Conductor Ondřej Soukup was given a contract extension with EUMS Sinfonia after a successful 2018/2019 season. The opening sell-out concert of Dvořák‘s Stabat Mater at St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh was followed by an equally successful Spring Concert, which featured works by Sibelius, Smetana and Elgar. The season concludes with a summer concert in May with works by Wagner, Sibelius, and Márquez.
In the forthcoming season, Sinfonia will return to Greyfriars Kirk with a programme featuring Borodin, Dvořák, Saint-Saëns, and Gershwin. In March 2020, Sinfonia will be joined by EUMS Chorus again for a performance in McEwan Hall and will come back to Greyfriars Kirk for a summer concert.
Ondřej Soukup is an exciting young conductor and winner of the third prize & special prize at the Ionel Perlea International Competition (2024). His repertoire counts 350+ works by men and women. He has conducted the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Czech Chamber Philharmonic, Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic, Moldovan National Philharmonic, the Copenhagen Phil, the Danish Sinfonietta, and Symphony Orchestras of Ålborg, Århus, Helsingborg, Odense, and Sønderborg, among others.