and other exquisite works sung by stunning professional …
America’s Diversity in Song.
Come and hear this recital of Franco-Scottish music of the late 19th to 21st centuries for voice, violin and piano.
Come and hear Shetland’s premier harpist Sophie Rocks take you on an enthralling cultural musical journey all the way from her peaceful northern archipelago homeland to the most …
Michael Harris, organist of St Giles’ Cathedral, puts the world-renowned Rieger organ in St Giles’ through its paces, with music by JS Bach, Ritter’s Sonata No 4 and Parry’s …
Enjoy our popular lunchtime recitals by the next generation of organists on the fine Wells-Kennedy instrument in the Georgian splendour of St Andrew’s and St George’s West Chur…
A showcase of the finest piano and chamber music from Royal Conservatoire Scotland and St Mary’s Music School rising stars, featuring great composers such as Bach, Rachmaninov an…
Stephen Morrison performs a diverse array of compositions for classical guitar from this vast and varied cultural landscape.
The music of great halls, cathedrals and servants’ quarters is brought to life by the group who have been delighting Fringe audiences since 1973.
The accomplished London-based cellist Anne-Isabel Meyer and Edinburgh pianist Chris Harding return to the Fringe to play three consecutive concerts of Bach’s Gamben Sonatas and …
This acclaimed London-based cellist makes her annual visit to the Fringe to perform all Bach’s glorious solo cello suites in three consecutive performances.
Using Don Taylor’s BBC-commissioned translation, Malvern Theatres Young Company presents Antigone, directed by Nic Lloyd.
Join this talented duo as they play a selection of much-loved pieces from the duo’s repertoire. An afternoon of enjoyment.
The Bach Ensemble of Edinburgh return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for a seventh consecutive year for two concerts.
Noted US violist Christine Rutledge returns to Edinburgh to perform chamber works by celebrated Edinburgh Festival founder Hans Gál which feature viola in a starring role.
Award-winning Fringe favourites the Owle Schreame return with a wild, rough, raucous and drunken reimagining; a version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream from the 1640s, originally adap…
Since 2013 Brass Tracks have entertained audiences across Scotland in concert halls, cathedrals, cinemas, theatres and even shopping centres.
Come and hear this exciting recital of music for voice, violin and piano written in or around 1918.
Elspeth McVeigh, soprano, ‘voice.
The Edinburgh Quartet, founded in 1960, is one of Britain’s foremost chamber ensembles.
The Edinburgh Festival Ensemble perform Mozart’s Serenade in E flat for wind alongside Dvorak’s beautiful Wind Serenade.
After sold-out shows, rave reviews and standing ovations at Adelaide Fringe and Edinburgh Fringe, Lord of the Strings! – the ultimate one-man guitar show, first created for touri…
Nancy Crook will be returning to the Fringe with her annual afternoon organ recital of music by Bach, de Grigny and Jackson at Stockbridge Church.
The new guitar recital by Italian guitarist Luca Villani is inspired by the famous theme of La Folía de España: Luca will interpret two major works, the virtuosic Variations by r…
Robert Schumann’s song cycle of a woman’s life, paired with music by Clara Schumann, Fanny Mendelssohn and Alma Mahler.
Traditional Catholic Anglican liturgy in this historic church with renowned choir and organ directed by John Kitchen.
This is a chance to hear some of the finest exponents of classical pipe music, or piobaireachd (pronounced peebroch).
The Edinburgh Renaissance Band are joined by Polyhymnia Dancers in the ever-popular Viol Rackett Show, our best-loved programme of music, song and dance from the Middle Ages to the…
Traditional choral evensong and benediction with the renowned choir and organ of this historic Anglican Catholic church directed by Dr John Kitchen.
Brahms and Liszt – two great masters of German song in a luscious recital by internationally renowned bass Brian Bannatyne-Scott, rising star soprano Catherine Hooper and legenda…
Ahead of their European tour in October, and by popular demand, the St Andrew Camerata return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with their atmospheric late-night candlelit performan…
Bill Alexander returns to the Fringe to give a piano recital of a favourite selection of rondos, nocturnes, waltzes, études and the sonata in B minor Op 58.
Guitar music journey featuring Middle Eastern, Spanish, Latin American and classical flavours.
Fife musicians Kirsty (French horn), Alasdair (oboe) and Janice (piano) return for their annual Fringe performance, featuring the premier of On Wancombe Hill by Edinburgh composer …
Coro 18 returns with this baroque masterpiece.
Hear the magnificent Canongate Frobenius organ in a series of concerts played by resident organist, David Goodenough, who returns to play at the Fringe this year.
St Giles’ Cathedral Choir, directed by Michael Harris, presents a programme of choral favourites, including music by Haydn and Mozart, together with Tippett’s Spirituals from A…
An evening of poetry and music given by John Coutts and Ayman Jarjour.
Enjoy an hour of relaxing and evocative music from one of the greatest jazz composers and his contemporaries.
A teatime concert of the poignant and passionate composer Brahms and his contemporaries.
Poetic and creative Taiwanese pianist, Veronica Yen, presents two solo recitals featuring a combination of Beethoven’s sonata The Tempest, Mozart Concerto K466, Chopin, Granados an…
International award-winning concert pianist Santa Ignace began her studies with her father, a jazz pianist and conductor.
David Gerrard, the soloist and doctoral student, plays music by JS Bach, favourite composer of the late chairman of the Friends, and by his French contemporary Antoine Forqueray, o…
Thomas Gaynor, winner of the First Prize and Audience Prize at the 2017 St Albans International Organ Competition, presents a programme of stunning virtuosity on the renowned St Gi…
This young organ scholar at St Andrew’s and St George’s West returns to the Fringe to perform a programme of works by composers including Bach, Widor and Karg-Elert.
Panchkanya: sufferings of five heroines of Indian mythology are experienced by many Indian women to this date.
Alfred Lennox Leishman and Finlay Hay invite you to the premiere of The Votadini Classical Guitar Duo! These two young musicians of the prestigious Yehudi Menuhin School, studying …
Experienced organ virtuoso, Nancy Crook, plays a varied programme of familiar and less well known organ masterpieces, including: Fantasia and Fugue in G minor BWV 542 by J S Bach; …
The Night With.
Start the day with the passion of Ludwig van Beethoven and his contemporaries, performed by the world’s most talented young musicians.
Enjoy the enchanting sound world of Debussy and his contemporaries in this relaxing concert of music, performed by some of the world’s finest young professional musicians.
A programme telling the adventurous life story of Marjory Kennedy Fraser and illustrated with the lovely Hebridean songs she collected, arranged and published.
A concert of sublime music from Britten to Fauré, with the choristers of St Mary’s Cathedral conducted by Duncan Ferguson, following their highly successful tour to Vienna, Prague…
Experience some of the most virtuosic classical music ever written by Rachmaninov and his contemporaries.
Pianist John Bryden plays music by Ravel, Scriabin, Bach and Schubert on the Cathedral Steinway.
Renowned Scottish pianist Christopher Guild offers listeners the chance to become acquainted with a burgeoning force in Scotland’s culture: its classical music.
This dynamic Edinburgh duo are back with another lovely programme of music for violin and piano.
A journey through chamber music gems with the Edinburgh Quartet – featuring works by Mozart, Bruckner, Beethoven, Schubert, Dvorak and Gesualdo over three performances.
Little Shakespeare Company returns once again to the Fringe with a talented group of Scottish young actors.
Bach for Breakfast features some of the finest young musicians performing some of the greatest works in the classical repertoire.
The beautiful songs of Edward Elgar and Maude Valérie White.
The beauty of Mozart’s incredible music comes to life in this teatime concert, performed by some of the finest international professional young musicians.
This talented, international Japanese-born pianist returns to the Fringe to perform Mozart’s piano concerto No 12 and Chopin’s Piano Concerto No 1.
Multi award-winning, Edinburgh-based EGTG, return with this Shakespearean classic.
A post-lunch interlude with one of the greatest composers for piano, exploring the fire and gentility of Chopin and his contemporaries.
Prévert: Piano and Poetry is a concert-show created and performed by the young French concert pianist Alexandre Prévert (21 years old) graduated from Conservatoire de Paris.
Author/actor Chris Foote Wood gives animated readings from Dickens’ novels in the same manner as Dickens himself: reading and acting out the parts to illustrate some of Dickens�…
Organists Daniel Cook (Durham Cathedral), Duncan Ferguson (St Mary’s Cathedral) and Joseph Beech (St Mary’s Cathedral) perform popular organ works on the Cathedral’s mighty ‘Father…
The Edinburgh Festival Ensemble is directed by Ian Munro in a performance of Mozart’s sparkling Haffner Serenade.
The accomplished Hungarian violinist Tamas Fejes returns to the Fringe with a selection of Bach’s monumental masterworks written for unaccompanied violin, regarded to be the pinnac…
Come and listen to uplifting music performed in its liturgical context by one of Edinburgh’s best church choirs in the glorious setting of this church.
All eyes are on the city of Thebes.
The buns are burning in The Great Brexit Bake Off as Beatrice battles Benedick, Don Juan’s confused and Hero harassed.
After two sell-out performances in last year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Edinburgh Youth Orchestra return once again to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with an exciting and varied…
Alternating dialogue with Bakkhic women’s odes of song and speak chorus, this new version of Euripides’ text by Anne Carson brings Greek tragedy to life.
