Music for everyone
24/25 SEASON
Welcome to your 2024/25 Season
Following our special 50th anniversary celebrations, we're delighted to introduce a new Season that’s just as rich, varied and inspiring – with many familiar figures, some new faces, and most importantly a wealth of music to delight and excite every taste.
Your 24/25 Concerts
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From Scotland to Persia
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Matinee
Glasgow
Edinburgh
SCO Wind Soloists are joined by exceptional players from RCS.![Against a dark, starry night sky with a large bright star on the left, two silhouettes of faces with mouths opened are tilted up as if singing to the star.]()
Bach's Christmas Oratorio
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Choral
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Celebrate the coming festivities with one of music’s most uplifting seasonal creations.![Violinist Aylen Pritchin stands holding his instrument, looking to the left with a smile on his face, against a dark background with bright red and green shapes.]()
Prokofiev & Brahms
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Edinburgh
Glasgow
Aberdeen
Prokofiev’s darkly lyrical Violin Concerto No 2 is the ideal musical match for the exceptional violinist Aylen Pritchin and conductor Maxim.![SCO clarinettists William Stafford, holding his clarinet and smiling, and Maximiliano Martín, playing the clarinet, are set against a dark background surrounded by bright red shapes.]()
Eine kleine Nachtmusik
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St Andrews
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Maxim Emelyanychev surrounds one of Mozart’s most-loved pieces with rarities created around the same time by Haydn, Krommer and Wranitzky.![A bright green background with light white stars, featuring a cartoon drawing of a church with an illuminated window and a bright star.]()
Silent Night
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Choral
Edinburgh
Join the luminous voices of the SCO Chorus in the intimate setting of Greyfriars Kirk for a much-loved Edinburgh musical tradition.![A cartoon drawing of a champagne bottle with the cork popping out alongside confetti, with a chandelier hanging above, set against a dark green and bright red background.]()
New Year Gala
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1 Matinee
Edinburgh
Ayr
Dumfries
Celebrate the New Year in style with musical glitz and glamour – from both sides of the Atlantic.![Violinist Rachel Podger holds her instrument, smiling at the camera, against a light pink and dark green background.]()
Bach's Brandenburg Concertos
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Matinee
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Aberdeen
Join British violinist Rachel Podger in a concert focusing on some of JS Bach’s most iconic orchestral music.![Geneva Lewis with her violin, smiling at the camera against a dark background with shapes in various shades of pink.]()
Sibelius Violin Concerto
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Edinburgh
Glasgow
SCO Conductor Emeritus Joseph Swensen directs the fiery Sibelius Violin Concerto, alongside the coolly elegant Sixth Symphony.![Maxim Emelyanychev looking into the camera, hand touching his jawline, against a gradient background of blue, pink, and orange waves.]()
Ad Absurdum
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New Dimensions
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Jörg Widmann’s whirlwind of a trumpet concerto from Sergei Nakariakov forms the centrepiece of a concert to raise a laugh.![A bright yellow, green, and white background with a cartoon drawing of the Great Grumpy Gaboon, a brown creature with white wings, sitting in a bed of flowers.]()
The Great Grumpy Gaboon
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Matinee
Dundee
Aberdeen
Inverness
Join the Grumpy Gaboon and friends on this brand-new musical adventure as they discover the importance of friendship and forgiveness.
Your 24/25 Brochure
Latest news
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The Great Grumpy Gaboon: a chat with Jay Capperauld and Corrina Campbell
21 November 2024
What is a Gaboon, and why is it grumpy? We chatted to the creators of our new Family Festival to find out ...![]()
The story behind Silent Night and other carols
18 November 2024
The history of Christmas carols is long and surprisingly varied - we look at a few of them.![]()
The clarinet concerto
11 November 2024
It's the clarinet's turn to step centre-stage for a look at their concerto repertoire. It's possible Mozart is mentioned!![Composer Andrea Tarrodi leaning forward with one arm resting on a surface and her face resting on the palm of her other hand.]()
Digital Season: Andrea Tarrodi Serenade in Seven Colours
6 November 2024
Read the programme note for our online performance of Tarrodi's Serenade in Seven Colours.![]()
The search for Beethoven's successor
4 November 2024
Beethoven died in 1827. Who would be worthy to take on his mantle?![]()
Schubert's Unfinished and other incomplete works
1 November 2024
Schubert is far from the only composer to have put a piece of music aside and leave it unfinished ...![]()
Why is there so little classical Christmas music?
28 October 2024
Where are all the Christmas classics from the great composers?![Three men, dressed formally: one Victorian, with a short grey beard, one young and clean-shaven, in sepia, the last (in a painting) with a long grey beard and glasses]()
The lure of the exotic: northern Africa in classical music
21 October 2024
How does the west's fascination with the wider Arab world come across in music? We look at a few examples ...![A historic photograph of Samuel Taylor-Coleridge sitting in a chair, wearing a suit.]()
Digital Season: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Novelletten
17 October 2024
Read the programme note for our online performance of Coleridge-Taylor's Novelletten Nos 1 & 3.![André Cebrián and Marta Gómez play the flute sitting in the SCO desks]()
The flute concerto
14 October 2024
In the third installment of our series looking at the concerto, it's the turn of the SCO flautists to recommend their favourites.
