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12.15pm. Michael Neumann conducts the young musicians of Sacramento Youth Symphony. FREE Society of Recorder Players The Augustine Church, 41–43 George IV Bridge, 220 1677. 7.30pm– 9.30pm. Donation welcome. Recorder consort. Tchaikovsky, with Boris Giltburg (piano) as soloist. Part of Alive with Music!. FREE Glasgow University Chapel Choir: Summer Solstice University of Glasgow, University Avenue, 330 5511. 9pm. Reflective choral works including Fauré’s *Requiem*. Part of West End Festival.
Wednesday 26 Edinburgh FREE Very Wednesday St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 12.15pm. See Wed 19.
Thursday 27
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Tuesday 18
Glasgow FREE Cathures: Northern Exposure Kelvinside Hillhead Parish Church, Observatory Road, 334 2788. 7.30pm. Donation welcome. Choral works by Grieg, Berg and others. Part of West End Festival. Edinburgh FREE Lunchtime Concert St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 12.15pm. Musicians from Michigan State University. ■ Get Organised: John Kitchen Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 1.10pm. £3. Organ recital with guests.
✽ Artisan Trio: Pendulum St Andrew’s and St George’s Church,
13 George Street, 225 3847. 6pm. £10 (£8). A new work by Shiori Usui, as well as trios by Salvatore Sciarrino and Shostakovich. ■ Love Music Community Choir Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 7–9pm. £5. Community choir singing world, jazz, classical, rock, indie, folk, gospel and opera. FREE St Mary’s Music School St Mary’s Cathedral, 23 Palmerston Place, 225 6293. 7.30pm. The Directors’ Recital Prize Competition. FREE A Medieval Music Concert Danish Cultural Institute, 3 Doune Terrace, 225 7189. 8pm. Leah Studdard (harp) and singer Agnethe Christensen present music from Denmark and Sweden.
Wednesday 19
Glasgow ■ Dies Natalis St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, 300 Great Western Road, 339 6691. 7.30pm. £10 (£5). Songs by Finzi, Debussy, Fauré and Barber. Part of West End Festival. ■ Wiszniewski & Stevenson: New Focus City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 8pm. £12. Music for jazz quartet, harp and string quartet, with Alina Bzhezhinska (harp) and the Glasgow String Quartet. Part of Glasgow International Jazz Festival. Edinburgh FREE Very Wednesday St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 12.15pm. Will Pickvance (piano) and guests play classical favourites and new material. ■ Secret Opera Centotre, 103 George Street, 225 1550. 8.30pm. £40. Secret Opera sing while you eat Italian food.
Thursday 20
Glasgow ■ St Bride’s International Organ Series St Bride’s Episcopal Church, 69 Hyndland Road, stbride.org.uk 8pm. £7.50. David Hamilton plays music by Scheidemann and Hindemith. Edinburgh FREE Rudsambee Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1 Queen Street, 624 6200. 6pm. Selection of choral pieces. ■ Royal Blind School: Come to Your Senses The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7pm. £10 (£6). A programme of movement and music.
Friday 21 Glasgow FREE BBC SSO: Tchaikovsky Night City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. Alexander Titov conducts selected orchestral works by
Edinburgh ■ Martin Aelred The Sacred Heart Church, 28 Lauriston Street, 229 9821. 7–9pm. £10 (£7). Tenor in recital. ■ Edinburgh Film Music Orchestra Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, 650 2750. 7.30–8.30pm. £9 (£7.50). Yati Durant conducts music from video games. Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival.
Saturday 22
Glasgow ■ Da Capo Alba: Mandolin & Guitar Orchestra St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, 300 Great Western Road, 339 6691. 7.30–10pm. £8 (£6). Massed plinking from the master- pluckers. Part of West End Festival. ■ Sandie Bishop & Flora Tzanetaki St Bride’s Episcopal Church, 69 Hyndland Road, westendfestival.co.uk 7.30pm. £10 (£8; under 16s free). Sonatas by Mozart, Prokofiev, Franck and Bartok. Part of West End Festival. Edinburgh FREE Lunchtime Concert St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 2pm. Choirs from Bigues and Santa Eulalia de Roncana, near Barcelona. ■ Berkshire Choral Festival Greyfriars Kirk, Greyfriars Place, choralfest.org/index.php 7.30–10.30pm. £tbc. Massachusetts choir performs Handel’s L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato.
Sunday 23
Glasgow FREE BBC SSO: We’ve Got Rhythm City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 3pm. Family concert with the emphasis on rhythm, with reels, tangos and pieces from Gershwin and Bernstein. Jamie MacDougall presents, Stephen Bell conducts, with Richard Michael (piano) and the NYCoS Falkirk Choir. ¡Mambo! Booking essential. Alive with Music!. ■ RCS Junior Conservatoire Orchestra Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £9.50. Student concert. Edinburgh FREE St Giles’ at Six St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 6pm. Capital Concert Band plays Vaughan Williams, Holst and Derek Bourgeois. ■ Symphony of Support for Afghan Women Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Bristo Square, 07810 541634. 7.30–9.30pm. £10 (£8). Amnesty benefit featuring works by Tchaikovsky, Walton and Wagner.
