SCO visits Mull and Seil on summer tour
After a two-year break, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra is embarking once again on its annual summer tour, visiting Mull, Seil, Ballachulish and a score of other Scottish villages, towns and cities, writes Sandy Neil.
From Inverness to Stirling and Shetland to Fraserburgh, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra (SCO) will bring together a host of exceptional conductors and soloists for live classical music.
Gavin Reid, chief executive of the SCO, said: 'We’re excited to head off on our summer tour across Scotland once again, inviting music-lovers to join us in celebrating the power of music in connecting people, building communities, and bringing the nation together.'
The SCO’s leader, Stephanie Gonley, directs the talented SCO Strings in Schubert’s elegant Rondo in A, and Elgar’s exuberant Serenade for Strings, plus lesser-known works by Arthur Foote and Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, in Callander Kirk (Saturday June 18) and Helensburgh Victoria Halls (Sunday June 19).
Meanwhile, SCO Wind Soloists present a wide-ranging programme from Telemann to Mozart, and Beethoven to Poulenc, in Ballachulish Village Hall (Thursday June 16), Mull Theatre (Friday June 17), and Seil Island Community Hall (Saturday June 18).
SCO principal conductor Maxim Emelyanychev will take the orchestra to Dunoon Queen’s Hall on Thursday July 21, with a concert that will include Weber’s Second Clarinet Concerto with soloist Maximiliano Martín and Haydn’s C major Cello Concerto with soloist Philip Higham.