BBC SSO 2025-26 Season RCS & BBC SSO: Emerging Conductors Showcase 2026

Join the cream of young conducting talent from across the UK and beyond for an afternoon with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Featuring Brahms’ Third Symphony and the Tuba Concerto by Ralph Vaughan Williams, this showcase is the culmination of a five-day conducting course with the orchestra and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s Visiting Professor of Conducting, Martyn Brabbins. The event is jointly presented by the BBC SSO and RCS.

Conductors:

Max Todes (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland)
Ethan Osman (Royal Academy of Music)
Davide Trolton (Royal Northern College of Music)
Jiyun Wang (University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna)
Marco Orazio Vallone (Conservatorium van Amsterdam/Royal Conservatoire The Hague)
Euan Safey (Australian Conducting Academy)

Programme

Mahler/ Britten What the Wild Flowers Tell Me
Vaughan Williams Tuba Concerto
Andrew Jacob In the Hall of the Clockwork Dancer (World Premier)
interval
Brahms Symphony No. 3