“Thank you for the beautiful musical session you held with us on Tuesday ... As well as having a great time, I feel I learned a lot. You showed us that, as well as sounding great, music is a fantastic way to express yourself ...”
Spring Concert - audience comment
Ben Reeve's playing of the hair-raising cadenza near the end of the Arutiunian Trumpet Concerto will linger in my memory for many a day
Spring concert review, Border Telegraph
"There was some sumptious playing by the strings and the delicacy of the woodwind was a delight to the ear.....the brass section seemed intent on paying their own tribute to Peter Reeve with some very vigorous, lively incursions."
Welcome to Scottish Borders Community Orchestra
Scottish Borders Community Orchestra offers a warm welcome to anyone interested in playing, learning or listening to music in the Scottish Borders.
SBCO is more than an orchestra – it is a collective of musicians who lead and support a wide range of musical activities for players and audiences of all ages and types.
Each year SBCO organises at least two orchestral concerts, a number of smaller scale performances, a series of tutored sessions for instrumental groups, occasional workshops, and an outreach programme that takes live music to children and to the elderly in particular.
News & events
SBCO have been awarded a grant by the PRS Foundation to help finance a new flute piece which they have commissioned Alasdair Nicolson to compose for them.
Register now for Jazz Basics - a course in improvistaion
Sundays 21 Sep, 19 Oct and 9 Nov at Heart of Hawick.
see instrumental workshops
WANTED! Polish instrumentalists to play in autumn concert
see orchestral concerts
Our funders
Contributions in 2008 from:
Mainhouse Charitable Trust, D'Oyly Carte Chartable Trust, the PF Charitable Trust, the Order of St John, the PRS Foundation and Making Music
