We're a for-fun organisation of Edinburgh-area amateur musicians who like to get together Thursday nights for a bit of playing. We've been around since 1995. We work up two concerts every year - but we meet mostly just to play.

We welcome all abilities, all ages, and all backgrounds - anyone who can handle grade 3 or 4 on up - and we hold no auditions, ever. Our musical focus varies from orchestral favourites like Sibelius's Finlandia and William Walton's Crown Imperial March to showy tunes like Jerome Moross's theme to Big Country and Ron Goodwin's Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines, and to lesser known works like the Max Bruch Septett in e-flat Minor and an in-house arrangement of Arvo Pärt's choral Pari Intervallo.

We have recently performed Mendelsohn's Hebrides overture and the 1st and 4th movements from Brahms's 1st Symphony, as well as concertos featuring some of our own players as soloists.


We currently have spaces for violas, 'cellos, double bass and all brass (particularly french horns and trombones) so please email us if you're interested in joining and someone will get in touch. If you play another instrument, we don't have a space right now, but please check back in case that changes.

Rehearsals are at the Stockbridge Parish Church, on Saxe Coburg Street in Edinburgh, every Thursday at 7:30 p.m. We play two terms, one from September through December, and one from January through May, as well as a more informalshort session in the summer.