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Conversations: Hebrides Ensemble and Synergy Vocals
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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.
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23 Aug Noon The Hub, Edinburgh
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
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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.
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3 Aug27 Aug Times vary Various venues, Edinburgh
Edinburgh International Festival
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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…
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9 Aug2 Sep Times vary Various venues, Edinburgh
Fiona Rutherford & Amy Duncan and Lorna Brooks
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New folk for the Scottish harp from Rutherford, joined by multi-instrumentalist Duncan as they launch their mini album Quirk.
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31 May 8pm The Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh
New Edinburgh Orchestra
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Tom Paxton conducts David Horne's Strands, Elgar's Cello Concerto with soloist Harriet Bruce, and Dvořák's Symphony No 7.
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16 Jun 7.30pm St Serf's Parish Church, Edinburgh
Places & Spaces
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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.
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21 Jul 1pm Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh
Rosie Nimmo and Stuart Allardyce
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A mix of jazz standards, blues and original material, based on a summer theme.
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7 Jun 6pm Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
RSNO: A Child of Our Time
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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.
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24 Jun 7.30pm Pickaquoy Centre, Kirkwall
RSNO: An American Festival I
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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.
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8 Feb 7.30pm Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Salsa Buena
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Salsa and Latin club night with dance demos from Yamil Ferrera, a professional dancer and teacher from Cuba.
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31 May 8pm
Live band night.
The Jam House, Edinburgh
Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Britten 100
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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…
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27 Apr 7.30pm The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh
Scottish Chamber Orchestra: MacMillan Oboe Concerto
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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.
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31 Jan 7.30pm The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh
Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Musical Magicians
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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.
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20 Oct 7.30pm The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh
Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Pizarro plays Beethoven
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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.
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6 Dec 7.30pm The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh
Scottish Ensemble with Catrin Finch
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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.
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7 Jun 7.30pm The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh
St Giles' at Six: Spivey Hall Children's Choir
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US children's choir performs works by Rutter, Chilcott and others.
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10 Jun 6pm St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh
Study Day: Polish Modernism – Szymanowski and Lutowski
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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.
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16 Aug 10am The Hub, Edinburgh
Tinderbox Orchestra
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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.
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23 Jun 7.30pm The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

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