RCS Symphony Orchestra

Andrew Gourlay Conductor
Kentaro Machida Conductor (Festival Overture)

Andrew Gourlay leads the final RCS Symphony Orchestra concert of the academic year.

The concert opens with Scottish composer Thea Musgrave’s Festival Overture conducted by Kentaro Machida, written in dedication to Alexander Gibson, who conducted the first performance with the Scottish National Orchestra in 1965.

This is followed by the stirring Sinfonia da Requiem, Britten’s largest orchestral work for the concert hall. Finally, our students round out the evening with Shostakovich’s enigmatic final symphony, a work that moves between brooding darkness and comic brilliance, quoting Rossini and Wagner along the way.

Teresa Riveiro Böhm, our previously advertised conductor, sadly is unable to join us due to illness.