Saxophone Dreams with Jess Gillam

Ben Glassberg conductor
Jess Gillam saxophones*

Please note: this concert is not part of the New Dimensions series in St Andrews.

An inspiring fixture on radio and TV, Cumbrian-born Jess Gillam is first and foremost a world-class saxophonist. She brings her invigorating musical personality to a typically adventurous collection of music across diverse styles and sounds for the last of our New Dimensions concerts.

Young British composer Dani Howard wrote her effervescent new Saxophone Concerto specially for Gillam, while Dave Heath throws you into the whirling energy of a raucous ceilidh in his galvanising concerto The Celtic.

Haydn provides the calmer inspiration for Anna Clyne’s scintillating Sound and Fury, written for the SCO in 2019, and also for Caroline Shaw’s mercurial Entr’acte. The great African American composer George Walker, meanwhile, regularly moves listeners to tears with his striking Lyric for Strings.

You may also like the following events from Scottish Chamber Orchestra:

• This Friday, 27th February, 07:30 pm, Benedetti plays Mendelssohn in Glasgow
• This Saturday, 28th February, 07:30 pm, Benedetti plays Mendelssohn in Inverness
• Next month, 11th March, 07:30 pm, Saxophone Dreams with Jess Gillam in St Andrews

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