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WELCOME FRO M GAVI N A warm welcome to the Scottish Chamber
Mozart’s Flute Concerto in D played by SCO
Orchestra’s 2022/23 Season in St Andrews. This
Principal Flute André Cebrián.
is our first season of full-length, restriction-free concerts in St Andrews for more than two years, so we’re especially excited to share it with you. We’re also delighted to be back in Younger Hall following the venue’s refurbishment.
In March Pekka Kuusisto returns for an illuminating programme of Britten, Hadyn and Muhly and then, as the days grow longer, acclaimed Scottish mezzo soprano Karen Cargill joins French conductor Chloé van Soeterstède
Over the course of five concerts the Orchestra,
for our St Andrews season finale. We’re also
and a host of guest artists, bring a kaleidoscopic
continuing with some exciting digital offerings
assortment of great music to St Andrews, from
which you’ll read about in the brochure.
Beethoven and Britten to Mozart and Muhly. To open the Season, revered British violinist
I hope you enjoy this uplifting Season of musical experiences both familiar and unexpected.
Anthony Marwood directs the SCO in a very personal selection of pieces featuring works by Haydn, Bruckner, Elgar and Weill. In January we’ll see in the New Year with our Viennese
Gavin Reid
New Year concert and in February we welcome
Chief Executive
back Joana Carneiro for a concert that features
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
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CONTENTS
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Welcome from Gavin
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Season Concerts
14-15
StAFCO and Orchestra in Residence
16-17
Youth Advisory Council
18-19
Jay Capperauld
20-21
Support Us
22-23
Digital Season
24-25
Booking and Ticket Information
26-27
Thank you
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Join in
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Concert calendar
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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
Wed 2 Nov, 7.30pm
personal selection of pieces. This is music
Younger Hall, St Andrews
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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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
Collection in aid of
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
Tue 3 Jan, 7.30pm Younger Hall, St Andrews
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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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
Wed 15 Feb, 7.30pm Younger Hall, St Andrews
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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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.
Wed 15 Mar, 7.30pm Younger Hall, St Andrews
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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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.
Wed 19 Apr, 7.30pm Younger Hall, St Andrews
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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StAFCO AND ORCHESTRA IN RESIDENCE StAFCO
babies, toddlers and their adults and creative music projects in schools. The SCO is also
The St Andrews and Fife Community
proud to support the non-auditioned StAFCO
Orchestra (StAFCO) is conducted by Gillian
with coaching and an annual concerto
Craig and meets weekly from September
performance by an SCO soloist.
to April. StAFCO is unauditioned and open to all students and members of the
Orchestra in Residence activity is supported
local community who play an orchestral
by a graduate traineeship, a paid position
instrument at any level. The 70+ strong
which enables a graduate from the
orchestra performs twice annually, attracting
University of St Andrews to work across both
audiences of all ages from across Fife.
organisations, assisting project delivery and developing skills in arts management.
Orchestra in Residence Programme For details about the The SCO’s Orchestra in Residence
Orchestra in Residence programme,
programme, unique in Scotland, is delivered in
please visit sco.org.uk
partnership with the University of St Andrews.
or st-andrews.ac.uk/music,
The residency enables people of all ages
phone 01334 462226,
across the local community to connect with
email graduate.trainee@sco.org.uk
our musicians through SCO masterclasses for
or call in to the Laidlaw Music Centre
music students, concerts and workshops for
in person.
Our Orchestra in Residence at the University of St Andrews project is kindly supported by the Kinburn (St Andrews) Charitable Trust and The Russell Trust.
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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 work on all
And we’re also excited that Jay will play a
aspects of the SCO’s work, not only composing
pivotal role in New Voices, a two-year mentoring
new works for the Orchestra but also working
programme that will offer a platform for five
closely with the SCO’s Creative Learning and
emerging composers and music creators to
Marketing teams. Here’s just a taster of what
expand their creative practice and experiment
Jay will be getting up to:
with the chamber music format.
Su-a Lee Sub-Principal Cello
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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
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CONCERT SEASON 22/23 ON SALE NOW | SCO.ORG.UK
MUSIC TO T H R I L LYOU
ST ANDREWS CONCERTS
SEASON 22/23
FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT Wed 2 Nov, 7.30pm Younger Hall, St Andrews
Scottish Chamber Orchestra HRH The Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay Patron
VIENNESE NEW YEAR Tue 3 Jan, 7.30pm
Donald MacDonald CBE Life President Colin Buchan Chairman
Younger Hall, St Andrews
Gavin Reid Chief Executive
MOZART’S FLUTE CONCERTO
Maxim Emelyanychev Principal Conductor
Wed 15 Feb, 7.30pm
Joseph Swensen Conductor Emeritus
Younger Hall, St Andrews
Gregory Batsleer Chorus Director
LES ILLUMINATIONS
Jay Capperauld Associate Composer
Wed 15 Mar, 7.30pm Younger Hall, St Andrews
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SUMMER NIGHTS WITH KAREN CARGILL
Programmes, artists, dates, times, prices and availability subject to change.
Wed 19 Apr, 7.30pm Younger Hall, St Andrews
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Cover Photo Louise Goodwin Principal Timpani