Please note that the event is SOLD OUT. In the event of any booking cancellations, tickets will become available on the Eventbrite page, accessible via the link below. Join us at the beautiful venue of St Cecilia's Hall for an afternoon of folk song sung in 3 or 4 part harmony, mostly Scottish and …
Join volunteer Claire to learn all about some of the oldest keyboard instruments in our collection.
Join us for this month's quiet concert featuring music from FOLK(ISH) with the Haver String Quartet. 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 using …
Música d'Outrora is an early music ensemble founded in 2022 by Spanish director and harpsichordist Pablo Devigo (1989). Specialising in 17th-century Italian repertoire, the ensemble employs historical research methods to develop new interpretative approaches to the Baroque stylus phantasticus. The Continuo Foundation funded the Across the Alps tour throughout the United Kingdom and renewed its …
The Edinburgh Quartet presents the third concert of their series at St. Cecilia's Hall. This concert continues the exploration of Beethoven's magnificent op. 18 quartets with the third of the cycle, paired with another masterpiece of the string quartet repertoire, Mendelssohn's quartet in a minor, op. 13. Since their founding in 1960, 'Scotland's string quartet' has brought …
Join volunteer Dona to learn all about our early keyboard instruments.
The best of medieval and Renaissance festive music, on period instruments of every kind. Friendly presentation. For all the family. Children are especially welcome and go free! Please note this concert is now SOLD OUT! If you would like to join the waiting list, please contact the Edinburgh Renaissance Band via the details below.
Join volunteer David to learn about all things keyboards to pipes.
Dr Jenny Nex explores and examines the roles, lives and stories behind the often overlooked women who were instrumental in the making, selling and collecting of some of the instruments in the collection. Jenny Nex is Curator of the Musical Instrument Collection and Lecturer in Musical Instruments at the University of Edinburgh, where her research …
Join Dr Sabine Klaus as she explores the role of Madame Florentine Besson in the invention of the modern trumpet, with live demonstrations. The origin of the modern piston-valve trumpet—the trumpet used in most countries today—is often associated with the French firm of Besson. But when and by whom was this iconic trumpet design …