Scottish Festival Orchestra
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The Scottish Festival Orchestra is a Scotland-based orchestra, assembled from the leading professional orchestral musicians in Scotland, which performs a wide variety of concerts.
The administrator for all the orchestra's activities is the Scottish cellist and orchestral contractor, John Davidson.
[edit] Recent Engagements
Recent engagements have included:
- A Children’s Classic Concert which received a five star review in the Sunday Herald
- Charity Gala Concerts with percussion soloist Evelyn Glennie and television broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh
- Dance Classics and Yuletide Classics programmes at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall and Perth Concert Hall with violin soloist Nicola Benedetti
- An Evening of Gilbert and Sullivan and Viennese Gala Concerts performed at Glasgow Theatre Royal, the Edinburgh Festival Theatre and Aberdeen Music Hall
- Beethoven Mass in C, with the Cunninghame Choir
- A Grand Summer Picnic Prom in the grounds of Raemoir House Hotel
A number of the orchestra’s string players also performed on stage recently, with pop artist Rod Stewart, during his European tour 2005. In the recording field, the players have worked with a number of folk artists; the most recent being William Jackson and Caroline Lavelle.
