St Cecilia's Hall, an unassuming building in the heart of Edinburgh's Old Town, houses a unique oval 18th-century concert hall perfectly suited to small-scale chamber music performances which are the hallmark of the Georgian Concert Society. Originally built by the Edinburgh Musical Society in 1762/63 to a design by Robert Mylne (1733-1811), it is now the oldest purpose-built concert hall in Scotland, and the second oldest still in use (after Oxford's Holywell Room) in the British Isles.

As a place for public chamber concerts, very often of unusual and rare programme, the Hall is used chiefly by the Georgian Concert Society. It is also used for The Sypert Summer Concert Series and during the Edinburgh International Festival period to present a series of concerts 'Harpsichords at St Cecilia's Hall'. These concert series often feature instruments from the Russell and Mirrey Collections of Early Keyboard Instruments which are housed in the building as part of the St Cecilia's Hall Museum of Instruments.

  Interior of St Cecilia's Hall, the oldest
  concert hall in Scotland (photograph
  by Joe Rock)