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Haddo Arts Courtyard Concert 2026 programme kicks off with bagpipe duet

Sunday 3rd May saw our very first free Courtyard Concert 2026 taking place in the Tearoom Courtyard at Haddo, in association with National Trust Scotland. We were joined by Harper Cheyne and her younger brother Matthew, who performed an incredible programme of traditional Scottish music on the bagpipes. Both Harper and Matthew are part of…

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Sir John Rutter CBE delights Aberdeenshire singers with memorable visit to Haddo

Music sang from the rafters of Haddo House Hall on Saturday 11 April. Sir John Rutter CBE, Britain’s foremost choral composer and conductor, led over 280 singers in a day of joyful music making. He guided singers through a souvenir booklet of pieces by composers from Bruckner to Verdi, via Mozart and Rachmaninov, as well…

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Haddo Arts Season 2026 – Save the date!

We are delighted to announce that the Haddo Arts Season 2026 begins on Saturday 11 April when renowned composer Sir John Rutter CBE directs a Come and Sing day, fun for singers of all abilities. Places limited so early booking recommended! On Sunday 12 April Opera Bohemia return to Haddo for an early evening performance…

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Angus and Finlay Donohue playing on a piano.

Angus and Finlay Donohoe perform dazzling duet

North East Scotland Music School scholarship students Angus and Finlay Donohoe performed a dazzling piano duet at the most recent David and June Gordon lecture, which focused on the early life of infamous poet Lord Byron. The brothers performed a suite of music including Toccata by Aram Khachaturian,  In the Hall of the Mountain King…

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Ethan Loch delights Aberdeen

Ethan Loch delighted the large audience at the Aberdeen Art Gallery yesterday with his pre-concert talk and wonderful lunch-break concert. The concert was the latest event in our collaboration with Aberdeen Art Gallery and we were very happy to bring Ethan, a very talented Scottish pianist, to this wonderful venue in the city. The concert…

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Coming Soon! A Musical Journey Through Latin America with Morgan Szymanski

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…

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Haddo to host world premiere performance

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…

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Coming Soon to the Haddo Arts Festival – the Whistlebinkies and the Bach Players

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…

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Song for Haddo – the perfect finale

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…

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A festival of variety and quality performances- Elijah

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…

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