Aberdeen Standard Investments Opening Event: Five Telegrams (Edinburgh International Festival 2018)

A spectacular free outdoor event, theAberdeen Standard Investments Opening Event: Five Telegramswill celebrate the start of the 2018 International Festival. We are proud to be providing percussion for this event. The 2018 International Festival season bursts into life with a spectacular free outdoor digital performance celebrating Scotland’s Year of Young People and reflecting on the centenary of the end of the Great War. Five Telegrams is an historic partnership that will see two great festivals working closely together. The project will open the International Festival outside the Usher Hall on 3 August and was broadcast at the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall on 13 July. This joint production marks the first time the International Festival and the Proms have worked together in this way. A recording of Five Telegrams performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Sakari Oramo, is the soundtrack for Five Telegrams in Edinburgh. With additional contributions from young people in Edinburgh and working in partnership with Edinburgh College of Art, and as part of 14–18 NOW, the UK's arts programme for the First World War centenary, Five Telegrams is a truly collaborative event.