BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

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The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra is an orchestra in Scotland belonging to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) .

The orchestra was founded in 1935 by the Scottish composer and conductor Ian Whyte under the name "BBC Scottish Orchestra" and was initially based in Edinburgh and later in Glasgow . The orchestra's repertoire focuses on little-known romantic and contemporary music; this also includes premieres of works by Scottish and important foreign composers. It has worked with composers such as Benjamin Britten , Dmitri Shostakovich , György Kurtág and Tan Dun , among others .

In addition to traveling abroad, the orchestra regularly gives concerts at the BBC Proms in London , the Edinburgh Festival and the Cheltenham Festival . Every season there is an extensive tour of Scotland, which not only takes into account the larger cities but also the province. Records and CDs were made especially for the labels Naxos, Marco Polo, Koch-Schwann and Hyperion.

From January 2003, Ilan Volkov, born in Israel in 1976, was the orchestra's chief conductor (also the youngest chief conductor of a BBC orchestra to date). In 2006 the orchestra returned to its main venue, the Glasgow City Halls , which had been renovated over several years. In 2009 Donald Runnicles took over the musical direction of the orchestra. In 2016 Thomas Dausgaard became chief conductor.

Jonathan Harvey was the orchestra's Composer in Association from 2005 to 2008 .

The BBC also includes the BBC Philharmonic , the BBC National Orchestra of Wales , the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Concert Orchestra .

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  1. ↑ BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra named new conductor on: BBC News of March 11, 2015