Lammermuir Festival Returns to East Lothian for 13 Days of Classical Music Performances

The annual Lammermuir Festival takes place from Tuesday 8 to Sunday 20 September 2026 across various locations in East Lothian, including churches, halls, the riverside in Haddington, coastal Dunbar, mediaeval Whitekirk, and Amisfield Garden.

The 13-day event features world-class musicians and ensembles. Festival highlights include a major Mozart piano concerto project led by pianist Jeremy Denk with the Royal Northern Sinfonia, and a Haydn residency from Concerto Copenhagen featuring the Morning, Noon and Night symphonies. The festival partners with Scottish Opera to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Benjamin Britten with a concert of his works for solo voice and orchestra, while Ensemble Jupiter marks John Dowland's 400th anniversary.

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Additional performances include a concert version of Mozart's Cosï fan tutte conducted by Dinis Sousa, and debut appearances by pianist Javier Perianes, guitarist Samrat Majumder, and The English Concert. Period performance groups Dunedin Consort, Tenebrae, and the Marian Consort are also on the line-up. Contemporary and Scottish works feature music by Judith Weir, Stuart MacRae, Helen Grime, Thea Musgrave, Anthony Braxton, Max Baillie, and György Kurtág's Kafka Fragments performed by Claire Booth and Tamsin Waley-Cohen.

Other scheduled projects include 100 Tubas performing at Haddington's Amisfield Walled Garden, alongside vocal performances of song cycles by Schubert, Britten, Strauss, and Janáček performed by Roderick Williams, Nicholas Mulroy, Lucy Crowe, and Joshua Ellicott.