Performers: Theresa Burton (recorder), Aisling Kenny (soprano), Ursula Schlapp (viola da gamba), Katie Johnston (cello), Ailsa Aitkenhead (piano), Annemarie Klein (recorder), Dorie…
A popular and traditional service of Choral Evensong from the 1929 Scottish Prayer Book with guest choir, congregational hymn singing and organ voluntary.
Emily Worthington, clarinettist and musicologist, presents 19th-century chamber music on historical clarinets from the world-class Sir Nicholas Shackleton Collection,* accompanied …
A new adaptation of Homer’s classic presented in iambic pentameter using physical theatre and shadowplay.
Kate’s cast is revolting; fed up of being outnumbered by the audience, they want to make Shakespeare fun to watch by turning the history plays into a rugby game, Romeo and Juliet…
World premiere of Pie Jesu – written by Robert Fripp (King Crimson) and Andrew Keeling, arranged especially for Excelsa Voces.
Following last year’s debut, the internationally acclaimed, London-based pianist Marc Corbett-Weaver makes an eagerly anticipated return to the festival.
Vivaldi’s classic Four Seasons, hacked by electric violin and laptop, then reconstructed live into a personal and innovative take on one of classical music’s most well-loved work…
Tobias Bacon died of love in 1618.
Peter Hill’s Bach series for Delphian has been described as one of the most impressive solo recording projects of recent years.
Goethe’s Faust dealing with human agony and the way of salvation, is frequently read in Asia, especially in Korea.
Two of Shakespeare’s most famous scenes fantastically performed by the 15 to 20-year-old children from two of China’s schools, Shanghai International Studies University and For…
Celebrated Viennese crossover cellist Peter Hudler returns to the Fringe with his brand-new show after a successful run in 2017.
Join Anna Dennis, Ed Lyon, Andy Staples and Susanna Hurrell on the eve of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for a stunning performance of Bach’s masterpiece.
Enjoy al fresco Shakespeare in the C south gardens.
Prag’s programme is chosen from the pieces that inspired him in his early days: including a Bach Prelude and Fugue, masterpieces by Barrios and Albeniz, and lyrical contemporary …
Arno Hartmann plays the world-renowned Rieger organ of St Giles’ Cathedral with a programme featuring Johann Sebastian Bach’s Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C, together with works …
If you haven’t already heard of this band of bawdy, Bardy performers, it prompts the question, “Is this your first time to the Fringe?” If the answer is yes - what have you b…
A former Times Critics’ Choice.
One of Shakespeare’s finest comedies, The Comedy of Errors, in a vigorously fresh and exciting production that offers a delicious mixture of classical text, original musical score,…
Playing an instrument with over 2,500 years of recorded history, after some 100 public recitals in the UK, international classical Zheng performer Yi Dong, a soloist with five albu…
For one night only, award-winning comedian/composer Vikki Stone will perform her brand-new orchestral work Concerto for Comedian and Orchestra, alongside one of Scotland’s finest y…
This Edinburgh-based ten-voiced a cappella ensemble directed by Michael Harris, present Heavenly Harmony, a programme of sacred music, from the Renaissance to the present day, from…
David Hamilton returns to the magnificent setting of Canongate Kirk for a performance including Bach’s Schübler Chorales and Third Organ Sonata.
Brahms’ powerful Deutches Requiem, Rheinberger’s exquisite unaccompanied double-choir Mass in Eflat, Cantus Missae, and Monteverdi motets performed by one of Scotland’s foremos…
Songerie vers Jack.
Accordionist Paul Chamberlain returns to the Fringe with a programme of original works and transcriptions from Russia, France, Spain and Argentina - including pieces by Khachaturia…
We welcome back Coro Vincenzo, directed by Les Shankland, who are to perform J.
Peter Backhouse, Assistant Organist of St Giles’ Cathedral, puts the renowned Rieger organ through its paces in its 25th anniversary year with a feast of dazzling sound.
Nature, love and life: a programme of 19th-century art song devised by Stephen Morrison (guitar) and Jenny Nex (soprano) who bring an impassioned immediacy to performance of works …
Two pairs of identical twins cause havoc in Shakespeare’s hilarious comedy of mistaken identity.
An earthquake is erupting, but not in Orange Street.
Sam Hird (baritone) and Sam Johnson (piano) perform songs by British composer George Butterworth, whose death on the Somme 100 years ago robbed us of one of our most promising musi…
‘Frailty, thy name is woman,’ said Hamlet.
SoftLOUD is acoustic and electric, ancient and modern, traditional and innovative.
Rachmaninov’s Sonata for Cello and Piano in G minor was first performed in 1901 soon after the amazing success of his second piano concerto.
Elspeth McVeigh brings another gorgeous and unusual programme of little known, rarely performed Scottish and European 17th-century music to the Fringe.
Of all Shakespeare’s plays, Julius Caesar is perhaps the best aware of its historical place.
Chinese traditional opera – Wu Opera (intangible cultural heritage).
The orchestra of the Canongait and conductor Robert Dick make their 10th consecutive Fringe appearance with a performance of Tchaikovsky’s ever-popular first piano concerto, with p…
A selection of favourite variations, nocturnes, fantasias, waltzes, mazurkas and polonaises played by William Alexander (piano).
Sweelinck’s pupil Schildt wrote some of the finest north German baroque organ music before his death in 1667.
For His Lordship’s entertainment: In August 1717, Handel joined Lord Carnarvon’s household as what we would now call composer in residence at Cannons where Johann Christoph Pepusch…
A lunchtime recital featuring music drawn from Henry Purcell’s Harmonia Sacra, and folk song settings by Benjamin Britten.
The story of the clarinet told from a truly global perspective by Scotland’s premier clarinet ensemble, in virtuosic performances on clarinets of all sizes.
Come and hear this young Napier University music graduate and St Andrew’s and St George’s West organ scholar perform in his first solo Fringe organ recital.
The Bach Ensemble of Edinburgh return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for a sixth consecutive year for two concerts.
Trumpet, electronics and text.
Talented young string players perform together in a series of concerts at St Giles Cathedral.
Three evocative works hint of American jazz: David Amram conjures up 1950s Greenwich Village, David Liebman draws on the jazz avant-garde and Stephen J Rush riffs on an Ornette Col…
Experience the power and glory of the Rieger organ in St Giles’ Cathedral in the hands of renowned recitalist Paul Ayres; a kaleidoscopic display of organ colours.
The contribution of travelling composers and performers to the music of Mediaeval and Renaissance Europe is brought to life by the city’s famous early music group in the vibrant …
There are a few moments in your life when it dawns on you that you are experiencing something very unique and special and being an audience member for Requiem for Aleppo was one of…
“All I knew was the playground song Mary Queen of Scots got her head chopped off,” says opera singer Louise Macdonald, “until I started learning Schumann’s Maria Stuart Lie…
Passionate international artist Martyna Kazmierczak has swiftly earned a specialist reputation for historical keyboard performance, mastering instruments from the 16th century thro…
Andrew Bernardi and Fiona Mclean Beuchel direct an eclectic virtuoso string music programme with their outstanding tutors students and the 1696 Stradivarius violin.
A programme of Finnish, German, English, Scottish and Russian 19th to 21st-century songs conceived and devised by Ian McFarlane, produced and funded by McFarlane Productions.
John Sampson (trumpet and recorder) joins the orchestra for performances of Vivaldi’s recorder concerto in C minor and Handel’s trumpet suite in D.
A rare chance to hear some of the loveliest Romantic music ever written, in the glorious acoustic of St Andrews and St George’s West Church in the heart of Edinburgh’s Georgian New…
It’s Shakespeare performed in a completely new way: a Shakespeare play condensed to the size of one woman, Emily Carding, and the way she deals with the audience.
Composer and pianist Julian Layn returns to the Fringe to perform his unique 21st century classical music, including his Thunderstorm Trilogy, the Queen and the Ecocalypse works.
John Bryden plays music by Haydn and Schubert in a series of recitals on the Cathedral Steinway.
Medea by Euripides is a classic Greek tragedy that follows the myth of Jason and Medea.
Anne and Dick with support from their recorded selves – duos, quartets, octets and more.
Bach takes us from breakfast to bedtime; a perfect way to round off your day.
New Zealand pianist Charles Whitehead returns to the Fringe with a compelling programme of classical masterworks from Schumann’s Fantasie, Op.
St Giles’ Cathedral Choir, directed by Michael Harris, with Peter Backhouse (organ) in a concert featuring glorious choral music.
This original one-man show entitled Prévert: Piano and Poetry, was created and interpreted by the 20-year-old French concert pianist Alexandre Prévert.
The Bach Ensemble of Edinburgh return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for a sixth consecutive year for two concerts.
Classical, pop and film music, hacked by electric violin and laptop, then reconstructed live with you, the audience! ‘Beautifully nuanced playing’ (Strad).
Elspeth McVeigh, soprano, returns to the Fringe with two concerts of unusual 16th- to 17th-century Scottish and French music, exploring The Auld Alliance.
In 1642, theatre was made illegal.
Join us for traditional Catholic Anglican liturgy with the renowned choir, organ and congregation of this historic church, directed by City and University Organist Dr John Kitchen.
Join us for traditional Choral Evensong and Benediction with the renowned choir, organ and congregation of this historic Anglican Catholic Church.
