The Sanctuary at Fountainhall at the Cross (previously Queen's Cross Church) is a warm, colourful and intimate setting for live music, and Aberdeen Chamber Music Concerts is delighted to be holding concerts at the church this season.
Aberdeen Chamber Music Concerts is a registered charity which has been bringing great professional musicians to perform in Aberdeen at public concerts for over 80 years. A former organist at Fountainhall at the Cross (when it was called Queen's Cross Church), Willan Swainson, was the founder of the organisation, as well as starting the Aberdeen Bach Choir and the Music Department in the University. On the ACM website, you can find a link which gives details of every programme that has been performed since it began in the early 1930s.
The ACMC series at the Cross run from September to March every year. Details of the 2024/2025 to come very soon, watch this space!
All the details of the dates, musicians, programmes and ticket prices are on the AMC website: www.aberdeenchambermusic.org. You can also follow the group on Facebook and twitter.
Hugh Mackay, Cello, Junyan Chen, Piano, Charlotte Spruit, Violin, and Edgar Francis, Viola
An Ensemble of four leading young artists unified by a passion for chamber music coming to Scotland for a six-concert tour. Scottish cellist Hugh Mackay trained at St. Mary’s Music School in Edinburgh and then the Royal Academy of Music, winning there the inaugural LSO Conservatoire Scholarship. Pianist Junyan Chen studied at the Shanghai Conservatoire, and later at the Royal Academy of Music in London, coming to fame on winning Second Prize at the Leeds International Piano Competition 2024. Violinist Charlotte Spruit won the first prize and the audience prize in the 2022 Leipzig International Bach Competition and won the Young Classical Artists Trust International Auditions in 2023. Welsh violist Edgar Francis studied at Wells Cathedral School before completing two degrees at the Royal Academy of Music in London; in 2021 he won First Prize at the Cecil Aronowitz International Competition.
Schumann Piano Quartet
Enescu Piano Quartet No. 2
Fauré Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15
Monday 8 September 2025 - Scott Manson. Piano
Monday 13 October 2025 - Mathilde Milwidsky and Richard Uttley, Violin & Piano
Monday 10 November 2025 - Carmenco
Monday 19 January 2026 - Chloe Piano Trio
Monday 9 February 2026 - Dudok Quartet of Amsterdam
Monday 9 March 2026 - Robin Michael and Daniel Tong, Cello & Piano
Thursday 16 April 2026 - Ensemble Jackalope