Fri, 09 Aug
|St Mary's Cathedral
Lunchtime Recital: St Mary’s International Piano Summer School
A long-running and popular series of lunchtime recitals in one of Edinburgh's most beautiful concert spaces. Today, students from the St Mary’s International Piano Summer School.
Time & Location
09 Aug 2024, 13:00 – 13:50
St Mary's Cathedral, Palmerston Pl, Edinburgh EH12 5AW, UK
About
This long-running and very popular series of lunchtime recitals features a wide variety of performers, playing and singing in one of Edinburgh's most beautiful concert spaces. These concerts are free by donation, and a perfect way to spend a lunchtime during the busy festival!
Programme
This is the final concert for the acclaimed International Piano Summer School hosted at St Mary's Music School. Students spend the week studying and choosing a piece, and they will announce their choices throughout the recital.
Biography
The acclaimed International Piano Summer School runs each summer at St Mary's Music School, just round the corner from the Cathedral. Featuring talented young pianists aged 13 - 17 from across the globe, they have spent an intensive week working with expert tutors on their piano technique, chamber music, performance and improvisation.
St Mary’s Music School is one of the nine specialist Music and Dance Schools the UK (and the only one in Scotland) funded by the UK Government and providing the finest training in Britain. It is a co-educational, non-denominational specialist music school, offering a world class standard of music and academic education to musically gifted children aged 9-19 years. It is also the Choir School of St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral in Edinburgh. It attracts day and boarding pupils from across Scotland, England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Europe and internationally.
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