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“… a great musical team on the top of their form; dazzling, irrepressible, brilliant.”

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––––– I’m excited to be back with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra for a full Season of concerts, and to be performing music that truly demonstrates the breadth of the Orchestra’s artistry.

We open the Season with a brand new work by Scotland’s greatest living composer, written for Scotland’s greatest living violinist – Sir James MacMillan’s Second Violin Concerto, with Nicola Benedetti as soloist – as well as one of the most emotional symphonies ever written: Tchaikovsky’s Sixth, the ‘Pathétique’.

Brahms is a composer whose music means a lot to me, both as a conductor and as a pianist.

My friend and colleague Aylen Pritchin performs his lyrical Violin Concerto, and I’m delighted to bring the Season to an appropriately reflective close with his warm, deeply consoling Ein Deutsches Requiem.

The 2022/23 Season inevitably feels like something of a rebirth after the restrictions of the pandemic, and what better way to mark that than with Haydn’s brilliantly exuberant Creation? I’m also looking forward to my concert featuring two of Vivaldi’s most flamboyant concertos, and to spending an evening with Mendelssohn at his sunniest, in his ‘Italian’ Symphony and music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

I hope you’ll join us for a Season packed with musical adventures.

Maxim Emelyanychev Principal Conductor Scottish Chamber Orchestra

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WELCOME FRO M GAVI N A warm welcome to the Scottish Chamber

We’re looking forward to welcoming back

Orchestra’s 2022/23 Season. This is our first

Finnish multi-musician Pekka Kuusisto across

complete Season of full-length, restriction-

two concerts, including an adventurous

free concerts in more than two years, so

collaboration with his friend, US neo-

we’re especially excited to share it with you.

folk singer/songwriter Sam Amidon, and

I am also delighted to welcome back our

we’re also exploring some more unusual

Principal Conductor Maxim Emelyanychev

collaborations and concert formats, which

whose connection with the Orchestra and

you’ll read about in the following pages.

our audiences gets stronger with every performance.

We hope you enjoy this uplifting Season of musical experiences both familiar and

We have an inspiring mix of much-loved music

unexpected. We can’t wait to share it

and new discoveries across the Season, from

with you.

our close friend Richard Egarr conducting Handel’s epic oratorio Israel in Egypt to a concert unearthing the achievements of Felix Yaniewicz, founder of the very first Edinburgh Music Festival in 1815, as well as premieres

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by Julian Anderson, Anna Clyne, Sir James

Chief Executive

MacMillan, Cassandra Miller and Nico Muhly.

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CONTENTS

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Season highlights from Maxim

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Welcome from Gavin

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Main Season Concerts

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Additional Concerts

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Digital Season

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Participate and Join in

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Booking and ticket information

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Get closer to the action

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Thank you

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Photo credits

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Concert calendar

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Stephanie Gonley Leader

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MUSIC TO Y O U XCITE

MAIN SEASON

CONCERTS

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ADAMS The Chairman Dances Maxim Emelyanychev Conductor

MACMILLAN Violin Concerto No 2 (World Premiere)*

Nicola Benedetti Violin

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 6 ‘Pathétique’

SEASON OPENER:

BENEDETTI & E M E LYA N YC H E V Join Scottish superstar violinist Nicola

The Quilter Cheviot Benedetti Series

Benedetti and Principal Conductor Maxim Emelyanychev to celebrate the launch of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s 2022/23 Season – in music of joyful wit, searing power and high emotion.

Nicola Benedetti gives the world premiere of the brand-new Violin Concerto No 2 by Scotland’s foremost composer, Sir James

Thu 29 Sep, 7.30pm Usher Hall, Edinburgh

MacMillan. His long musical relationship with Benedetti forms the basis for this major new work, which showcases the violinist’s renowned technical agility and exquisite poetry.

Maxim Emelyanychev brings the concert to a cathartic conclusion with the raw emotions of the ‘Pathétique’ Symphony by Tchaikovsky, while US composer John Adams kicks things off with his witty evocation of Chairman Mao tripping a foxtrot.

*Commissioned by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.

Maxim Emelyanychev Principal Conductor

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Maxim Emelyanychev Conductor Sophie Bevan Soprano Andrew Staples Tenor Hanno Müller-Brachmann Bass Baritone SCO Chorus Gregory Batsleer Chorus Director

HAYDN Die Schöpfung (The Creation)

THE C R E AT I O N

From wriggling worms to mighty whales, and dazzling starlight to the inky ocean depths, Haydn’s Creation is a jubilant celebration of the wonders of the natural world, and of

Thu 6 Oct, 7.30pm Usher Hall, Edinburgh

humankind’s place within it.

In exhilarating choruses and intimate arias, The Creation charts seven days of intense invention from churning chaos to blazing light, in an expression of hope, optimism and spirituality that’s warm and resonant – whatever your personal beliefs.

Maxim Emelyanychev, widely respected for the rare power and energy he brings to period performances, conducts the combined forces of the SCO and the SCO Chorus in Haydn’s life-affirming choral masterpiece.

Gregory Batsleer Chorus Director

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IVES The Unanswered Question RASKATOV Five Minutes from the Life of W A Mozart HAYDN Symphony No 8 in G ‘Le soir’ BRUCKNER String Quintet: Adagio ELGAR Sospiri STRAVINSKY A Soldier’s Tale: Tango, Valse, Ragtime Anthony Marwood Violin/Director

WEILL Violin Concerto

FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT WITH ANTHONY MARWOOD

We welcome revered British violinist Anthony Marwood to direct the SCO in a very

Thu 3 Nov, 7.30pm

personal selection of pieces. This is music

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to bring a smile to your face – and maybe to subvert your expectations too – as it moves from shadowy mystery to blazing brightness.

Charles Ives poses profound questions of the cosmos, while Alexander Raskatov wittily interrogates Mozart, and Haydn continues the wit in his stormy ‘Le soir’. The lush, romantic richness of Bruckner and Elgar provides a stark contrast with three acerbic dances from Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale, bittersweet music from a time of pandemic.

Marwood closes his exhilarating journey through musical worlds with Kurt Weill’s brilliantly entertaining Violin Concerto, full of the composer’s trademark sophisticated yet acidic tunes.

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SCHUMANN Overture, Scherzo & Finale Clemens Schuldt Conductor

ANDERSON Cello Concerto ‘Litanies’ (Scottish Premiere)

Alban Gerhardt Cello

SCHUMANN Symphony No 3 ‘Rhenish’

SCHULDT CONDUCTS SCHUMANN

Two sunny symphonic works by Schumann sit side by side with a new concerto from one of

Thu 10 Nov, 7.30pm

Britain’s most accomplished composers, in

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this richly-flavoured concert under exciting young German conductor Clemens Schuldt.

