Thursday, August 15

Music at Canongate Kirk

Name: Music at Canongate Kirk
Start: 2024-08-15T13:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-08-15T14:00:00+01:00
Location: Canongate Kirk

Composing Sacred Music: The Next Generation with Dame Judith Weir, Master of the King’s Music. Concluding the 2024 Sacred Music Competition.

By Edinburgh Festival of the Sacred Arts

Date and time

Thursday, August 15 · 1 - 2pm GMT+1

Location

Canongate Kirk

153 Canongate Edinburgh EH8 8BN United Kingdom

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About this event

1 hour

Composing Sacred Music: The Next Generation. In this concluding event of the 2024 Edinburgh Sacred Arts Foundation Music Competition for young Scottish composers, professional musicians directed by Calum Robertson will perform six winning musical compositions. Dame Judith Weir, Master of the King’s Music, and principal adjudicator, will present the prizes. Sponsored by The Christian Arts Trust, the Edinburgh Society of Organists and the Royal College of Organists.

Organized by

Edinburgh Festival of the Sacred Arts

Between Sunday 11th and Saturday 17th August 2024, seven Edinburgh city centre churches will host a wide range of events in music, poetry, visual art, architecture, dance and film. Highlights include sacred jazz at St Mary’s Catholic Cathedral, poetry in Canongate Kirk, guided tours with Scotland’s Church Trust, dance at Old Saint Paul’s, film at St Vincent’s Chapel, and vespers at Sacred Heart. Full details of the week-long programme can be found on our website. This annual Festival is an initiative of the Edinburgh Sacred Arts Foundation.