Karl Jenkins’ ever popular Palladio for string orchestra is partnered with Abram Stassevich’s arrangement for strings and timpani of Shostakovich’s 8th String Quartet: Sinfon…
A reinterpretation of some of William Shakespeare’s best scenes woven together to create a new story about two young lovers.
Acclaimed Hungarian violinist Tamás Fejes returns to this year’s Festival Fringe to perform a selection of Bach’s sonatas and partitas from Fejes’s debut solo album.
Luca Villani performs a masterworks anthology to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the death of Andrés Segovia, the greatest guitarist of all time.
Shakespeare’s enduring comedy bubbles with youthful wit.
By popular demand the St Andrew Camerata return for the 11th successive year to the Edinburgh Fringe with their atmospheric late-night, candlelit performance of Gabriel Faure’s muc…
‘Four dangerously good singers, with a hilarious MC and pianist’ (ThreeWeeks) – All That Malarkey return to the Fringe with an all-new, outrageous music show, flaunting their…
Alasdair Cameron ‘one of Scotland’s foremost’ (Glasgow Cultural Services).
Nicholas Parsons, Radio 4 legend, narrates the children’s classic tale Peter and the Wolf, arranged by Tom David Wilson for double-reed and brass ensemble and conducted by John Gru…
Scottish early guitar/lute specialist and composer Gordon Ferries plays solos by the great 19th-century guitarist/composer Mauro Giuliani including Le Bouquet Emblematique (where e…
One of his most popular and awe-inspiring works, Brahms’s Requiem provides a universally humanistic vision of comfort and hope.
An ear-opening recital of music for Horn and Piano – including an Elgar first – by leading Edinburgh musicians, Neil and Gill Mantle.
Launched in the mid 1960s, the Kingston University Brass Ensemble is our longest running ensemble and includes staff, students and alumni.
Showcasing the finest piano and chamber music from RCS and St Mary’s Music School students.
HSSFC, which comes from Guangdong, China, is a concert band comprising of diverse students majoring in music as well as a professional composer who has performed in the 2010 Asian …
Two afternoon organ recitals in Stockbridge, one featuring Nancy Crook and one featuring Marion Lees McPherson.
Stephen Morrison performs a recital of evocatively beautiful guitar music from the great nation of Mexico.
Elspeth Wyllie plays Elgar’s own transcription for piano of his ‘Enigma Variations’ and a selection of short pieces by other English composers.
Marcos Madrigal, Cuba’s most exciting young concert pianist, appears with opera singer Ann Liebeck in a programme of Latin American classical songs, opera arias and virtuoso piano …
Edinburgh International Youth Orchestra performs two concerts at Greyfriars Kirk with players from the Palestine Youth Orchestra.
Join Anna Dennis (soprano), Owen Willetts (countertenor) and Tom Foster (harpsichord) in a concert of Baroque arias, cantatas and duetti da camera by Durante, Geminiani, Handel and…
These Fife musicians: Kirsty Howe (horn), Alasdair Hill (oboe) Janice Gibson (piano), will play their fifth Fringe, presenting a jazzy number by Paul Basler, romantic Schumann, a h…
Elgar songs for solo and trio featuring Judith Gardner Jones and pianist Richard J Lewis, with Madeleine Trépanier, and Alicia Pettit.
A richly evocative concert of the works of Schubert, the tragically short-lived and deeply-feeling lieder and chamber music composer.
If you’re feeling adventurous after lunch, come along to these virtuoso performances of the great Romantic composer, Rachmaninov.
Renowned concert organist Gordon Stewart celebrates the 25th anniversary of the world-famous Rieger organ with a colourful programme of music from JS Bach to Paul Halley, Andrew Ca…
Inaugurating the Friends of St Cecilia’s 2017 Fringe season in the stunningly refurbished concert hall on Niddry Street, John Kitchen and David Gerrard will demonstrate the flamboy…
Since 2013, Brass Tracks have entertained audiences across Scotland in concert halls, cathedrals, cinemas, theatres and even shopping centres, blowing the cobwebs out of Italian Re…
This Japanese-born international pianist returns to the Fringe with a charming programme of music by Chopin, Bach and Mozart and finishes with Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorg…
The future of classical piano is here! With cutting-edge virtuosity and sleek elegance, this four piano, eight hands ensemble from South Korea blends Beethoven and Chopin seamlessl…
A teatime concert of the poignant and passionate composer Johannes Brahms; perfect for a reflective afternoon.
Over two recitals, Stefan Warzycki performs all Chopin’s Op 10 études as recast for the left hand by Leopold Godowsky.
Start the day with the intricacy and passion of Ludwig van Beethoven, performed by ROSL prizewinners and overseas scholars, and with refreshments served after the concert.
Ghost Light Players have brought an animalistic Hamlet to theSpace on the Mile with fervour and intensity.
Marcos Madrigal, Cuba’s most exciting young concert pianist, appears with opera singer Ann Liebeck in a programme of Latin American classical songs, opera arias and virtuoso piano …
He’s dying to get rich.
Shakespeare’s Macbeth is one of the world most renowned plays, however this year the production will be performed in an entirely unique style, that of traditional Cantonese opera…
The beauty of Mozart’s wide variety of music comes to life in this teatime concert, performed by recent and previous ROSL ARTS prizewinners.
The favourite of the ROSL Fringe Series, Bach for Breakfast features some of the finest young musicians, prizewinners of ROSL’s Annual Music Competition and scholars from New Zeala…
A post-lunch interlude with one of the greatest composers for piano, exploring the fire and the gentility of Chopin’s works.
Violin and Piano.
Join BBC Radio 3’s vibrant drivetime programme live in Edinburgh. With classical music, special guests and news from this year’s festivals.
This exciting American cello and piano duo returns to the Fringe for the second time to perform works by Mendelssohn, Louis Vierne and Dmitri Shostakovich.
Come and listen to beautiful sacred music in the liturgical context for which it was written in the setting of one of Edinburgh’s finest churches.
Organists Duncan Ferguson (St Mary’s Cathedral), Nicholas Wearne (Birmingham Conservatoire) and Joseph Beech (St Mary’s Cathedral) perform popular organ works on the Cathedral’s mi…
The professional chapel choir sings at the weekly interdenominational choral service in this extraordinary late Arts and Crafts-style building: truly one of Edinburgh’s hidden gems…
Piano four-hands programme by two young French artists.
Ian Munro and The Edinburgh Festival Ensemble are reunited with Mozart’s charming Gran Partita for 13 wind instruments.
Traditional service of Choral Evensong from the 1929 Scottish Prayer Book with guest choir, congregational hymn singing and organ voluntary.
Marcos Madrigal, Cuba’s most exciting young concert pianist, appears with opera singer Ann Liebeck in a programme of Latin American classical songs, opera arias and virtuoso piano …
Experience the joy of live music at the museum as the best contemporary talents take inspiration from our Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites exhibition to perform traditional …
Join the former King’s singer and renowned choral director Simon Carrington and the Reformation Festival Chorus as they present an hour-long programme of inspirational choral music…
Internationally acclaimed British/Syrian musicians Waseem Kotoub (piano) and Ayman Jarjour (guitar) in concert, accompanied by a visual display of Syria before and after the war.
You would be forgiven for thinking that a production of The Tales of Peter Rabbit and Jemima Puddle-Duck performed in a circus tent might involve people dressed up as the character…
Marcos Madrigal is one of Cuba’s best young concert pianists.
Classical, pop and film music, hacked by electric violin and laptop, then reconstructed live with you, the audience! ‘Beautifully nuanced playing’ (Strad).
The internationally acclaimed pianist Marc Corbett-Weaver gives his Edinburgh debut recital with a spectacular programme of Bach/Busoni Chaconne, Beethoven’s dazzling Waldstein S…
The Birds – Aristophanes.
From our metaphorical island on the landlocked, rolling plains of Montana, our players transport you to Shakespeare’s Elizabethan shore! Spirited, fun, and physical; this engagin…
Cockroaches is an adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s play Flight, a story of five refugees fleeing the civil war and the Soviet regime in 1920.
Award-winning theatre company Owle Schreame performs a series of very droll ‘drolls’: short, illegal comedies from the 17th century.
Performers: Roxburgh Quartet, Hans Gál Trio (Emma Donald, Katie Johnston, Ailsa Aitkenhead), Squair Mile Consort of Viols, Duo da Chiesa (Andrea Kuypers, Philip Sawyer), Turadh (E…
A colourful mix of styles, genres and characters, from Viennese cellist Peter Hudler.
Of all Shakespeare’s plays, The Tempest demands the most obvious and taxing effort of imagination from the audience.
Ludus Baroque returns to the Fringe with their popular annual concert of JS Bach’s magnificent B Minor Mass, showcasing the beautiful sounds of a chorus of top class professionals …
A theatrical concert for the whole family – a combination of classical music, humorous mime and audience participation with a soundtrack consisting of well-known pieces from reno…
Movement and grace: a Dowland galliard, rousing Bach gavottes, a rippling Russian polka, the compelling rhythms of Cuba and South America.
Michael Harris celebrates the 25th anniversary of the world-renowned Rieger organ with music by Bach, and Franz Liszt’s monumental Fantasia on Ad nos, ad salutarem undam.
