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 powerful Alleluia, I Heard a Voice, for unaccompanied choir…
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 musicians to perform another exciting programme…
Rock Festival Choir is Alnwick’s renowned chamber choir of 22 singers under director Peter Brown. The choir appeared at the Fringe 2018 singing the Rachmaninov Vespers to great acclaim and returns singing contemporary choral classics by Chilcott (Little Jazz Mass), Lauridsen, Gjeilo, Whitacre, Gorecki and others…
Join seven of the UK’s top a cappella groups as we come together to share a selection of our best repertoire for one night only at Greyfriars Kirk in the heart of Edinburgh! Featuring: The Oxford Alternotives, Out of the Blue, All the King’s Men, Pitch Purple, The Bristol Suspensions, Aquapella and Semi-Toned…
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 the inspired direction of conductor Sian Edwards…
Shiva Tandava. This traditional Indian dance depicting Lord Shiva’s power and beauty is presented by girls of La Martiniere Girls’ College, Lucknow in a beautiful rendition of a mythological stotra, resplendent in their colourful costumes and vigorous dance steps to soulful music…
The outstanding young performers of the National Youth Choir of Scotland are joined by Whitburn Brass Band for Sir James MacMillan’s poignant oratorio All the Hills and Vales Along, written to commemorate the fallen of the First World War…
Celebrating Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday today, culminating with his choral masterpiece, Chichester Psalms. Cadenza, one of Scotland’s foremost ensembles, sets the mood with Elgar’s magnificent Lux Aeterna, Scarlatti’s Stabat Mater and Trois Chansons by Debussy...
Creative Projects: An afternoon with Wendy and friends at Greyfriars Kirk. 24 August 2018 13:30. Free, includes reception and discussion. The afternoon is a collection of songs, poems, art, orchestral poems, dialogues and connections inspired by Richard DeMarco’s Road to Meikle Seggie...
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 (xylophone) and Jess McFarlane (trumpet) and guest conductor Sam McLellan...
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 English oratorio: Handel's masterpiece Esther...
Technically brilliant, thrillingly passionate and globally in demand, Finnish violin soloist Anna-Liisa Bezrodny is 'a real and true musician... and plays at white heat' (Jessica Duchen)...
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 wonderfully rich All-Night Vigil (more commonly known as the Vespers) in the fantastic acoustic of two of Edinburgh's oldest kirks – Greyfriars and Canongate...
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 voices in a unique programme to mark the centenary of the WWI Armistice...
The Edinburgh Chamber Choir returns to the Fringe with two amazing choral works. Mozart’s masterpiece, the famous Requiem with its dark, operatic sonority is contrasted by Bach’s uplifting Magnificat.
The Voice Festival UK once again returns to the Fringe with an evening of a cappella for all the family to enjoy. Featuring a variety of a cappella groups from across the country, experience a wonderful showcase to introduce you to some of the UK's best a cappella.
The world-famous Barnsley Youth Choir welcomes its Development Choir to share the stage in four special performances at the fabulous Greyfriars Kirk. 140 spectacular vocalists perform breathtaking pop, classical and gospel classics...
The world-famous Barnsley Youth Choir returns to the fabulous Greyfriars Kirk following outstanding reviews in 2016. Seventy-five spectacular vocalists and a stunning band perform breathtaking pop, gospel, classical and spiritual classics...
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 programme under the inspired direction of conductor Sian Edwards...
World premiere of Pie Jesu – written by Robert Fripp (King Crimson) and Andrew Keeling, arranged especially for Excelsa Voces. Described as 'ethereal' (Gloucester Echo) and utterly superb, Excelsa Voces performances are an immersive experience seamlessly blending medieval and contemporary music...
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.
Brahms’ powerful Deutches Requiem, Rheinberger’s exquisite unaccompanied double-choir Mass in Eflat, Cantus Missae, and Monteverdi motets performed by one of Scotland's foremost choral ensembles...
Echoes and Traces presents eight new choral works, developed in response to one of Scotland's oldest pieces of music, a 900-year-old plain-song fragment from Orkney that celebrates St Magnus: Nobilis Humilis...
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 pianist Geoffrey Duce...
The Voice Festival UK once again return to the Fringe with an evening of a cappella for all the family to enjoy.
Edinburgh International Youth Orchestra performs two concerts at Greyfriars Kirk with players from the Palestine Youth Orchestra. Sian Edwards conducts an all Russian programme of Shostakovich Festive Overture, Tchaikovsky 5th Symphony and Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, with Cuban piano soloist Daniel Rodriguez Hart...
Discover this award-winning triptych video installation in the tranquil beauty of Greyfriars Kirk – a haven in the festival city. Full of rich iconographic images, dozens of performers move in swathes of vibrant colour, appearing and disappearing amidst a magical cathedral of trees...
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 from the Baroque to the 21st century, with works by Bach, Vaughan Williams, Mendelssohn, and songs and spirituals from the New World...
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) performed by one of Scotland's most exciting choirs...
Four Scottish Dances – Malcolm Arnold. Suite for Strings – John Rutter. Concertino for Clarinet – Carl Maria von Weber (soloist: Joe Pickering). Kinnoull Symphony No 1 – Ian White and Andy MacDonald...
Conductor Robert Dick and Orchestra of the Canongait's wider 2016 project encompasses performing nine Beethoven symphonies and five piano concerti. The Complete Beethoven Piano Concerti (1,2 and 3) provide the centrepiece for the Orchestra's three 2016 Festival concerts, concluding performances with a different Beethoven symphony...
