Welcome to your 2025/26 Season

This Season, we honour our shared love of music through a series of interviews with our players. We explore their profound connection to the music and audiences, and reveal a few of their stories along the way.

For the love of music

Book for a minimum of four eligible concerts across Edinburgh, Glasgow or St Andrews to qualify for Multibuy Package discounts.

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Maxim Conducts the Orchestra and the chorus sings

Gloria!

Fri 10 Oct

Choral

Edinburgh

Glasgow

Exhilarating choral splendours from across two centuries, with the magnificent SCO Chorus and an exceptional line-up of vocal soloists.

The Origin of Colour

Thu 16 Oct

Digital Season

Online

Discover (or rediscover) this dazzling, delightful music in a thrilling performance by the SCO and Maxim Emelyanychev.

Haydn’s Drum Roll

Wed 22 – Fri 24 Oct

St Andrews

Edinburgh

Glasgow

Violinist Alina Ibragimova leads us from grief and fear to radiant joy in her deeply emotional concert with the SCO.

Yeol Eum Son stands in front of a piano with her arms crossed

Yeol Eum Son plays Mozart

Thu 30 Oct – Sat 1 Nov

Edinburgh

Glasgow

Aberdeen

Yeol Eum Son returns with two of the great composer’s most compelling concertos.

Steve Reich+

Thu 6 – Fri 7 Nov

New Dimensions

Edinburgh

Glasgow

Minimalist masterpieces from maverick composer Steve Reich directed by his close friend and collaborator, Edinburgh-born Colin Currie.

Andrew Marwood holds a violin and looks to his left.

Schumann & Mozart

Thu 13 – Sat 15 Nov

2 Matinees

Edinburgh

Glasgow

Dumfries

British violinist Anthony Marwood makes a welcome return for music to captivate you and – perhaps – surprise you.

Abstract painting of a misty sun setting over a Irish beach.

Carmina Gadelica

Fri 21 – Sun 23 Nov

Matinee

Glasgow

St Andrews

Edinburgh

The SCO’s renowned Wind Soloists join forces with some of Scotland’s most accomplished young players for a kaleidoscopic concert.

Stained glass window depicting Virgin Mary, Joseph and the infant son

L'Enfance du Christ

Thu 27 – Fri 28 Nov

Choral

Edinburgh

Glasgow

Welcome the coming festive season with one of the tenderest, most captivating Christmas pieces ever created.

A blue nutcracker soldier is featured with a blue glistening backdrop.

The Nutcracker

Wed 3 – Fri 5 Dec

Perth

Edinburgh

Glasgow

Maxim Emelyanychev invites you to immerse yourself in all the sugar, snow and sparkle of the composer’s full ballet score.

Gnarly Buttons

Thu 11 – Fri 12 Dec

New Dimensions

Edinburgh

Glasgow

A thrilling journey from the music of John Adams including hypnotic pulsations to red-hot emotion and vast cinematic soundscapes.

Booking Information:

Book for a minimum of four eligible concerts across Edinburgh, Glasgow or St Andrews to qualify for Multibuy Package discounts.

Current 12+ Multibuy bookers
Mon 24 Mar – Fri 11 Apr 2025

12+ Multibuy bookers for the 2024/25 Season will receive a telephone call from us to arrange their booking for the 2025/26 Season during the booking period above.

Current 4-11 Multibuy bookers
Mon 14 Apr – Fri 2 May 2025

4-11 Multibuy bookers for the 2024/25 Season can book Multibuy packages for the 2025/26 Season via the SCO website, over the phone or by sending us a completed booking form.

New Multibuy bookers
Mon 12 May – Fri 26 Sep 2025

New bookers can purchase Multibuy packages for the 2025/26 Season via the SCO website, over the phone or by sending us a completed booking form.

Single Tickets
From Monday 19 May 2025

If you wish to book fewer than four concerts, tickets will be available from the venue box offices from Monday 19 May 2025.

For more information on booking dates - see here.