Welcome to Tectonics 2026 | 2&3 MAY 2026

City Halls & Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow

Music has so many different traditions, heritages, genres and geographies to offer. Each May, Tectonics offers an opportunity to bring these into the orchestral world, offering intensely diverse programmes and ideas. This year, alongside the solo sets performed by artists from across the world, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra presents three BBC commissions and world premieres, plus three UK premieres.

Across the 2026 festival, many artists reflect on the beauty and difficulty of being alive: its fragility, instability, tension, hope and resilience. Laura Bowler and Oliver Leith’s imaginative responses to the pressures of everyday life (both with the fearless GBSR Duo), as well as Angélica Castelló’s mesmerising electroacoustic world, are just three examples of this.

True to Tectonics, there’s a spirit of resistance… not rebellion for its own sake, but a reimagining of how music might…