Contemporary Music

Contemporary Music

2026’s contemporary music programme features folk, electronic, classical and jazz from across the globe.

Contemporary Music Programme

  1. four women sit on a bench outside with their instruments, clarsach, fiddle, whistle and keyboard

    Preview: Dàna with Ellie Beaton

    Exciting, Scottish, Folk

  2. Opening Concert: All Rise

    Monumental, Jazz, Symphonic
  3. A group of singers stand in purple light singing with their eyes closed

    Gospel Workshop with Jason Max Ferdinand Singers

    Joyful, Singing, Get Involved
  4. Players from Jazz at Lincoln Center performing on stage

    JLCO plays Duke Ellington

    Historic, Jazz, Monumental
  5. A group of jazz musicians perform on stage surrounded by an audience

    Up Late: Jazz Jam

    Improvisation, Energetic, One To Watch
  6. a women sings with a man playing guitar behind her

    Mark & Maggie O’Connor

    Imaginative, Americana, Folk
  7. Four musicians standing in front of a distressed wall while holding their instruments

    Up Late with Gnoss

    Orkney, Folk, Contemporary
  8. A man stands playing an acoustic guitar

    Up Late with Mark O’Connor & Gustavo Dudamel

    Dynamic, Exclusive, Guest Appearances

  9. corto.alto

    Jazz-electronic, Fusion, Mercury Prize Nominee

  10. Beyond Tradition

    Evocative, Cross-cultural, Female Supergroup
  11. a women sings with her eyes closed

    Senny Camara Ensemble

    Uplifting, West-African, Kora
  12. A woman mostly obscured by shadow holding a bagpipe instrument

    Scottish Ensemble & Brìghde Chaimbeul

    Atmospheric, Scottish, Smallpipes

  13. Camilla George

    Groove, Afrofuturism, Jazz
  14. A woman illumated in purple dancing while holding a violin and bow

    Routes to Roots

    New Music, Collaboration, Scottish-Argentinian
  15. a group of people in colourful clothes sit on bikes smiling

    Orchestra Baobab

    Irresistible, Senegal, New Music
  16. A black and white image of a person covered head to toe in black clothes is positioned in a seated position in the middle of a rural road

    RÓIS

    Irish, Experimental, One to Watch

  17. Dementia-Friendly Concert

    Inclusive, Relaxed, Jazz
  18. A man sitting at a keyboard instrument in the middle of a country path surrounded by fields and hills

    Up Late with Donald Shaw

    Energetic, Folk, Finale

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