It is a rare treat to hear a dramatised performance of Shakespeare’s first published work, Venus and Adonis.
A former Times critic’s choice.
Joel Sachs (Juilliard School, New York) directs an ensemble of young, highly talented UK-based musicians in a programme drawn from the celebrated American avant-gardists including …
A concert of words and music focusing on the relationship between Felix Mendelssohn and his sister Fanny.
Much-loved guitarist, Paul Gregory, returns to perform a solo recital of J.
Renowned American pianist and conductor Joel Sachs (Juilliard School, New York) performs piano music by three of America’s greatest composers: Charles Ives’ First Piano Sonata, pio…
Part Classical, part Folk - part Hymnal.
2017 marks the 30th anniversary of Catalan composer Federico Mompou’s death.
Duo Spianato [now renamed Duo Terra Nova], Pierre and Elodie, impressed our audience last year, and so we are delighted to welcome back one of the young French pianists for a solo …
Join Classical Folk for a lunchtime concert of beautiful and fun music - Classical, Folk (English and around the world) and gypsy - with a seasoning of parlour songs.
This year Sophia and Amoret will be roaming through Europe, discovering the story of Gypsy music.
The Fretful Federation is an orchestra plucked from Brighton and the surrounding areas playing all manner of fretted instruments.
St Michael’s are pleased to welcome the Brunswick duo to perform Bach’s 6 Flute Sonatas.
In the beautiful, atmospheric church of St Nicholas, dating back to 1091, Duo Maddalena recreate the soundscape of medieval France, England and Spain.
Music of the 19th century: the Laplace String Trio: Andrew Biggs - Violin, Beatrice Sales - Viola, NickCooper - Cello, with Sue Mileham - Soprano, Jane Money - Mezzo-Soprano, Tim W…
We are pleased and delighted to be welcoming the return of Pianist Rachel Fryer performing the Goldberg Variations.
An evening of the incredibly powerful music of Tchaikovsky.
Beethoven at lunchtimes.
New Note Orchestra and Guests.
“Swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.
Soundscape – a concert of sheer escapism with this extraordinary piano quartet.
St Michael’s is pleased to welcome the return of pianist Stefan Warzycki.
Soaring soprano and passionate cello lines intermingle with sumptuous piano writing in a recital programme featuring Esther Ward-Caddle (cello)and Nicole Panizza (piano) performing…
St Michael’s is delighted to welcome the return of pianist Raija Walker and violinist Ellie Blackshaw.
On February 22nd 1952, 50 strangers gathered in the vaults of BBC Stoke to hear a groundbreaking new comedy act.
A short adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’.
St Michael’s welcomes back Pavlos Carvalho to perform Bach’s Cello Suites, over two evenings.
45-minute concerts in Brighton’s beautiful Mother Church.
Lunchtime recitals on Tuesdays by distinguished local organists on the fine organ at St. Bartholomew’s Church.
Follow multi-award-winning fiddle/cello duo An Dhá as they prowl through an Urban Folk music jungle, hunting perfection and exploring the wilderness of the Celtic tradition.
The songs of Enrique Granados, Donizetti and Mozart brought to life with the signature warmth and power of the ravishing voice of Eline Vandenheede, a young soprano with a world cl…
Come and hear Reading Phoenix Choir in its only weekend at Brighton Fringe.
For twelve years Prospero, the rightful duke of Milan, has dwelt on an island after his brother Antonio betrayed him and cast him adrift in a small boat.
We welcome violinist Benedict Cruft along with his fine Cruft-Robertson-Pleeth String Trio and guest guitarist, Paul Gregory.
Roedean community musicians perform classic choral favourites by Monteverdi, Handel and Parry.
Special first night of Brighton Fringe event - Ligeti Quartet plays ‘Black Angels’ for amplified strings and percussion, which David Bowie named as being among his favourite ‘Top-2…
This play takes a fresh look at Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet from the Nurse’s point of view, and how she became Juliet’s nurse.
This is Richard II as you’ve never seen him before, in a purple shell-suit wielding power over his puppet kingdom with subjects that range from beautiful two foot high hand carve…
Opus Clavicembalisticum is perhaps Sorabji’s best known work, even if more talked about than played until the 1980s.
Experience the thrill of hearing Saint-Saens’ exciting Organ Symphony live.
Cantica Alba, the Edinburgh-based a cappella ensemble directed by Michael Harris, present A European Pilgrimage, a journey through six centuries of sacred choral music from around …
Scottish Voices, directed by Graham Hair, presents a recital for four women’s voices and piano.
Reflections concert UK tour is the result of a creative collaboration between two young and beautiful singers from Russia and the Ukraine.
Peter Seivewright, who is constantly active both as a classical concert pianist and a jazz pianist, presents a programme of jazz-influenced piano music, including Grace Castagnetta…
Robert Schumann’s Fairy Tales for clarinet, viola and piano, stormy and tender, set the mood for György Kurtág’s deeply-felt Hommage to R.
Beethoven’s glorious Choral Fantasy, Cherubini’s Mass in C minor, much-admired by Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms, and Schubert’s Gebet and Gott ist mein Hirt (Psalm 23) perfo…
Organist David Hamilton presents a programme including Bach’s Sei gegrüsset variations and the mighty Passacaglia.
A setting of the story of the three holy children from the Book of Daniel for choir, soloists and a string orchestra.
Alasdair Cameron, in his second Fringe recital, plays a potpourri of masterpieces by Marcello/Bach, Mozart’s Fantasy in C minor, Debussy’s Moon pieces and Schubert Impromptus.
Join this young Edinburgh-based pianist in his solo Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut as he performs an exciting programme of piano music including works by Liszt and Bach.
Renowned pianist Martin Cousin performs a recital of Rachmaninov to fill the post-lunch relaxation mood. Tea, coffee and pastries included afterwards.
Join Brigitte and Michael for the third of our popular series of lunchtime recitals.
Peter Hill’s Bach series for Delphian has been described as ‘one of the most impressive solo recording projects of recent years’ (New York Times).
John Kitchen’s latest programme promises his audience uncommon delights.
An endearing display that demonstrates both exceptional vocal and instrumental talents.
Four Scottish Dances – Malcolm Arnold.
Two piano students from Edinburgh Napier University perform a 45 minute recital of lesser known masterpieces by Franz Schubert, Alban Berg and Claude Debussy.
Arbroath-based musician Mark Spalding follows on from last year’s warmly received recital marking 40 years of Stockhausen’s Tierkreis, with a programme honouring veteran Hungarian …
Get a glimpse of something new happening.
Hear the glorious sounds of St Giles’ famous Rieger organ.
Following their 2015 Scottish tour of Maria Stuarda, **** (Herald), Magnetic Opera presents a new production of Puccini’s much loved La Bohème.
Jean Rondeau has been stirring up the early music scene since winning the Bruges Harpsichord Competition.
Sophie Williams (violin), Hugh Mackay (cello), Anna Michels (piano) and Emilia De Geer (piano) perform Smetana Piano Trio in G minor and music by Ravel and Debussy.
Internationally renowned duo Elektra instantly bring the stage to life in a stunning show of musical virtuosity.
Brilliance, sensibility, joy and mastered technique are the inspiring forces of the Volt & Potenza duo.
Powerful improvising pianist and composer Alexander Hawkins and classically trained singer Elaine Mitchener rework and take on the great American Songbook, from 21st-century jazz a…
It has been said that creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Two of Scotland’s finest musicians come together for a magical recital, featuring Vaughan Williams’ song cycle Songs of Travel, based on poems by Robert Louis Stevenson and other s…
The most celebrated international soloist of any Chinese national musical instrument of her generation, playing an instrument of over 2,500 years of recorded history, makes her ret…
A short and well-formed chamber opera, which shows lots of potential, but needs to pick up on the details.
The Scottish Saxophone Ensemble present haunting psalms and whirling reels by contemporary Irish and Scottish composers Ian Wilson, Ross Ainslie and Eddie McGuire, and welcomes spe…
Gordon Ferries presents a new, mainly solo programme inspired by compositions of the early nineteenth-century Hungarian guitar virtuoso, Johann Kaspar Mertz.
Enjoy a relaxing and delicious brunch, accompanied by jazz singer Elaine Mitchener and pianist Alex Hawkins.
Conductor Robert Dick and Orchestra of the Canongait’s wider 2016 project encompasses performing nine Beethoven symphonies and five piano concerti.
David Corkhill conducts the Edinburgh Festival Ensemble in Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf and his own St Francis.
Saudha, ‘one of the prominent Indian classical music promoters in the country’ (BBC Radio), offers a hypnotic and ‘breath-taking’ presentation (Rhapsody of Soul, Guardian) of India…
Romance, passion, joy, heartbreak – all are here in a programme of wonderful music by Liszt, Granados and Chopin, given by a ‘Master’ (EdinburghGuide.com).
Born 400 years ago, Weckmann was regarded as one of the greatest organists of his generation. David Hamilton performs his complete organ works in two parts with an interval.
Gavin Henderson, formerly of the Philharmonia, a trumpeter, and artistic director of Brighton Festival, Dartington International Summer School, for many years Chair of Arts Council…
Eboracum Baroque are joined by Horrible Histories author Terry Deary in a performance for all the family.
Robert Dick and his Orchestra of the Canongait’s wider 2016 project encompasses performing nine Beethoven symphonies and five piano concerti.