Schuldt is internationally famed for his vivid, vivacious performances, and has previously collaborated with the SCO to thrilling effect.

He conducts his compatriot Schumann’s charming Overture, Scherzo and Finale – effectively a miniature symphony without a

Alban Gerhardt

slow movement – alongside the boisterous

Cello

energy and infectious joy of Schumann’s expansive musical portrait of the Rhine.

In between, German cellist Alban Gerhardt brings his deep passions to bear on Litanies, the lyrical, virtuosic cello concerto by Julian Anderson, written for and dedicated to him.

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GRIEG Holberg Suite ESCAICH Baroque Song VIVALDI Concerto in B minor for 4 violins RV 580 GÓRECKI Harpsichord Concerto HINDEMITH Suite französische Tänze Maxim Emelyanychev Conductor/Harpsichord

VIVALDI Concerto con multi stromenti RV 558

MAXIM’S BAROQUE I N S P I R AT I O N S

Experience Baroque music at its grandest

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and most exuberant – as well as more recent

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works inspired by all its splendour and fantasy.

SCO Principal Conductor Maxim

Thu 24 Nov, 7.30pm The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh

Emelyanychev is renowned for his flamboyant performances of early music, and he’s both conductor and soloist in this lavish concert.

Vivaldi pits four violins, then a whole panoply of mandolins, lutes, violins, recorders and more against his orchestra in two of his era’s most extravagant concertos. Grieg brings a distinctively homespun, Nordic flavour to Baroque dances in his charming Holberg Suite, while Hindemith reimagines ancient French dances for a modern orchestra. Polish composer Górecki, meanwhile, conjures up a tour de force of intense expression in his gripping Harpsichord Concerto.

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Richard Egarr Conductor/Harpsichord Rowan Pierce Soprano Mary Bevan Soprano Helen Charleton Alto James Gilchrist Tenor Ashley Riches Bass Baritone Andrew Foster-Williams Bass Baritone SCO Chorus Gregory Batsleer Chorus Director

HANDEL Israel in Egypt (Parts 2 & 3)

ISRAEL IN EGYPT

Conductor and harpsichordist Richard Egarr is one of the musical world’s most charismatic

Thu 1 Dec, 7.30pm

figures, injecting his performances with

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infectious energy and joy, and bringing a sense of wonder and adventure to all he directs.

For many years an SCO Associate Artist, Egarr returns for the high drama and epic spectacle of one of Handel’s most thrilling, theatrical oratorios.

Richard Egarr Conductor

With its plagues of flies and frogs, its impenetrable darkness and flashes of lightning, Israel in Egypt tells the story of Exodus, as Moses and the Children of Israel flee Egypt and make their perilous crossing of the Red Sea – in some of Handel’s most colourful, intensely expressive music. Egarr is joined by six brilliant soloists and the SCO Chorus for this gripping, galvanising choral masterpiece.

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HANDEL arr MOZART Overture, Alexander’s Feast YANIEWICZ Violin Concerto No 3 in A GOW arr MAXWELL QUARTET Coilsfield House; Drunk at Night, Dry in the Morning ERSKINE, EARL of KELLIE Overture in C, Op 1 No 2 TRAD arr JC BACH Two Scotch Songs: Lochaber; Peter Whelan Conductor/Harpsichord

The Broom of Cowdenknows

Colin Scobie Violin

HAYDN Symphony No 100 in G ‘Military’

F E L I X YA N I E W I C Z AND THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT Largely forgotten today, Felix Yaniewicz was a remarkable figure in Scottish music: a PolishLithuanian composer and virtuoso violinist, and co-founder of the very first Edinburgh Music

Thu 8 Dec, 7.30pm The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh

Festival, way back in 1815.

Discover Yaniewicz’s own brilliantly dramatic Third Violin Concerto, as well as the music he performed and presented during the Scottish Enlightenment, in the company of acclaimed period performance conductor Peter Whelan and Colin Scobie, first violinist in the Maxwell Quartet and a respected soloist in his own right.

Celebrate the grandeur of Scotland’s own historic music – with a bracing Overture by Fife-based Thomas Erskine, Scotland’s most illustrious 18th-century composer, as well as Scottish song settings by JS Bach’s most pioneering son, plus new arrangements of traditional tunes by Niel and Nathaniel Gow. Haydn’s stirring ‘Military’ Symphony – which Yaniewicz performed under the composer during his visits to London – brings the evening to a majestic close.

Peter Whelan Conductor

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BACEWICZ Concerto for String Orchestra Andrew Manze Conductor

MOZART Piano Concerto in B-flat, K595

Yeol Eum Son Piano

DVOŘÁK Symphony No 7 in D minor

YEOL EUM SON P L AY S M OZ A R T

Multi-award-winning South Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son is famed for her power, her poetry and her remarkably perceptive playing. Join her as she brings gracefulness

Thu 15 Dec, 7.30pm Usher Hall, Edinburgh

and crystalline clarity to Mozart’s final piano concerto.

Dvořák intended his seventh symphony to stir the world, and it does just that. Inspirational conductor and musical scholar Andrew Manze devotes his boundless energy to Dvořák’s sunniest Symphony, brimming with birdsong and wonder at nature.

The gusto and dynamism of Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz’s neo-classical Concerto for String Orchestra opens the concert in bracing style.

Andrew Manze Conductor

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Programme to include: J STRAUSS II The Blue Danube J STRAUSS I Radetzky March Joseph Swensen Conductor

CHAUSSON Poème

Kolja Blacher Violin

RAVEL Tzigane

VIENNESE NEW YEAR

Come and join the celebrations as the SCO

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marks the arrival of 2023 in style – with music to lift the spirits and seduce the senses.

Passionate, joyful and exuberant, Joseph Swensen is a former SCO Principal Conductor and a much-loved figure in concert halls around the world. He’s on the podium for a flavoursome concert of

Sun 1 Jan, 3pm Usher Hall, Edinburgh

exquisite musical bon-bons and lollipops from the Strauss family’s Vienna and far beyond – from the graceful lapping of The Blue Danube to the foot-tapping cheer of the majestic Radetzky March.

Outstanding German violinist Kolja Blacher joins the Orchestra for two sensuous classics of French sophistication: the elegant romance of Chausson’s luscious Poème and the fiery gypsy flavours of Ravel’s sparkling Tzigane.

