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SCO Principal Conductor Robin Ticciati makes his Edinburgh International Festival debut on Friday 27 August with a performance including the world premiere of Kevin Volans' symphony Daar Kom die Alibama.

The concert also features Rebel's Les Elèmens, Bizet's Symphony in C and virtuoso French pianists Katia and Marielle Labèque (pictured) in Poulenc's Concerto for two pianos.

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Sir Roger Norrington conducts the Orchestra, SCO Chorus and a world-class line up of international soloists in a concert performance of Mozart’s masterpiece, Idomeneo, as part of the 2010 Edinburgh International Festival on 20 August.

A mythological story of love and jealousy, sacrifice and exile, natural disaster and divine intervention, Idomeneo is undoubtedly one of Mozart’s greatest operatic achievements. The cast includes Joyce DiDonato, Rosemary Joshua, Emma Bell and, in the title role, Kurt Streit.

Following the recent death of the SCO's Conductor Laureate Sir Charles Mackerras, Douglas Boyd will direct an SCO Ensemble in a late night Prom this week. The programme features Dvořák's Wind Serenade and Mozart's Gran Partita for Thirteen Wind instruments. The concert will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.

We learned this morning with great sadness of the death last night of Sir Charles Mackerras, the SCO’s Conductor Laureate. Sir Charles was one of the most distinguished conductors of his generation and it has been an enormous privilege for all of us at the SCO to have had such a special relationship with him over the last twenty years or so.