Gala Concert With Jasdeep Singh Degun
Saturday 27th September 2025, 7:30 PM Ripon Cathedral, Minster Road, Ripon, North Yorkshire, HG4 1QT.
Programme
Jasdeep Singh Degun – Sitar Concerto ‘Arya’
Jasdeep Singh Degun – Lament for Sitar, Tabla and Strings
~ Interval ~
Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov – Scheherazade, Op.35
Performers
Jasdeep Singh Degun – sitar
Gurdain Rayatt – tabla
Gary Matthewman – Conductor
St Cecilia Orchestra
Programme Note
A rare chance to hear the mesmerising virtuosity of one of the world’s leading Indian classical musicians paired with Rimsky-Korsakov’s exuberantly colourful and much-loved dramatic masterpiece.
Join St Cecilia Orchestra, under guest conductor Gary Matthewman, for a spectacular concert bringing together the traditions of Western and Indian classical music. Renowned Leeds sitar player and composer, Jasdeep Singh Degun, joins the orchestra in a performance of his own sitar concerto, Arya, and the beautiful Lament for Sitar, Tabla and Strings. The second half of the concert takes us to Persia, with Rimsky-Korsakov’s musical retelling of the stories of Scheherazade: an exhilarating journey of love, intrigue and adventure.