Scottish Festival Orchestra

The Scottish Festival Orchestra is a Scotland-based orchestra, assembled from the leading professional orchestral musicians in Scotland, which performs a wide variety of concerts.

The administrator for all the orchestra's activities is the Scottish cellist and orchestral contractor, John Davidson.

Recent engagements

Recent engagements have included:
*A Children’s Classic Concert which received a five star review in the Sunday Herald
*Charity Gala Concerts with percussion soloist Evelyn Glennie and television broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh
*Dance Classics and Yuletide Classics programmes at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall and Perth Concert Hall with violin soloist Nicola Benedetti
*An Evening of Gilbert and Sullivan and Viennese Gala Concerts performed at Glasgow Theatre Royal, the Edinburgh Festival Theatre and Aberdeen Music Hall
*Beethoven Mass in C, with the Cunninghame Choir
*A Grand Summer Picnic Prom in the grounds of Raemoir House with Scottish tenor, Nicky Spence.
* A Hogmanay Gala Concert with Scotland's 3 Tenors, Caledon
* Recordings for the U.S.O.C. (Beijing 2008) and Chevron
*Christmas Gala Concert with conductor Gordon Cree and opera singer, Cheryl Forbes at the Grand Hall, Kilmarnock. A number of the orchestra’s string players also performed on stage recently, with pop artist Rod Stewart, during his European tour and during 2007, performed with Smokey Robinson and Kanye West. In the recording field, the players have worked with a number of folk artists; the most recent being William Jackson and Caroline Lavelle.