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Director of Edinburgh international festival warns cuts put its status at risk

Nicola Benedetti calls for significant rise in public and philanthropic support to maintain its global reputation

The director of the Edinburgh international festival has warned it could lose its status as one of the world’s greatest arts events without significant increases in public and philanthropic support.

Nicola Benedetti, a Grammy-winning classical violinist who became the festival’s director in 2022, said she feared the creative arts that underpinned it were at risk of stagnating because of repeated funding cuts.

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