Joseph Swensen Conductor

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MILHAUD La Création du monde COPLAND Clarinet Concerto Joseph Swensen Conductor

BERNSTEIN orch RAMIN Sonata for Clarinet and Orchestra

Maximiliano Martín Clarinet

POULENC Sinfonietta

MUSIQUE AMÉRIQUE

Put on your dancing shoes and let your hair

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down to join the SCO in jazzy, foot-tapping

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style on both sides of the Atlantic, with Conductor Emeritus Joseph Swensen as master of ceremonies.

Thu 12 Jan, 7.30pm The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh

Dixieland meets Baroque brilliance in Milhaud’s bewitching ballet score La Création du monde, infused with the jazz he encountered on the streets of Harlem, while Poulenc freely mixes Mozart, Tchaikovsky and catchy Parisian tunes in the breathless energy of his sunny Sinfonietta.

SCO Principal Clarinet Maximiliano Martín is a remarkably expressive soloist in his own right, and he completes the programme with two larger-than-life masterpieces: the bittersweet lyricism and wild euphoria of Copland’s Clarinet Concerto, written for jazz legend Benny Goodman; and Bernstein’s jazzy, snazzy Sonata, recast across the vivid colours of the Orchestra.

Maximiliano Martín Principal Clarinet

FARRENC Symphony No 3 in G minor MENDELSSOHN arr TARKMANN Lieder ohne Worte MENDELSSOHN Overture, ‘The Hebrides’ François Leleux Conductor/Oboe

SCHUBERT Symphony No 4 in C minor ‘Tragic’

AN EVENING WITH FRANÇOIS LELEUX

Gripping drama and high emotion in

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deeply romantic music – in the company of inspirational French oboist and conductor François Leleux, a regular and much-loved SCO collaborator.

A visionary teacher, and a fighter for women’s rights, Louise Farrenc was one of the most influential figures in 19th century French music. Her bold, energetic Third Symphony launches Leleux’s concert with astonishing

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In memory of Emmanuel Cocher (1969-2022) Consul général de France (2015-2019)

Thu 19 Jan, 7.30pm The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh

power and brilliance, before colourful instrumental reimaginings of Mendelssohn’s delicate piano pieces Songs without Words, and all the adventure of his dramatic trip to the Scottish isle of Staffa in the ‘Hebrides’ Overture.

Leleux closes this vibrant concert with the teenage Schubert’s compelling ‘Tragic’ Symphony, shot through with all the turbulence and exuberance of youth.

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Catriona McKay Scottish Harp Chris Stout Violin James Lowe Conductor

MÖDER DY / M OTH E R WAVE Part of Celtic Connections 2023

Two of Scotland’s most internationally celebrated traditional musicians join the SCO for new tunes, fresh perspectives and some muchloved music.

Thu 26 Jan, 7.30pm The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh celticconnections.com

Long-time musical associates, Shetland-born fiddler Chris Stout and Dundee-born harpist Catriona McKay are renowned for their dynamic approach to Scottish traditional music. With the North Sea an abiding presence in their diverse and curious collective sound, the visceral emotion of their music-making is powerful in its hunger to reach the soul.

Known for their pioneering collaborations across classical, contemporary and experimental fields, the intensity of Stout & McKay’s music can turn on a sixpence as they seamlessly weave and dance between their traditional roots and their shared passion for explorations in music.

Featuring special guests including critically acclaimed ‘Shetlandic’ poet Christie Williamson, Catriona and Chris, and their long-time friend and colleague, conductor James Lowe, join the SCO to bring this unique music to life.

James Lowe Conductor

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DEBUSSY Le coin des enfants (Children’s corner) MOZART Flute Concerto in D, K314 Joana Carneiro Conductor

STRAVINSKY Danses Concertantes

André Cebrián Flute

MOZART Overture and Ballet music, Idomeneo

MOZART’S FLUTE CONCERTO

Dazzling virtuosity and elegant dance: dynamic Portuguese conductor Joana Carneiro brings together music to delight, entertain and amuse in this captivating

Thu 16 Feb, 7.30pm The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh

concert.

The SCO’s Principal Flute André Cebrián demonstrates his renowned skills as a soloist in Mozart’s youthful Flute Concerto in D – music created to showcase its player’s wit and panache.

Mozart and Stravinsky both bring refinement and sophistication to their dance music, created centuries apart – Mozart in the majestic spectacle of his ballet music and Stravinsky with all the glamour of Hollywood in the 1940s.

Dancing snow, jiving toys and dozing elephants are among the innocent delights in the six exquisite pieces of Debussy’s Children’s Corner.

André Cebrián Principal Flute

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Maxim Emelyanychev Conductor

BRAHMS Violin Concerto in D

Aylen Pritchin Violin

BRAHMS Symphony No 1 in C minor

MAXIM CONDUCTS BRAHMS

Bristling power, heartrending melodies, exquisite craftsmanship: not for nothing is Brahms commonly included alongside Bach

Thu 23 Feb, 7.30pm Usher Hall, Edinburgh

and Beethoven in the triumvirate of German master composers. Join Maxim Emelyanychev for fresh perspectives on two of Brahms’ mightiest, most stirring and deeply moving masterpieces.

Violinist Aylen Pritchin has been making huge waves in the international scene with the purity and passion of his performances. A close

Aylen Pritchin

colleague and collaborator with Emelyanychev,

Violin

he brings a historically-informed slant to the graceful elegance and life-affirming lyricism of the Brahms Violin Concerto.

Emelyanychev closes the concert with Brahms Symphony No 1 – noble and majestic, but also mercurial and poetic. It took the composer decades to create, but it’s a work to match the achievements of Beethoven in a new age.

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Maxim Emelyanychev Conductor Hilary Cronin Soprano Jessica Cale Soprano

MENDELSSOHN Symphony No 4 ‘Italian’

SCO Chorus (Sopranos and Altos)

MENDELSSOHN Incidental music from

Gregory Batsleer Chorus Director

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

THE DREAM

Spend an evening with Mendelssohn the

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magician – creator of sunny, carefree worlds, and of spectacular Shakespearean evocations – in the company of Maxim Emelyanychev and the SCO. The ‘Italian’ Symphony is Mendelssohn’s dazzling celebration of the blue skies and radiant sunshine he encountered in Italy

Thu 2 Mar, 7.30pm Usher Hall, Edinburgh

– captured in music explicitly designed to transport you there.

Mendelssohn loved Shakespeare from his childhood, and he ushers you into a magical world of mismatched lovers and bickering fairies in his exquisite music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream – musical storytelling at its most vivid.

