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SAXOPHONE DREAMS (Scottish Chamber Orchestra: New Dimensions)

Dates
  • 11 Mar 2026, 7:30 p.m., City Halls, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, Tickets
  • 12 Mar 2026, 7:30 p.m., The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, Tickets
  • 13 Mar 2026, 7:30 p.m., City Halls, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, Tickets

Repertoire Sound and Fury, by Anna Clyne; Saxophone Concerto, by Dani Howard; Lyric for Strings, by George Walker; Entr'acte, by Caroline Shaw; The Celtic, by Dave Heath; Rant!, by John Harle
Description

An inspiring fixture on radio and TV, Cumbrian-born Jess Gillam is first and foremost a world-class saxophonist. She brings her invigorating musical personality to a typically adventurous collection of music across diverse styles and sounds for the last of our New Dimensions concerts.

Young British composer Dani Howard wrote her effervescent new Saxophone Concerto specially for Gillam, while Dave Heath throws you into the whirling energy of a raucous ceilidh in his galvanising concerto The Celtic.

Haydn provides the calmer inspiration for Anna Clyne’s scintillating Sound and Fury, written for the SCO in 2019, and also for Caroline Shaw’s mercurial Entr’acte. The great African American composer George Walker, meanwhile, regularly moves listeners to tears with his striking Lyric for Strings.

Please note: this concert is not part of the New Dimensions series in St Andrews.


Performers Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Ben Glassberg, Jess Gillam
Promoter Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Submitted by Scottish Chamber Orchestra

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