Dementia Trust Christmas Concert 2025
St Vincent’s Chapel | 12th December 2025 | 6pm
We are delighted to share the Dementia Trust is hosting its first ever Christmas Concert. Join us for a magical evening filled with beautiful music and festive cheer at St Vincent's Chapel, Edinburgh EH3 6SW.
This concert will celebrate the joy and spirit of the holiday season, bringing together those closest to the Dementia Trust and the surrounding community of supporters. The evening will provide performances of Christmas classics by an array of talented musicians and singers.
By purchasing tickets, your support can help make a difference in the lives of those affected by dementia. Join us for this heartwarming performance which will leave you in the holiday spirit.
Event pProgramme
6PM- Arrival
6:30PM- Welcome from Chair, Dylan Harper
6:45PM- Performance from Catherine Duncan
7:30PM- Performance from Scottish Chamber Orchestra Young Singers’
8PM- Drinks and refreshments
Catherine Duncan
“I feel honoured to be part of the Dementia Trust Christmas Concert this year. As close family members of mine have suffered with Dementia, it’s a cause very close to my heart. I’m grateful for all of the work which the Dementia Trust do and warmly welcome you to join us on the 12th of December.”
Catherine Duncan is a Scottish pianist currently based in London. She is active both as a soloist and chamber musician and gives regular performances throughout the UK, and is the founder and artistic director of the Three Rivers Festival. She is passionate about music as an instrument of dialogue and about classical performance as a powerful means of bringing people together. Catherine loves to curate programmes which allow works to be heard with a fresh perspective and which draw upon little explored links between composers.
As a semi-finalist of the BBC Scotland Young Classical Competition she featured on BBC Radio Scotland playing Villa-Lobos and Ginastera. She has given solo recitals in Rome, Dunblane and in Birmingham performing a programme which included solo works by Bach and Rachmaninov, and culminated in Rachmaninov’s Transcription of Bach’s Violin Partita in E major.
Catherine is currently completing her Artist Masters at Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London where she has received a scholarship to undertake an Artist Diploma in Piano Accompaniment, continuing her studies with Carole Presland. Before moving to Birmingham, Catherine studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Junior Department with Claire Haslin. During these formative years she also studied violin with Kathleen Simans. Her experience at the Junior Conservatoire deeply impacted her, fostering a love not only of music and performance but of the intrinsic value of musical connection. This instilled in her a strong desire to give what she had received back to the next generation and fulled her passion for music education, a love nurtured and developed during her time as a lead ambassador for the Benedetti Foundation.
The Scottish Chamber Orchestra Young Singers' Programme is designed to nurture and develop aspiring young singers and is aimed at musicians with a high level of singing/choral experience who wish to further their musicianship and choral technique through singing with a world-class ensemble.
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