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JANÁČEK arr KUUSISTO Kreutzer Sonata TRAD/AMIDON Appalachian Folk Songs (with string arrangements by NICO MUHLY) Pekka Kuusisto Violin/Director

MAZZOLI Dissolve, O My Heart

Sam Amidon Voice/Banjo/Acoustic Guitar

SIBELIUS Symphony No 3

F O L K I N S P I R AT I O N S WITH PEKKA

Inspirational Finnish multi-musician Pekka Kuusisto makes a spectacular return to the

Thu 9 Mar, 7.30pm

SCO with an exciting residency in the 2022/23

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Season.

He’s joined by friend and colleague Sam Amidon, US neo-folk singer/songwriter, in pitch-black murder ballads and music of obsessive love from the USA and Europe.

Janáček’s Kreutzer Sonata – arranged by Kuusisto from a string quartet to a full string orchestra – was inspired by a scandalous Tolstoy novella of desire, jealousy and murderous rage, reflecting the composer’s own obsessive love for a woman 38 years his junior.

Interwoven between its movements, Amidon sings folk songs from rural Appalachia of crime, redemption and transcendental vision.

Kuusisto brings the wide-ranging concert to a glowing conclusion with one of Sibelius’s most buoyant, optimistic symphonies, weaving together threads of Finnish folk and classical refinement.

Sam Amidon Voice/Banjo/Acoustic Guitar

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MUHLY Three Songs for tenor, violin and drone HAYDN Symphony No 104 in D ‘London’ Pekka Kuusisto Violin/Director

MUHLY Violin Concerto ‘Shrink’ (Scottish Premiere)*

Allan Clayton Tenor

BRITTEN Les Illuminations

L E S I L L U M I N AT I O N S

Hallucinations and wild imaginings: join Finnish musical pioneer Pekka Kuusisto on a journey into the strange and the wonderful in the second concert in his SCO residency.

Thu 16 Mar, 7.30pm The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh

With adulation for his Peter Grimes last year at London’s Royal Opera House, Allan Clayton is the most exciting British tenor of the moment – and one of our most celebrated interpreters of Britten. He’s the soloist amid the fanfares, parades and sensual visions of Britten’s larger-than-life Les Illuminations, settings of phantasmagorical verse by French poet Arthur Rimbaud.

There’s more Gallic surrealism in the witty Songs for tenor, violin and drone by New Yorkbased Nico Muhly, and Kuusisto is the soloist in the long-awaited Scottish premiere of his friend and colleague’s dashing, exuberant violin concerto Shrink. In between, Haydn’s final, grandest and most joyful Symphony, written expressly to surprise and delight. * Co-commissioned by Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, St Paul Chamber Orchestra and Scottish Chamber Orchestra.

Allan Clayton Tenor

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Bernard Labadie Conductor Lydia Teuscher Soprano Iestyn Davies Countertenor

HANDEL Coronation Anthems: Zadok The Priest;

Neal Davies Bass Baritone

The King Shall Rejoice

Peter Franks Trumpet

HANDEL Water Music Suite No 1 in F

SCO Chorus

HANDEL Music for the Royal Fireworks

Gregory Batsleer Chorus Director

HANDEL Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne

HANDEL: M U S I C F O R T H E R OYA L S George Frideric Handel was a superstar

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composer in 18th-century London. But he

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saved his most extravagant offerings for royal occasions, creating music expressly conceived to impress and astonish.

Thu 23 Mar, 7.30pm Usher Hall, Edinburgh

Join distinguished Canadian conductor Bernard Labadie for some of Handel’s dazzling works designed to delight kings and queens, in the company of a starry line-up of international soloists and the choral might of the SCO Chorus.

The exuberant Water Music, written for George I to hear on the River Thames, and the glittering Music for the Royal Fireworks, created

Bernard Labadie

for a spectacular pyrotechnic display in 1749 to

Conductor

mark the end of war, are rightly two of Handel’s best-loved works.

The roof-raising choral glories of Zadok the Priest and The King Shall Rejoice – two of the four Coronation Anthems written for the accession of George II in 1727 – open and close the concert in lavish style, while the Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne is a joyful anniversary celebration from 1713.

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MOZART Overture, Die Zauberflöte SCHUBERT Symphony No 8 ‘Unfinished’ MACMILLAN Eleven (UK Premiere) Maxim Emelyanychev Conductor/Piano

MOZART Piano Concerto No 22 in E-flat, K482

SCHUBERT’S UNFINISHED SYMPHONY

Franz Schubert might never have completed

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his Symphony No 8, but he packed all the

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drama and emotion of a longer work into its two compelling movements – as well as his famously unforgettable melodies, of course.

Thu 30 Mar, 7.30pm The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh

Schubert’s ‘Unfinished’ forms the centrepiece of this wide-ranging concert, with Maxim Emelyanychev as both conductor and soloist in Mozart’s spectacular, opera-inspired Piano Concerto No 22. The dashing good humour of Mozart’s much-loved Overture to The Magic

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Flute, and the first UK performances of Sir

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James MacMillan’s new, football-themed Eleven complete a concert of high spirits and pithy power.

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MAYER Symphony No 1 in C minor Chloé van Soeterstède Conductor

BERLIOZ Les nuits d’été

Karen Cargill Mezzo Soprano

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 8 in F

SUMMER NIGHTS WITH KAREN CARGILL

As the days grow longer and the blossoms bloom, look forward to the warmth and laughter of summer in the company of fastrising French conductor Chloé van Soeterstède.

Thu 20 Apr, 7.30pm The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh

Internationally acclaimed Scottish mezzo soprano Karen Cargill guides you through the joys and sorrows of the luscious love songs in Berlioz’s bittersweet Les nuits d’été. It’s all about the fun, though, in Beethoven’s most upbeat, exuberant symphony, full of musical jokes and sly wit.

Van Soeterstède opens the concert with a true discovery: 19th-century German composer Emilie Mayer was one of the most acclaimed musical figures of her age, famed for her passionate, rugged music full of power and invention – nowhere more so than in her dynamic First Symphony.

Chloé van Soeterstède Conductor

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BRITTEN Simple Symphony Mark Wigglesworth Conductor

SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No 2

Laura van der Heijden Cello

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 5 in C minor

BEETHOVEN’S FIFTH

The most famous symphony ever written, and justly one of the most admired, Beethoven’s Fifth celebrates victory over the forces of fate in an unforgettable journey from struggle and

Thu 27 Apr, 7.30pm Usher Hall, Edinburgh

conflict to blazing affirmation. Even if you feel you already know all there is to know about this iconic piece, inspirational conductor Mark Wigglesworth is just the person to reveal new depths and splendours that might just make you think afresh.

