Glasgow Music

Scottish Opera

Opera, classical music and vocal performance from a major national company.

Scottish Opera is a Glasgow-based performing arts company on Edington Street, presenting opera, classical music, vocal music and performance.

Òran Mór

Live music, cabaret and multi-arts performance in Glasgow's West End.

Òran Mór is a Glasgow multi-arts venue on Byres Road, presenting theatre, live music, cabaret and contemporary performance.

Cottiers

A converted West End church whose live music programme sits alongside theatre and comedy — an alternative to the city-centre concert halls.

Cottiers occupies the former Dowanhill Parish Church, a Neo-Gothic building from 1866 with stained glass and frescoes by the decorative artist Daniel Cottier, after whom it was ren…

City Halls

Glasgow's oldest surviving concert venue, home to the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra since 2006 — a smaller, more detailed room than the Royal Concert Hall's.

City Halls, opened in 1841 as Glasgow's first purpose-built venue for large public gatherings and concerts, is the city's oldest surviving concert venue and has hosted speakers fro…

Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

Built as the centrepiece of Glasgow's year as European City of Culture in 1990, and home of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra ever since — big-room orchestral and choral scale.

Glasgow Royal Concert Hall opened in October 1990, built at the top of Buchanan Street as the centrepiece project of Glasgow's year as European City of Culture, and has been the ho…

Old Fruitmarket

Glasgow's former Victorian fruit market, reused since the 1980s for live music beneath its original cast-iron columns — home of Celtic Connections and Glasgow Jazz Festival.

The Old Fruitmarket occupies Glasgow's former Victorian wholesale fruit and vegetable market, adjoining City Halls on Candleriggs, and has been reused since the 1980s as an atmosph…

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Traces its history to the 1847 Glasgow Athenaeum — genuinely emerging performers at a professional standard across orchestral, opera and drama.

The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland traces its history to the Glasgow Athenaeum of 1847, became the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in the twentieth century, and took its…

Glasgow Jazz Festival

The city's annual jazz festival each June, with year-round community and education programming and the Scottish Jazz Awards attached.

Glasgow Jazz Festival is the city's annual jazz festival, run each June across multiple venues citywide, with year-round community and education programming and the Scottish Jazz A…