06|SCO NEWS
THE INTERNATIONAL OPERA AWARDS 2019 –––––– Congratulations to our Principal Conductor Maxim Emelyanychev on winning The International Opera Awards 2019 ‘Newcomer Award’ – an award which recognises an artist who had a breakthrough year in 2018. Bravo Maestro!
PARLIAMENT RECOGNITION AND NOMINATION FOR INCREDIBLE DISTANCE PROJECT –––––– We are pleased to share the news that our project Incredible Distance has been short-listed in the Scottish Awards for New Music 2019 in the Community / Education category.
Incredible Distance is a partnership project with WHALE Arts which is part of our three-year residency in Wester Hailes, Edinburgh. It is an audio-visual exhibition created by members of the community, who have worked in collaboration with the composer, Suzanne Parry and workshop leader, Emma Smith. The result is an original audiovisual installation that explores the sonic and visual identity of Wester Hailes. It captures snapshots of daily life through the collection of found sound, imagery, film and original musical composition There was also a Motion in the Scottish Parliament by Gordon Macdonald MSP, wishing us all luck at the awards ceremony, which takes place on 13 May 2019 in Glasgow!
INTERCONNECT – A CONCERT OF NEW STUDENT WORKS SUNDAY 2 JUNE, 3PM –––––– Interested in hearing from some of our future composers? Come and enjoy our collaboration with Edinburgh College of Art Composition Students at the Edinburgh College of Art Degree Show! Seven final year BMus Composition students
have worked alongside SCO musicians to develop their compositions, which will be premiered by Aisling O’Dea (Violin), Felix Tanner (Viola), Philip Higham (Cello), Brontë Hudnott (Flute) and Gillian Horn (Bassoon). –––––– Details of how to book your free ticket for this event are at sco.org.uk/whats-on.
PROM 55: SCOTTISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA AND SCO CHORUS –––––– We are delighted to be performing Handel’s last, and perhaps greatest, oratorio, Jephtha, at this year’s BBC Proms on Friday 30th August! Conductor and long-time friend of the Orchestra, Richard Egarr, conducts this devastating story of the warrior Jephtha commanded by God to sacrifice his daughter Iphis. Tenor Allan Clayton is the conflicted Jephtha, with Trinidadian soprano Jeanine De Bique as Iphis. –––––– Tickets are on sale now from the Royal Albert Hall box office.
RECORDING –––––– Last summer we were fortunate to premiere a new theorbo
