There is a brand new collaboration between BBC Scotland and Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama across all atristic genres. Today saw a wonderful workshop with top players from RSAMD getting the chance to play a concerto with the whole BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at the City Halls.
Kirsten Jensen played the Schuman ‘Cello Concereto, Calum Robertson a Carl Nielsen Concerto for clarinet (he is also Organ Scholar at Old St Pauls), and Tom Poulson playing a trumpet concerto by Jolivet. These were all virtuoso pieces, and were also pretty tricky for the orchestra, who never put a foot wrong.
Coming on top of the recent success of “War and Peace” collaboration with Scottish Opera and the Rostov-on-Don Conservatiore, it is a feather in the cap of RSAMD and its new partners. And of course, a treat for our young musicians to get a feel of the professional world they are seeking to join.
