Sound Festival

09/06/2026

We have just three FREE Composers’ Helpline sessions remaining before our summer break!☀️

Whether you’re looking for compositional feedback, career advice, funding support, project development, partnership opportunities, or confidential wellbeing support, our experienced mentors are here to help.

📅 10 June 2026, Pete Stollery
Composer, conductor and recently retired lecturer from the University of Aberdeen. Pete offers guidance on acoustic and electroacoustic composition, professional development, opportunities and programmes across the UK, promotion, publicity, and getting your music heard.

📅 17 June 2026, Ruta Vitkauskaite
Composer, violinist, producer and Lecturer in Composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Rūta brings extensive experience in composition, performance, collaboration, and developing creative projects across the UK and Europe.

📅 24 June 2026, Lisa Robertson
Composer, violinist and tutor at the University of Edinburgh. Lisa can provide support with composition, instrumentation, notation, string writing and techniques, career development, working with musicians, and navigating the landscape for emerging composers in the UK.

🔗 For more information and to book your slot: https://sound-scotland.co.uk/event/composers-helpline

09/06/2026

🎵 Wee Music School Summer Concert! 🎵

Our students have been working incredibly hard over the last few months, and we are absolutely thrilled to invite you to our annual Summer Concert!

Come along for an evening of wonderful music and celebrate the amazing progress our talented young musicians have made. It’s going to be a fantastic hour of performances.

🎹 When: Wednesday 24th June, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
📍 Where: St Andrew’s Cathedral, King Street, Aberdeen

Admission is completely free! We will be welcoming donations at the door, with all proceeds going directly to charity.

Whether you have a child performing, you're part of the Wee Music School community, or you just love supporting local live music, we would love to see you there.

Let's give our students the audience they deserve—feel free to share this post and bring along family and friends! ☀️🎶

09/06/2026

NEW CALL-OUT FOR MUSIC COMMIISSIONS 📣🌍

We are seeking 2 composers or musicians to create new works in direct response our Dear Soil Installation, an archive of love letters written to the ground beneath our feet.

Each commissioned artist will spend time with the letters: reading, listening, sitting with what they find and creating a new piece of music to be performed at the Music Hall Big Sky Studio on October 1st during North East Climate Week.

👉 For more information and on how to apply visit: Dear Soil: An Open Call for Music Commissions
📅 Deadline for applications: Friday 19 June 2026, 5pm

08/06/2026

Citymoves and Sound Festival have been awarded Expanded Festivals Funding by Creative Scotland to support Connect: a project bridging Citymoves’ DanceLive Festival of Dance and soundfestival of New Music in 2026 & 2027.

We are delighted to receive this funding from Creative Scotland's Expanded Festivals Fund. It will allow us to support international artists, companies and collaborators. Focusing on live dance, new music and connecting strands throughout the two North East-based festivals.

Paul Burns, Director of Arts and Engagement at Creative Scotland said: “The Expanded Festivals Fund set out to boost the vital creative work of Scotland’s festivals in every corner of the country, and we can now see the full picture of that significant investment.

“These awards provide security to festivals, with some activity planned through to 2028, and help develop a wide range of work from sector development, international collaboration and new programming initiatives.”

So, mark your diaries and book your train tickets to Aberdeen this October!
Citymoves DanceLive Festival will run 15-19 October with 'Connect' events continuing through the 22nd of October, when soundfestival begins. soundfestival takes place 22-31 October 2026.

Thank you, Creative Scotland.

08/06/2026

Citymoves Dance Agency SCIO and Sound Festival are happy to announce that we are now accepting applications for a Freelance Expanded Festivals Project Coordinator in 2026!

This freelance opportunity is for the work to be undertaken July – November 2026, dependent on the suitability and availability of the candidate.

Specific focus for the role on coordinating the Expanded Festivals Fund programme between DanceLive festival and soundfestival 2026 in Aberdeen. This opportunity is funded by Creative Scotland and administered by Citymoves.

A description of the opportunity is available on request. Please email [email protected]

Those interested in applying should send a full CV and a covering letter explaining what has interested them in the position, and why they believe they would be the best candidate to appoint.
Applications are also accepted as video files and audio recordings.

Please direct enquiries and applications to Hayley Durward, CEO, [email protected]

The Details:
Fee: £3,900
Time Commitment: As a guide, we expect this work to be undertaken over 12 weeks at 2-2.5 days per week. Dependent on experience.

Closing date for applications will be noon on Friday, 19th June 2026
Interviews are planned for Thursday, 25th June 2026

28/05/2026

28/05/2026

This morning we headed out to explore more potential festival venues across Aberdeenshire, including the beautiful visitor centre at Forvie National Nature Reserve.

Such an inspiring space and perfectly aligned with one of the new pieces currently being developed for the festival 🪶🌱

If you’re local to the area or visiting the coast soon, it’s absolutely worth stopping by!

26/05/2026

Upcoming deadline!⏰

21/05/2026

21/05/2026

3rd OPEN CALL
ãIR - Artists in Residence

Open applications for the last call of this year.

RESIDENCY PERIODS:
September 21st - October 26th
November 2nd - December 7th

DEADLINE - July 15th

The application form will be available through the link - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1an1CBVLWtiCrWfOTc80irotLnRj-yNbG/view

Good luck to all the applicants!