Caithness Orchestra and James Ross

27th March 2006

The final concerts of our 25th anniversary season take place this week, on Wednesday 29 March in Wick Old Parish Church and on Thursday 30th March in Thurso High School Hall.

Both concerts start at 7.30 pm and should be finished by 9.15 pm. Prices are �5 for adults, �3 for concessions and �7 for a 'family' ticket, ie an adult plus children.

The programme includes Beethoven's 5th Symphony and pieces by the Russian composers Tchaikowsky and Borodin.

For many, however, the highlight is the first performance of a new piece by Wick born composer and performer James Ross, written to a commission by the Orchestra under the auspices of Highland 2007.

This is the first of three pieces James will be writing for the Orchestra this year, with a view to a performance of the full suite in 2007. It is his first work for full orchestra and thus marks a breakthrough in his career as a composer. The work is one that is easily acessible to an audience on first hearing, and is written quite distinctly in James's own musical language, familiar to anyone who has attended one of his solo gigs or heard his new CD from Greentrax entitled 'James Ross'. When James is as famous a composer as Peter Maxwell Davies or John Williams, you'll be able to say you were in at the start!