The Edinburgh Quartet
With its distinguished international profile, the Edinburgh Quartet is Scotland's premier string quartet. The Quartet is Resident at the Ian Tomlin School of Music, Napier University, and regularly plays at the University of Glasgow. It is one of the UK's longest-established university-based professional quartets and is Scotland's only full-time chamber ensemble.
The Dunedin Consort
Founded in 1996 and led by John Butt of the Department of Music and Soprano Susan Hamilton, the Dunedin Consort is one of Scotland's most highly regarded ensembles. Their recent recording of the Handel Messiah on Linn Records was described by Gramophone magazine as "the freshest, most natural, revelatory and transparently joyful Messiah I have heard" and went onto win two international awards.
Kevin Bowyer
Kevin Bowyer has the unique distinction of having won five international organ competitions and is well known as a live and recording recitalist, teacher and examiner. He has an enormously wide repertoire and is renowned for "playing the unplayable" - notably the extraordinarily long and difficult Sorabji organ symphonies, which he is currently working on as a major research project. He has a prodigious recording output including the entire organ works of JS Bach. As organist to the University since 2005, he is heavily involved in the work of the highly acclaimed Chapel Choir.
