Friday 23 January 2026, 7pm
Events at Holy Trinity Church, December 2025
Friday 5 December, 7.30pm: University of St Andrews Madrigal Group
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Saturday 6 December, 7pm: University of St Andrews Christian Union Carol
Service
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Sunday 7 December, 4pm: Millfield School Singers: Advent and Christmas Choral
Concert
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Sunday 7 December, 6:30pm: Millfield School Singers – Evensong
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Saturday 13 December, 10am: Guild Fair
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Saturday 13 December, 7pm: St Andrews and Fife Community Orchestra (StAFCO)
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Tuesday 16 December, 7pm: Community Christmas concert
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Wednesday 17 December: 2pm Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Mozart Matinee
Peter Whelan conductor/fortepiano
Tara Erraught mezzo soprano
Maximiliano Martín clarinet
Peter Franks posthorn
MOZART Serenade KV 320 ‘Posthorn’, interspersed with arias from Mozart’s Mitridate, La
clemenza di Tito, Così fan Tutte, Le nozze di Figaro.
MOZART Overture, Der Schauspieldirektor
From a big-hearted Serenade to uplifting opera arias – celebrate the full breadth of Mozart’s
musical glories at this sumptuous concert, in the company of some passionate Mozartians.
Peter Whelan is one of Europe’s most exciting and vibrant conductors of Baroque and Classical
repertoire – formerly the SCO’s Principal Bassoonist, he’s now Artistic Director of the Irish Baroque
Orchestra. He pulls apart the movements of Mozart’s festive ‘Posthorn’ Serenade – which wittily
incorporates the distinctive sounds of the mail-coach trumpet – and intersperses them with vibrant
arias from some of the composer’s most adored operas, sung by acclaimed Irish mezzo soprano
Tara Erraught.
From strong emotions to effervescent fun, experience all the musical mastery of Mozart.
SUNDAY 30 NOVEMBER 2025, 11:15am in HOLY TRINITY
Advent Carol Service – come and join us for a traditional Christmas service.
SUNDAY 7 DECEMBER 2025, 4pm in HOLY TRINITY
Advent and Christmas Choral Concert by Millfield School Singers.
Events at Holy Trinity Church, November 2025
Friday 21 November, 7.30pm: University of St Andrews Music Society
‘A night with the bands’
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Saturday 22 November, 3pm Scottish Chamber Orchestra in partnership with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
MOZART arr CEBRIÁN Music from The Marriage of Figaro
MACMILLAN Untold
CAPPERAULD Carmina Gadelica
DOVE Figures in the Garden
MOZART Sextet in B-flat KV270
MENDELSSOHN arr
CEBRIÁN Music from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The SCO’s internationally renowned Wind Soloists join forces with some of Scotland’s most accomplished young players for a kaleidoscopic concert of wit and wild imagination – with Mozart rediscovered amid some distinctively Scottish landscapes.
SCO Principal Flute André Cebrián follows in a centuries-old tradition in reworking music from Mozart’s sparkling operas for the velvety richness of a wind ensemble, while Jonathan Dove imagines The Marriage of Figaro taking place among the blooms and bushes of a very English garden.
By way of contrast, Sir James MacMillan explores an Irish love song in his early, rarely heard Untold, while SCO Associate Composer Jay Capperauld takes inspiration from Gaelic hymns, incantations and songs in his striking new wind dectet, Carmina Gadelica.
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Wednesday 26 November, 7pm: St Andrews and Fife Community Orchestra (StAFCO) concert
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Saturday 29 November, 7.30pm: University of St Andrews Music Society (MUSSOC) Symphony Orchestra
Events at Holy Trinity Church, October 2025
Sunday 5 October, 4.30pm: St Andrews University Chamber Orchestra
Michael Downes and Bede Williams (conductors)
Principal Clarinettist of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Honorary Professor of Woodwind Maximiliano Martín join the St Andrews Chamber Orchestra in the wittily virtuosic clarinet concerto by French neo-classicist Jean Françaix. Johannes Brahms’ epically conceived (over a period of nigh-on 20 years), Symphony no. 1 and a new work by New Zealand composer Miriama Young complete the programme.
£15, £10 for Music Centre Members, and £6 for students!
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Thursday 16 October, 7pm: Topping & Co. author talk.
Julie Wilson Nimmo and Greg Hemphill talk about Wild Swimming.
