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Conversations: Hebrides Ensemble and Synergy Vocals
Date	Location
Members of Scotland’s foremost contemporary music group, Hebrides Ensemble, and vocalists from unique voice ensemble Synergy Vocals, discuss presenting a world premiere at Festival 2012 with Richard Morrison, chief music critic of The Times. Supported by Gordon Fraser Charitable Trust. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
23 Aug Noon	The Hub, Edinburgh

Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Date	Location
The big daddy of arts festivals, the Fringe has it all. The facts and figures speak for themselves: nearly 1.9 million tickets sold in 2011 for 41,689 performances of 2,542 shows in 258 venues. It's the biggest celebration of theatre, comedy, cabaret, children's shows, dance, physical theatre, musicals, operas, exhibitions and music in all its forms in the world. View full details
3 Aug–27 Aug Times vary	Various venues, Edinburgh

Edinburgh International Festival
Date	Location
Bringing world-class arts to the capital since 1947, the EIF sets the standard for classical concerts, opera, dance and theatre, with performers this year drawn from Australia, America, Russia, Japan, Europe and the Middle East. Already announced for 2012 are two innovative adaptations of Shakespeare: TR Warszawa’s 2007: Macbeth and Dmitry Krymov’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (As You Like It). And in Britain's Olypmic summer Edinburgh’s iconic mountain, Arthur’s Seat, is to be spectacularly… View full details and ticket info
9 Aug–2 Sep Times vary	Various venues, Edinburgh

Fiona Rutherford & Amy Duncan and Lorna Brooks
Date	Location
New folk for the Scottish harp from Rutherford, joined by multi-instrumentalist Duncan as they launch their mini album Quirk. View full details
31 May 8pm	The Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh

New Edinburgh Orchestra
Date	Location
Tom Paxton conducts David Horne's Strands, Elgar's Cello Concerto with soloist Harriet Bruce, and Dvořák's Symphony No 7. View full details and ticket info
16 Jun 7.30pm	St Serf's Parish Church, Edinburgh

Places & Spaces
Date	Location
Guitarist Haftor Medbøe and singer Anneke Kampman play a musical response to the Scottish National Gallery's Van Gogh to Kandinsky: Symbolist Landscape in Europe exhibition. Abstract sounds from the natural world and daily human life form a backdrop to the performance of special musical composition, ahead of the release of an album. View full details
21 Jul 1pm	Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Rosie Nimmo and Stuart Allardyce
Date	Location
A mix of jazz standards, blues and original material, based on a summer theme. View full details
7 Jun 6pm	Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

RSNO: A Child of Our Time
Date	Location
Alasdair Nicolson's dansmusik precedes Guy Johnston as the guest soloist for Elgar's Cello Concerto, then the Edinburgh Royal Choral Union and St Magnus Festival Chorus plus guest singers join in for Michael Tippett's great oratorio A Child of Our Time. Sian Edwards conducts. View full details
24 Jun 7.30pm	Pickaquoy Centre, Kirkwall

RSNO: An American Festival I
Date	Location
A concert of American music is almost by definition going to focus on the last 100 years, and this is no exception. Bernstein's Overture to 'Candide' and Gershwin's Concerto in F for Piano and Orchestra (well, A+ for effort, anyway, George) lead into John Adams' sublimely weird Harmonielehre. Jon Kimura Parker is the soloist and Peter Oundjian conducts. View full details and ticket info
8 Feb 7.30pm	Usher Hall, Edinburgh

Salsa Buena
Date	Location
Salsa and Latin club night with dance demos from Yamil Ferrera, a professional dancer and teacher from Cuba. View full details
31 May 8pm Live band night.	The Jam House, Edinburgh

Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Britten 100
Date	Location
Benjamin Britten's centenary is celebrated with a program that goes back into the past: Harrison Birtwistle's Carmen arcadiae mechanicae perpetuum and Martin Suckling's storm, rose, tiger are both associated with the Aldeburgh Festival that Britten started, and the final piece is Mozart's powerful Symphony No 40. At the heart of the programme is one of Britten's greatest masterpieces: the haunting Serenade for tenor, horn and strings, a song cycle that delves into the world of night and sleep… View full details and ticket info
27 Apr 7.30pm	The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

Scottish Chamber Orchestra: MacMillan Oboe Concerto
Date	Location
Stravinsky's Pulcinella Suite and Mendelssohn's Symphony No 4 'Italian' bookend the Scottish premiere of James MacMillan's jocular Oboe Concerto. Francois Leleux is the soloist and Thierry Fischer conducts. View full details and ticket info
31 Jan 7.30pm	The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Musical Magicians
Date	Location
Debussy's Five Preludes in Zender's orchestral arrangement; Takemitsu's How Slow The Wind; Ravel's goblin-haunted Mother Goose, complete; and the world premiere of Lyell Cresswell's Triple Concerto, featuring no less than three soloists in the form of the Swiss Piano Trio. Baldur Bronnimann conducts. View full details and ticket info
20 Oct 7.30pm	The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Pizarro plays Beethoven
Date	Location
John Storgards conducts the UK premiere of Einojuhani Rauatavaara's Into the Heart of Light and Mendelssohn's dramatic Symphony No 5 'Reformation', with Artur Pizarro as soloist for Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 2. View full details and ticket info
6 Dec 7.30pm	The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

Scottish Ensemble with Catrin Finch
Date	Location
The Ensemble is joined by guest harpist extraordinaire Catrin Finch for Debussy's Marche écossaise and Danses sacrée et profane, Barshai's arrangement of Ravel's Petite Symphonie and the world premiere of Savourna Stevenson's Concerto for Pedal Harp. View full details
7 Jun 7.30pm	The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

St Giles' at Six: Spivey Hall Children's Choir
Date	Location
US children's choir performs works by Rutter, Chilcott and others. View full details
10 Jun 6pm	St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh

Study Day: Polish Modernism – Szymanowski and Lutowski
Date	Location
Professor Stephen Downes, Deputy Head and Director of Research, School of Arts, University of Surrey, explores the music of Szymanowski and Lutoslawski, offering unique insights into their work. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
16 Aug 10am	The Hub, Edinburgh

Tinderbox Orchestra
Date	Location
The experimental youth orchestra plays original arrangements and compositions, here they collaborate with a choir, two guest bands (Broken Records and North Atlantic Oscillation) and Hidden Door arts collective. View full details
23 Jun 7.30pm	The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

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