2023 - 2024 Season

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Saturday 7 September
St Cuthbert’s Church, Lothian Road, Edinburgh.
10:00 Registration
10:30-12:30 Rehearsal
12:30-1:30 Lunch break
1:30-3:30 Rehearsal
3:30-4:00 Tea break and audience arrival
4:30-5:30 Performance
Tickets:
Singers £25 (including score)
Audience £5/Students free
Register on TicketSource.

Scores
Hire of score is included in ticket price
Refreshments      
Tea and coffee will be provided in the breaks.
Lunch is not provided, but there are cafés and shops nearby on Lothian Road and Princes Street.

Soloists
Introducing our two soloists, Emily Mitchell (soprano) and Jerome Knox (baritone):

Emily Mitchell

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A graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Scottish soprano Emily Mitchell is a regular performer with Scottish Opera Chorus and has made frequent appearances across Europe. She has appeared with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra on several occasions, notably in Mendelssohn’s Hymn of Praise and Poulenc’s Les Carmélites. She made her debut at the BBC Proms with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and returned with the Dunedin Consort. She has sung with most of the leading orchestras in Britain including the London Symphony Orchestra and Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and has broadcast on BBC Radio.

Jerome Knox

Jerome Knox was born in London and is a graduate of the Alexander Gibson Opera School at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, where he was the inaugural Gleneagles scholar. He previously trained at the Royal College of Music and at Edinburgh University. In 2020, he won the prestigious London Handel Festival Competition and is now much in demand in both concert and operatic repertoire. He has performed with companies such as Scottish Opera, Glyndebourne, Dunedin Consort and English Touring Opera and recently made his solo debut at the Wigmore Hall, London.

Pianist
We are also delighted to introduce our pianist Edward Cohen:  

Edward Cohen

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Edward Cohen has established himself as one of the most versatile and in-demand pianists in Scotland. Equally at home as a concerto soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, choral accompanist, or educator, he regularly collaborates with leading musicians at the country’s major performance venues and festivals.  Edward is a first-class graduate of the Royal Academy of Music and an alumnus of Indiana University and the Lucerne Festival Academy. He holds two MMus degrees with Distinction from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, where he earned top awards in solo and chamber music performance, including the prestigious Governors’ Recital Prize.

Edward is the pianist for the choruses of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and has worked with the Edinburgh Festival Chorus, the National Youth Choir of Scotland, and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra Chorus. His playing has been broadcast extensively, including at the Eurovision Young Musicians competition, produced by BBC Arts Digital and Radio 3, and seen and heard on live video worldwide.  Currently, he holds positions as School of Music Manager and Lecturer in Accompaniment at the RCS, teaches at the University of Glasgow, and serves as CEO of the Scottish International Piano Competition, which brings multiple strands of his working life together.  ​

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Season Overview

2023

Usher Hall Concert

Sat 23 September, 7:30pm
The Music of Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones and Beyond

A Festive Fanfare

Saturday 4 November, 7:30pm, Greyfriars Kirk.

Christmas with the Choral

Saturday 16 December,
6:30 pm
Morningside Parish Church.
​Britten's A Ceremony of Carols, with harpist Sharron Griffiths.

2024

Messiah

Tuesday 2 January
12 noon
Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Conductor: Michael Bawtree

Summer Concert

Mozart: Requiem
Richard Blackford: Pietà
Saturday 11 May at 7.30 pm
St Cuthbert’s Church.

Come and Sing

Brahms Requiem
Saturday 7 September
St Cuthbert’s Church.

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Past Concerts

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