This yr’s Lammermuir Competition runs from 4 to fifteen September 2025, your probability to listen to among the world’s most interesting musicians within the historic venues and beautiful panorama of East Lothian The pageant’s artist in residence this yr is cellist Laura van der Heijden, with six appearances as each soloist and ensemble musician throughout the 12 days. Amongst her appearances are a recital with Jâms Coleman, a chamber programme with the Maxwell Quartet starting from Schubert’s C main quintet to Gaelic psalms of the western isles of Scotland; a programme of dances and duos with buddies which incorporates the Hungarian cimbalom in a journey via folks, jazz, baroque and modern music; and as soloist alongside Maria Włoszczowska in Brahms’s Double Concerto for Violin and Cello with Royal Northern Sinfonia.
I Fagiolini can even be in residence with performances of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610. An everyday customer to the pageant is Scottish Opera and this yr they bring about an intriguing double invoice of two contrasting comedies, Ravel’s L’heure espagnole and Walton’s The Bear, the one that includes a married lady eager to discover pastures new and the opposite that includes a widow who’s something however eager.
Persevering with the themes of Ravel and Monteverdi, Rinaldo Alessandrini and Concerto Italiano will probably be performing music from Monteverdi seventh E book of Madrigals alongside Barbara Strozzi and others, while French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet performs Ravel’s full piano works and tenor Joshua Ellicott explores Ravel’s affect on track. Along with Ravel’s one hundred and fiftieth, this yr is the centenary of each Berio and Boulez, and Scotland’s Hebrides Ensemble will probably be celebrating each.
Different full cycles on the pageant embrace the Van Baerle Trio, who return after final yr’s profitable debut, to play all of Brahms’s piano trios, and the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam carry all of Tchaikovsky’s quartets. The Kaleidoscope chamber ensemble carry out two live shows starting from Brahms and Bartok, to Duruflé and Poulenc.
Scottish composer Stuart MacRae’s atmospheric, folk-influenced track cycle Earth Thy Chilly is Eager will probably be carried out by mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean. And there’s a probability to expertise three occasions at Robert Adam’s Gosford home, with The Lammermuir Basset Horn Ensemble, a lecture recital on the home’s extremely uncommon instrument the Claviorganum which mixes the harpsichord and organ in a single; and ending with a recorder recital from Tabea Debus within the Saloon.
This yr’s pageant contains two kids’s live shows. Flock from Purple Be aware Ensemble in Musselburgh opens with a sonically and visually fascinating musical efficiency, gently encouraging kids to grow to be extra concerned till, via their collective effort, a chirping flock comes into being. Saint-Saens’ is Carnival of the Animals options Roger McGough and NYCOS Nationwide Women Choir in Dunbar.
After a profitable pilot in 2024, Lammermuir Competition builds on Entrance Row to supply much more 12 – 18 yr olds alternatives to attend rehearsals, meet artists and luxuriate in the very best free entrance row seats. Free tickets are additionally out there for varsity college students attending sure live shows with an grownup.
There may be much more in addition to. A visit to the pageant presents the potential of an motion packed few days with nearl 40 occasions on supply. Full particulars from the pageant’s web site.
