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For the love of music

25/26 SEASON

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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Your 25/26 Concerts

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  1. Maxim conducts the Orchestra

    From Darkness to Light

    Edinburgh
    Glasgow
    Perth
    Join the SCO players and our electrifying Principal Conductor Maxim Emelyanychev on an unforgettable journey from darkness to light.
  2. Maxim Conducts the Orchestra and the chorus sings

    Gloria!

    Choral

    Edinburgh
    Glasgow
    Exhilarating choral splendours from across two centuries, with the magnificent SCO Chorus and an exceptional line-up of vocal soloists.
  3. The Origin of Colour

    Digital Season

    Online
    Discover (or rediscover) this dazzling, delightful music in a thrilling performance by the SCO and Maxim Emelyanychev.
  4. Alina Ibragimova playsd the violin

    Haydn’s Drum Roll

    St Andrews
    Edinburgh
    Glasgow
    Violinist Alina Ibragimova leads us from grief and fear to radiant joy in her deeply emotional concert with the SCO.
  5. Yeol Eum Son stands in front of a piano with her arms crossed

    Yeol Eum Son plays Mozart

    Edinburgh
    Glasgow
    Aberdeen
    Yeol Eum Son returns with two of the great composer’s most compelling concertos.
  6. Colin Currie smiles as he conducts

    Steve Reich+

    New Dimensions

    Edinburgh
    Glasgow
    Minimalist masterpieces from maverick composer Steve Reich directed by his close friend and collaborator, Edinburgh-born Colin Currie.
  7. Andrew Marwood holds a violin and looks to his left.

    Schumann & Mozart

    2 Matinees

    Edinburgh
    Glasgow
    Dumfries
    British violinist Anthony Marwood makes a welcome return for music to captivate you and – perhaps – surprise you.
  8. Abstract painting of a misty sun setting over a Irish beach.

    Carmina Gadelica

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

    L'Enfance du Christ

    Choral

    Edinburgh
    Glasgow
    Welcome the coming festive season with one of the tenderest, most captivating Christmas pieces ever created.
  10. A blue nutcracker soldier is featured with a blue glistening backdrop.

    The Nutcracker

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

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.

Concerts4-89-1314-1819+
Discount10%15%20%25%

5 25/26 For the Love of Music Interviews  

Max Mandel smiles. He wears a white shirt and black blazer.

Max Mandel

5:33

Cerys Ambrose-Evans

4:46

Eric de Wit

4:22

Katherine Bryer

2:59

Marta Gómez

4:10

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Latest news

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  1. SCO Embarks on European Tour Showcasing Scottish Musical Excellence

    2 September 2025

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  2. The percussion concerto

    1 September 2025

    Our examination of the concerto now turns to percussion. Expect the unexpected!
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  3. Mozart and the development of the piano concerto

    25 August 2025

    How one composer almost single-handedly raised the piano concerto to unprecedented heights
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  4. The clarinet concerto

    16 June 2025

    It's the clarinet's turn to step centre-stage for a look at their concerto repertoire. It's possible Mozart is mentioned!
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  5. Opera seria: a beginner's guide

    9 June 2025

    Ahead of the SCO's performances of two key opera seria in this year's Edinburgh International Festival, we look at the history of the genre.
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  6. Three men, dressed formally: one Victorian, with a short grey beard, one young and clean-shaven, in sepia, the last (in a painting) with a long grey beard and glasses

    The lure of the exotic: northern Africa in classical music

    2 June 2025

    How does the west's fascination with the wider Arab world come across in music? We look at a few examples ...
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  7. Beethoven's 'lesser' symphonies

    26 May 2025

    Why are some Beethoven symphonies better-known than others?
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  8. The bassoon concerto

    19 May 2025

    For the last article in our concerto series (for now), we turn to an instrument too often dismissed as the orchestra's resident joker.
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  9. In Memory of David Watkin

    15 May 2025

    The SCO’s Su-a Lee pays tribute to a brilliant musician, colleague and friend whose life has touched so many.
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  10. André Cebrián and Marta Gómez play the flute sitting in the SCO desks

    The flute concerto

    12 May 2025

    In the third installment of our series looking at the concerto, it's the turn of the SCO flautists to recommend their favourites.
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