
Ken Walton
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Classical Music Critic of The Scotsman. Co-founder of Classical music website VoxCarnyx.com (@VoxCarnyx)
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A Barber, a Figaro, a Tristan and The Great Wave 🌊 Main stage highlights of the coming season Scottish Opera voxcarnyx.com/2025/04/30/sco…


The Great Wave: Scottish Opera's Hokusai-inspired production to 'straddle fact and fantasy' As Scottish Opera launches its 2025/26 season, general director Alex Reedijk and music director Stuart Stratford tell Ken Walton what’s in store scotsman.com/arts-and-cultu…

Tectonics: BBC SSO 1, Glasgow review: 'food for thought' scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-… BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Ken Walton

“Pulls no punches in getting its laughs” Premier matches a top G&S revival from Scottish Opera voxcarnyx.com/2025/05/16/sco…

“It’s a rare Saturday night that sees a period instrument performance of Handel serve as programme buddy to a full-fat orchestral précis of Wagner’s complete Ring Cycle.” Royal Scottish National Orchestra & Dunedin Consort partnership reaches its conclusion voxcarnyx.com/2025/05/18/rsn…

Season finale from Scottish Chamber Orchestra with Nicola Benedetti dedicated to former first cello David Watkin voxcarnyx.com/2025/05/19/sco…

“Digby’s rhythmic control of her singers was especially apparent in a bracingly fresh reading of Palestrina and in the rhythmic complexities of Mark Simpson’s Ave Maria.” Perth Festival Scot opens with ORA Singers voxcarnyx.com/2025/05/23/per…

A season finale from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Ryan Wigglesworth that “played to its strengths”. Music by Beethoven, Sibelius and Hans Abrahamsen voxcarnyx.com/2025/05/23/bbc…


NEWS: The Cumnock Tryst launches its 2025 Festival programme (2-5 Oct) James MacMillan The Sixteen BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra voxcarnyx.com/2025/05/26/202…

Su-a Lee and Alison Green on the SCO's Summer Tour: 'It’s like a family holiday' scotsman.com/arts-and-cultu… Scottish Chamber Orchestra


For a long time Suor Angelica was seen as the tricky part of Il Trittico. This Opera Bohemia production for Perth Festival Scot – and Puccini’s glorious score – effortlessly sweeps those difficulties aside. voxcarnyx.com/2025/05/28/per…

Soprano Heloise Werner joins Scottish Ensemble on Concerts for a Summer Night voxcarnyx.com/2025/06/05/wer…


Last chance to catch Scottish Ensemble with soprano Heloise Werner tonight V&A Dundee voxcarnyx.com/2025/06/16/sco…

Orkney’s St Magnus Festival festival begins on Friday voxcarnyx.com/2025/06/17/rem…

EIF opera Orpheus and Eurydice to feature 'acrobats doing very dangerous things' - preview by Ken Walton scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-…

Opening Concert of this year’s Edinburgh International Festival was a lengthy affair, deserving of more words: voxcarnyx.com/2025/08/04/eif…