On the same day that he opened the new Scottish Chamber Orchestra season at Edinburgh's Usher Hall, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin yesterday announced the appointment of conductor Robin Ticciati as its new Principal Conductor and Music Director, beginning the 2017/18 season with an initial contract of five years.
Orchestra committee member Matthias Kühnle adds: “The chemistry between Robin Ticciati and our orchestra was great from the outset. The joint rehearsal phase and the performance of Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony stuck in our memory and gave us the certainty today that we have found the right successor to Tugan Sokhiev.”
Ticciati will be the eighth chief conductor at the DSO, following prestigious names including Lorin Maazel, Riccardo Chailly, and Vladimir Ashkenazy. He continues with the SCO, where he has been Principal Conductor since 2009 and at Glyndebourne Festival Opera , where he was appointed Music Director last year.
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The award-winning Heath Quartet, recipients of a Herald Angel at the Edinburgh International Festival and the Royal Philharmonic Society's Young Artists Award, will appear at Falkirk Town Hall on Friday October 16 at 7.30pm. The foursome - Oliver Heath, Cerys Jones, Gary Pomeroy and Christopher Murray - recently performed a complete cycle of the Beethoven Quartets at the Kilkenny Arts Festival as well as playing the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Musee d'Orsay in Paris and Carnegie Hall, New York.
Their programme for Classic Music Live! Falkirk includes works by Haydn and Bartok and Beethoven's final string quartet.
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Three of the major figures in the intertwined worlds of highland piping and Gaelic song take part in a concert at Saint Andrew’s in the Square, Glasgow on Thursday, October 29. Seinn air a’ Phìob - Singing the Pipes – is a collaboration between the recently formed Big Music Society and Glasgow Gaelic music promoter An Lòchran and features piper, singer and pibroch specialist Allan MacDonald, piper and singer Rona Lightfoot, and singer Kenna Campbell. Both Lightfoot and Campbell are inductees in the Scots Trad Music Hall of fame and MacDonald won a Herald Angel in 2004 for his From Battle Lines to Bar Lines pibroch concert series at Edinburgh International Festival. The music begins at 7:30pm.
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