Tickets Now On Sale for Cadenza at the Fringe!

We’re thrilled to announce that tickets are now officially on sale for Cadenza’s 2025 Edinburgh Festival Fringe concert — and this year promises something truly special. New venue: St Mary’s Episcopal CathedralDate: August 2025 (check listing for details)Book now: edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/cadenza-at-the-fringe This year’s programme is a vibrant celebration of jazz-infused choral music, featuring: With a top-tier … Read more

Important Notice: Christmas Concert Venue Change

Unfortunately, our planned venue (Polwarth Parish Church) has had to cancel all bookings for December due to a fault in the ceiling within the church itself. It is closed for emergency repairs – and to keep everyone safe. However, we have secured a replacement venue at very short notice. Our concert will now be held … Read more

Cadenza receives more exposure on BBC Radio 3

Listeners to BBC Radio 3 were treated to 10 glorious minutes of Cadenza on Tuesday 10 December, as our recording of Francis Poulenc’s Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël was played as part of Tom McKinney’s Classical Live afternoon show. This recording was taken from our Voices of Joy album. Listeners can hear this … Read more

Christmas Concert Tickets Now Available

Tickets for our Christmas Concert on 14 December 2024 are now available via choir members or online at TryBooking. New for this year, our ticket price this year includes a concert programme! As always, you’ll have the opportunity to enter our raffle to win an incredible Christmas hamper and to enjoy some seasonal refreshments at … Read more

Fringe Concert Tickets Extremely Limited

Our Fringe concert this year is proving extremely popular, with the Fringe Box Office selling out this morning (Friday 23 August 2024). We are working to get a final tranche of tickets allocated to the Box Office for additional sales (so do try, and snap them up if you can!), but it’s looking tight… Sales … Read more

Introducing our new Musical Director

We are delighted to introduce and welcome Timothy Coleman as Musical Director of Cadenza. A conductor and tenor originally from Aberdeen, Timothy studied PPE at Oxford University and spent five years as a freelance choral singer and lay-clerk with the Choir of New College, Oxford. Most recently he graduated from the Royal Welsh College of … Read more

Musical Director News: Thank You for the Music

Regular visitors to our website over the last few months will have noticed a large yellow banner announcing that we were looking for a new MD. And you will have also noticed that the yellow banner has gone … which can only mean one thing … After 22 highly-successful years at the helm, we have … Read more

Lutenists past and present

The Dresden court employed theorbo players as early as 1590, and Antonio Lotti would have certainly have been aware of the player, Leopold Weiss, while in Dresden from 1717-1719. Weiss was described by his pupil Princess Sophie Wilhelmine, sister of Crown Prince Frederick, as the “famous Weiss, who excels so greatly on the lute, that … Read more