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
![Conductor Andrew Manze with his baton raised, and baritone Roderick Williams singing, against a dark background with bright yellow, green, and pink shapes.]()
Fauré Requiem
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Choral
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Fauré’s hushed prayer for the departed, from outstanding British baritone Roderick Williams, conductor Andrew Manze and the SCO Chorus.![Violinist Pekka Kuusisto standing and playing his violin against a dark background with bright green, blue, and pink shapes.]()
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
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Edinburgh
Glasgow
Outstanding Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto directs and plays one of the best-loved masterpieces in the Romantic violin repertoire.![Composer Ruth Gipps leaning forward with both hands gently touching her face.]()
GIPPS Seascape
Digital Season
Online
Take a dip in the watery wonders of Gipps’s passionate music - and discover her pastoral idyll 'Cringlemire Garden' played live in February.![Pekka Kuusisto strumming his violin in front of a background with bright pink, green, and blue waves.]()
An afternoon with Pekka & friends
Matinee
Edinburgh
Get up close with Finnish violin superstar Pekka Kuusisto in this intimate chamber afternoon.![Pekka Kuusisto gently strumming his violin with eyes closed, set against a gradient background of blue, pink, and orange waves.]()
Parabola
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New Dimensions
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Join Pekka Kuusisto and Simon Crawford-Phillips on an arc through time and musical styles, from Britten to Adès, Beamish to Haydn.![SCO Principal Double Bass Nikita Naumov playing his instrument in front of a bright green background with dark green and light pink shapes.]()
Beethoven's 'Pastoral' Symphony
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Edinburgh
Glasgow
Mark Wigglesworth conducts Beethoven’s hymn of wonder to the natural world, with SCO Principal Nikita Naumov as soloist in Eötvös’s Aurora.![Violinist Isabelle van Keulen smiling at the camera, holding her instrument, against a dark background with light blue and pink shapes.]()
Schumann & Schubert
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St Andrews
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Isabelle van Keulen takes the reins of the SCO for the lyrical Violin Concerto by Robert Schumann, alongside Schubert’s Third Symphony.![]()
Big Ears, Little Ears
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Matinee
St Andrews
Perth
Big Ears, Little Ears is our relaxed concert series for children under the age of five and their grown-ups.![Conductor François Leleux smiling at the camera, holding the baton, against a dark background with shapes in different shades of green.]()
Mozart & Strauss
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Matinee
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Aberdeen
Deeply charismatic oboist and conductor François Leleux directs Mozart’s cheeky Bassoon Concerto, and music by the teenage Richard Strauss.![Chorus members photographed from above, holding their sheet music.]()
Seven Last Words
Choral
Edinburgh
A choral contemplation of loss and rebirth from Scotland’s greatest living composer, Sir James MacMillan, performed by the SCO Chorus.
Your 24/25 Brochure
Latest news
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Musical folk tales
10 February 2025
It's the 19th century and musical retellings of Greek myths are out. Enter the European folk tale ...![]()
SCO announces Summer Tour 2025
7 February 2025
The Orchestra is touring Scotland this summer, with 7 programmes across 20 venues.![]()
Beethoven's 'lesser' symphonies
27 January 2025
Why are some Beethoven symphonies better-known than others?![A collage of images of students working on the Great Grumpy Gaboon set including painting, carpentry, and design]()
RCS Students Help Build the Magical World of The Gaboon!
22 January 2025
Listen very carefully, Can you hear that tune? Those are the sounds of students building The Great Grumpy Gaboon!![]()
Visions of the afterlife: the Requiem Mass
20 January 2025
Depending on whom you ask, death can be comforting or inspire holy terror, including in composers writing a Mass for the Dead.![]()
The oboe concerto
13 January 2025
The oboe: refined, yes, but cheeky or melancholic? Join us as we look at the concertos exploring this instrument's wide-ranging moods.![]()
Making a splash: water music beyond Handel
6 January 2025
We take a look at musical depictions of water, from trickling burns to the wide expanse of the ocean, to see what lurks below the surface.![]()
The Great Grumpy Gaboon: a chat with Jay Capperauld and Corrina Campbell
30 December 2024
What is a Gaboon, and why is it grumpy? We chatted to the creators of our new Family Festival to find out ...![]()
Read and Draw The Great Grumpy Gaboon
30 December 2024
Read the story and watch as Corrina Campbell shows you how to draw The Great Grumpy Gaboon![]()
The trumpet concerto
23 December 2024
Our series on the concerto finally turns its attention to the brass family, and there are many more for trumpet than you might expect.
