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Bill Salmond’s Louisiana Ragtime Band Palazzo Spiegeltent 6pm Price - £10 (plus 50p per ticket booking fee) Step back to the early 1920's, to the birth place of jazz: to the music of the bars and dance halls of New Orleans: Louis, Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver. Swinging sounds delivered with real conviction, spirit and passion from this hugely popular Edinburgh group, led by banjoist, Bill Salmond, and tonight in an all star version with Finlay Milne (trumpet), Jake McMahon (clarinet), Tom Finlay (piano), Bill Brydon (bass), and Kenny Milne (drums).

Bernarda Fink Mezzo sopranoAnthony Spiri Piano Songs by Schumann, Mahler, Debussy and Falla Eloquence and elegance characterise Argentinian-born mezzo soprano Bernarda Fink’s raptuorously received recitals. Acclaimed both for her golden-toned voice and for her subtle characterisations, Fink offers vivid, deeply expressive song performances. With her regular recital partner, US-born pianist Anthony Spiri, she traces a journey from the sombre, emotionally complex Lenau-Lieder of Schumann through to the joyful, folk-inspired Seven PopularSpanish Songs by Manuel de Falla. In between, she contrasts vivid settings from Des Knaben Wunderhorn by Mahler with Debussy’s evocative Trois mélodies, dreamy settings of poems by Paul Verlaine. ‘Fink’s mezzo tone is like velvet’ The Herald, Festival 2009 This concert will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. Tuesday 13 August 11.00amThe Queen’s Hall Tickets£29 £26 £21 £17.50 £11 £8 1 hour 45 minutes approximately eif.co.uk/fink-spiri

Beckett at the Festival Beckett on Film Producer of the Beckett on Film project, Michael Colgan discusses the challenges in creating thisextraordinary film collection. Friday 30 August 12 noon1 hour approximately   The Hub Tickets £6 eif.co.uk/beckettevents

Beckett at the Festival Beckett and Contemporary Art: Make Sense Who May Derval Tubridy, Goldsmiths, University of London, explores the vibrant interplay between Samuel Beckett’s work and contemporary art with a particular focus on bodies and technology. Chaired by Octavian Saiu. Wednesday 28 August 2.30pm1 hour approximately The Hub Tickets £6 eif.co.uk/beckettevents

Batchelors of Jazz Palazzo Spiegeltent  6.00-7.30pm Price - £12 (plus 50p per ticket booking fee) Trombonist and singer, Dave Batchelor, runs one of the most entertaining traditional jazz bands in Scotland. Classic dixieland jazz played with real verve and rhythmic punch by some of Scotland's finest jazz musicians: Colin Steele (trumpet), Hamish McGregor (saxes/clarinet). Fraser Spiers (harmonica), Alastair MacDonald (banjo), Ronnie Rae (bass) and Ken Mathieson (drums).

Bandakadabra Tron Kirk  Price -  £5 (plus 50p per ticket booking fee) Continuing the carnival atmosphere – the twelve Italian brass, reeds and drums play party music from wild Balkan dances to traditional Mediterranean marches and Latino jazz. Uplifting.

Arditti Quartet
Janácek      String Quartet No 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’Xenakis        I khoor                      TetrasNancarrow  String Quartet No 1                      String Quartet No 3                      Player Piano Study No 31 (arr. Paul Usher)                      Player Piano Study No 33 (arr. Paul Usher)
Widely celebrated as one of the world’s preeminent contemporary music ensembles, the Arditti Quartet is famed for its spellbinding performances that combine authority and passion.
Yet its players are also respected for their perceptive readings of classic repertoire, including Janácek’s First String Quartet, whose dazzling colours and soaring melodies were inspired by Tolstoy and.Beethoven.
Xenakis’s Ikhoor and Tetras are riotous celebrations of sound, forged from the complexities of advanced mathematics, but expressed in music of raw, wild emotion. And four pieces by US maverick Conlon Nancarrow create an appealing sense of fun with their jazzy, intricate.rhythms.
‘always impress with their vibrant and committed performances’ The.Scotsman, Festival 2011
This concert will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.
Tuesday 27 August 11.00amThe Queen’s Hall
Tickets£29 £26 £21 £17.50 £11 £8
1 hour 45 minutes approximately
eif.co.uk/arditti2
Supported bySusie Thomson

Art and Technology Professor of Epistemics Jon Oberlander, Professor of Composition and Electroacoustic Composition Peter Nelson, and Chris Speed of the Edinburgh College of Art discuss historical, conceptual and philosophical relationships between the performing arts and technology. Chaired by theatre specialist Olga Taxidou. Thursday 29 August 2.30pm 1 hour approximately The Hub Tickets £6 eif.co.uk/university

Angie King Tron Kirk  Price -  £5 (plus 50p per ticket booking fee) A consummate jazz singer swing, charm, crystal clear diction and effervescent good humour.

Andreas Haefliger Piano Schubert                  Piano Sonata in G D894Beethoven               Piano Sonata in B flat Op106 ‘Hammerklavier’ Two titans of the piano repertoire are performed by the formidable Swiss pianist Andreas Haefliger, whose combination of luxuriant richness and steely control in his impeccable playing have earnt himworldwide acclaim. Although his earlier works had been conceived for the wooden fortepiano, Beethoven needed the modern, metal-framed pianoforte to unleash his ‘Hammerklavier’ Sonata on the world, and he pushes the instrument to its limits in the Sonata’s hugely powerful, dramatic music. Before the interval, and in complete contrast, Schubert’s G major Sonata is a study in serenity, peace and luminosity, the ideal setting for Haefliger’s poetic insights. ‘at the peak of his powers… masterly’ The Sunday Times Saturday 17 August 11.00amThe Queen’s Hall Tickets£29 £26 £21 £17.50 £11 £8 1 hour 45 minutes approximately eif.co.uk/haefliger Supported byClaire and Mark Urquhart