EVENT 1: OPENING CONCERT

Donald Grant, violin
Su-a Lee, cello
Fergus McCreadie, piano

Handel, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin. . . they all thrilled audiences by doing something we just don’t expect of classical musicians these days: improvising. Inventing music on the wing was an expected skill and Brahms was a master. So, we open ENF 2026 with inspirational and versatile pianist Fergus McCreadie performing Brahms’ Op. 10 Ballades then taking them as the musical DNA of his own ‘ballades’. This will be a first for McCreadie (and for ENF), and he follows it with a second half in the company of friends in duos and trios with two faces familiar to ENF audiences, both musicians who cross genres with ease and delight.

Fergus McCreadie last appeared at ENF in 2022, since when his album Forest Floor won him a Mercury Prize shortlist nomination, Jazz FM’s Instrumentalist of the Year award, and the Scottish Album of the Year award. Su-a Lee and Donald Grant thrive as two of the most eclectic, uncategorisable and imaginative musicians Scotland can boast. Both have had fantastic years since their most recent ENF appearances on screen in 2025 in Andy McGregor’s The Light, The Bell & The Burden.

Hear more from Donald Grant & Su-a Lee in EVENT 14: RIHAB AZAR.

Please note, this performance includes an interval.

• £23.00 - £30.00
• 1 July 2026
• 120 minutes
• 19:00
• Crail Church
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