Inverness Music Festival 2025
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The 2025 festival will place at Inverness Methodist Church March 6th-9th March and 13th -16th March.
We look forward to welcoming our adjudicators – Willie Aristide Deighan, Keith Hamilton, Fiona Maclean-Buechel, Paul Anderson, Isbel Pendlebury, Iain Campbell, Ceitidh Campbell, Lisa Milne.
Welcome to Inverness Music Festival Website. We are a small and friendly festival with the emphasis on encouraging amateur performers to come along and show us what you can do in a supportive environment. Our motto is ‘Performance for everyone – All ages and all stages welcome. Whatever you want to share, there is an event for you – Music of all genres, Speech, Drama, Composition, there is even a Primary Art Competition!
Classes which are still open may be seen on our syllabus – Click the Pigeon tab at the top left of the page which says ‘Enter here’ to be taken to the Play and Perform website where you can browse. If you cannot see the information you need, please email us on invernessmusicfestival@gmail.com
Thank you to everyone who entered by the closing date in December- this alllows us to programme the festival. A provisional timetable has now been produced so please contact us if you have specific questions. To help you, piano, strings, woodwind and brass will be 6th-8th March and Piping, Clarsach, Trad bands, and fiddle will be 15th March. There will be vocal and speech classes on both weekends. The premier competitions will be on 16th March.
We are now in LATE ENTRY PHASE until Friday 10th January. Woodwind, Brass ,Strings and advanced Piano classes remain open. Also Clarsach, Fiddle, Traditional music and some piping, speech and vocal classes. If you have any questions, or do not see something you hoped to enter, please enquire at invernessmusicfestival@gmail.com, and we will see if there is space to accommodate you. There is a 50p surcharge for late entries.
Calling all Primary age children – why not draw us a picture on the theme of MY HAPPY PLACE. Closing date for primary art is 31st January, with prizes for the best entries.
Congratulations to all of the performers in our 2024 Premier Competition. The Winners this time were:
Elizabeth Davis Quaich for Traditional Music- Lily Robertson
Curtis Craig Trophy for Classical Music- Graeme Buist
Photo: Ian Sharp (judge) Emma Cameron (fiddle) Beth Hutchison (brass) Emlyn Jones (violin), Lily Robertson (Trad vocal) Graeme Buist (Classical vocal) Megan Fisher (woodwind), Claire McAdam (piano), Grace Kelman (pipes), Charlie McKerron (judge).
Please see here for Festival 2024 Class Winners.
Inverness Music Festival is a local showcase opportunity for all amateur performers. Everyone is welcome – all ages, all stages, no matter your background you are welcome to join us. We want to share a love of music and creative arts, and give everyone the opportunity to stand up and try out their performance skills in a supportive environment. Inverness festival has been welcoming groups and individuals for over 100 years.
PRIMARY ART COMPETITION.
The 2024 competition theme was ‘Nature in the Highlands’ and the winner was Fearchar Mackinnon. Please see here for our gallery of winning and commended entries.
Fearchar First Prize
A Big Thank you to Inverness Methodist Church for being our hosts again in 2025.
If you enjoy the festival, please remember that we cannot bring you these events without financial support and without help. If you have time or skills to offer, please get in touch. We ALWAYS need volunteers! No experience necessary, just enthusiasm.
Donations, however small can be made via the Total Giving tab at any time and are very much appreciated.
Zack Carroll. Winner Songs from Stage ad Screen Secondary and Adult Dramatic performance 2024