JULES & GREG’S WILD SWIM is an accessible guide for anyone who is interested in wild swimming. Following on from their successful BBC TV series this companion volume is packed with practical information, tips and personal stories, taking you to the beautiful wild swimming spots around Scotland.
Bringing humour and knowledge, Julie and Greg advocate the benefits of wild swimming, providing advice on how to get started and the best swimming locations. This book is the ultimate guide to your next wild swimming adventure.
Tickets available from https://www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/st-andrews/jules-greg-wild-swim/
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Wednesday 22 October, 7:30pm: Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Alina Ibragimova violin/director
STRAUSS Suite in B-flat Op 4
HARTMANN Concerto funèbre
HAYDN Symphony No.103 in E-flat ‘Drum Roll’
Alina Ibragimova leads us from grief and fear to radiant joy in her deeply emotional concert with the SCO. Ibragimova is among today’s most compelling, perceptive soloists, combining a penetrating musical intellect with gripping, passionate playing – qualities very much on display in her intensely expressive programme.
Haydn composed his ‘Drum Roll’ Symphony expressly to impress, inspire and delight – and more than two centuries later, it still does all three. The sunny, colourful B-flat Suite was the piece that kick-started the 20-year-old Richard Strauss’ musical career, and its music feels just as fresh and appealing today.
Ibragimova’s concert centrepiece is a concerto she has long championed. Written during the dark first days of the Second World War, Karl Amadeus Hartmann’s Concerto funèbre draws on influences from Bruckner and Mahler in music of deep compassion, sadness and visionary hope.
Tickets available from https://www.sco.org.uk/venues/holy-trinity-church
SATURDAY 10 MAY 2025, 10am in HOLY TRINITY
SUNDAY 4 MAY 2025, 7:30pm in HOLY TRINITY
SATURDAY 5 APRIL 2025, 7pm in HOLY TRINITY
St Andrews Chorus Concert: Handel Messiah
WEDNESDAY 26 MARCH 2025, 7:30pm in HOLY TRINITY
Global violin superstar Isabelle van Keulen joins the SCO for a concert celebrating works by Schumann & Schubert.
SUNDAY 21 APRIL 2024, 11:15am Service in Holy Trinity
SERVICES DURING HOLY WEEK 2024:
We have a series of services in both Holy Trinity and Dunino during Holy Week. And Holy Trinity Church is open 11am to 3pm each weekday (25-29 March 2024).
Come along and join us!
Wednesday 27th March, 7pm
Service of Meditation in Dunino
Thursday 28th March, 7pm
Maundy Thursday Service and Communion in Holy Trinity
Friday 29th March, 7pm
Good Friday Service in Holy Trinity
Sunday 31st March
09:45am Morning Worship in Dunino
11:15am Morning Worship in Holy Trinity
3pm Children’s Easter Service and Easter Egg Hunt
Holy Trinity Church, South Street, St Andrews is open 11am to 3pm each weekday during Holy Week (25-29th March 2024). Come along and join us!
CHRISTMAS SERVICES 2023:
24th December, Christmas Eve:
9:45am, Service of Lessons & Carols (Dunino)
11:15am, Service of Lessons & Carols (Holy Trinity)
3:00pm, Ecumenical Children’s Carol Service (Holy Trinity)
7:00pm, Watchnight Service (Dunino)
9:30pm, Watchnight Service at St Leonards, bringing in Christmas at Bethlehem time.
11:30pm, Watchnight Service (Holy Trinity)
25th December, Christmas Day:
10:30am, Christmas Communion (Holy Trinity)
31st December:
9:45am, Service at Dunino
No service at Holy Trinity
7th January 2024:
11:15am, United Service (Holy Trinity)
Sunday 6th August 2023, 16:00
A First Sunday Concert by the Braudar Duo
Free entry with retiring collection
Monday 31st July 2023, 20:00
Tookula Youth Choir Concert
Free entry with retiring collection
Thursday 6th July, 19:30
Glasgow Orchestral Society Concert
Entry by donation
Wednesday 21st June, 19:30
Madison Youth Choirs Concert (Free)
Tuesday 13th June, 18:00
Cantores Minores Concert
Saturday 27th May, 19:30
Pomona College Glee Club and St Andrews Madrigal Group
Sunday 14th May, 18:00
Hetty Buchanan String Quartet
Wednesday 10th May, 19:15
Heinz Chapel Choir Concert
Sunday 7th May, 16:00
The Heisenberg Trio
Friday 5th May, 19:30
Choir & Choral Scholars Concert
Friday 5th May, 15:00
Short Afternoon Service
in the Hunter Memorial Aisle
Sunday 5th March, 16:00
Free concert by Hurley & Crook
Sunday 5th February, 16:00
Free concert by Berman & Faber of Jazz vocal standards
Friday 3rd March, 15:00
Short Afternoon Service in Holy Trinity
Wednesday 18th to Wednesday 25th January 2023
WEEK OF PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY
The St Andrews Week of Prayer for Christian Unity starts TODAY (18/01/23).
