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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. Lorenza Borrani smiles at the camera, holding her violin

    Borrani & Beethoven

    Edinburgh
    Glasgow
    Lorenza Borrani returns for a second concert of the Season with an evening of wit, humour and magical evocations.
  2. Jess Gillam smiles up holding her saxophone.

    Saxophone Dreams with Jess Gillam

    New Dimensions

    Edinburgh
    Glasgow
    St Andrews
    Jess Gillam brings her invigorating musical personality to a colourful and adventurous concert.
  3. VIBE in the Borders workshops

    Workshop

    Galashiels
    Explore creative art and music-making in these free cross-arts workshops for ages 11-18.
  4. Pekka plays the violin with a smile.

    Beethoven, Pekka & Dreamers’ Circus

    Edinburgh
    Glasgow
    Aberdeen
    Classical and folk join forces for a celebration of dance, in this joyfully unconventional programme masterminded by Pekka Kuusisto.
  5. Roderick Williams sings at the Proms with the Orchestra playing behind.

    The Language of Eden

    Choral

    Edinburgh
    Glasgow
    Andrew Manze conducts an evening of rapturous English music and striking new sounds, with Roderick Williams and the SCO Chorus.
  6. 3 members of the Craigmillar youth choir sing, they wear school unirom.

    Tapestry

    Matinee

    Edinburgh
    Join us for the SCO’s end of residency celebration, Tapestry, a vibrant showcase of the Craigmillar community’s creativity and heritage.
  7. A baby'ss hand rests in an adults.

    The Night Watch

    Digital Season

    Online
    Immerse yourself in its jazz-inflected harmonies and radiant wonder in a performance by the SCO Chorus and Chorus Director Gregory Batsleer.
  8. Jonian Ilias-Kadesha shits on some old stairs with a violin.

    Bohemian Rhapsodies

    Edinburgh
    Glasgow
    Flamboyant Greek-Albanian violinist Jonian Ilias Kadesha directs a concert dedicated to the gutsy glories of Czech music.
  9. Lawrence Power holds his viola. He wears a black suit.

    Baroque Threads, Contemporary Colours

    St Andrews
    Edinburgh
    Glasgow
    Kaleidoscopic hues and big emotions sit side by side in this vibrant concert weaving together the Baroque era and the present day.
  10. An angel statue with a golden hue.

    Mozart Requiem

    Choral

    Edinburgh
    Glasgow
    Riccardo Minasi is joined by the excellent SCO Chorus and a brilliant line-up of vocal soloists for Mozart's Requiem.

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. Roderick Williams: "The Language of Eden is a lyrical piece full of beautiful textures"

    23 February 2026

    Ahead of his return to the SCO in March, we spoke to Roderick Williams about his wide-ranging career.
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  2. Dreamers' Circus: "there's a kind of listening culture in Scotland that feels very close to the folk world"

    16 February 2026

    Classical and folk meet in our concerts with Dreamers' Circus, so who better to talk us through how it happens?
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  3. The 2026 SCO Summer Tour is on sale!

    13 February 2026

    Looking for an excuse to explore Scotland this summer? See if you can catch the Orchestra on the road!
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  4. Digital Season: Bruckner's Skull

    12 February 2026

    Read the programme note for our online performance of Jay Capperauld's Bruckner's Skull.
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  5. The great Beethoven symphonies

    9 February 2026

    In which we bite the bullet and look at four unmissable works
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  6. Wrongfully marginalised: a history of women composers

    2 February 2026

    To celebrate International Women's Day, we look at the changing fortunes of women composers over the centuries.
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  7. Concert and insertion arias: a primer

    26 January 2026

    In which we look at the practice of exchanging one aria for another in operas - and not always for the best of reasons ...
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  8. A tribute to Caroline Garden

    21 January 2026

    We are sorry to announce the passing of Caroline Garden, a founding member of the Orchestra.
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  9. A violinist shown at three different ages: as a young man in a drawing, middle-aged in a painting and elderly in an old photo

    Joseph Joachim and the great German violin concertos

    19 January 2026

    Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Bruch and Brahms: four violin concertos, all connected by a single violinist.
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  10. The search for Beethoven's successor

    19 January 2026

    Beethoven died in 1827. Who would be worthy to take on his mantle?
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