Pianist, bandleader, singer, composer, television presenter and multi-platinum recording artist: the legendary artist Jools Holland and special guests return for another fantastic night at Perth Concert Hall as part of a special Perth Festival of the Arts concert.

Jools Holland and his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra

Perth Concert Hall

Join the NYOS Development orchestra for an enchanting evening at Perth Concert Hall. This July, they celebrate British orchestral voices, performing works from Holst, Grace Williams, and Elgar. Opening with a mystic dance for the spirits of earth, fire andwater, Holst’s The Perfect Fool conjures scenes of sorcery and mischief through vivid orchestration and bold musical gestures. Grace Williams’ symphonic poem Penillion follows, a lush evocation of Wales’s verdant landscapes and proud folk tradition. Turning a corner in the programme, Elgar’s fin-de-siècle masterstroke Enigma Variations closes the performances. A cornerstone of the British orchestral repertoire, Elgar’s variations distil the personality of his inner circle through richly expressive, often playful musical ideas. This promises to be a rousing showcase of Scotland’s brightest young musicians.

NYOS Development Orchestra 2026

Every breath resonates and each string sings in a performance that brings together Scottish Ensemble and singers from the Chamber Choir of the National Youth Choir of Scotland (NYCOS).

Scottish Ensemble presents Bach & Blood

St. John's Kirk

We launch our 2026/27 Season with a dazzling homage to Berlioz, the ultimate musical trailblazer. At the helm is our electrifying Principal Conductor, Maxim Emelyanychev, whose flair and imagination promise an unforgettable evening of drama and musical colour.

Berlioz Symphonie fantastique

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Usher Hall, Edinburgh

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The Artelize Podcast Presenting Will Shutes: 'Bring it down out of the clouds to human being level'

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The Scottish Chamber Orchestra launches the Perth Concert Series with a dazzling homage to Berlioz, the ultimate musical trailblazer. At the helm is the SCO’s electrifying Principal Conductor, Maxim Emelyanychev, whose flair and imagination promise an unforgettable evening of drama and musical colour.

Perth Concert Series: Scottish Chamber Orchestra - Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique

Two exceptional performers from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland take on Shostakovich’s emotive 1934 masterpiece for cello and piano as well as a varied trio of 20th century works by Benjamin Britten, Nadia Boulanger and the greatest cellist of his age, Mstislav Rostropovich.

Lunchtime Concert: Shostakovich's Cello Sonata

It was the artistic equivalent of raising the Titanic. When Gustav Mahler died, he left a vast final symphony tantalisingly incomplete. Five decades later, musicologist Deryck Cooke did the impossible and brought it to life, uncovering a lost masterpiece filled with puzzles and allusions – music in which cries of love and cries of pain resolve in music of shattering honesty and heartbreaking power.

Perth Concert Series: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - Mahler's Tenth Symphony

This programme celebrates the art of itinerant violinists/fiddlers throughout history, their virtuosity and creativity. It brings together famous violinists Enescu, Ysäye, Tartini, Milstein and Paganini who wrote extensively for their instrument.

Lunchtime Concert: Fantastic Fiddlers

PSO's second season under their new conductor opens with a perennial favourite, Dvorak's 9th Symphony 'From the New World', whose enchanting blend of the composer's native Czech musical idioms with American themes evokes the wide open spaces of the mid-west. The slow movement features one of the best-loved tunes in the classical repertoire, played hauntingly on the cor anglais (although originally written for clarinet!).

Perth Symphony Orchestra presents Karolina Csathy and Dvorak 9

The double bass seldom gets star billing, but the brilliant Will Duerden showcases its versatility with Romantic expression from Schumann, Impressionist colours from Ravel and Fauré and a dazzling operatic fantasia from the 19th-century doyen of double bass, Giovanni Bottesini.

Lunchtime Concert: The Virtuoso Double Bass

All music paints pictures, but Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition takes them to the next level. Dancing chickens, glowing skulls, witches, gnomes and the sound of a thousand bells – they’re all here, large as life, and to see them you only have to listen. But that’s just one highlight of an evening that opens in Poland with a love letter from Chopin (played by the amazing Rafał Blechacz) and features a real surprise from Scotland’s own Thea Musgrave. A guaranteed sighting of Nessie? Hearing is believing!

