Be transported to 17th century Venice, Naples... baroque into the 20th century. Packed delighted audiences in 2024. Exciting new programme with beautiful music by the greats – Monteverdi, Caccini, Ferrari, Lundi, Velasquez, Falvo and more. Weep and laugh – the wonder of love. Elspeth McVeigh, accompanied by superb musicians: Sean Heath, historic harpsichord (courtesy museum) …

Be transported to 17th century Venice, Naples... baroque into the 20th century. Packed delighted audiences in 2024. Exciting new programme with beautiful music by the greats – Monteverdi, Caccini, Ferrari, Lundi, Velasquez, Falvo and more. Weep and laugh – the wonder of love. Elspeth McVeigh, accompanied by superb musicians: Sean Heath, historic harpsichord (courtesy museum) …

Back by popular demand, the self-taught and self-proclaimed David Munrow of punk brings his Early Music Show to the beautiful surroundings of St Cecilia's Hall for the fourth time. He explains how his fascination with early music came about, inspired by his first encounter with the humble recorder aged six. He'll demonstrate the crumhorn, cornamuse, …

The critically acclaimed team of McDonald and Kitchen perform virtuoso works for recorder with continuo and obbligato harpsichord by Bach, Vivaldi, Telemann and Corelli, which also exist in alternative versions. Ever commercially astute, Telemann often specified idiomatic alternative instrumentation for his works. Arranging Italian violin sonatas for recorder was almost a cottage industry, and Bach's …

The Edinburgh Quartet launches a new series with the first of six concerts featuring Beethoven's six op.18 string quartets. Since their founding in 1960, 'Scotland's string quartet' has brought world-class classical music to every corner of Scotland and beyond. The quartet is thrilled to begin this collaboration with St. Cecilia's Hall, Scotland's oldest concert hall (1763), and looks …

Relax and enjoy. Indulge and celebrate with an uplifting programme with Annemarie Klein (recorders), Eric Thomas (theorbo) and John Kitchen (harpsichord). All proceeds go to Macmillan Cancer Support.

Edinburgh College of Art and BRAID (Bridging Responsible AI Divides) invite you to a concert featuring new music that explores instruments, bodies, software and hardware, hosted at  St Cecilia's Hall. For a full outline of the event, click here. Please note that this event is hosted by an external organisation and not St Cecilia's Hall. …

Join us for this month's quiet concert featuring music from Richard Craig (flutes) and Chris Baxter (keyboard). We have thought about some of the sensory issues that can keep people away from many events and made some small but important adjustments. What we will do differently includes: Asking audiences for quiet applause, such as only …

An evening of live music, song, stories, and discussion – about homeland, migration, and how music helps us to understand who we are and how we belong. With performances from Iranian traditional musician Aref Ghorbani, klezmer and Yiddish specialist Phil Alexander, and contemporary Iranian singer Farzane Zamen. Supported by The National Lottery Community Fund Awards …

The Edinburgh Quartet presents the second concert of their series at St. Cecilia's Hall. This concert continues the exploration of Beethoven's op. 18 quartets with his quartet no. 2 in G major. Alongside this, the quartet will play Haydn's much loved and virtuosic quartet op. 76 no. 5, and a wonderful work by by the …