String & Percussion Ensemble Sharing Performance
4:00pm - 5:00pm /
Thursday 18th February 2016
/ Venue: Mountford Hall Liverpool Guild of Students
Type: Music /
Category: Department
- Michael Longworth
- Admission: Free
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The NYO Inspire Ensemble sharing is a chance to come and hear what we have been working on throughout the 3 day NYO Inspire residency. The NYO and NYO Inspire Musicians have been working together on the repertoire that you will hear in a series of sectional, tutti and small ensemble workshops focussing on making big progress exploring ensemble playing techniques together.
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
NYO is the world’s greatest orchestra of teenagers. Founded in 1948 to provide orchestral performance opportunities for the brightest and most committed musicians between the ages of 13 and 19 and with an
average age of just 16, no other orchestra in the world has consistently achieved such brilliance in performance with such young musicians.
Many of the UK’s greatest musicians, past and present, are NYO alumni, including Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Mark Elder, Judith Weir, Thomas Adès and Alison Balsom. The Orchestra’s huge, ongoing contribution to British musical life was acknowledged when it received The Queen’s Medal for Music 2012. To date NYO is the only organisation ever to be awarded this honour.
Drawing its 164 musicians from every background and every part of the UK, the Orchestra comes together three times a year for residential rehearsals: musicians engage in an innovative, immersive process of preparation which integrates singing, dancing, leadership training, and peer-to-peer learning sessions together. Working alongside leading international conductors, tutors and soloists, each residency culminates in a high-profile concert tour, including regular BBC Radio 3 broadcasts and an annual televised BBC Prom at the Royal Albert Hall.
NYO exists to give breakthrough experiences of orchestral music to teenage musicians and audiences of all backgrounds. NYO has recently launched two new strands of activity that increase the reach and relevance of its activity. NYO Inspire aims to harness the power of peer inspiration through a programme of workshops and events in which NYO Musicians share skills and inspiration with committed young musicians who lack opportunities to advance their playing, and bring workshops and performances direct to teenage audiences in schools. NYO Open seeks to share NYO expertise and resources as widely as possible through partnerships and the NYO website – nyo.org.uk.
Recently NYO became Classic FM’s Orchestra of Teenagers. NYO and Classic FM will work together to inspire a new generation of young concert goers and a major focus of the partnership is a £5 ticket scheme for under 25s to all NYO concerts.
NYO Inspire
The philosophy behind NYO Inspire is simple.NYO exists to give breakthrough experiencesof orchestral music to teenagers of all backgrounds, both as musicians and as audience members. In the past, NYO reached only those 164 musicians who gained a seat in the Orchestra, along with whoever happened to find their way to our concerts. NYO Inspire was born of NYO’s desire to do more. By working together to make the most of NYO’s resources – its skills, its energy, its love of music – NYO hoped that it could radically increase the number of teenagers whose lives are touched by NYO orchestral brilliance. And in 2015 that’s exactly what NYO did.
Across the year, NYO Inspire engaged 496 extra musicians in workshops, and gave 3,850 audience members a taste of orchestral music. About 75% of these audience members were young people, many of whom had never heard an orchestra perform live before. Activity ranged from one-day NYO Inspire Days that give a brief taste of NYO orchestral brilliance, to the ten-day residency and schools concert tour of the NYO Inspire Orchestra.
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
NYO is the world’s greatest orchestra of teenagers. Founded in 1948 to provide orchestral performance opportunities for the brightest and most committed musicians between the ages of 13 and 19 and with an
average age of just 16, no other orchestra in the world has consistently achieved such brilliance in performance with such young musicians.
Many of the UK’s greatest musicians, past and present, are NYO alumni, including Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Mark Elder, Judith Weir, Thomas Adès and Alison Balsom. The Orchestra’s huge, ongoing contribution to British musical life was acknowledged when it received The Queen’s Medal for Music 2012. To date NYO is the only organisation ever to be awarded this honour.
Drawing its 164 musicians from every background and every part of the UK, the Orchestra comes together three times a year for residential rehearsals: musicians engage in an innovative, immersive process of preparation which integrates singing, dancing, leadership training, and peer-to-peer learning sessions together. Working alongside leading international conductors, tutors and soloists, each residency culminates in a high-profile concert tour, including regular BBC Radio 3 broadcasts and an annual televised BBC Prom at the Royal Albert Hall.
NYO exists to give breakthrough experiences of orchestral music to teenage musicians and audiences of all backgrounds. NYO has recently launched two new strands of activity that increase the reach and relevance of its activity. NYO Inspire aims to harness the power of peer inspiration through a programme of workshops and events in which NYO Musicians share skills and inspiration with committed young musicians who lack opportunities to advance their playing, and bring workshops and performances direct to teenage audiences in schools. NYO Open seeks to share NYO expertise and resources as widely as possible through partnerships and the NYO website – nyo.org.uk.
Recently NYO became Classic FM’s Orchestra of Teenagers. NYO and Classic FM will work together to inspire a new generation of young concert goers and a major focus of the partnership is a £5 ticket scheme for under 25s to all NYO concerts.
NYO Inspire
The philosophy behind NYO Inspire is simple.NYO exists to give breakthrough experiencesof orchestral music to teenagers of all backgrounds, both as musicians and as audience members. In the past, NYO reached only those 164 musicians who gained a seat in the Orchestra, along with whoever happened to find their way to our concerts. NYO Inspire was born of NYO’s desire to do more. By working together to make the most of NYO’s resources – its skills, its energy, its love of music – NYO hoped that it could radically increase the number of teenagers whose lives are touched by NYO orchestral brilliance. And in 2015 that’s exactly what NYO did.
Across the year, NYO Inspire engaged 496 extra musicians in workshops, and gave 3,850 audience members a taste of orchestral music. About 75% of these audience members were young people, many of whom had never heard an orchestra perform live before. Activity ranged from one-day NYO Inspire Days that give a brief taste of NYO orchestral brilliance, to the ten-day residency and schools concert tour of the NYO Inspire Orchestra.