Join us for a celebration of some of the most beautiful French and English songs of the early 20th Century.
Marion Lees McPherson and Nancy Crook present a series of afternoon recitals of Bach, Bruhns, Mendelssohn and many more renowned classics.
Vocal and instrumental music by Schubert performed at lunchtime in St Vincent’s Church. Featuring the Shepherd on the Rock, the Fantasia in F minor, D.940.
Mendelssohn and Webern, peformed by the Solem Quartet. Tea, coffee and other refreshments afterwards.
Light out of darkness: music exploring Easter themes, including works by Bach (Jesu, meine Freude), Schütz (Psalm 100), Brahms (Warum ist das Licht gegeben), and Rutter (Wells Jub…
The music, song and dance of the Medieval and Renaissance worlds is brought to life by the city’s famous early music group.
Accomplished Italian guitarist Luca Villani offers a wonderful guitar recital dedicated to Scarlatti and Tansman.
A late night with the soothing French romantics Debussy, Sancan and Renié, performed by the Tasman Duo, Juliana Mysolov (harp), Jonty Coy (flute) and Ian Tindale (piano).
USA-based, New Zealand pianist Charles Whitehead programmes an intriguing recital of Bach, Chopin, the grand Liszt Sonata, plus Persian-influenced music by fellow New Zealand piani…
Coro Edina return to the Fringe following previous years’ acclaimed performances of Brahms and Mozart Requiems and Handel’s Messiah.
We return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with our popular annual concert of JS Bach’s magnificent B minor Mass, showcasing the singing virtuosity of ten stellar soloists alongsid…
Hear the glorious sounds of St Giles’ famous Rieger organ.
Hecate’s Poison is a one-woman version of Macbeth, performed by Players Tokyo’s T.
Sell-out Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015! Live concerts for babies and toddlers delivered by a professional violinist and cellist.
Philomusica of Edinburgh give a performance of Vivaldi’s popular Four Seasons.
Come and experience Anne-Isabel Meyer, the London-based cellist who returns again to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to perform all the Bach Cello Suites over three days.
This acclaimed cellist returns with Bach expert, Peter Lea-Cox, to play Schumann’s accompanied versions of the six Bach cello Suites.
Acclaimed violin and piano duo Sophia Bartlette and Amoret Abis celebrate women composers in an exciting, eclectic mix of genres and great works.
Japan’s Elegant Breeze proudly presents an insight into the music and culture of Japan.
Schubert Quintet D956 with the prizewinning Solem Quartet. Tea, coffee and shortbread served afterwards.
Enjoy the Russian greats, Shostakovitch, Prokofiev and Rachmaninov, with the Solem Quartet and the Tasman Duo. Includes a glass of wine afterwards.
End your Fringe day with relaxing classical music performed by candlelight in this sensuous church, witness to over 300 years of history just off the Royal Mile.
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String Academy first met on the historic Elizabethan Long House Estate in West Sussex through the generous support of Gordon and Alexandra Tregear DL.
‘Power into will, will into appetite’ – Shakespeareonthelevel applies its attack to Shakespeare’s thrilling play about the depravity of war.
Be astounded by Stefan Warzycki’s series of two recitals of virtuoso works from the left-hand piano music repertoire.
Fantastic new recital by Italian guitarist Luca Villani, who interprets great pieces composed by the finest guitar composers celebrating other musicians.
Rarely performed and more or less unknown to all but the most hardcore of Shakespeare addicts, Troilus and Cressida explores star-crossed love and political machinations in the mid…
Live concerts for babies and toddlers delivered by a professional violinist and cellist.
Presented by The Bach Ensemble of Edinburgh, the programme for this concert comprised of lesser-known and hugely underappreciated works by the three baroque greats: Antonio Vivaldi…
Award-winning Sudden Impulse Theatre Company are marking the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death by bringing his much-loved comedy classic to the Edinburgh Fringe.
‘Wholesome’ is how a lady I spoke to after the performance described Felix Holt: The Radical.
Drolls, Brice Stratford tells us in the show’s scholarly introduction, were originally performed by half-drunk actors in covert locations on raucous evenings during the Puritan I…
A stunning programme for violin and piano including Handel’s Sonata No 1, Dvorak’s popular Sonatina, Prokofiev’s Sonata No 2 and other violin favourites.
Latin Choral Vespers for the Feast of the Assumption for strings and choir, including exquisite plainsong and music by Pergolesi.
Staged opera performances from some of Scotland’s most talented young singers.
Following a sell-out run and five star reviews for their recent production of Carmen, Edinburgh Studio Opera return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with Jonathan Dove’s Mansfiel…
Acclaimed violin and piano duo Sophia Bartlette and Amoret Abis celebrate women composers in an exciting, eclectic mix of genres and great works.
What could be better than a leisurely brunch accompanied by the mellifluous harp, performed by prize winner Juliana Mysolov. Includes delicious Edinburgh fayre.
Conductor Robert Dick and Orchestra of the Canongait’s wider 2016 project encompasses performing all nine Beethoven symphonies and five piano concerti.
Join us for traditional choral evensong and benediction with the renowned choir, organ and congregation of this historic Anglican Catholic Church.
Join us for traditional Catholic Anglican liturgy with the renowned choir, organ and congregation of this historic church, directed by City and University Organist Dr John Kitchen.
Now in its 10th year, with nine sell-out years, the St Andrew Camerata return with this atmospheric late-night performance of Gabriel Fauré’s much-loved Requiem and Cantique de Je…
A selection of favourite ballades, nocturnes, scherzos, waltzes, mazurkas, etudes and polonaises played by William Alexander (piano).
Karl Jenkins’ compelling anti-war work charts the descent into and the consequences of war and the hope for peace.
Described as the sublimest achievement that the modern period has contributed to the church, there can be few more befitting settings in which to experience the heart-wrenching bea…
Official programme commemorating the 400th year anniversary of the deaths of Tang Xianzu and William Shakespeare.
The Japanese piano duo returns to the Fringe with a programme of works ranging from classical pieces of Mozart, Schubert and Rachmaninov to Alexander Rosenblatt’s visually vibrant …
Enjoy an indulgently refreshing, mix of luxuriant guitar music.
Showcasing the finest piano and chamber music from RCS and St Mary’s Music School students.
These Fife musicians return once again to the Edinburgh Fringe.
Enjoy our popular series of lunchtime recitals on the fine Wells-Kennedy instrument, in the Georgian splendour of St Andrew’s and St George’s West Church, George Street.
The Bach Ensemble of Edinburgh return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for a fifth consecutive year for two concerts.
Triveni, the Indian classical trio, returns to Edinburgh after a successful year in 2015! Prabhat Rao is one of the leading Indian classical vocalists of the younger generation in …
A late night with the prize-winning Ferio Saxophone Quartet, performing Glass, Nyman and Lago in the midnight hours. Includes a glass of wine afterwards.
Free lunchtime concerts with emerging professional musicians in ensembles from our national conservatoire.
The most celebrated international soloist of any Chinese national musical instrument of her generation, playing an instrument of over 2,500 years of recorded history, makes her ret…
Countertenor James Laing, theorbo player James Akers and bass violist Susanna Pell’s hour long feast of Dowland was one of the most spectacular concerts I have attended in a whil…
Hear the glorious sounds of St Giles’ famous Rieger organ.
This American cello and piano duo, on their Fringe debut, will perform two glorious masterpieces: Beethoven’s Viennese classical Sonata in A major, op.
It would be hard to find a piano recital in this year’s festivals better than those by this Japanese-born international soloist.
Margaret Wakeford and Simon Coverdale present their Fringe fantasy – Schubert’s great late work in F minor, the sylvan and rustic world of Dvorak legends and the Suite Op 52 by Y…
Soothing late night guitar with Sean Shibe, playing works by Benjamin Britten, John Dowland and William Walton. Includes a glass of wine afterwards.
Brahms and contemporaries, featuring the Ferio Saxophone Quartet, Chad Vindin (piano), Gillian Keith (soprano), Henry Neill (baritone), Emily Sun (violin), and many others.
Beethoven and contemporaries.
Youth reigns in Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses, a lavish retelling of Ovid’s tales, brought to stunning visual life.
Bach’s magnificent Solo Cello Suites are the centrepiece of this candlelit recital from Philip Higham, a cellist lauded by the Strad as having ‘all the qualities of a world-cla…
‘Infectious energy!’ (Observer).
This celebrated international soloist returns to Edinburgh to ‘indulge us with a rich spa of the spirits and mind’ (Xinhua, China).
John Bryden plays music by Bach and his followers, Robert and Clara Schumann and Beethoven, in a series of recitals on the Cathedral Steinway.
Chopin and the romantics.
Bach and contemporaries.
Mozart and contemporaries.
Prière; 3 Gymnopédies; 3 Embryons Dessèchés; 6 Pièces Froides: 3 Airs à Faire Fuir; 3 Danses de Travers.
Lawrence Dunn (violin) and Gilmour Macleod (piano) perform all of Beethoven’s Sonatas for piano and violin in four concerts, with each concert containing a different set of sonatas…
Organists Donald Hunt (St Mary’s Cathedral), Duncan Ferguson (St Mary’s Cathedral) and Peter Backhouse (St Giles’ Cathedral) perform popular organ works on the Cathedral’s mighty ‘…
Come and listen to one of Edinburgh’s best amateur choirs sing uplifting music in the liturgical context it was written for.
