SCO 25/26: Saxophone Dreams with Jess Gillam

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 Celti'c. 

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’act'e. The great African American composer George Walker, meanwhile, regularly moved listeners to tears with his deeply moving 'Lyric for Strings'. 

Artists

Ben Glassberg conductor 
Jess Gillam saxophones* 

Programme

ANNA CLYNE Sound and FuryϮ 
DANI HOWARD Saxophone Concerto* 
GEORGE WALKER Lyric for Strings 
CAROLINE SHAW Entr’acte 
DAVE HEATH The Celtic* 
JOHN HARLE Rant!* 

ϮCommissioned by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Presented by The Scottish Chamber Orchestra