Dunkeld Cathedral Music Festival 2024

Dunkeld Cathedral are excited to announce the Dunkeld Cathedral Summer Music Festival 2024 which will run over the summer months in the Cathedral from May 1 to September 4. Concerts will be held at 12:00 - 13:00 lunchtimes, approximately every second Wednesday of each month.

The current concert schedule is as follows:

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Concert Goers

Concerts are informal and aimed at letting visitors enjoy the sound of music in the cathedral’s wonderful setting. Concerts are performed by professional musicians and by the many talented local musicians who are part of the cathedral and wider local community. Concerts are mix of genre from classical voice and instrumental to Scottish folk songs and guitar.

As audience members, visitors are encouraged to bring a packed lunch to enjoy in the cathedral grounds before or after the concert. Please remember to take home all rubbish with you.

Musicians

The scheduled Wednesday lunchtimes are now all fully booked.

We hope to run the Festival in 2025, and if you are interested in performing, whether professional or amateur, then send contact details to music.festival@dunkeldcathedral.org and we will respond to you early next year.

The Cathedral has a wonderful acoustic with a significant delay, so whilst we invite all types of music, the building itself is more suited to voice, classical, chamber or folk music.

Booking the Cathedral as a Concert Venue

If you wish to book the cathedral as a concert venue then please contact music.festival@dunkeldcathedral.org. Concerts would be by arrangement and whilst we may not act as promoters for your concert, by agreement, we can help support you by including the concert in our festival marketing.

Organists

The cathedral organ was built by Bevington of London in 1908 and stands centrally in the West gallery. It has two manuals, pedals and sixteen stops. The instrument has been modified several times, most recently by Sandy Edmonstone of Perth in 1988 and 2002. Whilst a modest instrument, it is ideally sized for the building and benefits from the wonderful acoustic. It is perfectly capable of playing the full range of classical organ repetoire. To enquire about playing contact music.festival@dunkeldcathedral.org. Note all access is by agreement with our organist and is not necessarily limited to the Music Festival Wednesdays.