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 third concert of our 2024–25 season, we welcome Benjamin Shute & Anastasia Abu Bakar to Viewfield Baptist Church, our regular venue for Music on Sundays, at 3:00pm on 8 December 2024. American-born violinist Ben now lives and works in Fife, and you may have enjoyed hearing him play Bach in the old nave of Dunfermline Abbey during the 2023 Outwith Festival. For our concert, he is being joined by Malaysian harpsichordist Anastasia Abu Bakar to delight us with a varied Advent programme that juxtaposes Baroque classics with works newly composed by the performers. A concert not to be missed ... so note that this is an afternoon concert!
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, 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.
