Sobremesa - Where Words and Music Meet at the Table
Aug
12

Sobremesa - Where Words and Music Meet at the Table

Sobremesa is a multidisciplinary performance inspired by the Spanish tradition of lingering at the table in conversation long after a meal. Audiences create their own literary menu from a selection of Spanish and Latin American texts, each paired with a surprise musical response. Performed by flute and guitar, Sobremesa blends folk and classical music, from Bach to Flamenco and beyond. Each evening becomes a unique journey of intertwining arts, shaped by the audience. After the performance, we invite our guests to stay, share thoughts and let the experience unfold together.

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Sobremesa - Where Words and Music Meet at the Table
Aug
13

Sobremesa - Where Words and Music Meet at the Table

Sobremesa is a multidisciplinary performance inspired by the Spanish tradition of lingering at the table in conversation long after a meal. Audiences create their own literary menu from a selection of Spanish and Latin American texts, each paired with a surprise musical response. Performed by flute and guitar, Sobremesa blends folk and classical music, from Bach to Flamenco and beyond. Each evening becomes a unique journey of intertwining arts, shaped by the audience. After the performance, we invite our guests to stay, share thoughts and let the experience unfold together.

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Sobremesa - Where Words and Music Meet at the Table
Aug
14

Sobremesa - Where Words and Music Meet at the Table

Sobremesa is a multidisciplinary performance inspired by the Spanish tradition of lingering at the table in conversation long after a meal. Audiences create their own literary menu from a selection of Spanish and Latin American texts, each paired with a surprise musical response. Performed by flute and guitar, Sobremesa blends folk and classical music, from Bach to Flamenco and beyond. Each evening becomes a unique journey of intertwining arts, shaped by the audience. After the performance, we invite our guests to stay, share thoughts and let the experience unfold together.

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Sobremesa - Where Words and Music Meet at the Table
Aug
15

Sobremesa - Where Words and Music Meet at the Table

Sobremesa is a multidisciplinary performance inspired by the Spanish tradition of lingering at the table in conversation long after a meal. Audiences create their own literary menu from a selection of Spanish and Latin American texts, each paired with a surprise musical response. Performed by flute and guitar, Sobremesa blends folk and classical music, from Bach to Flamenco and beyond. Each evening becomes a unique journey of intertwining arts, shaped by the audience. After the performance, we invite our guests to stay, share thoughts and let the experience unfold together.

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Sobremesa - Where Words and Music Meet at the Table
Aug
16

Sobremesa - Where Words and Music Meet at the Table

Sobremesa is a multidisciplinary performance inspired by the Spanish tradition of lingering at the table in conversation long after a meal. Audiences create their own literary menu from a selection of Spanish and Latin American texts, each paired with a surprise musical response. Performed by flute and guitar, Sobremesa blends folk and classical music, from Bach to Flamenco and beyond. Each evening becomes a unique journey of intertwining arts, shaped by the audience. After the performance, we invite our guests to stay, share thoughts and let the experience unfold together.

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Vibe! In the Borders
Jul
22
to 24 Jul

Vibe! In the Borders

Love music and want to get creative? Join VIBE in the Borders, a FREE music-making project for 30 students in S1-3 who love singing or playing an instrument – no experience needed!

Whether you sing, rap, play an instrument, DJ, or have never played before, you’ll get to team up with guitarist Paul Griffiths and musicians from the Scottish Chamber Orchestra to create your own music in a fun, relaxed space. You’ll get the chance to experiment, improvise, and perform – all without needing to read music! No experience? No problem! Just bring your energy and ideas – build confidence, learn new skills, and most importantly, have a blast making music your way.

You will also get the opportunity to perform as part of Borders Music Festival 2026!

Workshop leaders include Guitarist Paul Griffiths and a team of musicians from SCO.

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Bohemian Rhapsodies - A Celebration of Czech Music with Jonian Ilias Kadesha
Apr
16

Bohemian Rhapsodies - A Celebration of Czech Music with Jonian Ilias Kadesha

16 April, 7:30pm - The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

17 April, 7:30pm - City Halls, Glasgow

KAPRÁLOVÁ Suite en Miniature Op.1

MARTINŮ Violin Concerto No.2

MARTINŮ La revue de cuisine

DVOŘÁK Czech Suite

Jonian Ilias Kadesha director/violin

No thunderbolts and lightning, maybe, but plenty of kaleidoscopic colour, whirling rhythms and strong flavours as flamboyant Greek-Albanian violinist Jonian Ilias Kadesha directs a concert dedicated to the gutsy glories of Czech music.

Dvořák takes your hand for a set of exhilarating dances from his Bohemian homeland, while Martinů whisks you away for exotic travels in his ravishingly beautiful, deeply romantic Second Violin Concerto. Sample absurdist comedy in Martinů’s surrealist La revue de cuisine – a jazz-flavoured love story for everyday kitchen utensils. To begin, an exquisite, evocative Suite from lost Czech voice Vítezslava Kaprálová, who died aged just 25.

