The Dunkeld Cathedral Summer Music Festival returns for 2025 hosting a concert every Wednesday lunchtime, and more, throughout the summer. Festival concerts remain free with donations welcome; any surplus raised going towards much needed maintenance of the Cathedral.
Pete Clark and Muriel Johnstone open the professional festival as we welcome old and new friends to perform in our packed programme. Dunkeld & District Strathspey & Reel Society will set our feet tapping before we explore a theme of 2025 which is to include young professional musicians. We are delighted to welcome the Purcillians from Aberdeen and Glasgow Universities; a new group comprising sopranos Susannah Thomasson and Iris Lam with Reuben Thomasson on piano. From the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland we welcome soprano Alla Kolganova and pianist Anna Mitchell. We welcome new established performers including Teresa Barros Pereira Romão & Inês Alves, a fabulous harp & violin duo and in conjunction with Chamber Music Scotland, mezzo sporano Lotte Betts-Dean & Stuart Macrae harmonium appearing with string duo, Sequoia, when they bring their production of Stuart's 'Earth, thy cold is keen', described by the Observer as ‘…conjures an aural landscape steeped in folk muysic and medieval lyric, but the result is entirely distinctive and modern.’
With more musicians wanting to join than there are summer Wednesdays, we are hosting a number of Saturday and weekday evening concerts. All the details can be found on dunkeldcathedral.org and on the Facebook group dunkeldcathedralmusicfestival.