Now an established international soloist following her BBC Young Musician win in 2012, brilliant British cellist Laura van der Heijden is the soloist in Shostakovich’s dark, dramatic and deeply cathartic Second Cello Concerto – a profoundly moving experience for all who hear it. The playful innocence of Britten’s Simple Symphony – based on tunes he’d composed as a young child – complete this concert of darkness and light.

Laura van der Heijden Cello

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SIBELIUS The Tempest Suite No 2 John Storgårds Conductor

MILLER Viola Concerto (Scottish Premiere)*

Lawrence Power Viola

TCHAIKOVSKY arr G. MORTON Symphony No 5

TCHAIKOVSK Y’ S FIFTH

Passions, hopes and desires, in a gripping journey from funereal darkness to blazing

Thu 4 May, 7.30pm

glory. Tchaikovsky poured his soul into the Fifth

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Symphony, and the result is Romantic music at its most heartfelt.

Powerful Finnish conductor John Storgårds brings this concert to a thrilling climax with an intimate chamber orchestra arrangement of Tchaikovsky’s most emotional symphony.

Beforehand, outstanding British viola player Lawrence Power is the soloist and dedicatee of a new concerto by the remarkable Canadian composer Cassandra Miller, one of the most exciting, free-thinking figures in contemporary music.

Sibelius’ rich and potent music for Shakespeare’s stormy final drama makes a magical opening to the concert. * Co-commissioned by BBC Radio 3, Brussels Philharmonic, National Arts Centre Orchestra and Scottish Chamber Orchestra, supported by The Viola Commissioning Circle.

Lawrence Power Viola

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Maxim Emelyanychev Conductor Sophie Bevan Soprano Hanno Müller-Brachmann Bass Baritone SCO Chorus Gregory Batsleer Chorus Director

BRAHMS Ein deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem)

BRAHMS REQUIEM

The SCO’s 2022/23 Season comes to a contemplative close with Brahms’ beautiful and deeply moving German Requiem.

An agnostic himself, Brahms wrote his requiem

Thu 11 May, 7.30pm Usher Hall, Edinburgh Please note there will be no interval in this concert.

as a humanist message of hope and comfort for those mourning lost loved ones, charting a poignant journey from trauma and anxiety to courage and acceptance. It’s one of his most personal works, bringing together richly conceived choruses with achingly beautiful solo vocal writing.

Maxim Emelyanychev is joined by two exceptional soloists and the SCO Chorus for this musical monument to hope and consolation in troubled times.

Sophie Bevan Soprano

Aisling O’Dea First Violin

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Programme to include: BAX Mater ora filium CLYNE The Heart of Night (SCO Commission) PÄRT Da pacem Domine SCO Chorus

POSTON Jesus Christ the Apple Tree

Gregory Batsleer Chorus Director

RUTTER Hymn to the Creator of Light

SCO CHORUS CHRISTMAS CONCERT

THE HEART OF NIGHT

A much-loved fixture on the Scottish musical calendar, the SCO Chorus’ seasonal concert ushers in Yuletide with a warming collection of music under the inspirational direction of Gregory Batsleer.

The freely flowing lyricism of Bax’s rich

Tue 20 & Wed 21 Dec, 7.30pm Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh Please note, this concert is not part of the Subscription ticket offer, but can be added on to your booking.

Please note there will be no interval in this concert.

and reverential Mater ora filium contrasts with the deeply spiritual purity of Pärt’s serene Da pacem Domine and Anna Clyne’s contemplative The Heart of Night, written specially for the SCO Chorus.

The programme also includes Poston’s timeless Jesus Christ the Apple Tree and Rutter’s dazzling choral epic Hymn to the Creator of Light.

SCO Chorus

Chris Jarvis Presenter Gregory Batsleer Conductor Introduced by Aisling O’Dea Based on the book by Giles Andreae and Guy Parker-Rees Music by Paul Rissmann

RISSMANN The Chimpanzees of Happytown

FA M I LY F E S T I VA L

THE CHIMPANZEES OF HAPPYTOWN

Chutney the Chimpanzee is on a mission to

Sponsored by

turn dreary Drabsville USA into technicolour Happytown, but there’s just one problem – a very grumpy and stubborn Mayor!

Join us for a host of fun family activities including arts and crafts, wandering musicians and storytelling. Then take your seats in the concert hall for 45 minutes of fabulous live music performed by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, conductor Gregory Batsleer, children’s TV presenter Chris Jarvis and the SCO’s very own Aisling O’Dea. This inclusive performance is designed with a relaxed and supportive approach to noise and movement within the auditorium. Ideal for four to eight year olds – and their adults!

Sat 11 Feb, 12pm & 2.30pm Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh For ticket information and prices see page 78 Please note, this concert is not part of the Subscription ticket offer, but can be added on to your booking.

Please note there will be no interval in this concert.

Chris Jarvis Presenter

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RE:CONNECT

TEA DANCE

Created to be welcoming, entertaining

In association with

and accessible, this special event has been developed in collaboration with people living with dementia and family members.

Memories and melodies mingle in the air at the SCO’s very first concert specially created for people living with dementia, together with their friends and family.

Tue 7 Feb, 1pm The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh Tickets £6 and a carer comes free.

Enjoy an afternoon of music, tea and cake, and join our musicians as they perform much-loved, well-remembered classics and singalong, old-

Tickets include tea and cake.

Please note, this concert is not part of the Subscription ticket offer, but can be added on to your booking.

time favourites.

ReConnect is developed and delivered in partnership with NHS Lothian and the Institute for Music in Human and Social Development, University of Edinburgh

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SCO Ensemble Gemma Cairney MC Plus special guests STEVE REICH Double Sextet Co-curated by

GABRIELLA SMITH Maré

Su-a Lee, Louise Goodwin

GABRIELLA SMITH Tesselations

and Gemma Cairney

ANDY AKIHO 21

U N :T I T L E D

Step outside the confines of the concert hall

In association with

and join us for an informal, inspiring mix of music that defies conventional boundaries.

BBC Radio 1 and Radio 6 Music presenter Gemma Cairney hosts live performances from

Sat 29 Oct, 8pm Summerhall, Edinburgh

SCO players, plus special guests at Summerhall

Sun 30 Oct, 8pm St Luke’s, Glasgow

and St Luke’s.

Tickets £12.50

Minimalist master Steve Reich delivers

Please note, this concert is not part of the Subscription ticket offer. Tickets will go on sale via www.sco.org.uk at 10am on Monday 27 June 2022.

driving rhythms in his hypnotic and sonically sumptuous Double Sextet, while Californian composer and environmentalist Gabriella Smith inspires wonder for the natural world in the fresh, organic growth of her trance-like Maré and Tesselations.

