Concerts

We are delighted to announce that Morgan Szymanski, the renowned Mexican guitarist, will bring his Musical journey through Latin America to Haddo House Chapel on 8 July 2023. Featuring the exciting rhythms and soulful melodies of music by Ponce, Brouwer, Villa Lobos and Piazzolla among others, Morgan will delight you with his virtuosic playing in…

We are thrilled to announce that our 2022 Haddo Arts Festival will feature the world premiere of We Are Collective, a new work for piano quintet by the esteemed Scottish composer Sir James MacMillan, CBE, co-commissioned in conjunction with our partners, Sound, Spitalfields and Cheltenham International Festivals. Ahead of the world premiere, we asked Sir…

Two more concerts are confirmed for our 10th Haddo Arts Festival in October. The Whistlebinkies, currently an 8 piece ensemble of mainly classically trained musicians, come to Haddo for a feast of reels, hornpipes, jigs and marches as well as lyrical and reflective Scottish music, traditional and modern. For their first concerts since March 2019…

You can learn from stories. That was the overarching message coming out loud and clear in the fantastic production of Fables and Foibles featuring hundreds of talented musical children from across Aberdeenshire. Based on the stories from Aesop’s Fables and featuring the paintings of these stories in the entrance hall at Haddo House by John…

On setting off to Haddo for the first performance of this year’s festival, I can honestly say that a number of us thought two hours of Mendelssohn choral music, in the form of his Elijah oratorio, might be a bit of a musical marathon. How wrong we were. Conducted with great vigour and expertise by…