Japan’s Elegant Breeze proudly presents an insight into the music and culture of Japan.
The professional chapel choir sings at the weekly interdenominational choral service in this extraordinary late Arts and Crafts style building: truly one of Edinburgh’s hidden gems…
The accomplished and acclaimed Hungarian-born violinist Tamas Fejes returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to perform from his debut CD a selection of Sonatas and Partitas by JS …
Balthasar’s bemused, Romeo’s a wuss and the Friar’s on the fiddle but Juliet Capulet calls the shots in an ice cream war with the Montagues.
A popular and traditional service of Choral Evensong from the 1929 Scottish Prayer Book with guest choir, congregational hymn singing and organ voluntary.
Ada Lovelace, computing, Caroline Herschel, comets, Mary Sommerville, mathematics, Jocelyn Bell-Burnell, pulsars, Anne McLaren, genetics, Eva Crane, bees.
Balthasar’s bemused, Romeo’s a wuss and the Friar’s on the fiddle but Juliet Capulet calls the shots in an ice cream war with the Montagues.
Experience the joy of live music at the museum with the best contemporary talents from Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales.
Fourteen concerts given by musicians from Estonia, Finland, Luxemburg, Poland, UK, and from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
For a fast-paced, fun show filled with audience interaction, A Fool’s Paradise might be for you.
For one night only we invite you into the blissful, exciting musical worlds of Johannes Brahms, Frank Bridge and Hermann Reutter.
Ayman Jarjour is an internationally renowned Syrian classical guitarist and graduate of The Juilliard School in New York.
In their sixth appearance at the Fringe, George, Adam and Tom Wilson have borrowed the title of Wilfred Meller’s book for a programme which will include music for organ, solo violi…
Hamlet’s got the hump.
Shakespeare Shorts: Hamlet - Shakespeare’s Hamlet condensed into an hour by kids, for kids.
Two-time Juno Award winner and Steinway artist David Braid, composer of the film Born to Be Blue, presents music from his latest collaboration with one of the UK’s freshest and mos…
Two-time Juno Award winner and Steinway artist David Braid, composer of the film Born to Be Blue, presents music from his latest collaboration with one of the UK’s freshest and mos…
Performing as part of the International Collegiate Theatre Festival, this fast past cut down version of Shakespeare’s classic tale of madness, death, and existential crisis shine…
Enjoy a summer evening recital in the calm surroundings of Edinburgh Academy’s Robertson Room.
BBC Radio 3’s vibrant drivetime programme. Live classical music, special guests and news from this year’s festivals.
Shanghai Culture Week opens with a concert featuring three of the city’s top orchestras: Shanghai Young Philharmonic Orchestra, Shanghai City Symphony Orchestra and Shanghai City…
Champs Mêlés’ production of Iphigenia in Tauris is a two hour, French language translation of J.
William Shakespeare is back for his 400th anniversary, but he needs your help with his newest play.
Will poor Viola ever find her twin brother Sebastian? Expect adventure, suspense and lots of laughs.
As seen on BBC Four television and winner of the 2015 Adelaide Fringe Weekly Award for Best Music Show, Declan Zapala returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with his fourth conse…
In this brand new show following sell-outs in 2013, 2014 and 2015, the internationally acclaimed duo bring their unique touch to the world’s greatest music.
The Edinburgh Fringe ‘smashed’-hit Shit-Faced Shakespeare returns in its seventh year to perform Measure for Measure in its unorthodox and unique inebriated manner.
Hear the glorious sounds of St Giles’ famous Rieger organ.
A former Times critic’s choice.
Pianist and organist Carl Bahoshy performs works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert and Rachmaninoff in aid of Iraqi Christians in Need (ICIN) charity.
Join Classical Folk for another evening of Schubert, Paganini, Massenet, Boccherini; gipsy and folk songs; tales of composers.
Duo Spianato, a piano duet from France, will perform Schubert’s F minor Fantasia, Rachmaninov’s Pieces Op.
“Highly recommended.
Professional harpist Alice Kirwan brings an unique and innovative harp recital programme to One Church Brighton.
Two pieces of new British writing that have been produced by Bred in the Bone Theatre.
Incorporating as many different styles, centuries and saxophones as a sixty minute recital will allow, we’ll take you through the timeline of the saxophone quartet, demonstrating t…
Laurene Hope, who amazed as Piaf, is now ‘La Divina’ Callas - from unwanted child to opera Goddess and her obsession with Onassis.
The course of true love doesn’t run smooth for long in this Shakespearian comedy.
This character-driven play from Moving On Theatre had something for everyone.
The Sussex Symphony Orchestra and BBC’s Alistair Appleton present a fun afternoon of music for children and families.
Join the Know My Neighbour campaign for a week of free activities and performances to encourage neighbourliness in our city! Come and be entertained, connect with others and all wh…
Morton Feldman’s epic, spectral and beautiful ‘Crippled Symmetry’, performed by Adam Swayne (piano/celeste), Helen Whitaker (flute/bass flute) and Adam Bushell (vibraphone/glocke…
Jacky Fong, piano, performs works by Brahms, Horowitz and Volodos on 20 May.
Local Brighton pianist, Johan de Cock, presents an hour-long recital of Baroque sonatas by Antonio Soler, a classical sonata by Joseph Haydn, two late elegies by Franz Liszt, selec…
For those of you who have yet to encounter the fringe phenomenon that is Shit-Faced Shakespeare, this is a show that does exactly what it says on the tin.
The Fretful Federation is an orchestra plucked from Brighton and the surrounding areas playing all manner of fretted instruments.
The story of Macbeth’s tragic demise has been told many times by hundreds, if not thousands, of theatre makers.
Although you may well have some early misgivings, Helen is a show to persevere with.
Experience the fire of Scottish traditional music, the delicacy of classical perfection, the spirit of jazz and the life of the city from Urban Folk duo, An Dhá.
The atmospheric Spiegeltent was bursting at the seams as the three tenors took the stage and the audience with their sunny, easy-going manner.
Critically-acclaimed pianist Helen Burford returns to Brighton Fringe with a fascinating solo programme, featuring works by Somei Satoh, Piazzolla, Handel and Timo Andres.
It is the tenth year of the siege of Troy, the year that Calchas the soothsayer has predicted the city will fall.
Sublime popular classics by celebrated British composers, featuring professional soloists and instrumentalists, amidst stunning surroundings of St Bartholomew’s Church.
Beauty of Baroque, Saturday 14 May: Katherine Nicholas - soprano, Janet Omerod - mezzo-soprano and Nick Andrews - piano, present arias and duets by Purcell, Bach and Handel.
Gavin Henderson regales first hand hilarious stories of the many conductors he has worked with: Stokowski, Otto Klemperer, Giulini, Svetlanov, Barbirolli, Sargent and Rattle among…
Acclaimed violin and piano duo Sophia Bartlette and Amoret Abis return for their third Brighton Fringe recital to celebrate women composers.
Great cellist Pavlos Carvalho performs Bach’s solo cello suites on 14 and 15 May.
Pianist Raija Walker performs Beethoven’s Moonlight and Appassionata sonatas on 14 May.
Shabaka Hutchings (BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist) teams up with Ligeti Quartet to perform Shabaka’s own Clarinet Quintet, Morton Feldman’s Clarinet and String Quartet, and Mi…
Pianist Julia Wallin from the Royal Academy performs a selection of Chopin’s Etudes and Nocturnes, Liszt’s 2nd Ballade, Rachmaninoff’s Moment Musicaux and music by Sibelius.
Beautiful relaxing classical music for piano duet, including pieces by J.
Rebelles is a folk, jazz and classical singing group of 9; Julia, Natalie, Michelle, Marina, Andrea, Meredith, Sibyl, Sally and Cat.
Premiere of the multimedia show ‘Soundscape’, featuring stunning visual projections with soundtrack of their hauntingly beautiful cinematic score.
Tuesday lunchtime concerts: 10th: Ensemble Reza - Boccherini and Beethoven String Quintets; 17th: Paul Gregory (guitar) - South American music; 24th: James Larter (percussionist) -…
Broadway musical composer, jazz saxophonist and electronic music pioneer, Milton Babbitt is regarded as one of America’s foremost musical geniuses.
The Kalverienberg choir from Vienna will sing at our 10:30am service on 8 May.
A stunning exhibition in a beautiful, spacious setting.
Roedean community musicians perform Karl Jenkins’ powerful and evocative Requiem with student soloists in Mozart’s Queen of the Night aria, Bruch’s Kol Nidrei and Kreisler’s Praelu…
Violinist Benedict Cruft will perform Bach’s solo works on 7 and 8 May.
Pianist Stefan Warzycki performs works for piano left hand.
Stockhausen’s Inori is an incredibly intense show.
Share the excitement of ensemble performance of brand new works by young composers, with the Orchestra of Sound and Light.
Recitals on Tuesdays by distinguished local organists on the fine organ at St.
Strauss Don Juan; Faure Pavane; Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending (Danny Miller violin); Elgar Symphony No 1 in Ab major, Opus 55.
