Ilan Volkov & Colin Currie

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Colin Currie & Ilan Volkov
Date
Venue
Music Hall

Imagine this. A dazzling and joyful display of virtuosity with Scottish percussion sensation Colin Currie.

All music tells a story, but the best music tells more than one. Shostakovich’s Festival Overture opens with jubilant trumpets – but this was the Soviet Union, so it would do, wouldn’t it? Prokofiev wrote his Sixth Symphony in the aftermath of World War Two, and though it’s certainly an epic, it’s far from clear that it ends in anything as simple as triumph. At the heart of this concert, Colin Currie performs a show-stopping Percussion Concerto by New York-based percussionist Andy Akiho. In Colin’s own words, he’s “completely blown away by the verve, joy, depth of emotion and vibrancy of colours” in this music, composed in 2019. Prepare for big-hearted marimba solos, chopsticks with amplified rice bowls (!) and a groovy ‘Grand Finale’.

£6 tickets are available for Students, Under 26s and Unemployed (Price Band C & D).

Programme

  • Shostakovich Festival Overture (c.7 mins)
  • Andy Akiho Percussion Concerto (c.30 mins)
  • Prokofiev Symphony No.6 (c.42 mins)
Performers
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra -
Colin Currie percussion
Ilan Volkov conductor
Tickets
from £6.00 to £27.00
Get tickets now
Add to Apple / .ics calendar
Apple / .ics
Add to Google calendar
Google
Add to Office 365 calendar
Office 365
Add to Outlook calendar
Outlook
Add to Yahoo calendar
Yahoo

You may also be interested in…

Coming up this month - December

Christmas Carols

Albyn School, Granite City Chorus, Silver City Singers & ALbamix
Fountainhall Church at the Cross