Tag: Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Scotland's specialist music school in Edinburgh's West End is to make music with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra (SCO) this spring.The SCO Wind Academy is open to school-aged wind instrument players who have reached...

A special workshop given by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra will take place on Monday 11 March 2019. This is part of the orchestra’s ReConnectprogramme – a series of interactive music workshops for people living with...

The proposed IMPACT (International Music and Performing Arts Charitable Trust) Centre will be Edinburgh’s first new dedicated space for music and the performing arts in 100 years. Part of the funding in the recently...

The Scottish Chamber Orchestra today reveals the dynamic young conductor Maxim Emelyanychev as its next Principal Conductor.Maxim Emelyanychev will take up the post in September 2019. During his first season – which will be...

Gavin Reid is CEO of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and yesterday he was named as Chair of the Association of British Orchestras in succession to Kathryn McDowell CBE.ABO Director Mark Pemberton said : “It was...

The Scottish Chamber Orchestra have launched their exciting new programme for the remainder of this year and the beginning of next.Robin Ticciati has announced this is his last year as Principal Conductor and he...

The first Lord Provost's Garden Party was held at Lauriston Castle to honour and recognise the volunteers in Edinburgh. Five hundred guests from the volunteer sector were invited to the Castle and entertained by the...

 SCO celebrates a year as resident orchestra for Edinburgh primary schoolThe Scottish Chamber Orchestra is soon to complete its first year as resident orchestra for Preston Street Primary School. The Orchestra has been working...

It was the spirit of the dance that suffused all three pieces in Saturday’s inspirational Queen's Hall concert from the Scottish Chamber Orchestra under its conductor emeritus Joseph Swensen, and dance brought the works...

With an (almost) all-Beethoven programme featuring two of the composer’s most celebrated works, it was hardly surprising that the Usher Hall was gratifyingly packed for Thursday night’s thrilling SCO concert. It could have ended...

 It’s no surprise that the young French harpsichordist and conductor Emmanuelle Haïm has been dubbed ‘Ms Dynamite’ by certain critics. Her fiery interpretations, brimming over with energy and enthusiasm, were much in evidence in...

Roy McEwan, Chief Executive of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, was invested with an OBE for services to music yesterday.  It was awarded by HRH The Princess Royal at Buckingham Palace.Commenting on his award which...

The world premiere of storm, rose, tiger by the young Glasgow-born composer Martin Suckling opened Thursday night’s concert Usher Hall by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and if this astonishingly confident and likeable work is...

Leonard Bernstein described Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique as the first example of psychedelia in music. He might have had a point: there’s a suggestion that the composer wrote the 1832 piece while under the influence...

Janiczek directs CL@SIX: Drum Roll The Voice of a City, a family concert The second in Robin Ticciati’s series Stravinsky: The Chamber Ballets Piemontesi debuts with Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 25 in C Chamber Concert featuring Piemontesi and...

The month starts with the last of this Season’s popular early evening CL@SIX series on Tuesday 1 February at 6pm at St Cuthbert’s Parish Church in Edinburgh, with Drum Roll.  The concert opens with...