After a successful tour to Prague the previous year, Ondřej Soukup is invited back to conduct EUMS tour orchestra and chorus. This year’s destination is the Isle of Skye, Scotland. The first concert will take place is Portree, while the second at the Gaelic College. The orchestra programme includes Beethoven’s Coriolan overture, Rossini’s Barber of Seville overture, Fauré’s Pavane, and Berlioz’s Hungarian March, and March to the Scaffold. The choir will perform Rachmaninoff’s Bogoroditse Devo, Mendelssohn’s Baal we cry to thee, Mozart’s Laudate Dominum, Stanford’s Blue Bird, Rutter’s For the Beauty of the Earth, Wagner’s Bridal March, and Vivaldi’s Gloria.
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.