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Stphane Denve bids Au revoir to Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Stphane Denve, who departs as music director of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra after seven years, is set to conclude his tenure with two final programmes in May. 27 April 2012 09:45 GMT Comment 305112 Stphane Denve, who departs as music director of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra after seven years, is set to conclude his tenure with two final programmes in May. Denve Conducts Rite of Spring (Music Hall, Aberdeen Thursday 3 May; Friday 4 May Usher Hall, Edinburgh; Saturday 5 May Glasgow Royal Concert Hall) features the concluding element of Denves and the RSNOs survey of Debussys orchestral works, with Prlude l'aprs-midi d'un faune, accompanied by Barbers Violin Concerto with James Ehnes and Stravinskys Rite of Spring. The following week Au Revoir Stphane (Friday 11 May Usher Hall, Edinburgh; Saturday 12 May Glasgow Royal Concert Hall) presents the final programme of the 2011:12 Season and the culmination of the TOTAL Denve Series, featuring James MacMillans Britiannia, Richard Strauss Till Eulenspiegels Merry Pranks and Ravels complete ballet music Daphnis et Chlo with the RSNO Chorus and Junior Chorus. Stphane bids farewell to Scotland having performed a total of 161 performances with the RSNO to nearly 250 million people across Scotland, England and Europe. Average attendance figures rose year-on-year during his tenure and subscription numbers in Edinburgh and Glasgow are now the highest in a generation. For their final season Denve and the RSNO have been celebrating the works of Claude Debussy to mark the 150th anniversary of the French composers birth in 2012 and in May Chandos releases the double CD recording by Denve and the RSNO of his major orchestral works. Denve said: Being music director of the RSNO has been an inspiring, momentous and wonderfully exciting journey. I have collected, during my seven years with this great orchestra and its choruses, many special memories. The most rewarding success with the RSNO is increasing number of audiences, year after year. I have also tremendously enjoyed my life in Scotland, thanks to the warmth of its people. A number of personal landmarks happened here: marrying my fiance sa, the birth of our daughter in Paisley, our first family home, and obviously my first Music Director position. I would like to offer these final performances together as our way of saying thank you to all the people who have loved and supported us over the years. Merci de tout coeur and, since my ties with Scotland are now for ever, not Adieu, but Au revoir!

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