19:30 - 22:00 Orkney Theatre The Meadows, Kirkwall KW15 1QN
Humperdinck’s operatic re-telling of the old fairytale is a timeless classic with beautiful and memorable music. This production has been created especially for the Festival with students from the Royal Conservatoire of Scot...
19:30 - 21:30 St Magnus Cathedral Broad Street, Kirkwall KW15 1NX
The Danish Sinfonietta (Randers Kammerorkester) was established in 1945 and is Denmark’s only full-time chamber orchestra. Under their Scottish conductor, David Riddell, they have given performances all over the world and, after a highly succes...
14:00 - 16:30 Orkney Theatre The Meadows, Kirkwall KW15 1QN
Humperdinck’s operatic re-telling of the old fairytale is a timeless classic with beautiful and memorable music. This production has been created especially for the Festival with students from the Royal Conservatoire of Scot...
19:30 - 22:00 Orkney Theatre The Meadows, Kirkwall KW15 1QN
Humperdinck’s operatic re-telling of the old fairytale is a timeless classic with beautiful and memorable music. This production has been created especially for the Festival with students from the Royal Conservatoire of Scot...
20:00 - 21:10 Orkney Theatre The Meadows, Kirkwall KW15 1QN
The Hebrides Ensemble brings this new opera to Orkney following performances in central Scotland. Alasdair Nicolson Music John Gallas Libretto Iris Elizabeth Llewellyn Rawley Beaunes Christopher Bowen The Green Man Andrew Fellowes Dir...
22:00 - 23:10 St Magnus Cathedral Broad Street, Kirkwall KW15 1NX
Reflecting the programming of a concert in the very first St Magnus Festival in 1977 this late-night programme brings together organ and bagpipes and for 2016 we add a choir. Michael Bawtree Organ Tim Dean Conductor TBC Bagpipes R...
20:00 - 21:20 St Magnus Cathedral Broad Street, Kirkwall KW15 1NX
Florilegium Voces8 Ashley Solomon Conductor A story of love, loss and magic, the opera tells of Dido’s marriage to Aeneas, the wicked plotting of a sorceress to destroy this bond and Aeneas’s departure leaving Dido bereft...
St Magnus Cathedral Broad Street, Kirkwall KW15 1NX
The pleasures in their soft robes fly With angel wings adown the sky, And rapture lulls to sweet repose, At eventide. Voces8 has quickly won an international reputation as one of the UK’s finest and most versatile ensembles. Here ...
19:30 - 21:45 Pickaquoy Centre Arena The Pickaquoy Centre, Muddisdale Road, Kirkwall KW15 1LR
BBC Symphony Orchestra St Magnus Festival Chorus Alexander Vedernikov Conductor Ailish Tynan Soprano Anna Huntley Mezzo Soprano Nicholas Mulroy Tenor Stephan Loges Bass/Baritone Denise Stout Chorus Director Stanford Songs of the Fleet...
14:00 - 16:00 Stromness Town Hall Church Road, Stromness KW16 3BA
Taking its name from a cycle of songs by Schumann, and with the pianist Joseph Middleton at its heart, the ensemble Myrthen brings together the crème de la crème of young British-based singers and has won universal critical acclaim. The...
19:30 - 20:50 St Magnus Cathedral Broad Street, Kirkwall KW15 1NX
Royal Gala Opening Concert in the presence of Their Royal Highnesses Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway I, PILGRIM Alasdair Nicolson Music Jon Fosse Words *World Premiere* A reflection...
13:00 - 14:00 St Magnus Cathedral Broad Street, Kirkwall KW15 1NX
A rare treat from the BBC Singers, bringing a masterpiece of the choral repertoire to the lunchtime concert. Frank Martin’s Mass has a luminous quality which is profoundly beautiful and, though written in the 1920s, was kept in a bottom dra...
19:00 - 20:15 St Magnus Cathedral Broad Street, Kirkwall KW15 1NX
Gemma McGregor Music Ron Ferguson Words *World Premiere* 2017 is the 900th anniversary of the death of St Magnus, murdered at the command of his cousin on the island of Egilsay. This specially commissioned dramatic work tells the story of Ma...