We will be praying in a different venue each evening – see below.
Come and join us in prayer!
Wednesday 18/01, 7:30 PM, St David’s Centre (community hub)
Thursday 19/01, 7:30 PM, St Marks
Friday, 20/01, 7:30 PM All Saints
Saturday 21/01, 7:30 PM Holy Trinity
Monday 23/01, 5:30 PM St Andrews Episcopal
Tuesday 24/01, 5:30 PM St Leonard’s
Wednesday 25/01, 5:30 PM St Salvator’s Chapel
Saturday 24th December 2022, 15:00
All Age Carol Service
Saturday 3rd December 2022, 19:30 (Doors open 18:45)
St Andrews University Christmas Carol Service
Bringing Christmas to life with carols sung by St Salvator’s Chapel Choir, and a reflection on the Christmas story from the Chaplain, Revd Dr Donald MacEwan.
This service will take place in-person, and will be filmed and available to watch at a later date, a link for which will be published on our Worship, Carol Services web page
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/chaplaincy/worship/carols/
The new Christmas CD from St Salvator’s Chapel Choir ‘The Tyger and the Lamb: A Christmas Dance’, will be available to buy on the night at the discounted price of £10. RRP £14.50 available to buy online via the University Online Shop https://onlineshop.st-andrews.ac.uk/…/the-tyger-and-the…
Wednesday 30th November 2022, 19:00
St Andrews & Fife Community Orchestra Concert
Free Admission
Tuesday 29th November 2022, 19:30
St Andrews University Christian Union Christmas Carol Concert
Free Admission
St Andrews Churches Together Holiday Club – Seaside Rock
9th-12th August, 9.45am – Noon
Coming up is the St Andrews Churches Together Holiday Club! This is an amazing week of games, fun, Bible stories and crafts- and it’s FREE!
If you are interested in signing up your kids then email standrewschurchesholidayclub@email.com
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/St-Andrews-Churches-Holiday-Club-211385692926176
Sunday 24th July 2022, 17:00
The National Youth Choir of Scotland Chamber Choir
Free Admission
St Andrews Churches Together Holiday Club – Seaside Rock
9th-12th August, 9.45am – Noon
Coming up is the St Andrews Churches Together Holiday Club! This is an amazing week of games, fun, Bible stories and crafts- and it’s FREE!
If you are interested in signing up your kids then email standrewschurchesholidayclub@email.com
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/St-Andrews-Churches-Holiday-Club-211385692926176
Tuesday 5th July 2022, 19:00
A Concert in the church by the Choir of the Mikeladze Central School of Music, Georgia
Admission free with a retiring collection
All welcome!
All Saints Church is holding a Recital in aid of Church Funds
Venue: All Saints Church Hall
Date: Saturday 2nd July
Time: 7.30 pm
Christopher Field (violin)
Stephen Spackman (viola)
Duos by Joseph and Michael Haydn, and by Mozart.
Free admission, Interval refreshments, and paper collection
Sunday 12th June 2022, 19:00
SCO Chorus Concert
Thursday 2nd June 2022, 11:00
Platinum Jubilee Service
Wednesday 11th May 2022, 19:30
St Andrews Madrigal Group Concert
Saturday 16th April 2022, 15:00
Toppings Author Talk: Douglas Stuart
Thursday 17st March 2022, 13:00
Carillon Recital
Wednesday 16th March, 19:30
Scottish Chamber Orchestra Concert
Thursday 10th March & Friday 11th March:
a full programme of Stanza Poetry Festival events in the church from 10:00 each day
See www.stanzapoetry.org for full details.
