Buy tickets for all the concerts in a series and you will be allocated top price tickets with a 10% discount on the total price.* EXPLORER 1 ORCHESTRA EXPLORER SERIES Friday 21 June St. Magnus Cathedral 2030 Strings Bri...
18:30 - 19:30 Orkney Theatre The Meadows, Kirkwall KW15 1QN
A Johnsmas Foy On 21st June 1919, in the first year of peace, a group of Stromness Academy pupils boarded the Flying Kestrel for a tour of the German High Seas Fleet which was interned between Hoy and mainland Orkney in the waters of Scapa Flo...
20:30 - 21:40 St Magnus Cathedral Broad Street, Kirkwall KW15 1NX
Under its leader, Laura Samuel, the BBC SSO String section performs haunting classics of the repertoire in the impressive surroundings of St Magnus Cathedral. Vaughan Williams’ work based on a theme from the music of Tallis dates from just befo...
21:00 - 22:00 Orkney Theatre The Meadows, Kirkwall KW15 1QN
Expelled from the Royal Shakespeare Company due to ‘artistic differences’, disgraced actor Garry Starr is defying his critics by performing every genre of theatre imaginable, thus saving the performing arts from inevitable extinction. ...
22:00 - 01:00 The Sound Archive Laing Street, KW15 1HL
The Sound Archive, Kirkwall Entertainment, food and drinks from 10pm each night of the festival. Details announced at www.stmagnusfestival.com One Night Festival Club tickets £7 at the door Full Festival Club Pass £25 from Fe...
10:00 - 11:00 Pier Arts Centre 28-36 Victoria St, Stromness KW16 3AA
Poet Robin Robertson was brought up on the northeast coast of Scotland where early influences include the stories of Celtic and Classical myth, the vernacular ballads, and folklore. His debut collection, A Painted Field (1997), won the Forw...
11:00 - 11:40 Orkney Theatre The Meadows, Kirkwall KW15 1QN
CUSAN THEATRE The story of The Boy who found his Smile is an enchanting and magical journey, full of memorable moments and spell binding special effects, a story of hope and friendship that takes us into the most incredible journey of emotions...
12:00 - 13:00 Pier Arts Centre 28-36 Victoria St, Stromness KW16 3AA
Poet Robin Robertson was brought up on the northeast coast of Scotland where early influences include the stories of Celtic and Classical myth, the vernacular ballads, and folklore. His debut collection, A Painted Field (1997), won the Forw...
14:00 - 17:00 Papdale Gardens off Berstane Road, Kirkwall, KW15
Papdale Walled Garden – Happy Valley – Woodwick House THE ASSEMBLY PROJECT Rachel Spencer Violin Emma Halnan &n...
14:30 - 16:30 Stromness Town Hall Church Road, Stromness KW16 3BA
A virtuosic snapshot of late 19th and early 20th Century violin repertoire culminating in Cesar Franck’s mighty, romantic masterpiece. The programme is filled with music which is ‘under the influence’; be it Stravinsky&r...
19:30 - 21:30 Pickaquoy Centre Arena The Pickaquoy Centre, Muddisdale Road, Kirkwall KW15 1LR
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra St Magnus Festival Chorus This concert looks both back to WWI and beyond into the world of peace. The German composer Rudi Stephan’s works are small in number as he was a casualty of WWI but filled with a t...
20:00 - 21:00
Orkney Theatre, Kirkwall Expelled from the Royal Shakespeare Company due to ‘artistic differences’, disgraced actor Garry Starr is defying his critics by performing every genre of theatre imaginable, thus saving the performing arts...
22:00 - 01:00 The Sound Archive Laing Street, KW15 1HL
Entertainment, food and drinks from 10pm each night of the festival. Details announced at www.stmagnusfestival.com One Night Festival Club tickets £7 at the door Full Festival Club Pass £25 from Festival Box Office Watch Alas...
11:00 - 11:40 Orkney Theatre The Meadows, Kirkwall KW15 1QN
CUSAN THEATRE See Event 5 for details. Tickets £10 Concessions (children) £5 Duration 40 minutes
14:00 - 17:00 Papdale Gardens off Berstane Road, Kirkwall, KW15
See Event 7 for details. Ticket price includes bus to transport audience between the three venues. The first performance starts at 14.00 in Papdale Walled Garden. Bus will leave from near Papdale Walled Garden after the first performance an...
