Scottish Festival Orchestra

The Scottish Festival Orchestra is a Scottish orchestra, assembled from the leading professional orchestral musicians, which performs a wide variety of concerts.

The administrator for all the orchestra's activities is independent orchestra contractor and professional freelance cellist John Davidson

Recent engagements

Recent engagements have included:

• Charity Gala Concerts with percussion soloist Evelyn Glennie and television broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh
• Dance Classics and Yuletide Classics programmes at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall and Perth Concert Hall with violin soloist Nicola Benedetti
• An Evening of Gilbert and Sullivan and Viennese Gala Concerts performed at Glasgow Theatre Royal, the Edinburgh Festival Theatre and Aberdeen Music Hall
• A Grand Summer Picnic Prom in the grounds of Raemoir House with Scottish tenor, Nicky Spence.
• Hogmanay Gala Concerts with Scotland's 3 Tenors, Caledon
• Recordings for the United States Olympic Committee (Beijing 2008) and the Chevron Corporation
• Christmas Gala Concert with conductor Gordon Cree and opera singer, Cheryl Forbes at the Grand Hall, Kilmarnock.
• A CD and Television recording of Highland Heartbeat for PBS
• A sellout concert with John Innes - The People's Tenor, at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
• Christmas at the Musicals for West End International
• Homecoming Scotland concert with singer Karen Matheson
• Performed to a capacity audience at the Clyde Auditorium (The Armadillo) with The Priests and Elysium.

A number of the orchestra’s string players also performed on stage with pop artist Rod Stewart, during his European tour and during 2007, performed with Smokey Robinson and Kanye West. In the recording field, the players have worked with a number of folk artists; the most recent being William Jackson and Caroline Lavelle.

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