Date: December 20, 2024
Categories: Concerts, Family
Tags: piano recital, st giles cathedral edinburgh, warren mailley-smith

Friday 20th December 2024, 6.15pm at St Giles’ Cathedral, High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1RE, Scotland.

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Programme
Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata no.14 ‘Moonlight’, Op.27 no.2
George Gershwin – Rhapsody in Blue
Sergei Rachmaninov – Prelude in C sharp minor, Op.3 no.2
Claude Debussy – Preludes, Book II: Brouillards, Ondine, La Terrasse des audience du clair de lune
Frédéric Chopin – Berceuse, Op.57
Frédéric Chopin – Scherzo no.1 in B minor, Op.20
Franz Liszt – Hungarian Rhapsodies, S.244

Performers
Warren Mailley-Smith – piano

Programme Note

Treat yourself and your loved ones to an exceptional pre-Christmas piano recital in the beautiful candlelit setting of St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh. Renowned British concert pianist, Warren Mailley-Smith, will perform an outstanding selection of much-loved piano works, including Beethoven’s masterpiece, The Moonlight Sonata.

In 2016 Warren Mailley-Smith became the first British pianist to perform Chopin’s complete works for solo piano from memory in a series of 11 recitals at St John’s Smith Square. Hailed by the critics as an “epic achievement”, Mailley-Smith will repeat the series at several venues in 2023-4. He has given acclaimed solo recitals at The Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall and has performed for the British Royal Family on numerous occasions. He is one of the busiest concert pianists of his generation and has given over 200 performances in the last year.

Date: September 1, 2025
Tags: beethoven, ravel, scarlatti, st giles cathedral edinburgh, yuki negishi

Monday 1st September 2025, 6:30 PM at St Giles’ Cathedral, High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1RE.

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Programme
Doménico Scarlatti – Keyboard Sonata in E major, K.380
Doménico Scarlatti – Keyboard Sonata in D minor ‘Pastorale’, K.9
Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata no.23 in F minor ‘Appassionata’, Op.57
Maurice Ravel – Pavane pour une Infante Defunté
Maurice Ravel – Boléro

Performers
Yuki Negishi – Piano

Steinway Artist Yuki Negishi has established herself as a pianist of rare poetry, passion and virtuosity, equally at home as an adjudicator, educator and researcher, captivating audiences wherever she performs around the world. Yuki has already performed in over 800 concerts in the UK alone, including many of the most important halls and festivals, and regularly performs about 30 concerts a year as recitalist, concerto soloist and chamber musician in countries such as the Netherlands (Concertgebouw), France, Germany, Switzerland (Tonhalle), Italy (Festival di Londra, Blanc European Festival, Artepiano International Festival), Romania, Japan, China, Bangladesh and the USA. She has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Scala Radio, Xray FM, ITV, Channel 4, Dutch, Polish, Romanian and French television and radio. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Date: October 5, 2026
Categories: Concerts, Festivals, Young Musicians
Tags: edinburgh royal mile international piano series, matthew mclachlan, st giles cathedral edinburgh

Monday 5th October 2026, 6:30 PM at St Giles’ Cathedral, High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1RE.

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Programme
Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata no.5 in C minor, Op.10 no.1
Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata no.24 in F sharp major, Op.78
Frédéric Chopin – Fantasy in F minor, Op.49
Frédéric Chopin – Scherzo no.2 in B flat minor, Op.31
Frédéric Chopin – Ballade no.1 in G minor, Op.23

Performers
Matthew Mclachlan – piano

Programme Note
Following its acclaimed debut in 2024, the prestigious Edinburgh Royal Mile Royal International Piano Series returns with a complete cycle of Beethoven’s 32 Piano Sonatas and other works, performed across the 2026–27 season. Showcasing exceptional talent from leading UK and international pianists, each recital offers a unique perspective on some of the most profound and beloved works in the piano repertoire.

This season marks the 200th anniversary of Beethoven’s death – these concerts pay a fitting tribute to his great genius, two centuries on.

Set against the magnificent backdrop of St Giles’ Cathedral — illuminated by candlelight and enhanced by a newly installed Steinway grand piano — these concerts promise an unforgettable musical experience at the heart of Edinburgh’s historic Royal Mile.

About Matthew McLachlan
Matthew was born in 2000 and started piano lessons with his father in 2008. At 11 years of age he passed grade 8 and entered Wells Cathedral School as a specialist musician, studying with John Byrne. After two years in Somerset he entered Chetham’s in Manchester where he studied piano with Dina Parakhina and Cello with Gill Thoday. After gaining the ATCL and LTCL recital diplomas with distinction in 2014 and 2015, Matthew was awarded the FTCL in 2016. This followed on from winning third prize in the senior division of the first Scottish International Youth Prize Competition, held at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in July 2016. In 2014 Matthew’s performance of Ravel’s G Major Piano Concerto was commended in the Chetham’s Concerto competition and in the same year he was a prizewinner at the 2014 Mazovia Chopin Festival in Poland. As a result of his performance in Mazovia, he was selected to perform a 60-minute solo recital at the 2015 World Piano Teachers’ Conference (WPTC) in Novi Sad, Serbia.