Name: Scotch College Symphony Orchestra in Concert
Start: 2025-01-21T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-01-21T20:30:00+01:00
Location: Breitscheidplatz,Berlin,10789,DE

Scotch College Symphony Orchestra in Concert

Scotch College will be performing throughout Europe in Munich, Salzburg, Vienna, Prague, Budapest, and Berlin - come enjoy their music!
The Scotch College Symphony Orchestra has been part of Scotch College for some fifty years. The orchestra has been conducted by the current Director of Music, Dr John Ferguson, since 1991.
The aim of the orchestra is to give the students an opportunity to play classical repertoire in its original form in a properly balanced orchestra. Symphonies and large-scale works are generally performed in their entirety, and recent repertoire has included Dvorak’s symphonies No 8 and 9 ‘New World,’ Franck’s Symphony in D minor , Tchaikovsky’s 2 nd , 4 th and 5 th symphonies , and many more.
The orchestra receives invitations to accompany various artists and organisations, including a performance of Yeomen of the Guard , presented by the Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Victoria. They have received invitations to perform for festivals and events beyond the school. In recent years these have included an invitation to perform for the Governor of Victoria, an anniversary dinner for Ford cars, the Woodend Winter Arts Festival and a Tait Memorial Trust benefit concert. The orchestra has been broadcast within Australia as well as by the BBC, by Singapore Radio and by China Central Television. Most recently, the orchestra was selected to perform for the 2022 International Society of Music Education conference. It performed Elgar’s Enigma Variations in entirety.
The orchestra often tours internationally. The first was a tour of Asia in the 1979 under George Logie-Smith. Other notable tours include China in 1986, England France and Belgium in 1995, 2005 and 2013, tours to Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Spain, a wonderful tour of five cities in China in 2010, and two tours to the USA (the last in 2020). The Symphony Orchestra Chamber Players have also performed in Zimbabwe, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Shanghai.