14:30 - 16:30 Stromness Town Hall Church Road, Stromness KW16 3BA
The Maxwell String Quartet begin their residency with three of the master composers for string quartet. Mozart’s “Hunt” quartet is a work dedicated to Haydn and is a jewelled masterpiece with its hunting-horn themes. Shostakov...
18:00 - 19:00 New Phoenix Cinema The Pickaquoy Centre, Muddisdale Road, Kirkwall KW15 1LR
Vee Walker talks about her fascinating new novel and how fact becomes fiction. Described as an ‘unintentional epic’ and launched at the National Army Museum in London last September, the book is set in WWI. Spanning seven countr...
19:30 - 21:30 Pickaquoy Centre Arena The Pickaquoy Centre, Muddisdale Road, Kirkwall KW15 1LR
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA A celebration of the brass, wind and percussion from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra brings vibrant and colourful musical fireworks to the Pickaquoy Arena. Copland’s well-loved fanfare for the Co...
21:30 - 22:30 Orkney Theatre The Meadows, Kirkwall KW15 1QN
One of Orkney’s finest young musicians, Eric Linklater, creates a combination of music, song and theatre in a conceptual piece specially commissioned by St Magnus International Festival. Moving away from his comfort zone of...
22:00 - 01:00 The Sound Archive Laing Street, KW15 1HL
Entertainment, food and drinks from 10pm each night of the festival. Details announced at www.stmagnusfestival.com One Night Festival Club tickets £7 at the door Full Festival Club Pass £25 from Festival Box Office
11:00 - 12:00 Orkney Theatre The Meadows, Kirkwall KW15 1QN
Poet Robin Robertson in conversation. A chance to hear Robin Robertson talk about his own work and in particular The Long Take from which he will read extracts. A noir narrative written with the intensity and power of poetry, The Long Take i...
11:00 - 12:30 Stromness Town Hall Church Road, Stromness KW16 3BA
Joseph Middleton makes a welcome return to the Festival creating a programme that surveys music and text on the subject of war and peace by composers and poets from across Europe and the USA in a powerful and emotional recital. From the...
13:00 - 14:00 St Magnus Cathedral Broad Street, Kirkwall KW15 1NX
Following his concerto performance with the BBC SSO, Jamal Aliyev is joined by the Turkish pianist Can Çakmur for an exploration of chamber music for the cello. The high romanticism of late Brahms with its passionate and turbulent explorat...
19:00 - 21:00 St Magnus Cathedral Broad Street, Kirkwall KW15 1NX
A programme which contrasts the elegant 18th century classical keyboard music of Scarlatti with the turbulent and complex 20th century neo-classical sonatas by Prokofiev. Whilst the Russian’s eleven sonatas are a significant contribution to the...
19:30 - 20:50 Stromness Town Hall Church Road, Stromness KW16 3BA
Popular Scottish tenor and BBC broadcaster Jamie MacDougall fulfils a lifetime ambition to recreate Jimmy Logan’s acclaimed ‘play with tunes’ celebrating the life of Sir Harry Lauder. Paying his own tribute to the Scottish music...
Orkney Theatre The Meadows, Kirkwall KW15 1QN
WRITER’S BLOCK See Event 16 for details. Tickets £15 Concessions £10 Duration 1 hour
22:00 - 01:00 The Sound Archive Laing Street, KW15 1HL
Entertainment, food and drinks from 10pm each night of the festival. Details announced at www.stmagnusfestival.com One Night Festival Club tickets £7 at the door Full Festival Club Pass £25 from Festival Box Office
22:00 - 23:10 St Magnus Cathedral Broad Street, Kirkwall KW15 1NX
A late-night treat from our Quartet in Residence bringing an eclectic mix of music to the end of the day. Folk music from Scotland and Norway sits amidst transcriptions of early music and contemporary works by the Norwegian violinist ...
13:00 - 14:00 St Magnus Cathedral Broad Street, Kirkwall KW15 1NX
For their final concert at the Festival the Maxwell Quartet turn to France and two contemporaries. Though sounding indisputably French, both composers have a unique soundworld with Fauré firmly rooted in the highly chromatic world of...
