Scottish Chamber Orchestra comes to Campbeltown
This July, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra (SCO) will tour throughout Argyll and Bute, returning to Campbeltown for the first time in more than 20 years.
The orchestra will perform first in Oban before going to Campbeltown and Bowmore, Islay and then making a long-awaited return to Dunoon.
Joining them on the road is New Zealand-born conductor Holly Mathieson.
Mathieson takes the baton for an exquisite programme, including Mendelssohn’s much-loved and technically challenging Violin Concerto.
Soloist Benjamin Marquise Gilmore is certain to embrace this major piece of romantic music with panache. The programme opens with a rarity: Saint-Saëns’ Orchestral Suite, and to close the night, Beethoven’s monumental Symphony No 2: a superb evening of music not to be missed.
Talking about the orchestra’s summer tours, SCO sub-principal bass, Adrian Bornet said: ‘This is one of the happiest moments of music making in our yearly calendar as we explore a beautiful country and revisit familiar places and audiences.
‘As a national company the SCO takes pleasure and pride in visiting the length, breadth and width of Scotland, not only performing but receiving the friendship and enthusiasm of our audiences in places small and large.’
The SCO is passionate about sharing the experience of exceptional live orchestral music-making and inspiring new generations of classical music lovers.
The summer tour supports this mission by making concerts as accessible as possible to younger audiences by offering free tickets to under-18s and £6 tickets for under-26s, students and the unemployed.
The orchestra will be at the Corran Halls in Oban on Wednesday July 24; Victoria Halls, Campbeltown on Thursday July 25; and Islay High School, Bowmore on Friday July 26. All concerts start at 7.30pm.
Tickets on sale at the Corran Halls, Oban; Aqualibrium, Campbeltown, and The Celtic House, Bowmore, or by visiting sco.org.uk