The first concert will take place on June 7 at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh, and the second one a day later at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Both concerts will begin with a performance of “Overture for Orchestra” by Grażyna Bacewicz, followed by a presentation of Camille Saint-Saëns’ “Piano Concerto No. 5” performed by the outstanding Macedonian pianist, Simon Trpčeski. After the break, the orchestra will present Witold Lutosławski’s “Symphony No. 3”, and the whole event will end with Maurice Ravel’s “Bolero.” The concert in Glasgow will be broadcast online. Linn Records, operating under the RSNO banner, will record and then release works by Polish composers on a CD. RSNO violinist Ursula Heidecker Allen will lead a pre-concert discussion for ticket holders. The meetings will take place at the Upper Circle Bar in Edinburgh and the Clyde Foyer in Glasgow and will start 15 minutes before the start of the concert. The instrumentalist’s speeches will focus on concerts and music. In the 2020–21 season, with the support of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, RSNO presented the “Polska Scotland” program to an international audience of over 450,000 people online. The new edition of the program series in the 2023–24 season is based on the above-mentioned project, presenting online broadcasts of concerts with Polish repertoire performed by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra to audiences across Scotland. An event accompanying the project is the recorded premiere of the piece “Concerto Classico” for violin and orchestra by the Polish composer Andrzej Tchaikovsky under the baton of Andrzej Boreyko. Ilya Gringolts, a Russian artist who the press recognized as one of today’s most inspiring violinists, performed the solo part. Audiences around the world can watch this premiere performance on the orchestra’s YouTube channel.

Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Founded in 1891 as the Scottish Orchestra, it became the Scottish National Orchestra in 1950 and received Royal Patronage in 1977. Many famous conductors contributed to its success, including Sir John Barbirolli, Walter Susskind, Sir Alexander Gibson, Neeme Järvi, Walter Weller, Alexander Lazarev, and Stéphane Denève.Founded in 1891 as the Scottish Orchestra, it became the Scottish National Orchestra in 1950 and received Royal Patronage in 1977. Many famous conductors contributed to its success, including Sir John Barbirolli, Walter Susskind, Sir Alexander Gibson, Neeme Järvi, Walter Weller, Alexander Lazarev, and Stéphane Denève.

The artistic director of the orchestra since 2018 is the Danish conductor Thomas Søndergård. The RSNO has established a worldwide reputation for the excellence of its recordings, earning accolades such as the Gramophone Classical Music Award 2020 (for Chopin’s Piano Concertos, conducted by Elim Chan), two Diapason d’Or awards (Roussel, conducted by S. Denève, 2007; Debussy, conducted by S. Denève, 2012), and eight Grammy nominations. There are over 200 CDs of RSNO performances available, which include recordings of the orchestra’s first concert together (R. Strauss, Life of a Hero, and Suite from Der Rosenkavalier Suite), recordings of Prokofiev (Symphonies Nos. 1 and 5), two CDs of African American Voices featuring music by George Walker, William Levi Dawson, Margaret Bonds, and others, conducted by Kellen Grey; the complete symphonies of Sibelius (Gibson), Prokofiev (Järvi), Bruckner (Tintner), and Roussel (Denève), as well as later discs featuring compositions by William Grant Still (Eisenberg), XiaogangYe (Serebrier) and Thomas Wilson (Macdonald).

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