The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has announce that it will be embarking on a major five-city tour of the UK and Europe in August 2025, beginning with a concert at the 2025 Edinburgh International Festival on 22 August.

The tour is the MSO’s first international venture with the full orchestra since it visited North America in 2019.

Jaime Martín conducts the MSO. Photo © Laura Manariti

Chief Conductor Jaime Martín will lead MSO for the Edinburgh International Festival concert and yet-to-be-announced dates in Spain, Italy and Germany. Details of these concerts will be announced in coming weeks.

The MSO will be in prestigious company at Edinburgh International Festival with the classical music program also featuring the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Budapest Festival Orchestra and MSO artistic partners, the NCPA Orchestra from Beijing.

The MSO concert will feature the world premiere of Deborah Cheetham Fraillon’s MSO commission Treaty with William Barton (yidaki/didgeridoo) as soloist. The program also includes Edward Elgar’s In the South and Modest Mussorgsky’s vivid Pictures at an Exhibition, featuring its majestic finale The Great...