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Sound Festival 2025

Adventures in new music

Welcome to soundfestival 2025!

A warm welcome to this year's soundfestival from sound Director Fiona Robertson.

soundfestival 2025: Programme Notes

Thursday 23 October, 12.45pm

Lunchtime Concert

Family-friendly events

Thursday 23 October, 7.00pm

Stone Drawn Circles

Spotlight gigs

GoCompose! 2025 Applications Open

Wed 10 September – Wed 10 December

Composers' Helpline

Saturday 25 October, 4.00pm

Stephanie Lamprea (soprano) and Jessica Kerr (cello)

Mon 15 September 2025 – Mon 9 March 2026

Covfefe: online coffee chat for composers & musicians

Thursday 30 October, 12.45pm

Andreas Borregaard (accordion)

Saturday 1 November, 6.00pm

Composer portraits: Laura Bowler and Jérôme Combier

Friday 31 October, 6.00pm

Zubin Kanga (piano)

Get Creative

Creative music making workshops for young people aged 8-18

Opportunities for composers

"... the sound festival provided exactly the music you didn’t know you needed in our challenging current times, but which you really did."

David Kettle, The Scotsman, Oct 2020
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sound gratefully acknowledges the support of Creative Scotland and Aberdeen City Council.

sound is proud to be a PRS Foundation Talent Development Partner supported by PPL.

Sound Festival is a company limited by guarantee incorporated in Scotland (394992) with its registered office at Woodend Barn Arts Centre, Burn O’Bennie, Banchory, Kincardineshire AB31 5QA, and a Scottish Charity (SC037310) regulated by the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR).

Patrons: Dame Evelyn Glennie DBE, Sir James MacMillan CBE and Rohan de Saram

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