The Orchestra will start their two-week tour of China on 27 May.

<Beijing>
Venue: National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA)
Date: 7:30PM, 29 May 2008
Price (RMB): 800, 600, 400, 200, 100
Ticket hotline: 010 59059082

<Shanghai>
Venue: Shanghai Concert Hall (523 East Yan’an Road)
Date: 7:30PM, 30 May 2008
Price (RMB): 800, 680, 480, 380, 280, 180, 100
Ticket hotline: 021-5466 6818 / 5466 0260
Good news! Call the Shanghai hotline, you will enjoy 10% discount off to BBC Concert in Shanghai.

<Hangzhou>
Venue: Hangzhou Opera House
Date: 7:30PM, 31 May and 1 June 2008
Ticket hotline: 800-857-1780

<Zhongshan>
Venue: Zhongshan Culture Centre Theatre
Date: 8:00PM, 4 June 2008
Price (RMB): 880, 480, 380, 280, 180
Ticket hotline: 8223666

<Shenzhen>
Venue: Shenzhen Concert Hall
Date: 8:00PM, 5 June 2008 (BBC Children Concert), 8:00PM, 6 June 2008
Price (RMB): 880, 680, 480, 280, 100
Ticket hotline: 755-82841888
Seminar：
1. The UK's government policy on education and learning in the orchestral sector
2. Audience Development - approaches and success stories
3. Community Education & Learning programme
Venue: Golden Tree Foyer, Shenzhen Concert Hall
Date: 06/06/2008 14:00 - 16:00

Program:
Froissart     Elgar
Violin Concerto     Mendelssohn
Lark Ascending     Vaughan Williams
Symphony No. 7     Beethoven

Formed in December 1935, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra is recognised as one of the UK’s leading orchestras. The winner of several awards, including a Royal Philharmonic Society Award in 2001 (the only Scottish orchestra to do so) and two Gramophone Awards, its wide repertory and flexible approach to format means it can perform a complex contemporary piece as a specialist ensemble alongside a major symphonic work.

The orchestra has a busy broadcasting schedule on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio Scotland and BBC Television, and also records commercially. It takes live music to towns and cities across Scotland every season, is in demand at major UK festivals, and plays every summer at the BBC Proms in London. Abroad, the orchestra has appeared in the great musical centres of Europe, and has toured the USA, South America and China. In Scotland, as well as being the leading supporter of living composers and new music, the BBC SSO is extremely active in the community, with an innovative learning programme dedicated to bringing the inspiration of great music to people of all ages and backgrounds. At the beginning of last year the orchestra moved from Broadcasting House – its base for nearly 70 years - to the refurbished City Halls at the heart of the Merchant City, which is now the orchestra’s permanent home, administrative, performance and recording base.

For further information about the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, their forthcoming concerts and wide range of other activities see www.bbc.co.uk/bbcsso