US composer and steel pan virtuoso Andy Akiho is at the cutting edge of US music, but not so well known in Europe: discover the looping grooves of his 21 for cello, marimba and electronics.

Gemma Cairney MC and Co-curator

D I G I TA L S E A S O N 2 2 / 2 3 F I L M E D AT L E I T H T H E AT R E Four composers; four singular visions of music; one fantastic venue.

Discover – or rediscover – fresh sounds and new musical voices across four specially-conceived music videos filmed in Edinburgh’s iconic Leith Theatre. Join us across the year as each work is premiered online, showcasing the SCO’s exceptional musicians in both intimate and larger scale gatherings.

SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartet No 8 In just three days of white-hot creativity in 1960, Dmitri Shostakovich composed what would become his most powerful and most widely admired chamber work. His String Quartet No 8 is one of his most personal, unflinchingly honest pieces.

In music ranging from bleak despair to savage humour to whirling energy, it’s an unforgettable, profoundly cathartic experience, given a special video performance by a quartet of the SCO’s outstanding string players.

Thu 5 Jan 2023, 7.30pm

PRICE String Quartet No 1 Florence Price was the first African-American woman composer to have her music performed by a major US orchestra.

Neglected after her death in 1953, her bold, vibrant music is undergoing a much-needed rediscovery, allowing today’s listeners to enjoy again her passionate mix of Brahmsian richness, jazz and African rhythms.

A quartet of the SCO’s string players explores the opulent harmonies and gentle lyricism of Price’s 1929 First String Quartet, which brings Tchaikovskian tenderness to traditional spiritual melodies.

Thu 9 Feb 2023, 7.30pm

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Available to watch online for free for one month after broadcast date.

NGWENYAMA Primal Message | Gordon Bragg Conductor Nokuthula Ngwenyama is a Los Angeles-born viola player and composer of Zimbabwean/Japanese parentage, globally respected as a virtuoso champion of her instrument and a uniquely eloquent, communicative composer.

Her 2018 Primal Message imagines the first contact we detect from elsewhere in the cosmos – or, perhaps, the most fundamental communication we exchange with each other. Tender and optimistic, Ngwenyama’s visionary work celebrates the joyful power of music to connect and unite.

Mon 6 Mar 2023, 7.30pm

GREENWOOD Water | Gordon Bragg Conductor Best known as one fifth of rock band Radiohead, Jonny Greenwood is now equally respected as a composer of Oscar-nominated film soundtracks and powerful works for the concert hall that straddle boundaries between classical, experimental and contemporary music.

Inspired by lines from a poem by Philip Larkin, his 2014 Water imagines light bouncing and refracting within a glass of liquid, in a delicate, luminous soundscape of rippling musical currents and kaleidoscopic harmonies for flutes, piano, string orchestra and the gentle strumming of Indian tanpuras.

Thu 6 Apr 2023, 7.30pm

André Cebrián Principal Flute

MUSIC TO D DE E LL II G GH HT T YOU

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18 and Under FREE

YOUTH ADVISORY COUNCIL

Our Youth Advisory Council was set up

“There is an increasing awareness of just

in 2021 with the purpose of ensuring that

how important the voices of young people

young people’s voices are at the heart of

are and it’s amazing that the SCO are so

our organisation, contributing thoughts and

keen to bring us into discussions about the

ideas on what we do and how we do it.

future. I am looking forward to seeing our ideas explored and implemented across the

As the Youth Advisory Council continues to

organisation. Most of all, I’m excited about

evolve, members are working across the

connecting with even more young people

organisation to develop and deliver events and

throughout Scotland, especially those who

activities both on and off the concert stage and

would not otherwise have engaged with

connecting with other youth-led groups.

classical music, and allowing this genre to become more open and accessible to

Here’s more from one of our Youth Advisory

everyone.”

Council members Steph Humphreys:

Steph Humphreys Youth Advisory Council Member

Jay Capperauld Associate Composer

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J AY C A P P E R AU L D A S S O C I AT E C O M P O S E R

“I am incredibly honoured and humbled to

As part of the SCO in Craigmillar Residency

be appointed as the SCO’s new Associate

Jay will create Tapestry, a commission

Composer. Having recently worked with this

celebrating the Greater Craigmillar community

astounding orchestra on my piece ‘Death

and developed in collaboration with local

in a Nutshell’, I am beyond thrilled to have

groups. He’ll also lead workshops as part of

this unique opportunity to become further

Seen and Heard, our creative project for adults,

embedded in the SCO’s activities as well as

which returns in autumn 2022 in partnership

form meaningful musical connections with

with Craigmillar Now.

the SCO musicians, audiences and everyone involved over the coming years.”

Jay will curate a digital series – SCO Insights – which will take a deep dive into some of the

“Amazingly, this is a real 360° moment for

themes that arise from the 2022/23 programme.

me, as the SCO performed my first ever attempts at composing music in workshops

Looking to the future, Jay has been

when I was in high school (and I still have

commissioned by the SCO to compose a

that recording on CD at home); so to say that

new work for children and families which will

15 years later, I will be embarking on this

explore the stories of contemporary Scotland

exciting relationship with the SCO is truly a

in a fresh, engaging and approachable way for

childhood dream come to life.”

family audiences.

Over the next five years Jay will embed himself

And we’re also excited that Jay will play a

in all aspects of the SCO’s work, not only

pivotal role in New Voices, a two-year mentoring

composing new works for the Orchestra but

programme that will offer a platform for five

also working closely with the SCO’s Creative

emerging composers and music creators to

Learning and Marketing teams. Here’s just a

expand their creative practice and experiment

taster of what Jay will be getting up to:

with the chamber music format.

Laura McNamee Craigmillar Voices

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SCO IN CRAIGMILLAR

Our unique community residency, SCO in

“I love being creative, especially with music, but

Craigmillar, is a five-year programme of

haven’t always felt supported in conventional

music and cross-artform workshops and

education settings. From a mental health point

performances for residents of all ages in

of view, I think it’s so important that everyone

Greater Craigmillar, Edinburgh. Building on the

has access to being creative, regardless of their

area’s extraordinary history of Community Arts,

background or level. The group at Craigmillar

the SCO is proud to be part of a community-

Voices come for many different reasons and

wide journey to re-energise creative, inter-

the workshop leader encourages everyone to

generational activity with and for diverse

discover their own voice, providing a safe space

groups, and to celebrate the community’s

to improve. When I come home on a Friday my

history through music and music-making.

family say I have a buzz about me! I’ve always felt like something was holding me back, but

As we reach the end our first year of SCO in

this project has given me confidence. I even

Craigmillar we hear from Laura (pictured left),

recently started having further singing lessons

a participant in Craigmillar Voices, a vocal

which I’m really enjoying.”

project for children and adults in Craigmillar:

SCO in Craigmillar is kindly supported by Scops Arts Trust, The Daphne Hamilton Trust, The Plum Trust, The Stevenston Charitable Trust, Cruden Foundation, The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust, The Misses Barrie Charitable Trust, Mrs Jean Fraser’s Charitable Trust and those who wish to remain anonymous.