Perth Concert Series: Royal Scottish National Orchestra - Pictures at an Exhibition

Vienna – the city where the concert halls are golden and the music sparkles! Start your 2027 in style with this glittering celebration of the music of Vienna’s most famous son, Johann Strauss, and his friends. Let us whirl you away to a world full of elegant waltzes, playful polkas and good old-fashioned romance. Featuring The Blue Danube, Vilja-Lied by Franz Lehár and the exuberant Voices of Spring by Johann Strauss II, join soprano Emma Morwood and the musicians of Scotland’s National Orchestra for a beautiful night to remember.

Royal Scottish National Orchestra: Viennese New Year

It’s raw feeling. It’s rock ‘n’ roll. It’s a revolution in four notes. It’s Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony: music that makes the composer the star, with no emotion off limits. If you’ve heard it before, you’ll know that you can never hear it often enough; if you haven’t – well, you’re in for the ride of your life. Thomas Søndergård conducts it tonight, along with Walton’s movie classic and the ear-tingling sonic adventures of Lutosławski’s Cello Concerto, played by the fabulous Pablo Ferrández. Don’t miss it.

Perth Concert Series: Royal Scottish National Orchestra - Beethoven's Fifth Symphony

Join us for a night of exciting traditional and contemporary Scottish music with our unique Scottish Fiddle Orchestra sound. Our varied programme will include songs, reels, strathspeys, jigs, marches and beautiful slow airs. Conductor Blair Parham and the orchestra will be joined by singers, pipes and drums.

Scottish Fiddle Orchestra 2027

This welcome visit by the heroic Ukrainian National Philharmonic Orchestra, under their fellow countryman, conductor Theodore Kuchar, begins exuberantly with three of Brahms’ lively Hungarian Dances. There’s an elegant contrast as popular British pianist Mark Bebbington performs Mozart’s best-loved Piano Concerto No.21, whose ethereally beautiful slow movement acquired the nickname, the ‘dream andante’.

Ukrainian National Philharmonic Orchestra

Falling leaves, melancholy songs, and an eternal sense of the British countryside in autumn – it’s hard to define the precise qualities that make Elgar’s Cello Concerto so enduringly popular. But that’s why it’s a classic; it always has something fresh to say. It’s perfect, in other words, for Raphaela Gromes, a cellist whose aim (she says) is to “immerse myself completely in the piece, to serve the music, to communicate it to the audience”. And perfect, too, for a conductor with the insight and stature of Michael Sanderling, who concludes the concert with Bruckner’s epic Third Symphony. This is Romantic music on a visionary scale, conducted by an artist who understands that Bruckner was speaking from - and to - the human soul.

Perth Concert Series: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - Elgar's Cello Concerto

Beethoven’s gripping musical portrait of the ill-fated Roman general, Coriolanus, announces the arrival of one of Germany’s most distinguished orchestras, under leading British conductor Alpesh Chauhan. They’re joined by Johannes Moser, a German-Canadian virtuoso with an irresistible spirit of adventure, for Dvořák’s passionate Cello Concerto, whose emotive themes of love and loss are played out in an expansive, symphonic soundscape.

Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra

To close the Season we invite you to an extraordinary evening centred on one of the jewels of the Romantic repertoire: Brahms’ magnificent Double Concerto, a work of sweeping grandeur and intimate dialogue between violin and cello. Nicola Benedetti, a long-time SCO collaborator, joins forces with the SCO’s own Principal Cello, Philip Higham in a thrilling partnership that promises musical drama and elegance.

Brahms Double Concerto

To close the 2026/27 Perth Concert Series we invite you to an extraordinary evening centred on one of the jewels of the Romantic repertoire: Brahms’ magnificent Double Concerto, a work of sweeping grandeur and intimate dialogue between violin and cello. Nicola Benedetti, a long-time SCO collaborator, joins forces with the SCO’s own Principal Cello, Philip Higham in a thrilling partnership that promises musical drama and elegance.

Perth Concert Series: Scottish Chamber Orchestra - Brahms Double Concerto

Perth Festival of the Arts is delighted to welcome back the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, who will provide us with a rousing finale to the city’s 2027 festival.

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