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Gala Concert

With Jasdeep Singh Degun

Part of the St Cecilia Orchestra 2025-2026 Season

Add to my Calendar 27-09-2025 19:30 27-09-2025 21:30 36 Gala Concert A rare chance to hear the mesmerising virtuosity of one of the world’s leading Indian classical musicians paired with Rimsky-Korsakov’s exuberantly colourful and much-loved dramatic masterpiece.Join St Cecilia Orchestra, under guest conductor Gary Matthewman, for a spectacular concert bringing together the traditions of Western and Indian classical music. Renowned Leeds sitar player and composer, Jasdeep Singh Degun, joins the orchestra in a performance of his own sitar concerto, Arya, and the beautiful Lament for Sitar, Tabla and Strings. The second half of the concert takes us to Persia, with Rimsky-Korsakov’s musical retelling of the stories of Scheherazade: an exhilarating journey of love, intrigue and adventure. Ripon Cathedral, Ripon DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Ripon Cathedral
Minster Road
Ripon
North Yorkshire
HG4 1QT
England

Programme

Jasdeep Singh Degun – Sitar Concerto 'Arya'
Jasdeep Singh Degun – Lament for Sitar, Tabla and Strings
~ Interval ~
Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov – Scheherazade, Op.35

Performers

Jasdeep Singh Degun – sitar
Gurdain Rayatt – tabla
Gary Matthewman – Conductor

St Cecilia Orchestra

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Programme Note

A rare chance to hear the mesmerising virtuosity of one of the world’s leading Indian classical musicians paired with Rimsky-Korsakov’s exuberantly colourful and much-loved dramatic masterpiece.
Join St Cecilia Orchestra, under guest conductor Gary Matthewman, for a spectacular concert bringing together the traditions of Western and Indian classical music. Renowned Leeds sitar player and composer, Jasdeep Singh Degun, joins the orchestra in a performance of his own sitar concerto, Arya, and the beautiful Lament for Sitar, Tabla and Strings. The second half of the concert takes us to Persia, with Rimsky-Korsakov’s musical retelling of the stories of Scheherazade: an exhilarating journey of love, intrigue and adventure.

Gala Concert - with Jasdeep Singh Degun

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