15:00 - 16:00 Statsraad Lehmkuhl Kirkwall Pier, Kirkwall Pier
Described by The Times as 'irresistible', Kaleidoscope Saxophone Quartet is an innovative collaboration between four creative young players. Here they perform an eclectic programme of music taking in original composition...
18:00 - 19:00 Stromness Town Hall Church Road, Stromness KW16 3BA
A Johnsmas Foy See Event 1 for details. Tickets £17 Concessions £13 Duration 1 hour
18:00 - 19:30 Orkney Distilling Ayre Road, KW15 1QX
Ian Crockatt is a poet in his own right, as well as a translator, and lives on a small croft in the Northeast of Scotland. Alongside his own creative work, he has been fascinated by the Skaldic poetry of the Vikings producing two volumes of...
19:30 - 20:50 Cromarty Hall Cromarty Square, St Margaret's Hope KW17 2SN
See Event 21 for details. Tickets £15 Concessions £10 Duration 80 minutes
19:30 - 21:30 St Magnus Cathedral Broad Street, Kirkwall KW15 1NX
The work of the youthful Mendelssohn frames this concert. Written between the ages of 12 and 14, his 12 string symphonies are highly accomplished works both here showing all the light and shade characteristic of his later music. Alasdair Nicolson...
22:00 - 01:00 The Sound Archive Laing Street, KW15 1HL
Entertainment, food and drinks from 10pm each night of the festival. Details announced at www.stmagnusfestival.com One Night Festival Club tickets £7 at the door Full Festival Club Pass £25 from Festival Box Office
22:00 - 23:00 St Magnus Cathedral Broad Street, Kirkwall KW15 1NX
Christian Wilson’s virtuoso performances mark him as one of the most unusual and exciting organists of his generation. He has performed as a soloist throughout Europe, the USA and Australia and appears regularly on BBC radio and other Europ...
11:00 - 12:30 Stromness Town Hall Church Road, Stromness KW16 3BA
Fresh from her new CD recording, Polish pianist Anna Szałucka surveys music from her homeland as it reaches 100 years since independence. Starting with the music of Chopin she investigates the works of the famous pianist, and Prime Minister of Po...
13:00 - 14:00 St Magnus Cathedral Broad Street, Kirkwall KW15 1NX
Helsinki Chamber Choir Founded in 1962 as the Finnish Radio Chamber Choir, this ensemble is Finland’s only professional choir. The choir has always had a broad repertoire and has been key in commissioning and giving premières of n...
18:00 - 19:00 New Phoenix Cinema The Pickaquoy Centre, Muddisdale Road, Kirkwall KW15 1LR
Terry Waite examines the nature of Peace and Reconciliation in our world today and talks of his personal experiences. The talk will be followed by a short question and answer session. Terry is a British humanitarian and author. The son o...
19:30 - 21:30 Stromness Town Hall Church Road, Stromness KW16 3BA
The Kapten Trio cross the centuries in their first concert at the Festival beginning with Beethoven’s well-known trio written just after he completed his Pastoral symphony. Its eerie slow movement gives rise to the added title “ghost&...
22:00 - 01:00 The Sound Archive Laing Street, KW15 1HL
Entertainment, food and drinks from 10pm each night of the festival. Details announced at www.stmagnusfestival.com One Night Festival Club tickets £7 at the door Full Festival Club Pass £25 from Festival Box Office
22:00 - 23:00 St Magnus Cathedral Broad Street, Kirkwall KW15 1NX
Ars Nova Copenhagen has an international reputation for performance of early and contemporary music. Led by the internationally renowned choral director Paul Hillier, here they explore a musical journey through the works of composers from norther...
15:00 - 16:10 St Ninian's Church Skaill, Deerness, Deerness KW17 2QJ
EXCURSION: NORWEGIAN SOLOISTS’ CHOIR Buses depart at 14.15 Concert starts at 15.00 In the beautiful setting by the sea at Deerness, the Norwegian Soloists’ Choir perform a wide-ranging programme starting with Bach’s great ...
19:30 - 20:40 St Magnus Cathedral Broad Street, Kirkwall KW15 1NX
The Eric Ericson Chamber Choir was founded in 1945 and for generations of Swedish and international composers the choir has been an ideal ensemble with its typical “Nordic” sound and consistent virtuosity. As part of the Nordic Choral...
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