Concert Diary April 2011
Friday 1st at 7pm
Charity Concert
A concert featuring the best of American Youth Choirs and the National Youth Choir of Scotland Chamber Choir.
Tickets £5 (Children free)
All proceeds to Maggie’s Centre, Edinburgh
Sunday 3rd at 6pm
St Giles’ at Six
Organ Recital
Michael Harris
Music by Böhm, J.S.Bach, Rinck and Litaize
Friday 8th at 12.15pm
Lunchtime Concert
Mikkel Andersen – Guitar
In association with the
Danish Cultural Institute
Sunday 10th at 6pm
St Giles’ at Six
Paul Chamberlain – Accordion
Hazel Collins – Violin
Music by J.S.Bach, Sarasate, Piazzolla, Moszkowski and Angelis
Friday 15th at 7.30pm
Edinburgh Organ Weekend 2011
David Briggs – Organ
Judy Brown – Alto
Mahler Symphony No 3
David Briggs performs his own transcription of Mahler’s 3rd Symphony
Tickets £12 (Students £5) from St Giles’ Cathedral Shop (0131 226 0673) or Queen’s Hall Box Office (0131 668 2019).
Saturday 16th at 10.30am
Edinburgh Organ Weekend 2011
WOOFYT Workshop
Jeremy Sampson, animateur, leads a workshop with the WOOFYT; the Wooden One Octave Organ for Young Technologists introduces the basic science behind the “King of Instruments”. Young participants form a team to build and play this working model.
Participant numbers are limited; free ticket required for active participants only from www.sciencefestival.co.uk
Saturday 16th at 7.30pm
Edinburgh Organ Weekend 2011
Lisztomania
Henry Fairs – Organ
Liszt BACH, Weinen klagen and Ad nos; Reubke Sonata on the 94th Psalm
Tickets £10 (students £5) from St Giles’ Cathedral Shop (0131 226 0673) or Queen’s Hall Box Office (0131 668 2019).
Sunday 17th at 6pm
St Giles’ at Six
Music for Passiontide
St Giles’ Cathedral Choir
John Sanders Requiem
Lotti Crucifixus
Bairstow Lamentations
Sunday 24th at 6pm
St Giles’ at Six
Emma Aitken – Soprano
Joseph Doody – Tenor
Ingrid Sawers - Piano
Songs and Arias by Handel, Mozart, Schubert. Schumann, Strauss and Debussy
Tuesday 26th at 7pm
Melvyn Bragg Book of Books
The walking encyclopaedia that is Melvyn Bragg discusses his latest work, Book of Books, an examination of the radical and ongoing impact of the King James Bible, which is 400 years old this year. Tickets - £5 (redeemable against purchase of book) - available from Waterstone's on George Street (0131 225 3436)
