Royal Scottish National Orchestra

We are sorry that Paul Whittaker is no longer able to perform BSL at this weekend's Beethoven Seven concerts.

There will be a provision of surtitles for Cheryl Frances-Hoad's You Have to be Realistic About a Perfect Day and Vaughan Williams' Songs of Travel.

'It gave me my voice back': How group singing is helping new mums with postnatal depression New research suggests singing can be clinically effective at treating the symptoms and cost effective for the NHS.

A brilliant article was published yesterday about the mental health benefits of singing groups for new mums with their babies, just like our Buggy Choir: https://bbc.in/4og1vZi

Find out more about our Buggy Choir here: https://bit.ly/3F0jGRp

Looking back at June's lovely Yoyo & The Little Auk concert as we're delighted to be bringing Yoyo to primary school pupils across the country for the next two weeks!

📸 Erika Stevenson for the RSNO's Big Music Weekend at The Pyramid

BBC Radio Scotland - Classical Now, RSNO with Ethan Loch / Mhairi Hall's Underwater Cairngorms Jamie MacDougall celebrates the best in classical music from Scotland and beyond.

Listen in to BBC Radio Scotland this evening from 7pm to hear our performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto in C Major with Ethan Loch! 🎹

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002j5g9

Usher Hall, our home in Edinburgh! 😍

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Applications are open now for Film Composers Lab 2025:26! Calling all early-career, UK-based composers, this is your chance to compose for film whilst working with a professional orchestra and industry mentors.

Find out more & apply here: https://bit.ly/3XaIJaS

Join the RSNO! We're currently recruiting for the following positions:

Orchestra and Projects Officer - closes Fri 19 Sep
Associate Principal (No. 2) Bassoon - closes Sun 12 Oct

Find out more and apply here: https://bit.ly/2YO6FFC

Rehearsals are underway for Sunday's Closing Concert of the Edinburgh International Festival 🎶

We'll be performing Mendelssohn's Elijah alongside some exceptional soloists and the Edinburgh Festival Chorus at the Usher Hall.

Dennis, RSNO, Dunedin Consort, Søndergård, Usher Hall, Edinburgh review - potted Ring and deep dive into history "How long is Wagner’s Ring Cycle?" That’s not the opening to a joke, it’s a genuine question asked by a friend who I’d met up with before heading to Edinburgh’s Usher Hall to hear the Royal Scottish N...

★★★★ #AnnaDennis @rsno.bsky.social @dunedinconsort.bsky.social #ThomasSøndergård #UsherHall - A potted #Ring and a deep dive into history: ancient Scottish musical traditions explored & a short teaser for some #Wagner greatest moments - review by Miranda Heggie www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

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On 16 and 17 May, soprano Anna Dennis joins the sublime
@dunedinconsort.bsky.social and the mighty @rsno.bsky.social for the world premiere of Hidden Polyphony by @ntsmith.bsky.social!

Neil tells us about how he's illuminating Scotland's lost music 👉 go.continuoconnect.com/neil-t-smith...

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P4. music illustrated Flight of the Bumble Bee today with @rsno.bsky.social ... loved their creativity and imagination.

Behind the scenes of this morning’s Sounds of the Deep livestream! Let us know if your school joined us and what you enjoyed 💬

Three meditations on death and mourning with the RSNO in Edinburgh Mozart's Requiem packs in the crowd, but it's Berg's Violin Concerto with Carolin Widmann that really finds the spiritual depth.

Three meditations on death and mourning with the @rsno.bsky.social in Edinburgh @rsnochorus.bsky.social
✍️ Simon Thompson
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Grateful thanks to audience members for these captures from this weekend’s performances of the Mozart Requiem in Edinburgh and Glasgow with @rsno.bsky.social. What a memorable experience it has been 🎶🙌🏼

Thank you for your kind words! His name is Paul Whittaker.

@rsno.bsky.social Wonderful, heartrenching performance of Mozart’s Requiem tonight. Did not expect a BSL performance but (as a non Latin speaker but fluent in BSL) it gave so much meaning and emotion to the performance. Genuinely brilliant. Thank you

📣 Calling all primary schools! Sign up to join our free livestream concert experience for primary 4-7 pupils that's happening on Tuesday at 11am: bit.ly/3GlVKc4

Presented by our engaging host, learn about the deep-sea world through interactive games, film and music streamed live to your classroom.

We've been able to release final tickets for The Music of John Williams (3 May) at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall which was previously sold out!

tickets.glasgowlife.org.uk/32641/33006

Friday night was one of my favourite @rsno.bsky.social concerts in a while. The first half was a virtuoso performance from Jess Gillam playing the Scottish premiere of Anna Clyne's Glasslands. And then, BOOM! Shostakovich 8 - one of the most incredible, powerful pieces, so apt for today #bravo

Aberdeen, Dundee and Perth concerts will be announced soon!

Welcome to our 2025:26 Season in Edinburgh & Glasgow! Join us for spectacular performances of the music you love, from some of the world's finest musicians.

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Booking for Classical Concerts is only open to returning multibuy bookers - general tickets on sale from 12 May.

RSNO & Ellie Storach: Uprising, Edinburgh review: 'spine-tingling' Climate change opera Uprising offers a message of hope in darkening times, writes David Kettle

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ from The Scotsman for Uprising on Saturday night!

“Dove’s music was as viscerally powerful as it was clever… played with vigour and masses of character by a top-form RSNO under Ellie Slorach’s crisp, precise direction.”

www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...

We’ve been season ticket holders with RSNO for years. THIS WAS THE BEST CONCERT EXPERIENCE we’ve ever had, and we’ve heard some FABULOUS concerts. Standing ovations in the Usher Hall never happen. But they did tonight.

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Scottish premiere of Jonathan Dove’s Uprising - a community opera on the theme of climate crisis and sustainability with the @rsno.bsky.social orchestra and chorus. Some exquisite passages of music and so impressed by the youth chorus.

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Our 2025:26 Season is coming on Tuesday 1 April! 🎉

Tonight is the first performance of Uprising! Featuring the RSNO Chorus, Youth Chorus, Chorus Academy and Changed Voices 👏

Cellist Senja Rummukainen signing the RSNO's cello podium after her final performance of Anna Clyne's DANCE!

'Thank you for the very warm time and great music' 22.3.2025 🎶

Fantastic rehearsal today with the full team involved in this fantastic project: Jonathan Dove’s opera, Uprising. The massed forces the RSNO Youth Chorus and Changed Voices, Chorus Academy Glasgow and RSNO Chorus being expertly directed by Ellie Slorach and Sinéad O’Neill. cc @rsno.bsky.social

Anna Clyne's magnificent cello concerto crowns the RSNO programme Emilia Hoving makes a superb debut with the RSNO, including Dance, an exciting new cello concerto.

Anna Clyne's magnificent cello concerto crowns the @rsno.bsky.social's programme of music for the dance
✍️ Simon Thompson
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“…compelling and constantly fascinating listening.”
Lovely review of the RSNO performance of Mahler 9 at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall last night under the baton of Maestro Thomas Søndergård. 🎶🙌🏼
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