19:30 - 21:30 Pickaquoy Centre Arena The Pickaquoy Centre, Muddisdale Road, Kirkwall KW15 1LR
The Norwegian Radio Orchestra St Magnus Festival Chorus Miguel Harth-Bedoya Conductor Ann-Helen Moen Soprano Rebecca Afonwy-Jones Mezzo-Soprano Christopher Bowen Tenor Simon Bailey Bass Denise S...
15:00 - 17:00 Peedie Kirk Hall Palace Road, KIRKWALL KW15 1PA
Mhairi Lawson Soprano David Knotts Piano Acclaimed soprano Mhairi Lawson takes student singers through a masterclass dealing with technique, interpretation and performance. As a soloist Mhairi has sung in theatres and concert halls...
22:00 - 23:00 St Magnus Cathedral Broad Street, Kirkwall KW15 1NX
Timothy Dean Conductor RCS Voices return to the Festival for a second year with a wide-ranging programme of music surveying the great British choral tradition with some of its landmark works. Britten's Hymn and Tippett'...
14:00 - 15:15 Hoy Kirk Hoy, Hoy KW16 3NJ
Timothy Dean Conductor Programme to include: Maxwell Davies Lullaby for Lucy Vaughan Williams Three Shakespeare Songs Britten Hymn to St Cecilia Poulenc Salve Regina Tippett Five Negro Spirituals from A Child of Our Time Madrigals from E...
14:45 - 18:00 St Peter's Kirk Skaill, Sandwick, Skaill, Sandwick KW16 3LS
It fell on a Summer's day Buses depart 14.45 Concert starts at 15.30 Mhairi Lawson and Elizabeth Kenny bring their celebrated artistry to the magically austere Presbyterian kirk overlooking the Bay of Skaill. H...
15:00 - 17:00 Stromness Town Hall Church Road, Stromness KW16 3BA
Timothy Dean Piano Sasha Savaloni Guitar A selection of Folk and Traditional Songs of Scotland and in arrangements old and new. Singers from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland present a survey of traditional music and folk songs fro...
19:00 - 20:00 St Magnus Cathedral Broad Street, Kirkwall KW15 1NX
The Cathedral choir from Bergen brings a programme of music which is arranged, written or improvised by the choir members themselves and showcases the rich talent of this group. With 36 voices this ensemble has a reputation for its vast...
14:30 - 15:30 Moncur Memorial Church Wardhill, Stronsay KW17 2AG
The Cathedral choir from Bergen brings a programme of music which is arranged, written or improvised by the choir members themselves and showcases the rich talent of this group. With 36 voices this ensemble has a reputation for ...
20:30 - 21:30 St Magnus Cathedral Broad Street, Kirkwall KW15 1NX
Sonoro Neil Ferris Conductor Rachmaninov All-Night Vigil (Vespers), Op. 37 Written in 1915, a few years before the Revolution, Rachmaninov’s rich, sensual and intense work draws on the liturgy of the Orthodox Church and creat...
19:00 - 21:00 Orkney Theatre The Meadows, Kirkwall KW15 1QN
The Unequal Marriage Between Vespetta and Pimpinone - A Comic Opera Aarhus Sommeropera The Danish Sinfonietta Pimpinone – Telemann’s wonderful comic opera - was premièred in 1725 in Hamburg as light relief between a...
16:00 - 18:00 Orkney Theatre The Meadows, Kirkwall KW15 1QN
The Unequal Marriage Between Vespetta and Pimpinone - A Comic Opera Aarhus Sommeropera The Danish Sinfonietta Pimpinone – Telemann’s wonderful comic opera - was premièred in 1725 in Hamburg as light relief between acts o...
19:00 - 20:25 St Magnus Cathedral Broad Street, Kirkwall KW15 1NX
Sonoro & St Magnus Festival Chorus Written thirty-four years after his last opera Rossini still brings something of the operatic stage to this large-scale sacred work. His title “petite” (little) is far from the case and this e...
19:30 - 20:50 St Magnus Cathedral Broad Street, Kirkwall KW15 1NX
Measha Brueggergosman is an award-winning Canadian soprano who is recognized around the world for her spectacular voice, innate musicianship, magnificent performance style and vibrant personality. She has also explored a variety of non-classical ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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