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 …
Join us this September for our brand new Maths Week Scotland Family Trail! Following the usual route around the museum, see if you can spot Finn Finity hiding in the galleries and answer his musical maths questions! A special Maths Week Scotland badge awaits those who complete the trail. Booking is free, however, we ask …
Join Claire to learn all about some of the oldest keyed instruments in our collection.
Join us on Thursday, 4th September at St Cecilia's Hall for one of our informal talk series lectures with historian Jayme Kurland. In 1946, the electric guitar company Fender began its operations in southern California and relied on a small group of Mexican American women to wire amplifiers, wind pickups, and assemble their products, among other tasks. In …
Join Jim to learn about the development of instruments over time.
Join David to learn about all things keyboard to bagpipes.
Experience the mesmerising sounds of gongs resonating in the unique setting in St Cecilia's Concert Hall, Edinburgh. Take some time out from the busy lives we live and simply 'be' with therapeutic sound. Typically, you lay down to receive the sound which enables your mind, body and senses to subtly release, inviting a sense of relaxation. …
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 …
Join Dona to learn all about our early keyboard instruments.