Composer

The boundary-pushing Ubu Ensemble, directed by Simon Wills, turns its lens to the world of cinema in a thrilling exploration of film-inspired sound.

Ubu Ensemble: Ubu at the Movies

Guildhall School of Music & Drama

EPSG:4326

Symphony Orchestra – Nicholas McGegan, guest conductor

Musical Arts Center

MSM Faculty Recital: Lucy Shelton, soprano

Manhattan School of Music

Tenor, horn, & strings Warlock, Maxwell Davies, & Britten

Avon Theater

London Sinfonietta returns to Kings Place, presenting an evening of music by Scottish composers exploring the idea of love and our deepest human need for connection.

Judith Weir’s evocative music sets the scene, before the Public World Premiere of a privately commissioned work Love Bade me Welcome by James MacMillan setting poetry about divine love by George Herbert.

Love Lines

Kings Place Music Foundation

"harmony In The Highlands"

The Long Center for the Performing Arts

Harrison Birtwistle and Peter Maxwell Davies were two of the most prominent avant-garde musical voices in post-war Britain.

Miss Donnithorne’s Maggot

Royal Academy of Music

An all-night party, a northern sunrise – join us for a life-affirming celebration of music made in Scotland. Singers from across the Central Belt come together to perform modern sacred masterpieces by Sir James MacMillan, and Errollyn Wallen salutes her ancestors in a wordless song of survival and freedom. We raise a toast to the late Lyell Creswell - the irrepressible, utterly individual New Zealand composer who made Edinburgh his home, and whose extraordinary Third Piano Concerto receives its European premiere from Danny Driver. And then we’re off to Orkney, where Peter Maxwell Davies is keeping a welcome – no spoilers, but let’s just say that it gets lively…

Scottish Influences

Glasgow City Hall

Part of Carnegie Hall’s Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice festival

The New Series: The Mad King

The Juilliard School

From a modest shirt to full-on tartan kilt, feel free to wear your plaid with pride and prepare for a musical feast full of bagpipes + Scottish surprises! 

Masterworks 2 Concert Scotland Forever!

NDSU Festival Concert Hall

Is madness a means of escaping reality? Or — on the contrary — a way of confronting it? With his monodrama Eight Songs for a Mad King, Peter Maxwell Davies created in 1968 a brilliantly crafted character study of the deranged British monarch George III, whose reign began in 1760, drawing on the king’s own original texts. Seductive melodies stand alongside dissonances in this modern music-theater classic, which sketches a portrait of emotional and mental disintegration: they are provocative, yet at the same time reveal a startling lucidity.

Composer

Peter Maxwell Davies

Events

Upcoming events

Aug 28, 2026

Luzerner Theater Opera Ensemble | Lucerne Symphony Orchestra | Maria Radzikhovskiy | Marie Lambert-Le Bihan · Lucerne Festival

Past events

Mar 26, 2026

Ubu Ensemble: Ubu at the Movies · Guildhall School of Music & Drama

Jan 24, 2026

Symphony Orchestra – Nicholas McGegan, guest conductor · Indiana University Jacobs School of Music

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