SCO – Mozart & Strauss

April 5th 2025 at 14:00 – 15:30

Francois Leleux conductor / oboe
Cerys Ambrose-Evans Bassoon

Zedginidze Symphony No. 1 (Scottish Premiere)

Mozart Bassoon Concerto

R Strauss Serenade for Winds, Op 7

R Strauss Symphony No. 1 in D minor

Unfailingly charming and breathtakingly expressive, Francois Leleux delivers profound musical insights and high drama as both oboist and conductor. His matinee programme with the SCO is one of discoveries, written by teenage composers.

SCO Principal Bassoon Cerys Ambrose-Evans is the soloist in the expressive, cheeky concerto that Mozart composed aged 18, while Richard Struass blends influences from Mozart and Medelssohn in the richly lyrical Serenade for 13 wind instruments he wrote as a 17-year-old. His passionate, poewrful Symphony comes from a year earlier, but Georgian teenager Tsotne Zedginidze – born as recently as 2009 – has already been celebrated as a major musical prodigy.

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