STEVE BURNETT VIOLIN MAKER

This film was nominated for a John Byrne Award! https://www.johnbyrneaward.org.uk/entries/i-agree-we-agree-but-do-they/

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The Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen violins will be heard by a UK-wide audience for the first time in BBC Radio 4’s World War One: The Cultural Front at 10.30am on Saturday 19th August 2017

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The Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon violins will be played in duet at Craiglockhart on August 15th 2017 at a Royal Society of Edinburgh lecture by Neil McLennan, author of a forthcoming book about Owen’s time in Edinburgh.

Both violins were created as symbo...

Thursday 17 August | 2pm - 4pm

In 1917 Wilfred Owen met Siegfried Sassoon in Edinburgh and their 100 year anniversary is being celebrated in the City Arts Centre. Join Catherine Walker, the curator of the War Poets exhibition at Craiglockhart, for a talk on Wilfred Owen...

Full ninety autumns has this ancient beech

Helped with its myriad leafy tongues to swell

The dirges of the deep-toned western gale,

And ninety times hath all its power of speech

Been stricken dumb, at sound of winter's yell ...

WILFRED Owen wrote this poem - Written in a...

A violin that has been made to commemorate 100 years since the start of the First World War is to make its RSC debut.

The violin will be played during a special Christmas Eve performance of Phil Porter's new play The Christmas Truce.

The performance on Christmas Eve will...

The National Trust for Scotland is delighted to announce two concerts are the latest in a series of charity concerts featuring instruments made by Edinburgh violin maker Steve Burnett, which have included concerts for a range of local and international environmental ch...