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  • Creating a Sonic Haven: Music, Connection and Equality

    St Cecilia's Hall 50 Niddry St, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
    Talk

    Dr Claire Garabedian brings decades of experience as a modern and baroque cellist, Certified Music Practitioner, educator, and postdoctoral researcher specialising in the arts and dementia. Her work bridges performance, research, and therapeutic practice, exploring music as a powerful vehicle for connection—particularly within marginalised and difficult-to-reach populations. Using research examples, anecdotes, live cello music, multimedia, …

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    Free – £5

  • Attila the Stockbroker’s Early Music Show

    St Cecilia's Hall 50 Niddry St, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
    Concert

    Please note that this event is hosted by an external organisation and not St Cecilia’s Hall. For any enquiries about this specific event please see the organiser contact information below. As a self-taught early music punk, Attila is honoured to have been invited back to the beautiful surroundings of St Cecilia's Hall for the fifth …

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    Free

  • Sounds of St Cecilia’s IV: Fit for a Flute

    St Cecilia's Hall 50 Niddry St, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
    Concert

    Please note that this event is hosted by a partner organisation and not St Cecilia’s Hall. For any enquiries about this specific event please see the organiser contact information below. Gerry McDonald and John Kitchen The critically acclaimed team of Gerry McDonald and John Kitchen contrast three of Corelli's violin sonatas in virtuoso early 18th …

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    £5 – £15

  • Edinburgh Renaissance Band’s Viol Rackett Show 2026

    St Cecilia's Hall 50 Niddry St, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
    Concert

    Please note that this event is hosted by a partner organisation and not St Cecilia’s Hall. For any enquiries about this specific event please see the organiser contact information below. Edinburgh Renaissance Band’s ever-popular Viol Rackett Show presents a varied selection of instrumental and vocal music from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. The award-winning …

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    £10

  • Sounds of St Cecilia’s V: Shakuhachi: The Sound of Silence

    St Cecilia's Hall 50 Niddry St, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
    Concert

    Please note that this event is hosted by a partner organisation and not St Cecilia’s Hall. For any enquiries about this specific event please see the organiser contact information below. Markus Guhe Rooted in Zen meditation, the shakuhachi – a Japanese bamboo flute – explorers the boundary between sound and silence. Today, its evocative voice …

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    £5 – £15

  • Kate Witney and Jonty Nowell

    St Cecilia's Hall 50 Niddry St, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
    Concert

    Please note that this event is hosted by an external organisation and not St Cecilia’s Hall. For any enquiries about this specific event please see the organiser contact information below. Following their highly enjoyable performances of the songs of Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne in 2024, Kate Witney and Jonty Nowell return with a concert devoted …

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    £12

  • La Decima Musa or The Tenth Muse

    St Cecilia's Hall 50 Niddry St, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
    Concert

    Musica Antica Rotherhithe Music from the Golden Age of Venetian Opera, 1650-1660. Musica Antica Rotherhithe present cantatas and extracts from operas written for Venice's public theatres in the mid-seventeenth century, many of which have lain unperformed for over 350 years. Using surviving payment records from Venetian theatres as inspiration, Mezzo Camilla Seale and countertenor Tristram …

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    £5 – £15

  • Volunteer-led Tour

    St Cecilia's Hall 50 Niddry St, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
    Tour

    Join volunteer Claire for a tour of the Binks and 1812 Galleries and learn about all things keyboards. Immerse yourself in the history behind many of the instruments in our collection at St Cecilia's Hall in one of our free weekly volunteer-led tours. See the instruments come to life through anecdotes, stories and demonstrations!

    Free/Donations appreciated

  • 2026 ICOM Music Annual Meeting

    St Cecilia's Hall 50 Niddry St, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
    Special Event

    Join us for ICOM Music's Annual Meeting 2026! The theme of this year’s meeting, “Musical Instrument Collections in Digital Transformation: Research, Access, and Museum Ethics”, examines the challenges and opportunities that digital technologies bring to musical instrument collections and will be a unique opportunity to come together, share ideas, and engage in meaningful discussions within …

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  • Fairest Isles – the Musical Centres of Paris and London around 1700

    St Cecilia's Hall 50 Niddry St, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
    Concert

    Join us for an evening of music featuring a historic harpsichord from the keyboard collection at St Cecilia's Hall!   Belesama Belesama is a Scotland-based early music chamber group that specialises in inspired themed programmes ranging from the Renaissance to the late Baroque. Héloïse and Annemarie are core members of the group who usually perform …

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    £10 – £15