Glasgow-based Aurea Quartet comprises of four prize-winning graduates of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Cantica Alba, the Edinburgh-based a cappella ensemble, directed by Michael Harris, present Music for a Summer’s Afternoon, a programme of part-songs from a variety of traditions,…
Cellist Feargus Egan is accompanied by David Hamilton in this programme, featuring two outstanding works for cello and piano from World War I: Delius’ Cello Sonata (1916) and the…
A recital by Karen West, Elizabeth Woollven and George Ross, accompanied by Helen Maddox and Alan Graham, to include Schumann’s Frauen-Liebe und Leben and John Maxwell Geddes’ …
Prélude de la Porte Héroïque du Ciel, 6 Gnossiennes, 3 Sarabandes, Dances Gothiques.
Edinburgh debut concert of the Berlin-based Tegel Quartet.
Peter Seivewright brings the 2015 Edinburgh Festival Fringe to a thrilling conclusion with his performance of Messiaen’s 20 Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus, one of the very greatest pi…
Two Japanese-born pianists based in Tokyo and Berlin perform a wide variety of brilliant duets covering Grieg’s much-loved Peer Gynt, the classic duets of Dvorak and Debussy as wel…
Join the National Youth Choir of Scotland as it presents a patriotic programme of Scottish songs, including John Gardner’s A Burns Sequence, a dynamic setting of eight poems by Sco…
There can be few more atmospheric settings in which to experience Fauré’s Requiem Mass than by candlelight in the historic St Giles’ Cathedral.
Owen Pallett’s new album In Conflict was released in 2014.
Night and Day, I’ve Got You Under My Skin, Everytime You Say Goodbye.
A programme of varied art song and a smattering of Operatic favourites from around the world including Mozart, Ravel, Shostakovich, Korngold, Schumann, Berlioz and Bizet.
Michael Harris, organist of St Giles’ Cathedral, puts the world-renowned Rieger organ in St Giles’ through its paces, with music including JS Bach Prelude and Fugue in G BWV 541,…
Sonata in E major by George Frideric Handel, Violin Concerto in E minor by Jules Conus, Suite from Much Ado About Nothing by Erich Wolfgang Korngold and an arrangement of Deep Rive…
Perth Youth Orchestra is one of the UK’s oldest youth orchestras, having recently celebrated its 50th birthday.
Pipa and erhu are commonly nicknamed as Chinese lute and Chinese violin.
Gillian Keith, soprano.
Rich Batsford’s Classically Chilled Piano is exactly that.
The popular Scottish composer presents highlights from his chamber music, musicals and operas.
Senior players from St Mary’s Music School perform Schubert’s final chamber work, the sublime String Quintet in C major and a new work by Tom David Wilson.
Rhapsody in Blue, Embraceable You, Summertime, I Got Rhythm and more – Gershwin’s greatest hits remastered by virtuoso pianist Viv McLean.
Tommy Foggo and his cello are a superhero duo going on epic adventures, overcoming impossible odds – singing and sharing fun with friends along the way! Coffee/tea, fruit juice a…
Rare chance to hear Bach’s uplifting Orgelbüchlein (Little Organ Book) complete, plus a dozen modern contributions to the Orgelbüchlein Project – the project aiming to fill the…
There are scissors, pens and other tools for lefties, but a lefty piano? Melodies on the piano are often confined to the right hand, supported by chords in the left.
After reaching his £2,000 crowd funding target in less than five days, this charismatic pianist has broadcast on Classic FM, BBC Radio 2 and 3, and was named as the Independent ne…
A retelling of the love affair between Debussy and high soprano Blanche Vasnier, blending songs and readings from letters, diaries and memoirs.
Celebrating six years, Opera Bohemia returns with its most popular and successful production to date, Madame Butterfly.
A composer a day: John Bryden will play music by Elgar, Mozart and Dvorák in three recitals on the Cathedral Steinway.
Students of Edinburgh Napier University return to the Fringe to perform a wonderful selection of solo piano repertoire, including works by Bach, Mozart, Schumann and Brahms.
Tim Cais and Chris Harding present two recitals of cello and piano music focusing on the works of Felix Mendelssohn, including both Cello Sonatas and the stunning Variations Concer…
Recitals for Wrigglers are concerts especially tailored for babies and toddlers, delivered by a professional violinist and cellist.
Blend one part jazz sax with one part classical accordion for a refreshing musical brew.
VoiceArc have compacted their production of Le Nozze di Figaro to just 70 minutes of fast furious Figaro fun for the Fringe: Figaro Fugit.
Ian Munro leads the Edinburgh Festival Ensemble in Mozart’s charming Gran Partita for wind.
Relaxed Sunday morning at 100 Princes Street.
Organist David Hamilton returns to Canongate with a programme to illustrate the breadth of Bach’s genius.
Enjoy a heavenly performance of Fauré’s Requiem in the Georgian splendour of St Andrew’s and St George’s West.
John Kitchen brings to St Andrew’s and St George’s West Church a stunning new programme of lesser-known French music, 1680-1780, featuring a suite by Louis XIV’s petite merveille, …
PianoPiano redefines modern classical music with this powerful show of original pieces dedicated to nine female trail-blazers.
Fernando Sor and Mauro Giuliani were the greatest guitar composers and virtuosos in the classical era.
St Giles’ Choir, directed by Michael Harris, with Peter Backhouse (organ) in a programme including Mozart Coronation Mass, Tippett Spirituals and Britten Rejoice in the Lamb.
Let us transport you to France with a journey through some of the most beautiful French chanson of the 19th and 20th centuries including favourites of the repertoire from Fauré, L…
An hour of pure delight.
Join Sean Rafferty for BBC Radio 3’s vibrant drivetime programme. Live classical music, special guests and news from this year’s festivals.
Powerful music by Haydn in the beautiful setting of St Mary’s Cathedral.
Enjoy a showcase of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s finest piano students in this exciting nine concert series.
Classical Music Concert @ connected - musical miscellany with the Rasaratnams. Enjoy a relaxing evening in an intimate venue with a selection of solo and chamber works.
There are scissors, pens and other tools for lefties, but a lefty piano? Melodies on the piano are often confined to the right hand, supported by chords in the left.
The Bach Ensemble of Edinburgh, with soloists Robert Dick, Simon Graham, Sheena Jardine and Kate Miguda, return for a fourth time to perform Vivaldi’s ever-popular The Four Seasons…
Heady musical cocktail of Fitkin, Nyman, Piazzolla, Villa-Lobos served by master mixologists Huw Wiggin (saxophone) and James Sherlock (piano).
Hans Gal - E major, Op.
Three of Scotland’s most exciting young professional musicians unite to perform ravishing repertoire for voice, viola and piano, including Brahms, Poulenc, Rubbra, Falla and Loeffl…
As part of a year-long project marking the 40th anniversary of Stockhausen’s Tierkreis (Signs of the Zodiac), a performance on organ with improvised percussion interludes by compos…
Julian Layn is a classical composer and pianist.
The internationally acclaimed recitalist Adriano Falcioni in a programme of dazzling virtuosity, including JS Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in E minor (The Wedge) and concluding with Jo…
Classical zheng performer, Yi Dong, is one of the only five soloists who has given a recital in China’s Great Hall of the People, and the soloist with the biggest number of public …
Bound by blood and only by bloody acts will they be free of one another.
Prepare to be amazed by QUATTRO cello quartet from New Zealand, in their brilliant transcription of Shostakovich’s searing 8th quartet.
Following their critically acclaimed 2014 Fringe debut, leading new music group Ensemble Thing return to Summerhall to perform John De Simone’s powerful, moving new work, Independe…
The accomplished London-based cellist Anne-Isabel Meyer and Edinburgh pianist Chris Harding play three consecutive concerts of Bach’s Gamben Sonatas and Brahms’ magnificent Cel…
BuskingBrahms sings art song melodies from great classical and traditional composers and poets of the 18-20th centuries and beyond.
Come and experience once again Anne-Isabel Meyer’s performances of the six Cello Suites over three days in St Cuthbert’s Parish Church.
Accollage – The Accordion Orchestra of Lower Saxony (Germany) is proud to present its classical programme.
Technical wizardry and impressive attention to detail.
In Violin Variations, Ian Peaston invites the audience to share his passion for experimenting with his electric violin and looping set-up.
An exciting all Bach programme: Concerto in C major for two Keyboards BWV 1061 with pianists John Cameron and Richard Beauchamp, Solo Cantata Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen with sop…
To celebrate his 20th Festival, Luca Villani plays a formidable array of the most beautiful compositions of his wide guitar repertoire.
Ian Munro leads the Edinburgh Festival Ensemble in music for strings including Beethoven’s Grosse Fugue.
“O God, that I were a man,” Beatrice laments in Much Ado About Nothing’s fourth act.
Mikel N’Dong will play the solo piano part and the orchestra part will be played live by a sequenced virtual symphony orchestra.
Exciting, young French pianist Louise Cournarie will give a recital on the Cathedral’s Steinway, including music by Handel, Schubert and Mendelssohn.
Shakespeare’s tale of jealousy and revenge retold by a vibrant young cast.
The critically acclaimed classical concert for baby, tot and you returns to Edinburgh! Children can dance, roam about and listen to music while you take a moment for yourself and e…
The Cambridge Theatre Collective offer up a largely genderbent production of Shakespeare’s bloodiest tragedy, set in a high school.
Gordon Ferries and Stephen Morrison return with a new compilation to delight their many followers.
