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Saffron Hall

The LPO is resident orchestra at Saffron Walden’s 740-seat venue, with concerts

including Benjamin Grosvenor in Grieg’s Piano Concerto (September) and selections
from Swan Lake (November). Away from the LPO residency, in November alone,
pianists Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy are in town, the Julian Bliss Septet pays

tribute to Benny Goodman, and composer-instrumentalist Erland Cooper visits for
the first time.

saffronhall.com

Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Following a successful 50th-anniversary season, there’s Coleridge-Taylor’s Violin
Concerto in October (soloist Anthony Marwood), Jörg Widmann’s take on Beethoven
in Con brio in January, and Nicola Benedetti plays Brahms’s Violin Concerto in May.

sco.org.uk

Scottish Opera

Eight operas, three world premieres, the company’s first animated opera and eleven
composers will be showcased this season. Expect new productions of The

Makropoulos Affair (February and March), The Merry Widow (April to June) and Trial
by Jury (May and June).

scottishopera.org.uk

Sinfonia Smith Square (formerly Southbank Sinfonia)

Sinfonia Smith Square is a merger of Southbank Sinfonia and St John’s Smith

Square (now Smith Square Hall), describing itself as a ‘beacon for the future of
classical music’ and annually welcoming 34 young musicians to form an orchestra.

They pair Jessie Montgomery’s Banner with Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony for
their first interval-less Rush Hour concert in October; the next month, a programme

titled Stories includes music by Caroline Shaw alongside works by Stravinsky and
Ravel.

sinfoniasmithsq.org.uk/our-orchestra