St Magnus Cathedral

Events at St Magnus Cathedral (Kirkwall)

Arakaendar Bolivia Choir

Location	Date	Tickets
	When Spanish missionaries brought Catholicism to the Bolivian jungle hundreds of years ago, they also brought baroque music, teaching the locals how to play and sing it. When the missionaries were expelled, the music stayed, and the local people carried on the tradition of composing and playing religious music, bringing it over and cross-fertilising it with their own music. This tradition is still alive in Bolivia, and this choir sings some of the extraordinary works created by indigenous… View full details
St Magnus Cathedral	25 Jun 1pm 26 Jun 9.30pm	£20 (£11)

Aronowitz Ensemble

Location	Date	Tickets
	The ensemble plays Schubert's late and elegiac Quintet in C D 956. Part of St Magnus Festival. View full details
St Magnus Cathedral	25 Jun 10.30pm	£11 (£7)

The Cardinall's Musick

Location	Date	Tickets
	The vocal group performs a selection of Renaissance works by William Byrd and Phillipe de Monte but also Judith Weir's Vertue, the world premiere of Paul Crabtree's specially-commissioned Utopian Visions, which draws on the musical and philosophical heritage of the Shakers, and Kevin Siegfried's arrangements of Byrd and Shaker tunes. Andrew Carwood directs. There's a pre-concert talk with Crabtree and Alasdair Nicolson at 7.15pm. Part of St Magnus Festival. View full details
St Magnus Cathedral	27 Jun 8pm	£20 (£11)

Gemini: St Magnus Composers' Concert

Location	Date	Tickets
	New works written in the previous ten days by participants in the St Magnus Composers' Course, each piece conducted by a participant from the Orkney Conductors' Course. Part of St Magnus Festival. View full details
St Magnus Cathedral	27 Jun 1pm	£11 (£7)

The Magnetic North

Location	Date	Tickets
	Performance of the debut album by Orkney Symphony of the Magnetic North, featuring Erland Cooper, Simon Tong and Hannah Peel. Part of St Magnus Festival. View full details
St Magnus Cathedral	28 Jun 7.30pm	£15 (£9)

Orkney Singers' Course: Final Recital

Location	Date	Tickets
	Participants from the first ever Orkney Singers' Course perform with accompanists Angela Livingstone and David Knotts, in a varied recital of opera arias and lieder. Part of St Magnus Festival. View full details
St Magnus Cathedral	30 Jun 7.30pm	£11 (£7)

Orkney Traditional Music Project Concert

Location	Date	Tickets
	Participants in the Orkney Traditional Music Project perform live. View full details
St Magnus Cathedral	2 Jun–16 Jun Sat 1–2pm 30 Jun 1pm	To be confirmed

Trondheim Soloists

Location	Date	Tickets
	Norwegian string orchestra plays Grieg's Holberg Suite, Geirr Tveitt's Entracte, jazz pianist Terje Bjorklund's Arctos and Bartok's *3Divertimento. *3Part of St Magnus Festival. View full details
St Magnus Cathedral	23 Jun 10pm	£20 (£11)

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