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The Glasgow International Concert Hall was officially opened on 5 October 1990 by Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal. The Royal Scottish National Orchestra (then the Scottish National Orchestra) gave the very first performance at the Royal Gala Opening Concert, [5] as a showpiece for Glasgow being awarded the European City of Culture. [4]
The education programme has run since 1999, and by 2020 had involved over 200,000 children from all over Scotland. Each year about 15,000 children attend free concerts in the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall by artists performing at the festival; often this is a child's first experience of live music.
Its music centre and rehearsal studios are directly connected to the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. The RSNO performs throughout Scotland, at such venues as Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Usher Hall, Caird Hall, Aberdeen Music Hall, Perth Concert Hall and Eden Court Theatre. Thomas Søndergård is the orchestra's current music director, since 2018.
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra Chorus, or RSNO Chorus for short, is a choir based in Scotland and founded in 1843. Its main role is to perform alongside the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. The chorus holds open rehearsals for potential new members, rehearses on Wednesdays in Glasgow, and has also toured
The Pre-Worlds Concert was conceived by the Glasgow Skye Association Pipe Band as a way to spotlight the artistry and musical creativity of leading Grade 1 pipe bands.The event was originally hosted in the Motherwell Civic Centre but is now hosted at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, with the exception of 2023 when it was closed for refurbishment, and occurs in the week leading up to the World ...
The Chorus performs a regular series of concerts each season, including the popular Christmas Cracker concert each December in the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.In recent years, these have included a string of lesser known works by very well known composers - Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Requiem, Verdi’s Four Sacred Pieces, Holst’s Choral Symphony, Mendelssohn’s Die Erste Walpurgisnacht, Malcolm ...
The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall is an arts venue in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. The concert hall is operated by Glasgow's Concert Halls, which also runs Glasgow's City Halls and Old Fruitmarket. The Lanarkshire Orchestral Society is a group of three concert bands and three String orchestras, based in Lanarkshire, Scotland. It was founded in ...
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (BBC SSO) is a Scottish broadcasting symphony orchestra based in Glasgow. One of five full-time orchestras maintained by the British Broadcasting Corporation , it is the oldest full-time professional radio orchestra in Scotland. The orchestra is based at City Halls in Glasgow. [1]