Robert Dick and his Orchestra of the Canongait's wider 2016 project encompasses performing nine Beethoven symphonies and five piano concerti. The Complete Beethoven Piano Concerti provide the centrepiece for the Orchestra's three 2016 festival concerts, concluding each performance with a different Beethoven symphony...
Accomplished Italian guitarist Luca Villani offers a wonderful guitar recital dedicated to Scarlatti and Tansman. Some Scarlatti Sonatas sound great on the guitar, evoking a Spanish court made of dark lounges, silky tapestries and a royal atmosphere...
Coro Edina return to the Fringe following previous years' acclaimed performances of Brahms and Mozart Requiems and Handel's Messiah. This year, they will sing JS Bach's masterpiece, St John Passion, with full chamber orchestra.
Conductor Robert Dick and Orchestra of the Canongait's wider 2016 project encompasses performing all nine Beethoven symphonies and five piano concerti. The Complete Beethoven Piano Concerti provide the centrepiece for the Orchestra's three 2016 festival concerts, and each performance will include a different Beethoven symphony...
The Voice Festival returns to Edinburgh with another stellar a cappella showcase featuring groups of all ages. Come along for an unforgettable evening! Full details of line-up and workshop will be announced on our website.
Singing hits by John Legend, Coldplay, Take That, ELO and others, the international award winning Barnsley Youth Choir will take you on a musical ride through pop, classical, gospel and spirituals, as 60 world-class performers fill the magnificent Greyfriars Kirk with song...
Musical Anthology is a performance of sacred, secular, classical, contemporary and world music with organ, trumpets and voice – Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Purcell, Galuppi, Boëllman, Ross, Stanley, D'Indy, Gavarentz and Scottish music...
Perth Youth Orchestra is one of the UK’s oldest youth orchestras, having recently celebrated its 50th birthday. The orchestra tours regularly at home and abroad – most recently to Florence...
A human requiem and one of the great choral masterpieces of all time. A rare chance to hear this glorious work in an intimate arrangement for chamber choir and piano in the beautiful Greyfriars Kirk...
Fernando Sor and Mauro Giuliani were the greatest guitar composers and virtuosos in the classical era. Luca Villani, Italian accomplished guitarist at his 20th festival in Edinburgh, offers a varied and challenging portrait of their great music...
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. International concert pianist and left-hander, Christopher Seed turned this back to front by creating the world's first left-handed piano...
Mikel N'Dong will play the solo piano part and the orchestra part will be played live by a sequenced virtual symphony orchestra. Enjoy Rachmaninov's music in a different way, without losing the traditional flavour...
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 the largest scale works in the entire symphonic repertoire, including the towering masterpieces of Bruckner, Mahler and Richard Strauss...
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 choirs, with Will Todd (piano), Joanna Forbes-L’Estrange (soprano) and Brian Molley Quartet...
Edinburgh Youth Orchestra is forming a Chamber Orchestra to return to Greyfriars Kirk on Friday 14th August. EYO will welcome back Julian Lloyd Webber in his new role as conductor, with his wife, cellist Jiaxin Lloyd Webber, as soloist, in a programme to include William Lloyd Webber's Invocation, Elgar Serenade for Strings, Haydn Cello Concerto in C Major, Mozart's Symphony No 40 and Howard Goodall's And the Bridge is Love...
Join Opera dei Lumi for a performance of Mozart’s vivacious comedy Le nozze di Figaro. Mozart’s glorious score effortlessly drives the plot's rollercoaster mix of vivacious humour, sexual intrigue, mistaken identity and unexpected revelation towards a touching finale of forgiveness and joy...
A place of peace, a sacred space. Welcoming people of any background, age or belief. Drop-in between 8pm and 11pm for candlelit contemplation, music, art, stillness, and a sense of space in the midst of your Fringe...
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 of the UK's finest organists, including Jonathan Williams, Michael Harris, Chris Bragg, John Kitchen, George Barrett and Tom Wilkinson.
The Voice Festival returns to Edinburgh with another stellar a cappella showcase featuring groups of all ages, plus a special collaborative number created at our earlier daytime workshop...
Dutch worship collective, The Psalm Project, famed for their powerful contemporary reworking of the Genevan Psalter, are joined by Scottish band, Satellite, for this worship gig rooted in the Psalms of David.
Greyfriars Kirk was the perfect setting for this Edinburgh based choir’s return to the Fringe after sellout shows in previous years. Originally founded in 1992, Cadenza has come to be regarded as one of the best Scottish choirs around at the moment, with some members travelling from outside of the Edinburgh area to take part...
Luca Villani certainly gives you plenty of Bach for your buck. This performance of all of Bach’s lute works, performed here on classical guitar, lasted well over two hours in the tranquil surrounds of Greyfriars Kirk...
Singing in English and six other South African languages, Soweto Melodic Voices are no ordinary choir. Its members live in one of the world’s toughest townships. The choir will perform at Greyfriars Kirk during the Edinburgh University and the congregation’s Fringe Sunday Service...
The Orchestra of the Canongait and their conductor Robert Dick are joined for their annual Fringe concert by internationally-renowned pianist Murray McLachlan in one of the most popular works in the entire repertoire - Beethoven's mighty 'Emperor' Concerto...
A place of peace, an open sacred space. Welcoming people of any background, age or belief. Drop in between 8.30pm and 11.30pm for candlelit contemplation, music, art, stillness, refreshment, poetry and a sense of space in the midst of your Fringe...
A stunning showcase! Orchestra, Peking opera, folk, choir and dancing presented by one of China's top young performing groups. A traditional yet innovative show, evoking an authentic image of China...
The Voice Festival UK returns to Edinburgh Fringe, with a jam-packed a cappella showcase featuring groups of all ages, plus a special collaborative number created at our workshop held earlier in the day...