Original artwork by Nihad al Turk

Su-a Lee Sub-Principal Cello

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CAN WE COUNT ON YOUR SUPPORT? We believe the thrill of live orchestral music should be accessible to everyone, so we aim to keep the price of concert tickets as fair as possible. However, even if a performance is completely sold out, we would not cover the cost of putting on the concert.

Monthly or annual contributions from our donors make a real difference to the SCO’s ability to budget and plan ahead with more confidence. As we emerge from extraordinarily challenging times, regular support is more valuable than ever.

For those wishing to make a one-off donation, please consider rounding up your subscription or, even better, donating back your subscription discount.

For more information on how you can become a regular donor, please get in touch with Mary Clayton on 0131 478 8369 or email mary.clayton@sco.org.co.uk.

Marcus Barcham Stevens Principal Second Violin

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BOOKING A N D T I C K E T I N F O R M AT I O N

HOW TO BOOK Price Bands – Cost per ticket (before discounts) I £39

II £32

III £26

IV £20

V £14

Subscription Ticket Discounts No. of Concerts

Saving (Standard)

Saving (Senior)

20-23

29%

34%

18-19

27%

32%

16-17

24%

29%

14-15

21%

26%

12-13

19%

24%

10-11

17%

22%

8-9

14%

19%

6-7

12%

16%

4-5

10%

14%

Booking individual concerts If you’d rather not book a Subscription but would like to book some tickets, we go on sale with individual concerts at 10am on Monday 27 June via venue box offices.

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Additional Events The Heart of Night – SCO Chorus Christmas Concert Tue 20 & Wed 21 Dec, 7.30pm, Greyfriars Kirk £17.50 Re:Connect Tea Dance Mon 7 Feb, 1pm, The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh £6 The Chimpanzees of Happytown – Family Festival Sat 11 Feb, 12pm & 2.30pm, Assembly Rooms £12 adults, £6 Under 18s, £30 Family ticket (2 adults and 2 children)

How to book your SCO Subscription

Please note: If you’d like to book tickets for these additional events, but not as an add-on to Subscription, you can do so via sco.org.uk from 10am on Monday 27 June.

SCO Subscription booking starts at 10am on Wednesday 25 May. Book for a minimum of 4 concerts to be eligible for the Subscription discounts outlined above. If you were an SCO Subscriber in 2019/20, we have secured your seats and will hold them for you until Friday 24 June.

Other Discounts

Subscribe online: Visit www.sco.org.uk/subscriptions to either renew your Subscription or to book a new one.

Online Subscriptions work best for customers who require the same seats for each performance. If your Subscription is more complicated and you would like varying numbers of seats and/or different seating locations, you are advised to fill out a booking form and return it by post (see below).

For further details on online subscription visit www.sco.org.uk/FAQs Subscribe by Post: Either use the booking form in your 2022-23 Season brochure, or for previous Subscribers use the pre-filled form that was included when your brochure was mailed to you.

All booking forms should be returned to SCO Subscriptions, 4 Royal Terrace, Edinburgh EH7 5AB by Friday 24 June.

Subscribe by Phone: Our Subscriptions team can fill out a form for you over the phone. Call 0131 557 6800 Mon-Fri, 10am - 4pm.

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18 and Under Anyone under the age of 18 can attend most SCO concerts for free.

Under 16s must, however, be accompanied by a paying adult. Free under 18s tickets are not available for UN:TITLED, The Heart of Night, Re:Connect Tea Dance and The Chimpanzees of Happytown events.

26 and Under, Students & Unemployed People £6 for all concerts except Re:Connect Tea Dance and The Chimpanzees of Happytown.

Group Booking Discounts Groups of six or more booking together save 20% off full price tickets. Groups of 20 can also claim one complimentary ticket for the group organizer. Group booking starts at 10am on Monday 27 June via venue box offices.

Senior Citizens £2 off full price tickets, excluding UN:TITLED, The Heart of Night, Re:Connect Tea Dance and The Chimpanzees of Happytown events.

People with a Disability 50% off full price tickets for registered disabled people and, when required, 50% for their companion. Carer go free. A limited number of free tickets are available for full-time carers. Please ask the Box Office for details.

SEATING PLANS The Queen’s Hall Clerk Street, Edinburgh EH8 9JG 0131 668 2019

Usher Hall Lothian Road, Edinburgh EH1 2EA 0131 228 1155

STAGE STAGE STALLS

STALLS

GALLERY

GRAND CIRCLE

UPPER CIRCLE

The Queen’s Hall is accessible to wheelchair users via a ramp up to the front righthand entrance, next to the Box Office.

There are two wheelchair accessible toilets to the lefthand side of the rear fire exit in the bar. Please let us know if you need a wheelchair space when buying your ticket.

Wheelchair accommodation is available in the Stalls area.

Parking spaces for blue badge holders are located across from the Royal Lyceum Theatre on Grindlay Street and on Cambridge Street across from the TraverseTheatre.

Guide dogs are welcome.

Guide dogs are welcome.

Only small handbags, backpacks and briefcases will be permitted and must be kept with you at all times. Random bag searches may be carried out. There is no cloakroom facility.

Only small handbags, backpacks and briefcases will be permitted and must be kept with you at all times. Random bag searches may be carried out.

For more detailed seating plans please visit www.sco.org.uk Booking fees and refund policy —

Please note: A booking fee of £2 is applicable to all Subscription bookings via the SCO. Booking fees vary when booking via venues. All discounts are subject to availability. We regret that tickets are non-refundable. Every effort is made to ensure that all information is correct at the time of going to print. The SCO does however reserve the right to change dates, artists or programmes if necessary.

