For over 50 years, Dunfermlinemusic with financial assistance from Chamber Music Scotland has been helping music lovers enjoy professional quality live music in an intimate and welcome setting. You can hear the music close-up and chat to the artists. Many of our performers are on the threshold of what will be glittering careers – you heard them first in Dunfermline! For the fourth concert of our 2024–25 season, we welcome Trio Écossaise to Viewfield Baptist Church, our regular venue for Music on Sundays, at 4:00pm on 19 January 2025. Please note the slightly later starting time! Their Dunfermline programme will include Mozart’s Trio K498 in E flat major, Fauré’s Trio in D minor Op.120 and works by Nadia Boulanger and Germaine Tailleferre, but will start with a world première! As The Feet Of A Deer is a new commission from Scottish composer Helen Leach, composed for the trio.
As always. we can guarantee a warm, comfortable and convenient environment, an excellent acoustic, and live music wonderfully played. The music you will hear is ‘chamber music’ in its widest sense, so in the course of any season you are sure to find lots to enjoy, whether you warm to the sound of brass or woodwind, tap along to the syncopated rhythms of jazz, or prefer the delights of a string ensemble. Click this link or the Season 2024–25 tab on the main navigation to discover who is coming for the rest of our season, and save those dates!
The strains of the "wee 'yrish tune" (celebrating St Patrick's Day) that the Fyrish String Quartet played as their encore last night have finally died away, and Viewfield Baptist Church is now empty of our audience. But what a splendid evening we had enjoyed, with lots of variety, from the well-known to the rarely-heard, and composed over two centuries, all consumately well played. As well as learning more about the delights of music for a string quartet, we also learnt that Emma Donald, violinist = Emma Jean, composer and the source of their equally Highland-born name (the monument built in 1782 on Fyrish Hill near Alness, Easter Ross). We'd love to hear the quartet again … Meanwhile we wish them well for their next season of music-making.
