Synopsis

“Nicola Benedetti – she truly knows how to play,” declares American composer, trumpeter, and jazz icon Wynton Marsalis. Following Benedetti’s 2015 world premiere of the concerto he composed for her, *The Guardian* lauded her performance as ‘sparky.’ Tonight, Thomas Søndergård and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra present their Proms premiere: a concert brimming with generosity and vitality, opening with Thomas Adès’s wonderfully sleazy *Powder Her Face* suite and concluding with the spirited