Edinburgh International Festival

It’s time to get UP LATE with Wynton Marsalis! 🎺 Tune in for the debut performance at the Festival for the nine-time-Grammy award winning, legendary trumpeter. Recorded in August at The Hub by Sky Arts and now about to be broadcast for the very first time. Watch it tonight at 10pm on Sky Arts, Freeview and NOW. 📷 Maxine Ragni/Edinburgh International Festival

This was such an amazing project, one that brought young people from Orkney into the Church Hill Theatre, both through their work and in person. The festival engages with Scottish communities year-round and on this specific project, the First Minister even came down for a look.

If you weren’t lucky enough to join us at our home at The Hub last month for some very intimate performances – then don’t worry. We’re about to take The Hub to your home! 💛 This year, we opened our doors to Sky Arts to record our Up Lates series at The Hub and now we’re inviting you to enjoy it. Tonight, join us on Sky Arts at 10pm as we welcome an ensemble of world class musicians to our stage 🎵 We’re so thrilled to share our Up Lates series on Sky Arts, and to bring viewers a very special slice of the Festival experience. These unforgettable encounters with extraordinary musicians were filmed in our home, The Hub, and now we can offer a front-row seat to audiences in homes across the country 🤩 Hosted by our Festival Director Nicola Benedetti and joined by: Soumik Datta, Schola Cantorum De Venezuela, Leonore Piano Trio, Sarah Connolly, Gonzalo Grau and Gioconda Cabrera Colon ✨

Our work in August extends beyond the performances 👀 We also focus on bringing the arts to young people in Scotland - particularly with our 'Discover' series. Through workshops cultivated by professionals: our workshops in dance, theatre and music have been attended by young people over 800 times 🤩 This year we hosted 17 students from Orkney and Edinburgh as part of our Discover Theatre Youth Exchange project. These young people explored the themes of The Outrun - home, identity and the power of nature, through writing. This project allowed them to connect with other young people interested in theatre, hone their skills in writing and have conversations on what makes a good story 🎭 They finished their project by seeing The Outrun and reading some of their poems to Festival Director Nicola Benedetti ✍️ 💛 Cultural Philanthropy Foundation #CultureMakes

Somebody's sneaked into the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People... Oh, it's the Rising Stars of Brass! 🎺 In August, amongst the performances throughout the city, we partner with the NHS Lothian Charity and some of our talented musicians to bring the Festival fun to the children's ward of RHCYP 🎵 All of this is made possible by the wonderful donations we receive from you 💛

Did you catch Festival Director, Nicola Benedetti's, series with BBC Three? 📻 In the latest episode, Nicola talks about the history of the Festival, with some archival interviews and some of the most memorable performances over the years. The whole series is available for catch up on BBC Sounds. Listen below! 👇 https://lnkd.in/ezbatSYV 📸 Jess Shurte/Edinburgh International Festival

We welcome hundreds of world class performers from across the globe onto our Festival stage each year - but there's something special about seeing our own Festival Chorus perform 💛 This year the Edinburgh Festival Chorus performed Verdi's Requiem with the Philharmonia, as well as a beautiful late night performance of Alexander Grechaninov’s Passion Week. Now it's your turn to get involved 🎤 Auditions to join the Edinburgh Festival chorus will be taking place on 5, 6, 7 and 13 Oct at The Hub ✨ If you're interested in auditioning click the link below 👇 https://eif.buzz/2Nmf8EI 📸 Andrew Perry/Edinburgh International Festival

And just like that, the 2024 Festival comes to a close and what a time we had ✨ A month full of belly laughing, heart fluttering, tear jerking, thought provoking, performances - can we do it all again?! Thanks for joining us 💛 Music: European Union Youth Orchestra performs Amparito Roca by Texidor.

We were honoured to host the Secretary of State for Culture, Media, and Sport, the Rt Hon Lisa Nandy MP, at the home of the Edinburgh International Festival, The Hub. It was a privilege to have her chair a roundtable discussion with key partners across the culture sector, fostering meaningful dialogue on the future of arts and culture. 📸 Jess Shurte/ Edinburgh International Festival

'The deepest connection to the broadest audience possible' is the ambition we've set out in our Audience Manifesto. And that means creating innovative environments to enjoy performances that reach as wide an audience as possible. We're excited about our recently added Inside Out formats and our Beanbag Series. Both series bring a unique experience to a traditional classical music performance 🎻 #CultureMakes Cultural Philanthropy Foundation