Celebrity Cello Concert by Hugh Mackay with Scholarship Cellists

7.30pm – £20.00 / £16.00 Music Centre members) / £6.00 (Students and children)

PLEASE NOTE that this performance takes place at the Laidlaw Music Centre, Queens Terrace, St Andrews.

With appearances at Wigmore Hall, the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie and the Palace of Versailles to his name, young Scottish cellist Hugh Mackay makes his St Andrews debut in a special solo recital marking the 50th anniversary of Benjamin Britten’s death.

Britten’s first suite for solo cello is joined by two of J.S. Bach’s great works for the instrument, Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor and Cello Suite No. 3 in C major. Mackay is then joined by some of the Music Centre’s most talented student cellists for music by Arvo Pärt and Popper’s Polonaise de Concert for Eight Cellos.

Please note: there has been a change to the previously advertised programme. Hugh Mackay will now perform J.S. Bach’s Cello Suites No. 2 in D minor and No. 3 in C major in place of Zoltán Kodály’s Sonata for Solo Cello, Op. 8.

We hope you will enjoy this revised programme and look forward to welcoming you to an exceptional evening of music-making at the Laidlaw Music Centre.