Welcome to our 2026/27 Season when we bring the best of chamber music to Perth for your enjoyment.
We offer a Season Subscription to all our concerts at a significant discount to the individual ticket prices. Details of this and our early-bird discount can be found here.
All our concerts are scheduled on Sunday afternoon’s at 3pm and take place in St John’s Kirk Perth.
The Edinburgh Quartet
Sunday 25th October @ 3pm
St John’s Kirk
“absolutely essential listening” (The Herald)
The Edinburgh Quartet, founded in 1960, has long been celebrated as one of Britain’s foremost chamber ensembles, appearing regularly at prestigious venues across the UK and touring extensively across Europe, the Far and Middle East, and North and South America.
In addition to a busy concert schedule the Edinburgh Quartet is frequently featured in radio broadcasts for the BBC and other stations. Recently this has included live appearances on Classics Unwrapped (BBC Radio Scotland) and Jazz Line-Up and In Tune (BBC Radio 3) as well as video recordings for Studio One Sessions, which appear on the BBC Radio Scotland website.
Sadie Fields violin
Gongbo Jiang violin
Catherine Marwood viola
Mark Bailey cello
- Haydn Op 76 no 5
- Puccini Crisantemi
- Rebecca Clarke Poem
- Schubert G major D887
The Fibonacci Quartet
Sunday 15th November @ 3pm
St John’s Kirk
The quartet perform extensively across Europe, with highlights including performances at Vienna Musikverein, Berlin Philharmonie, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Frankfurt Alte Oper, Wigmore Hall, Munich Prinzregentheater and Philharmonie de Paris, as well as festival appearances at Edinburgh International Festival, Aldeburgh Festival, Heidelberger Frühling Festival and Bad Tölz Winners Summit.
Following critically acclaimed European performances, the Fibonaccis were presented with the quadrennial Merito String Quartet Award at the Konzerthaus in Vienna, as well as being selected as Borletti-Buitoni Trust Artists in 2026.
Luna De Mol violin
Krystof Kohout violin
Elliot Kempson viola
Finlay Spence cello
- Frank Bridge 3 Idylls
- Debussy Quartet
- Tchaikowsky 3rd Quartet
The Lumen Trio
Sunday 6th December @ 3pm
St John’s Kirk
The Lumen Trio will be playing in the first of our annual ‘Emerging Artists’ concerts.
The Lumen Trio came together in during their studies at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Each musician of the trio brings to the table an array of innovative and unique interests, such as early music, cross-genre music, and collaborations with other performing arts disciplines, and melds them together to form this energetic and cohesive ensemble. The Trio believe in careful and thoughtful programming, with pieces often following a central theme or purpose. In 2024, the Lumen Trio was awarded the Mary D Adams Prize for Chamber Music.
Inês Soares violin
Josiah Duhlstine cello
Mujie Yan piano
- Dmitri Shostakovich- Piano Trio No2 in E minor, Op. 67
- Josef Suk- Elegy for piano, violin and violoncello, Op. 23
- Amy Beach- Piano Trio, Op.150
- Arvo Pärt- Mozart- Adagio for Piano Trio
- Paul Schoenfield- Café Music
Thistle Trio
Sunday 17th January 2027 @ 3pm
St John’s Kirk
We have worked with the Thistle Trio as part of our outreach and educational workshop programme. An extremely talented trio they have been a delight to work with. This is a welcome opportunity to hear them in concert. The programme is suitable to an all age audience so if you have children or grand children, this may be an opportunity to share in the joy of classical music.
Laura Cioffi flutes
Pawel Jaworksi clarinets
Gayner Gowman oboe/cor anglais
- Scottish music The Thistle song arranged by Gaynor Gowman
- Ludwig van Beethoven arranged by M.Orriss Trio in C Major op.87
- Malcolm Arnold: Divertimento for wind trio Op 37
- Bizet: Carmen – Toreador song, Habanera, Les dragons d’Alcala
—- Interval —-
- Scottish music arranged by Thomas Graf – Loch Lomond
- Scottish music arranged by Gaynor Gowman – The Skye Boat Song
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Variations on ‘La ci darem la mano’
- Keith Amos – Trifolium
- Paul de Wailly: Aubade
- John Williams – film music arranged by G.Gowman : Harry Potter, Hedwig’s theme
- Paul Dukas – arrangement L.Portus/P.Jaworski The Sorcerer’s apprentice
Ethan Loch
A Musical Odyssey: Bach, Chopin, Rach and Beyond
Sunday 7th February 2027 @ 3pm
St John’s Kirk
“(Ethan) has developed into a world class concert pianist and composer and thrilled the audience tonight with his dazzling playing and his utterly committed artistry” — Edinburgh Music Review
At the age of eighteen, Ethan was a Grand Finalist of BBC Young Musician of the Year, delivering a mesmerising and emotive performance of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Mark Wigglesworth. The performance garnered widespread acclaim and led to a series of engagements with leading UK orchestras, including the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Manchester Camerata, the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland, and a series of sold-out performances with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.
Ethan will be playing:
- Bach prelude & fugue no 3 in C# major
- Mozart Rondo in A minor k.511
- Chopin sonata no 2 in B flat minor Op 35
— Interval —–
- Debussy preludes: No. 9 La séréande interrompue
- Debussy preludes: No. 4 Les sons et les parfums tournent dan’s l’air du soir
- Rachmaninoff Moment Musicaux No. 1 in B flat minor, Op 16
- Rachmaninoff Moment Musicaux No. 2 in E flat minor, Op 16
- Ethan Loch Tonal Vision No. 6 Last moments of the Day
- Chopin Scherzo No. 2 in B flat minor, Op 31
Frederico Paixão flute &
Teresa Barros Pereira Romão harp
Mozart Premiere
Sunday 7th March @ 3pm
St John’s Kirk
Following the discovery of a collection of new pieces by Mozart for Flute and Harp, we are delighted to have the unique opportunity to stage its first performance in Scotland.
Portuguese flautist Frederico Paixão, Principal Flute of the Scottish Ballet Orchestra, Professor of Flute at the Royal Northern College of Music, will be joined by Teresa Barros Pereira Romão da Conceição, also from Portugal. Teresa is a prominent freelance orchestral harpist, as a chamber and solo performer in Portugal and
Scotland and one of the harp lecturers at the Royal
Conservatoire of Scotland.
The concert will feature the premiere of a new work by Mozart alongside classical repertoire spanning different periods of music history.
As companion composers to the newly discovered Mozart pieces, we will hear works by Ravel and Ibert (further linked by their love of Spanish sonorities and folk dances) as well as Poulenc; together they epitomise the Parisian charm and refinement which surrounded Mozart when he was writing these flute & harp compositions for his student Marie-Louise-Philippine de Bonnieres de Guines and her father, Duke of Guines.
The full programme is:
- Joly Braga Santos – Peça para Flauta
- M. Ravel – Pièce en forme de Habanera
- J.Ibert – Entr’Act
- F. Poulenc – Sonata for Flute and Piano (Arr. Rovinsky)
- W. A. Mozart – Seven New Pieces for Flute and Harp
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- J. Cras – Suite en Duo
- T. Takemitsu – Toward the Sea III
- W. Alwyn – Naiades