Durham’s Ethrael Theatre presents a musical adaptation of Aeschylus’s The Furies, a tale of vengeance, honour, justice and mercy.
The Orchestra of the Canongait and its conductor, Robert Dick, have been developing an enviable reputation over the past few years for the quality of their performances of some of …
Traditional choral evensong and benediction in the catholic Anglican style with the renowned choir and organ of this historic church close to Edinburgh’s Royal Mile.
Traditional Catholic Anglican liturgy in this historic church close to Edinburgh’s Royal Mile with renowned choir and organ.
Two staves (and all the leger lines!) become one under Stefan Warzycki’s dextrous left hand, in two virtuoso piano recitals including works by Bach, Chopin (arrangement by Godowsky…
Now in its 10th year, with nine sell-out years, the St Andrew Camerata return with this atmospheric late-night performance of Gabriel Fauré’s much-loved Requiem and Cantique de Je…
In the 350th anniversary of Bruhns’ birth, David Hamilton presents his complete organ works in the superb surrounding of Canongate Kirk.
Beautiful Crichton Church is host to the Scottish Plainsong Choir, recreating a mediaeval vespers for the Feast of the Assumption in this numinous setting.
A selection of favourite ballades, nocturnes, scherzos, waltzes, mazurkas, etudes and polonaises played by William Alexander (piano).
The traditional evening service with exquisite plainsong, and choral polyphony sung by professional voices, and concluding with a musical offering of a major organ work by Marcel D…
Charlotte Rowan is recognized for her compelling, commanding performances, delivered with dazzling virtuosity and technical assurance.
Will Todd’s Mass in Blue (Scottish première), Vaughan Williams’ Mass in G minor, Tippett’s Five Negro Spirituals, performed by one of Scotland’s most exciting and versatile …
Edinburgh Youth Orchestra is forming a Chamber Orchestra to return to Greyfriars Kirk on Friday 14th August.
The Roseberry Trio play their third Fringe, presenting masterpieces for oboe, horn and piano by Herzogenberg and York Bowen, a gentle lullaby by Damase and Schumann’s fiery Adagio …
Valour is a WWI Centenary-inspired composition by the composer and poet Dom Mason.
Sheena Jardine (violin) and Stephen Doughty (piano) will perform the beautiful Elgar Violin Sonata and also Tartini’s famous Devil’s Trill Sonata.
Music by Schubert including Grand Duo and Trout Quintet.
Forming the cornerstones of the repertoire for clarinet and piano, the late Sonatas by Johannes Brahms are passionate and lyrical by turn, infusing Classical form with Romantic fee…
Prabhat Rao is one of the leading Indian Classical vocalists of the younger generation in the UK today.
Eddie McGuire, former Chairman of the Musicians’ Union (Scottish Region), and classical zheng performer Dong Yi, the first and so far only musician of any Chinese instrument to g…
Alasdair Cameron, former student of Louis Kentner and Joyce Hatto, debuted in London’s Royal Festival Hall’s Purcell Room.
Four hands – two pianos – one flute.
Join Opera dei Lumi for a performance of Mozart’s vivacious comedy Le nozze di Figaro.
For the final concert in the complete Beethoven Violin Sonatas series Lawrence Dunn (violin) and Gilmour Macleod (piano) play the Sonata No 3 in Eb major and the 10th and last Sona…
Come and enjoy organ music performed by young organists.
Tom Bell, one of Britain’s foremost young international recital organists, presents a programme centred on Schoenberg’s monumental Variations on a Recitative.
Back for a seventh year, relaxing music by candlelight in this historic and sensuous church provides the perfect end to your day.
Philomusica of Edinburgh make a welcome return to the wonderful acoustic venue St Mark’s Unitarian Church, where they were regular performers in the 1980s and 1990s.
Mendelssohn, Schumann and romantic composers performed by international award-winning musicians Solem Quartet, Ruben Palma (cello), and pianists Jan Hugo, James Sherlock, Alexander…
16th sell-out series.
Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet, Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde, and the obsessive passion of Janacek’s Intimate letters: a lethal late night musical potion with Stephen de Pledge …
Come to hear Colin Kingsley at 90 years old playing Mozart at age 22 (Sonata in C K309) and age 31 (Rondo in A minor K511), also stylish Schubert spring-like Grieg, idyllic Chabrie…
In the wicked game of love, who cheats first, men or women? To settle the debate, a prince conducts a scientific experiment into the human psyche and our primitive carnal desires.
Works by Brahms and other 19th century masters.
Canadian baritone David John Pike and pianist Stephen De Pledge present a moving programme centred around Robert Louis Stevenson’s Songs of Travel set by Vaughan Williams, and Bu…
Enjoy a showcase of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s finest piano students in this exciting nine concert series.
Award-winning pianist Sasa Gerzelj-Donaldson returns to the Fringe for Bach’s French Suite No 5, Medtner’s Fairy Tales and Schumann’s Humoreske.
Beethoven and contemporaries.
Edmonton: such an idyllic village.
This talented, Japanese-born pianist returns to Edinburgh to perform two delightful programmes of piano works from Bach to Bartok, Mozart to Prokofiev, and including Beethoven, Cho…
16th year sell-out series, award-winning musicians including Charlotte Ashton flute, Solem Quartet, Zelkova Quartet, Quattro (cello quartet), Françoise-Green piano duo, pianists J…
‘And all that I need do is to wish…’ The poetry of WB Yeats’ Running to Paradise accompanies new music by northern composer Michael Jon Smith (1941-2009) for flute, viola a…
A series of six lunchtime recitals on the renowned Walker organ.
Sue McKenzie and Ingrid Sawers, Scotland’s foremost sax and piano duo, present the historical musical journey of the saxophone.
Noted US violist Christine Rutledge returns to Edinburgh to perform her new transcription of Bach’s six cello suites.
David Corkhill conducts the Edinburgh Festival Ensemble and singers Stuart Murray Mitchell and Hugh Hillyard-Parker in his adaptation of a song cycle of the Wilfred Owen war poems …
Music by Chopin and other romantic composers performed by international award-winning musicians including cellist Matthew Sharp, Catherine Kwak, pianists Jan Hugo, James Sherlock, …
Enjoy Scotland’s finest emerging professionals from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, our national conservatoire, with a rich variety of instruments and voices playing classical…
Celebrate the 25th birthday of the magnificent Peter Collins organ at Greyfriars Kirk with festival Sunday worship and a series of classic lunchtime organ recitals, featuring some …
Come and listen to one of Edinburgh’s finest church choirs perform sacred music in the liturgical context for which it was written, in the beautiful setting of this stunning church…
Scottish classical accordionist Paul Chamberlain astounds with his virtuosic take on Mozart, Rossini, Rachmaninov, Piazzolla, Rossini, Wieniawski and more.
Come and enjoy an hour of sonatas and partitas by J S Bach for solo violin performed by the Hungarian virtuoso, Tamas Fejes.
Organists Steven Grahl (Peterborough Cathedral), Duncan Ferguson (St Mary’s Cathedral) and Donald Hunt (St Mary’s Cathedral) perform on consecutive Sundays on the Cathedral’s ‘Fath…
A daily evolving production line of musicians and artists involved in and around the musical life of Jamie Sharp. Explore the hints on Twitter for more clues…
The professional chapel choir sings at the weekly interdenominational choral service in this extraordinary late Arts and Crafts building: truly one of Edinburgh’s hidden gems.
Imagine Karen Matheson singing Japanese-Ainu traditional songs at Royal Opera House in a Scottish soundscape, backed by Pink Floyd and Martha Argerich.
Join CSWO as they celebrate their 20th anniversary of music making in the East Midlands.
The New Liszt Ferenc Chamber Choir was established on 1 February 2010 from the members of the Liszt Academy’s Alma Mater Choir and from the freshly graduated students of the Lisz…
For the fourth year, George, described in the Scotsman as ‘a musician of extraordinary flair and sensitivity’ with his twin sons – now aged 13 – will offer insight into Bach’s …
The Glass Menagerie is a hard play to get wrong.
Experience the joy of live music at the museum.
Join CSWO as they celebrate their 20th anniversary of music making in the East Midlands.
Ostensibly, Worbey and Farrell’s show is a piano recital.
Perhaps Shakespeare’s most famous comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream has the potential to either be comedic gold or irritating lip-service, depending on the quality of the cast …
Sketch Comedy + Live Orchestra = F-Holes
Declan Zapala is one hell of a talented guitarist.
If you like classical guitar and want to escape the bustling madness that is the Mile at 1pm in the middle of the Fringe, then you are going to enjoy Jonathan Prag’s hour long re…
A varied evening recital programme from some of Fife’s most talented young classical performers.
There are many productions of reimagined Shakespeare plays that try to add a unique twist to the Bard’s work.
Peter Backhouse, Assistant Organist at St Giles’ Cathedral, puts the renowned Rieger organ through its paces in a feast of dazzling sound.
In Macbeth, Act II, Scene 3, the Porter states “Drink [.
Juxtaposing poetry of political repression against religious texts, MacMillan’s Cantos Sagrados protests against the disappearances of the politically inconvenient.
A former Times Critics’ Choice.
From passionate melodies to captivating modern beats, this piano concert performed by the eclectic Italian artist Sonja Toja will at first take you through some of the most signifi…
This young string quartet, founded in 2018, is borne out of the friendship of four former students at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique in Paris.