Welcome to the Gatehouse Music Society’s 2025/26 season.
Our 2026/27 season brings live, exceptional quality musical experiences to the town, for the enjoyment of all. The programme has at its heart the appreciation of Scotland, its land culture, people and artists.
Our season will open with a performance by two musicians from our region – Will Archibald, cello and Kate Durran, piano. Our newly renovated Steinway will be played by the stupendous young Romanian pianist Daniel Ciobanu. RPS winner Matilda Lloyd, trumpet, with Martin Cousin gets 2027 off to a great start. Mid February, the piano trio, Atelier Ensemble travel from Glasgow to visit us. In March, Mhairi Lawson, soprano, collaborating with Eugene Asti, piano, will celebrate the influence of Scotland through a journey in song. Our season will conclude with a concert by Pirasti Trio with Sophie Renshaw.
All our artists are recognised as being very experienced at engaging with the audience and have spent time curating the programme for us.
We have designed the series to engage with the wider community. The majority of our concerts are in the afternoon and at weekends so as to make access, particularly during harsh weather easier. In order to continue to grow our audience and provide access to musical opportunities we will hold a composition workshop in November with the acclaimed Scottish composer Gillian Walker Gillian will guide participants through music composition on the theme of climate change to create a symphony of sound that combines a celebration of our environment with awareness of the climate change challenge and a musical response. For more information, please contact- chair@GatehouseMusicSociety.org.uk
Our membership remains at £65 and tickets on the door are £17. All concerts take place in Gatehouse Parish Church.
At a glance
22 October 2026 : 7:30pm
Daniel Ciobanu
14 November 2026 : 10:00am – 4:00pm
Climate: Composition Workshop
31 January 2027 : 3:00pm
Matilda Lloyd with Martin Cousin
20 February 2027 : 3:00pm
Atelier Ensemble Glasgow
13 March 2027 : 3:00pm
Mhairi Lawson and Eugene Asti
25 April 2027 : 3:00pm
Pirasti Trio and Sophie Renshaw
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Next Event
Composition Workshop for Climate Change
Saturday 14th November 12:30 – 5:00pm
An afternoon of making music from 12:30 – 5:00pm under the direction of the Scottish composer Gillian Walker. The theme is a community musical response to climate change.
To help inspire us all we will be joined by John Higgs to help explain the science around climate change, Hugh MacMillan, the poet and Ken Smyth the artist. It will be relaxed, creative and fun and I do hope you will come along.
The event is free to our members and under 25year olds, and just £10 to non members, to help us with costs.
Next Concert
31 January 2027 : 3:00pm
Matilda Lloyd with Martin Cousin
Winner of the RPS Young Artist Award 2026, Matilda Lloyd joins forces with pianist Martin Cousin to showcase the full expressive power of her instrument: the trumpet. Tracing back to its origins as a signalling device and a ceremonial instrument, we hear Georg Friedrich Handel’s Water Music composed for King George I’s concert on the River Thames. As we travel towards the present day, the trumpet’s similarity to the human voice and its capability for storytelling emerge in Enesco’s Légende and peak in Deborah Pritchard’s Seven Halts on the Somme, based on a series of 7 oil paintings depicting the stopping points for the British Army along the Somme in the First World War. The concert ends with a nod to jazz, Sammy Nestico’s Portrait of a Trumpet which is dedicated to Conrad Gozzo, the quintessential lead trumpet sound of Hollywood through the 1950s.
One of the highlights from our 2025/6 season was Sir Willard White accompanied by Eugene Asti.
Brabbins Day
The Gatehouse Music Society has been organising concerts – mainly classical chamber, but occasionally jazz – for 75 years. Indeed, music making in Gatehouse goes back some 200 years, initially at the behest of the Church, but later due to the formation of various secular music groups and bands.
Over the years, the Music Society has become recognised for welcoming international, well known performers, up and coming musicians and musicians and ensembles from across the region.
Concerts usually take place in the Gatehouse of Fleet Parish Church and the Faed Gallery at The Mill on the Fleet. Both the church and the Faed Gallery have a wonderful acoustic. The Society currently organises seven concerts in its main programme running between September and May.