Tuesday 1st March 2022, 14:00
Carillon Recital
Saturday 12th February 2022, 19:30
Heisenberg Ensemble Concert
Tuesday 30th November 2021, 3pm
St Andrew’s Day Carillon Recital by City Carillonneur Callum MacLeod – listen from Church Square
Thursday 25th November: 7:30pm
St Andrews University Symphony Orchestra Concert
Friday 19th November: 7:30pm
Music Society Concert
Thursday 18th November: 1pm
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Friday 12th November, 7.30pm
Toppings Author Talk: Ai Weiwei
Ai Weiwei has written a sweeping memoir that presents a remarkable history of China over the last 100 years while illuminating his artistic process.
At once ambitious and intimate, 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows offers a deep understanding of the myriad forces that have shaped modern China, and serves as a timely reminder of the urgent need to protect freedom of expression.
We hope that you can join us for a special evening in the company of one of the world’s most esteemed artists.
This years Remembrance Service in Holy Trinity will take place on Sunday 14th November 2021 at 10.45am (please note change of service starting time)
There will be an informal Communion service on Sunday 7th November 2021 at 11.15am in Holy Trinity.
Monday 8th November: 7pm
COP26 Quiz Night
in Holy Trinity Church Halls (KY16 9QF)
Thursday 4th November: 8pm
Toppings Author Talk: Dame Mary Beard
From Beard’s reconstruction of Titian’s extraordinary lost Room of the Emperors to her reinterpretation of Henry VIII’s famous Caesarian tapestries, Twelve Caesars includes some fascinating detective work and offers a gripping story of some of the most challenging and disturbing portraits of power ever created.
Wednesday 3rd November 2021: 7.30pm
Scottish Chamber Orchestra Concert
Tickets at the door or from the Byre Theatre website
Monday 1st November 2021: 8pm
Toppings Author Talk: Brian Cox
From Titus Andronicus with the RSC to media magnate Logan Roy in HBO’s Succession, Brian Cox has made his name as an actor of unparalleled distinction and versatility. We know him on screen, but few know of his extraordinary life story.
Growing up in Dundee, Scotland, Cox lost his father when he was just eight years old and was brought up by his three elder sisters in the aftermath of his mother’s nervous breakdowns and ultimate hospitalisation. After joining the Dundee Repertory Theatre at the age of fifteen, you could say the rest is history – but that is to overlook the enormous graft that has gone into forging the man we know today.
This is a rags-to-riches life story like no other – a seminal autobiography that both captures Cox’s distinctive voice and his soul. Rich in emotion and meaning, with plenty of laughs along the way, it will be a classic in the vein of What’s It All About by Michael Caine.
We hope you can join us for an unforgettable night with one of Dundee’s most famous sons.
Friday 22nd October 2021: 8pm
Toppings Author Talk: Miriam Margolyes
BAFTA-winning actor, voice-actor extraordinaire, creator of a myriad of unforgettable characters from Lady Whiteadder to Professor Sprout, Miriam Margolyes, OBE, is the nation’s favourite (and naughtiest) treasure. Now, at the age of 80, she has finally decided to tell her extraordinary life story – and it’s well worth the wait.
Wednesday 13th October 2021: 8pm
Toppings Author Talk: Colm Toibin
Toppings is tremendously excited to announce that Colm Tóibín – three time Booker-shortlisted author, and one of our greatest living writers, will be coming to St Andrews.
Doors open at 7:30pm and the talk starts at 8:00pm
Tickets available on the door.
The Guild dedication will take place during the 11.15am Service on Sunday 10th October 2021
Coming up: Sunday 10th October 2021, 4.30pm:
St Andrews Chamber Orchestra Concert
The choir has returned!
On Sunday 26th September the congregation of Holy trinity St Andrews were delighted to welcome the choir, under the leadership of the their Musical Director Walter Blair, back to worship. It has been eighteen months since the choir were last allowed to meet and it was a joy to hear them singing once again. Holy Trinity has a long tradition of excellent choral music, which is a significant part of their worship, and the choir offer an Introit and an anthem each week. The choir consists of choral scholars and members of the congregation and anyone who would be interested in joining them should contact Walter Blair to arrange an audition.
Tuesday 31st August, 7.30pm:
Steven Moore Concert – Preludes & Encores.
Admission is on a `Pay what you can` basis – Tickets are not required. For more info, see the posters in the church.