SUBSCRIPTION PRICES BAND

I

II

III

IV

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£39.00

£32.00

£26.00

£20.00

STANDARD DISCOUNTS Saving off full price

Number of concerts

I

II

III

IV

10%

4

£ 140.40

£ 115.20

£ 93.60

£ 72.00

5

£ 175.50

£ 144.00

£ 117.00

£ 90.00

6

£ 205.92

£ 168.96

£ 137.28

£ 105.60

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£ 240.24

£ 197.12

£ 160.16

£ 123.20

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8

£ 268.32

£ 220.16

£ 178.88

£ 137.60

9

£ 301.86

£ 247.68

£ 201.24

£ 154.80

17%

10

£ 323.70

£ 265.60

£ 215.80

£ 166.00

11

£ 356.07

£ 292.16

£ 237.38

£ 182.60

19%

12

£ 379.08

£ 311.04

£ 252.72

£ 194.40

13

£ 410.67

£ 336.96

£ 273.78

£ 210.60

21%

14

£ 431.34

£ 353.92

£ 287.56

£ 221.20

15

£ 462.15

£ 379.20

£ 308.10

£ 237.00

24%

16

£ 474.24

£ 389.12

£ 316.16

£ 243.20

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£ 503.88

£ 413.44

£ 335.92

£ 258.40

27%

18

£ 512.46

£ 420.48

£ 341.64

£ 262.80

19

£ 540.93

£ 443.84

£ 360.62

£ 277.40

29%

20

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£ 454.40

£ 369.20

£ 284.00

21

£ 581.49

£ 477.12

£ 387.66

£ 298.20

22

£ 609.18

£ 499.84

£ 406.12

£ 312.40

23

£ 636.87

£ 522.56

£ 424.58

£ 326.60

12%

SENIOR DISCOUNTS Saving off full price

Number of concerts

I

II

III

IV

14%

4

£ 134.16

£ 110.08

£ 89.44

£ 68.80

5

£ 167.70

£ 137.60

£ 111.80

£ 86.00

6

£ 196.56

£ 161.28

£ 131.04

£ 100.80

7

£ 229.32

£ 188.16

£ 152.88

£ 117.60

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8

£ 252.72

£ 207.36

£ 168.48

£ 129.60

9

£ 284.31

£ 233.28

£ 189.54

£ 145.80

22%

10

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£ 249.60

£ 202.80

£ 156.00

11

£ 334.62

£ 274.56

£ 223.08

£ 171.60

24%

12

£ 355.68

£ 291.84

£ 237.12

£ 182.40

13

£ 385.32

£ 316.16

£ 256.88

£ 197.60

26%

14

£ 404.04

£ 331.52

£ 269.36

£ 207.20

15

£ 432.90

£ 355.20

£ 288.60

£ 222.00

29%

16

£ 443.04

£ 363.52

£ 295.36

£ 227.20

17

£ 470.73

£ 386.24

£ 313.82

£ 241.40

32%

18

£ 477.36

£ 391.68

£ 318.24

£ 244.80

19

£ 503.88

£ 413.44

£ 335.92

£ 258.40

34%

20

£ 514.80

£ 422.40

£ 343.20

£ 264.00

21

£ 540.54

£ 443.52

£ 360.36

£ 277.20

22

£ 566.28

£ 464.64

£ 377.52

£ 290.40

23

£ 592.02

£ 485.76

£ 394.68

£ 303.60

16%

Please note: There are no Subscription discounts in Price Band V. If you are under 26, each concert costs £6.

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THANK YOU

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Delivered by

Principal Conductor’s Circle Geoff and Mary Ball

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Alison Green Sub-Principal Bassoon

Scottish Chamber Orchestra HRH The Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay Patron Donald MacDonald CBE Life President Colin Buchan Chairman Gavin Reid Chief Executive Maxim Emelyanychev Principal Conductor Joseph Swensen Conductor Emeritus Gregory Batsleer Chorus Director Jay Capperauld Associate Composer — Programmes, artists, dates, times, prices and availability subject to change.

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Nikita Naumov Principal Double Bass

Photography credits Sussie Ahlburg Stuart Armitt Fraser Band Valerie Bernadini Marco Borggreve Christopher Bowen Felix Broede Ryan Buchanan Gordon Burniston Sandy Butler Sim Canetty-Clarke Eoin Carey

“Everyone on stage looked as though they were having the time of their lives and, judging from the scale of the ovation, the audience was too.”

Arts Desk, 2021

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MUSIC TO T H R I L LYOU

EDINBURGH CONCERTS

SEASON 22/23

BENEDETTI & EMELYANYCHEV

VIENNESE NEW YEAR

LES ILLUMINATIONS

Thu 29 Sep, 7.30pm

Sun 1 Jan, 3pm

Thu 16 Mar, 7.30pm

Usher Hall, Edinburgh

Usher Hall, Edinburgh

The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh

THE CREATION

MUSIQUE AMÉRIQUE

Thu 6 Oct, 7.30pm

Thu 12 Jan, 7.30pm

HANDEL: MUSIC FOR THE ROYALS

Usher Hall, Edinburgh

The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh

Thu 23 Mar, 7.30pm Usher Hall, Edinburgh

FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT Thu 3 Nov, 7.30pm

AN EVENING WITH FRANÇOIS LELEUX

The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh

Thu 19 Jan, 7.30pm The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh

SCHULDT CONDUCTS SCHUMANN

MÖDER DY / MOTHER WAVE

Thu 10 Nov, 7.30pm

Thu 26 Jan, 7.30pm

The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh

The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh

MAXIM’S BAROQUE INSPIRATIONS

MOZART’S FLUTE CONCERTO

Thu 24 Nov, 7.30pm

The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh

Thu 16 Feb, 7.30pm

The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh

MAXIM CONDUCTS BRAHMS

ISRAEL IN EGYPT

Thu 23 Feb, 7.30pm

Thu 1 Dec, 7.30pm

Usher Hall, Edinburgh

Usher Hall, Edinburgh

SCHUBERT’S UNFINISHED SYMPHONY Thu 30 Mar, 7.30pm The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh

SUMMER NIGHTS WITH KAREN CARGILL Thu 20 Apr, 7.30pm The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh

BEETHOVEN’S FIFTH Thu 27 Apr, 7.30pm Usher Hall, Edinburgh

TCHAIKOVSKY’S FIFTH Thu 4 May, 7.30pm The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh

FELIX YANIEWICZ AND THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT Thu 8 Dec, 7.30pm The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh

YEOL EUM SON PLAYS MOZART Thu 15 Dec, 7.30pm

THE DREAM Thu 2 Mar, 7.30pm

BRAHMS REQUIEM

Usher Hall, Edinburgh

Thu 11 May, 7.30pm Usher Hall, Edinburgh

FOLK INSPIRATIONS WITH PEKKA Thu 9 Mar, 7.30pm The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh

Usher Hall, Edinburgh

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Cover Photo Marcus Barcham Stevens Principal Second Violin