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The Language of Eden
Mar
27

The Language of Eden

26 March, 7:30pm - The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

27 March, 7:30pm - City Halls, Glasgow

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Serenade to Music

ELGAR Serenade

BUTTERWORTH arr WILLIAMS Six Songs from 'A Shropshire Lad'

HAYDN 'The Representation of Chaos' from The Creation

JAY CAPPERAULD The Language of Eden (World Premiere)

Andrew Manze conductor
Roderick Williams baritone
SCO Chorus
Gregory Batsleer chorus director


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Beethoven, Pekka & Dreamers’ Circus
Mar
19

Beethoven, Pekka & Dreamers’ Circus

19 March, 7:30pm - The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

20 March, 7:30pm- City Halls, Glasgow

21 March, 7:30pm - Aberdeen Music Hall

BEETHOVEN Symphony No.7 (interspersed with folk tunes played by Dreamers’ Circus and Pekka Kuusisto)

Classical and folk join forces for a thrilling celebration of dance, in this joyfully unconventional programme masterminded and conducted by much-loved Finnish violin pioneer Pekka Kuusisto.

Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony dances its way from start to blazing finish, propelled along by driving rhythms, and brimming over with energy, passion and bounding positivity.

Kuusisto intersperses the Symphony’s four movements with a specially curated collection of folk tunes that he plays with his friends and colleagues in Danish/Swedish trio Dreamers’ Circus, injecting a distinctively 21st-century freshness into trad music from across Europe.

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Scottish Ballet - The Snow Queen
Jan
8
to 31 Jan

Scottish Ballet - The Snow Queen

https://scottishballet.co.uk/whats-on/the-snow-queen/

This glittering production is inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s classic tale – which was also the basis for Frozen.

From the bustle of a winter’s market to the shivers of a fairytale forest, take a journey to the Snow Queen’s palace, where you’ll find her surrounded by the icy fragments of an enchanted mirror. Along the way, you’ll meet a sparkling cast of characters, from young lovers parted by a spell to a circus ringmaster with a few tricks up his sleeve.

Choreographed by Christopher Hampson and designed by the award-winning Lez Brotherston, this story of love and friendship is a delight for the whole family.

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Spanish Music for flute and piano - Stockbridge Church
Sept
13

Spanish Music for flute and piano - Stockbridge Church

Held in collaboration with the Consulate of Spain in Edinburgh.

The evening’s repertoire includes works by Pablo de Sarasate, Josep i Joan Plà, Manuel de Falla, Marin Marais, Georges Bizet, Óscar de Manuel, Miquel Ortega, Xoán Montes, and Antonio José, offering a colourful journey through Spanish and Spanish-influenced music, from the Baroque to the contemporary.

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Melrose Music Festival - VIBE in the Borders
Sept
7

Melrose Music Festival - VIBE in the Borders

Join the VIBE in the Borders group as they perform their final works LIVE at the Melrose Corn Exchange as part of the Melrose Music Festival!

This FREE-to-attend performance is a culmination of the VIBE in the Borders workshops led by musicians from the SCO and guitarist, Paul Griffiths.

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BBC Proms - Scottish Chamber Orchestra at Royal Albert Hall
Jul
25

BBC Proms - Scottish Chamber Orchestra at Royal Albert Hall

Rameau Les Indes galantes – suite 24’
Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major, ‘Egyptian’ 29’

Jay Capperauld Bruckner’s Skull 16’ 
Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor 31’

Alexandre Kantorow piano
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Maxim Emelyanychev conductor 

The lure of the East runs through this Prom given by Maxim Emelyanychev and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. French pianist and star of the Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremony, Alexandre Kantorow is the soloist in Saint- Saëns’s ‘Egyptian’ Piano Concerto – a vivid musical travelogue, lively with chirping crickets and croaking frogs – while a selection from Rameau’s ballet Les Indes galantes offers sonic snapshots from Peru, Turkey, Persia and America.

Fate knocks loudly at the door in Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, answered with defiant musical optimism, but it’s Death who gets the final word in Jay Capperauld’s Bruckner’s Skull.

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VIBE in the Borders (Copy)
Apr
10

VIBE in the Borders (Copy)

Vibe is a fusion orchestra for young musicians.

'Vibe in the Borders' is a chance for young people to step out of their comfort zones, explore new sounds, and connect through music in a welcoming, inclusive space.

Led by the amazing Paul Griffiths, talented musicians Phil Hague, Sally Jaquet, Alba Vinti, Emily Scott-Moncrieff, and Mark Neal helped bring the magic of collaborative music-making to life.

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VIBE in the Borders (Copy)
Apr
9

VIBE in the Borders (Copy)

Vibe is a fusion orchestra for young musicians.

'Vibe in the Borders' is a chance for young people to step out of their comfort zones, explore new sounds, and connect through music in a welcoming, inclusive space.

Led by the amazing Paul Griffiths, talented musicians Phil Hague, Sally Jaquet, Alba Vinti, Emily Scott-Moncrieff, and Mark Neal helped bring the magic of collaborative music-making to life.

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VIBE in the Borders
Apr
8

VIBE in the Borders

Vibe is a fusion orchestra for young musicians.

'Vibe in the Borders' is a chance for young people to step out of their comfort zones, explore new sounds, and connect through music in a welcoming, inclusive space.

Led by the amazing Paul Griffiths, talented musicians Phil Hague, Sally Jaquet, Alba Vinti, Emily Scott-Moncrieff, and Mark Neal helped bring the magic of collaborative music-making to life.

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