To enquire about hosting a musical event in keeping with our church mission and historic cathedral setting, please use the contact page and choose To host an event in the Cathedral. Commercial enquiries for events outwith the church mission should be directed to Historic Environment Scotland’s events team.
Duo Immersio
7:00pm, Sunday 16th June 2024
free entry, book now
Mujie Yan and David Anastasiou present carefully curated music for piano four-hands, in this free concert. The programme includes famous orchestral works arranged for piano duet, such as:
Weber: Euryanthe overture, Op. 81
Scriabin/Winkler: Rêverie
Dukas: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Kali Malone | Glasgow International
9:00pm, Friday 21st June 2024
FULLY BOOKED
this is a free event, and further spaces may become available.
Please join the waitlist for updates.
Developed by Glasgow-based curatorial project Cento, this site-specific performance by composer and sound artist Kali Malone takes place in Glasgow’s 12th century cathedral. Kali will play selected compositions from her acclaimed albums All Life Long, 2024 and The Sacrificial Code, 2019, adapted for the cathedral’s organ, built by Henry Willis in 1879. The performance includes additional accompaniment by musician Stephen O’Malley on several four-handed organ pieces.
Kali composes with clarity and focus, utilising evolving harmonic cycles to draw out latent emotional resonances, generating spaces for contemplation. Her experimental reinterpretations of centuries-old polyphonic compositional methods and historical tuning systems become portals to new ways of perceiving sound and time. Kali’s work animates the body of the church and creates a moment of reflection on the city’s sonic, architectural, and social history.
Ullmann & Shostakovich
7:00pm, Sunday 23rd June 2024
free event (reserve a seat here)
Viktor Ullmann
— Fünf Liebeslieder nach Texten von Ricarda Huch, Op. 26
— Drei Sonette aus dem Portugiesischen, Op. 29
Dmitri Shostakovich
— Piano Trio No. 1 in C minor, Op. 8
— Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67
Stephanie Lamprea, Soprano
Huixin Hu, Violinist
JaeMin Kim Kang, Cellist
Baichuan Hui, Pianist
Minnesota Centre Chorale
1:00pm, Friday 28th June 2024
free entry
Visiting from Minnesota, USA, the Minnesota Center Chorale perform classical, sacred and traditional favourites for mixed choir.
Director: Nicole Mattfeld
An evening with Anna Lapwood
7:00pm, Friday 5th July 2024
SOLD OUT
returned/refunded tickets may become available,
please check the box office for updates
Hailed as “the dream ambassador for classical music” by Gramophone, organist Anna Lapwood is bringing a mix of her favourite traditional classical and contemporary music arranged for organ together in one sublime concert, performing music from composers including:
HANS ZIMMER Interstellar, The Da Vinci Code, Inception
PHILIP GLASS Mad Rush
MENKEN Hunchback of Notre Dame
DEBUSSY Clair de lune
HANIA RANI Glass
OLIVIA BELLI Limina Luminis
Anna is an organist, broadcaster and Director of Music at Pembroke College, Cambridge. A terrific protagonist for her instrument, she is a natural communicator and reaches a huge audience through her concerts and via social media with over 1 million followers across all platforms.
Leicester University Chamber Choir
6:00pm, Sunday 21st July 2024
free entry (£5 suggested donation)
After singing for our Sunday Worship in the morning, Leicester University Chamber Choir present ‘Guiding Light’. This concert features serene choral music by composers including Gerald Finzi, Ola Gjeilo and Gabriel Rheinberger. No tickets required, and donations (£5 suggested) can be made to help LUCC with the costs of running their Scottish tour.
Jonathan Lee: organ concert
1:00pm, Saturday 3rd August 2024
free entry
Following his prizewinning performance at the Northern Ireland International Organ Competition, we are delighted to host Jonathan Lee in an afternoon performance. Jonathan is currently the Senior Organ Scholar at Trinity College Cambridge, and was previously Organ Scholar at Hereford Cathedral. A prize-winner at NIIOC 2023 (3rd prize) and the Brian Runnett Prize Competition 2022 (1st prize), he also holds awards from the Royal College of Organists (Coventry Cathedral Recital Award, Turpin and Durrant Prizes) and the Australian Music Foundation (Nora Goodridge Young Artist Award 2022, Guy Parsons Award, 2023). He was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists in 2022.
The cathedral organ (built in 1879) contains over 3,000 pipes—this free concert is the perfect chance to hear all it can do, with a programme featuring music by Bach, Nadia Boulanger, and Dutch minimalist composer Ad Wammes.