TICKETS VENUE INFORMATION

£18 full price / £16 senior citizens (over St Cecilia’s Hall, Niddry Street, EH1 1LJ 60s) / £5 students, children & unwaged The auditorium at St Cecilia’s Hall dates from 1763 and is the oldest concert hall in available on the door or from and the second oldest in Britain. The Queen’s Hall Box Office: (open 10am to 5pm, Monday to Saturday) 85-89 Clerk Street, Edinburgh EH8 9JG 0131 668 2019 Early Music www.thequeenshall.net Save by purchasing tickets for all 3 concerts Concerts for £45 (senior citizens £39).

Please note a £1 transaction fee per booking at St Cecilia’s Hall applies to online and telephone transactions. Sunday 4 June IL ROSSIGNOLO

This series of concerts, generously supported Saturday 17 June by George and Joy Sypert, are among the first performances to take place in the newly RUTH SLATER refurbished St Cecilia’s Hall. St Cecilia’s Hall entrance. JOHN KITCHEN Photo credit Neil Hanna The keyboard NORTH BRIDGE instruments used Sunday 9 July are all original CANONGATE GEORGE IV BRIDGE examples from NIDDRY STREET THE BROOK STREET BAND the University’s Musical Instrument SOUTH BRIDGE Collection. x COWGATE The new entrance CHAMBERS STREET to the hall is on Niddry Steet. Summer concert series 2017 The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland. Registration no. SC005336 IL ROSSIGNOLO RUTH SLATER JOHN KITCHEN THE BROOK STREET BAND Photo credit Dan Bridge

Sunday 4 June, 7.30pm Saturday 17 June, 7.30pm Sunday 9 July, 7.30pm

IL ROSSIGNOLO RUTH SLATER and THE BROOK STREET BAND JOHN KITCHEN Martino Noferi recorder / oboe Rachel Harris violin Marica Testi transverse flute A concert of music for violin and continuo Farran Scott violin Ottaviano Tenerani harpsichord played by Ruth Slater (violin) and John Tatty Theo cello Kitchen (organ). Works will include 18th- Carolyn Gibley harpsichord Il Rossignolo is an internationally-acclaimed century Scottish music by GENERAL REID young Italian group specializing in the study and WILLIAM McGIBBON as well as Balletto The Brook Street Band takes its name from and performance of early music played on e Passe by GIOVANNO BATTISTA FONTANA. the London street where composer George historical instruments. John Kitchen, performing on the newly- Frideric Handel lived from 1723-1759. restored 18th-century chamber organ in St This ‘Grand Tour - the art of the duo and Cecilia’s Hall, will play solos by the Scottish Eighteenth-century chamber repertoire has trio sonata’ programme will include works composer WILLIAM KINLOCH (fl. 1600). always been the Band’s driving passion, by TELEMANN, MARAIS, PEPUSCH, LOTTI, focussing particularly on Handel’s music. ALBINONI, VIVALDI and SAMMARTINI. In addition to those of HANDEL, this programme will also include trio sonatas by TELEMANN and BACH.