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 or three 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 the Egmont and Hebrides overtures, and more lately the adagio from Mozart's Serenade no. 11, Rimsky-Korsakov's Dance of the Tumblers, Copland's Appalachian Spring and Beethoven's Second Symphony. Our library has grown pretty big, so new musicians get to learn a lot of different music!


We currently have spaces for violas, oboes, french horns, bassoons, trombones and tubas 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.

Rehersals are at the Stockbridge Parish Church, on Saxe Coburg Street in Edinburgh, every Thursday at 7:30 p.m. We play year-round, except in August, which is Festival time.