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After the huge success of our Masterworks performance week and visits to schools, there's no rest for the wicked. Our composition project 'Music Factory' is the next stage for Advanced Higher Music pupils from the 6 participating Local Authorities. Stephen Deazley is working with Fife, Edinburgh, East Ayrshire and South Ayrshire and Alasdair Nicolson is leading workshops in Moray and Aberdeenshire. These composers have both begun this 4 month composition project with 16 pupils coming together in each Local Authority, working closely with a trio of SCO players at each session.

As a professional violinist, the question I am asked most often by audience members is, “Do you watch the conductor?  What do they actually do?”  Like all good questions, there is no straight answer – and that’s not just because I am concerned my career might come to an abrupt end if I say the wrong thing.