Multibuy Opens for Current 12+ Bookers: 10am Monday 24 March 2025 (12+ Multibuy bookers for the 2024/25 Season will receive a telephone call from the SCO to arrange their booking for the new Season). Multibuy Opens for Current 4-11 Bookers: 10am Monday 14 Apr 2025 Multibuy Opens for New Bookers: 10am Monday 12 May 2025 Single Concert Tickets On Sale: 10am Monday 19 May 2025 Beethoven, Pekka & the Dreamers’ Circus BEETHOVEN Symphony No.7 interspersed with folk tunes played by Dreamers’ Circus and Pekka Kuusisto Pekka Kuusisto director/violin Dreamers’ Circus: Ale Carr cittern Nikolaj Busk piano and accordion Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen violin Classical and folk join forces for a thrilling celebration of dance, in this joyfully unconventional programme masterminded and conducted by much-loved Finnish violin pioneer Pekka Kuusisto. Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony dances its way from start to blazing finish, propelled along by driving rhythms, and brimming over with energy, passion and bounding positivity. Kuusisto intersperses the Symphony’s four movements with a specially curated collection of folk tunes that he plays with his friends and colleagues in Danish/Swedish trio Dreamers’ Circus, injecting a distinctively 21st-century freshness into trad music from across Europe. Discover unexpected connections and thrilling contrasts as Beethoven meets folk in this free-spirited collaboration. Pekka Kuusisto Visiting Artist Chair kindly supported by The Honorary Consulate of Finland, Edinburgh and Glasgow.