The Edinburgh International Festival programme for 2025 was announced today, with highlights including works by many Wise Music Group composers. Running throughout August, the festival celebrates Music, Theatre, Opera and Dance, hosting the finest performers and creating space for reflection and reconcilliation, debate and celebration, bringing people of different cultures and viewpoints together.
The opening concert on August 2 consists of the monumental choral work by John Tavener, The Veil of the Temple. Lasting eight hours, the concert will begin at 2.30pm and last into the night, with the Monteverdi Choir joining forces with the Edinburgh Festival Chorus and National Youth Choir of Scotland.
On the orchestral stage, on August 5 the London Philharmonic Orchestra will perform Forest by Judith Weir. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra will later perform Messiaen's Les Offrandes oubliées on the 21st.
The Melbourne Symphony orchestra will make a trip over to perform Pictures at an Exhibition on August 22, in a concert which also features Wise Music composer William Barton playing the Didgeridoo in the world premiere of Deborah Cheetham Fraillon's Baparripnba No.2.
Barton will also perform at The Hub on August 23, presenting some experimental compositions which reflect his Kalkadunga heritage and musical upbringing of Elvis Presley, AC/DC and Vivaldi.
The Queen's hall will feature more intimate concerts throughout the festival. The King's Singers will present a programme alongside Colin Currie on August 2 featuring Roderick William's Death be not Proud, Bryce Dessner's Tromp Miniature and the world premiere arrangement of Missy Mazzoli's Year of our Burning.
Helen Grime's Quartet No.1 will be brought to the hall by the Fibonacci quartet on August 9.
Discover the full programme here.
