Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Seek The Light

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Update (2nd March 2022)

Owing to personal circumstances, Pekka Kuusisto is unable to join the Scottish Chamber Orchestra for this concert.

Violinist/director Hugo Ticciati will replace Pekka for this concert, with a few program changes.  If you'd like to find out more about Hugo, you can read his biography on the SCO’S website: https://www.sco.org.uk/profile/hugo-ticciati

Updated program

Seek The Light 

11 March City Halls, Glasgow 

Hugo Ticciato: Violin / Director | Karine Polwart: Singer-Songwriter | Pippa Murphy: Sound Design

 POLWART/MURPHY Seek the Light (World Premiere - Commissioned by the SCO) 

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 4 – Adagio* 

POLWART/MURPHY  You Know Where You Are 

TARRODI Birds of Paradise 

POLWART/MURPHY  The Night Mare 

TÜÜR Insula Deserta 

POLWART/MURPHY  A Love Too Loud 

VASKS Distant Light 

POLWART/MURPHY Sleep Now 

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The uncanny glow of fireflies; the vast migrations of birds; the aeons-long life cycles of stars. The wonders of nature form the inspiration behind Seek the Light, a brand new work by singer/songwriter Karine Polwart and composer/sound designer Pippa Murphy, which looks upwards and outwards from our recent struggles to the living planet and beyond, weaving together spoken word, song and instrumental music in a spirit of awe, reverence and solace.

Seek the Light forms the glistening thread that connects all the music in this wide-ranging concert, directed by exceptional Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto, who performs Beethoven’s thoughtful, graceful Romance No 1 in the second of his three collaborations with the SCO this season.

Swedish composer Andrea Tarrodi captures the flight, the colours and the song of one of nature’s most exquisite creations in her Birds of Paradise, while Erkki-Sven Tüür summons tectonic movements in his primal Insula deserta, and Peteris Vasks’ contemplative violin concerto Distant Light is music of loss and hope, despair and ecstasy.