Ahead of our Edinburgh International Festival performance, we sat down with conductor & friend of the RSNO Elim Chan for Quick-Fire Questions! Find out her top tip for practising, the best advice she's received & how she deals with nerves (clue: it's fruit related!) youtu.be/LLLzs10fTa8 📸

Last night with Royal Scottish National Orchestra at Usher Hall 🎵 Wynton Marsalis’s Trumpet Concerto played by Alison Balsom, Arnold Schoenberg's Piano Concerto played by Pierre-Laurent Aimard & Lutosławski’s folkloric Concerto, conducted by Elim Chan 🤩 📷Andrew Perry/Edinburgh International Festival

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Herald ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Scotsman ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Bachtrack Great to see wonderful reviews for our Edinburgh International Festival performance of Wynton Marsalis’ Trumpet Concerto with Alison Balsom and Elim Chan! 🎺

This week in Scottish Field: Our Head of Production Craig Swindells chats about life with the RSNO – from touring the world to a typical concert day, and how his army training comes in handy: scottishfield.co.uk/news/life-with… 📸 Martin McCready, Upfront Photography

Happy #InternationalDogDay! Our four-legged pals – Scout, Tilly, Maisie and Ordie – have taken their summer reading very seriously 😉 🐾

Wonderful to hear of the appointment of Errollyn Wallen as Master of the King's Music. It has been an honour to perform and premiere her music over the past few years. Congratulations Errollyn! classicfm.com/music-news/err…

Great news from Sistema Scotland! #BigNoise is a brilliant programme for young people and we're looking forward to performing with them across Scotland in our upcoming Season 🎻

John Luther Adams on the Scottish premiere of Become Ocean at Glasgow's Sonica festival - interview by David Kettle scotsman.com/arts-and-cultu… Royal Scottish National Orchestra Sonicafest Cryptic

Calling all UK-based, early-career composers who wish to expand their skills in film composition… Applications for our Film Composers Lab are now open! Find out more: rsno.org.uk/project/compos… Kindly supported by Vaughan Williams Foundation

We are delighted to welcome new additions to our Board of Directors – Gregor Stewart as Chair, Gail Blain as Honorary Treasurer, Ruth Binks and Kayla-Megan Burns as Members, as well as David McClenaghan as Player Director. We are very grateful to outgoing members Dame Susan

Exciting news: #StarWarsOutlaws is out now! It was wonderful to work with such a great creative team on the OST ✨✨✨

Our Season Pass for 26 to 35 year-olds is back! For just £100 you can get access to all 17 classical concerts in Edinburgh or Glasgow. But be quick, there are only 100 passes per city available! Find out more: rsno.org.uk/project/season…

Our Youth Chorus had a great time at a jam-packed weekend in Gartmore, rehearsing the various pieces they’ll be performing in our upcoming Season!

Introducing Sounds of the Deep: A Musical Adventure – our new, FREE live & digital concert experience for P4 to P7 pupils! Available to Scottish schools & homeschoolers, the programme will take children on a multisensory journey, exploring oceans & how they inspire us. Dive in!

🔥 Whoever thinks classical music is boring clearly doesn’t know Holst’s Mars! Watch the full video at youtu.be/t12bsdwRgcc