| Biography | The Scottish Fiddle Orchestra is one of Scotland's foremost traditional music organisations. The Orchestra was formed in 1980, deriving its origins from Fiddlers Rallies which were and are held throughout the country. After one of these Rallies, a group of enthusiasts met to consider the formation of an orchestra which would draw its members from a the airts and would form a cohesive, vigorously rehearsed group of musicians.
The aim was to have a group of approximately 150 keen and interested musicians who would play together consistently, provide a series of concerts in the main Scottish cities and work together to create the finest possible standard of orchestral fiddle playing without detracting from the strong traditional strains of our music.
The inaugural concert of the Scottish Fiddle Orchestra was on 20 March 1980 in the Music Hall, Aberdeen. Since that time the Orchestra has settled into a sequence of five major concerts each year in the Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, the Usher Hall, Edinburgh, the Music Hall, Aberdeen, the Barbican, York, and the Barbican Centre, London. A small number of other special concerts are also undertaken each year as well as tours to Ireland, Canada and the USA.
In December 1993, Princess Anne, The Princess Royal, became the Orchestras patron. |