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.
Formed in 2017, prizewinning trio CarmenCo have performed all over England, Scotland and Wales, honing their distinctive approach and performing their own arrangements of orchestral pieces, opera, folk and world music. They often perform from memory and incorporate movement, dance and storyline into their concerts, as well as varying instrumentation from solo guitar through to voice/flute and two guitars, making their concerts and shows as unique and colourful as the players in the trio.
The trio will be presenting A Pocket Opera – a comedic concert presented as a play, with costumes, props and a storyline, roughly following Bizet’s Carmen, but told from her point of view and interspersing Bizet’s music with guitar duets.
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