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
![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.![Composer Ruth Gipps leaning forward with both hands gently touching her face.]()
GIPPS Seascape
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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.![Ivan Podyomov smiling, and holding his oboe, against a dark background with bright blue, red, and green shapes.]()
Mozart Oboe Concerto
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Dumfries
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Discover Mozart’s song-like Oboe Concerto in the hands of Ivan Podyomov, principal oboist at Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.![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.![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.
Your 24/25 Brochure
Latest news
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Rachel Podger: "I'm especially fond of the Polonaise in the First Brandenburg Concerto"
9 December 2024
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SCO players in the spotlight: solo recordings
2 December 2024
Some Christmas present ideas for the music-lover.![]()
Farewell to Nikita!
26 November 2024
It is with sadness that we bid a fond farewell to Principal Double Bass, Nikita Naumov.![]()
The waltz goes international
25 November 2024
We look at what happened when composers outside Austria turned their hands to the waltz ...![]()
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 ...
