Edinburgh Gathering

Saturday 23 May

Overview

St Giles’ Cathedral, founded in 1124 by King David I, has served as a working church for more than 900 years. As a witness to Scotland’s turbulent religious history, it has stood at the centre of major national events – from the early stirrings of civil war, as John Knox’s parish church during the Reformation, to the laying-in-rest of her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth and the presentation of the Honours of Scotland to His Majesty King Charles III. The Choir of St Giles’ Cathedral is an adult choir of thirty singers drawn from the City of Edinburgh and further afield.
The present St Giles’ organ was built in 1992 by the Austrian firm of Rieger Orgelbau, in consultation with Herrick Bunney and Peter Hurford. The instrument, with its distinctive case of Austrian oak designed by Douglas Laird, stands in the South Transept.