Monday 24
Edinburgh FREE Lunchtime Concert St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 12.15pm. Longmont Chorale from Colorado. ■ St Mary’s Music School The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.30pm. £10 (£7; children £3). Christopher Seaman conducts works by Schubert, Maxwell Davies and Haydn.
Tuesday 25 Edinburgh ■ Get Organised: John Kitchen Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 1.10pm. £3. See Tue 18. ■ Love Music Community Choir Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 7–9pm. £5. See Tue 18.
Glasgow ■ Cairn String Quartet King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent Street, 221 5279. 8.30pm. £6. Young quartet goes slumming in King Tut’s. Stirling ■ Scottish Chamber Orchestra Stirling Castle, Old Town, 01786 450000. 8pm. £5–£18. Rising star Gergely Madaras conducts Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ and pieces by Weiner and Ibert.
Friday 28
Edinburgh ■ St Giles’ Cathedral Choir St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 8pm. £10 (accompanied children free). Choral music by Britten, Brahms, Beamish and Bach. Dunblane ■ Wayne Marshall Dunblane Cathedral, The Cross, 01786 823388. 8pm. £10. Recital by eminent organist/ pianist/conductor/interpreter of Gershwin.
Saturday 29
Glasgow Glasgow Orchestral Society Tour Preview Concert St Silas Episcopal Church, 69 Park Road Woodlands, 337 2276. 3pm. £10 (£8). Part of West End Festival. Edinburgh FREE Lunchtime Concert St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 12.15pm. The clang-tastic Cast in Bronze Youth Handbell Choir of Cincinnati, Ohio. ■ Inchcolm New Music Ensemble St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 7.30pm. £tbc. Heriot-Watt University’s new music group.
Dundee ■ Scottish Chamber Orchestra Gardyne Theatre, Gardyne Road, 01382 434940. 8pm. £14 (£12; under 26s £5). See Thu 27.
Sunday 30 Edinburgh FREE St Giles’ at Six St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 6pm. St Michael’s Chamber Choir from Lüneburg, Germany performs choral works by Weelkes, Hensel, Brahms, Elgar and Whitacre.
Monday 1
Tobermory ✽ FREE Mendelssohn on Mull Opening Concert
Tobermory Church, Argyll Terrace, mendelssohnonmull.com 7.30pm. Recitals by festival musicians.
✽ Mendelssohn on Mull OK, it’s not just down the road, but it’s a stunningly scenic train and ferry journey to Mull (pictured) where this year’s MoM festival brings together new generation artists with experienced professionals in string quartets by Haydn, Brahms, Shostakovich, Mozart and, oh yes, Mendelssohn. Various venues, Mull, Mon 1–Sat 6 Jul.
✽ East Neuk Festival If Mull is a step too far for
beautiful music in beautiful settings, then a hop, skip and jump over to Fife for its now well established summer festival is an alternative. With favourites the SCO and pianist Christian Zacharias alongside the Elias Quartet, there is much to tempt and choose from. Various venues, East Neuk of Fife, Wed 3 – Sun 7 Jul.
✽ Artisan Trio: Pendulum Artisan’s five concert series
featuring new commissions from composers who studied in Edinburgh and now live, teach and work abroad comes to a close with new works for violin, cello and piano by Shiori Usui (Tue 18 Jun) and Suzanne Parry (Tue 2 Jul), who curate the musical context in which their work is heard. St Andrew’s and St George’s Church, Edinburgh, Tue 18 Jun and Tue 2 Jul.
Tuesday 2
Edinburgh ■ Artisan Trio: Pendulum St Andrew’s and St George’s Church, 13 George Street, 225 3847. 6pm. £10 (£8). World premiere of a new work by Suzanne Parry, plus works by Walton, Knussen and Ireland. Isle of Mull FREE Mendelssohn on Mull Group 2 Dervaig Village Hall, Dervaig, 01688 400491. 2pm. Chamber works by Schubert, Mozart and/or Brahms. Mendelssohn on Mull. FREE Mendelssohn on Mull Group 1 Salen Church, Torosay,
Craignure, mendelssohnonmull.com 7.30pm. Chamber works by Haydn, Shostakovich and/or Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn on Mull. FREE Mendelssohn on Mull Group 3 Craignure Village Hall, Craignure, 01680 812051. 8pm. Chamber works by Mozart, Boccherini and/or Brahms. Mendelssohn on Mull.
Wednesday 3 Edinburgh ■ Get Organised: John Kitchen Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 1.10pm. £3. See Tue 18. ■ Love Music Community Choir Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 7–9pm. £5. See Tue 18.
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