The National Youth Orchestra
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We are the UK’s leading organisation championing orchestral music as a powerful agent for teenage development.
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Thank you for supporting our young musicians 🎶. 'I'm so proud that these brilliant young musicians, with the help of the public, are performing Beethoven's Ode to Joy for our wonderful NHS and care workers this evening. A huge thank you for cheering up the nation' #NYOdetoJoy
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“Music, in my view should be in every school, not just some.” Prime Minister, @Keir_Starmer. We’re looking forward to playing our part in this exciting new future for music education. #GeneralElection2024 #GE2024.
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We’re delighted to announce, Her Majesty The Queen will continue as Patron of The National Youth Orchestra. An incredible recognition and celebration of our work providing thousands of young people with life-changing opportunities through orchestral music.
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What happens when 164 of the UK's most dedicated musicians are supposed to be performing on stage @southbankcentre but instead, they're in lockdown hundreds of miles apart? . Thank you to the thousands of musicians who shared music with through #NYOdetoJoy 🙏
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Amazing to be hosted by our Royal Patron, HRH The Duchess of Cornwall @ClarenceHouse this week!! 😃
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We're so proud to announce that Sarah Alexander, our Chief Executive & Artistic Director, has been appointed OBE in the New Year Honours 2018. 😀👏🎉 #NewYearHonours #OBE
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Brace yourselves for the first National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain made entirely of musicians born since 2000!. This means being relevant, representing teenagers everywhere. There's a year of tours, broadcasts & activities ahead. Let the hard work begin! 💪. #NYORiseUp
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Thank you so much to everyone who took part in #NYOdetoJoy tonight 🙏. We demonstrated music’s incredible power to lift our spirits and bring people together 🌈🎶. Our thoughts are with all our key workers and those who are isolated or vulnerable: this is for you 💛.
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We all need some joy in our lives right now so here's a throwback to 164 teenage musicians raising the roof of the @RoyalAlbertHall @bbcproms 🤩. We will get through this, and when we do, we'll fill concert halls and classrooms with music once again 💪
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'Music is not an add-on, a “soft” subject or a luxury – it is absolutely essential to our existence.' . 👏👏.
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Did you know that the world's greatest orchestra of teenagers can beatbox?! 🙌. Re-live the thrill of this @bbcproms classic featuring @AnnaHMeredith's 'HandsFree' tonight 7.30pm @BBCRadio3 📻 🎶. #PromsTimeCapsule
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We're still on a high from last night's sell-out Prom @RoyalAlbertHall 🤩what an incredible evening!.Excited to re-live the excitement again tonight in the @BBCFOUR broadcast at 7pm! .@bbcproms @NickyBenedetti
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This is the power of teenage musicians when they have something to say. We’re calling for action from the government to let young people come together to make music again, vital for wellbeing, agency and community. #LetTheMusicPlay #NYORiseUp
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Music improves educational outcomes 🎓.Music supports the economy 💰.Music brings people together 👫👭👬. We're proud to support young people's learning - musical and otherwise. 🎶👍. To the headteacher who said this 👇We'd love to meet with you to change your mind. .
“Music is a hobby, it is not a career. It will not be supported by the school. I will not allow children to leave school to take graded exams. We are only supporting children’s learning.”. Unacceptable comment from a headteacher.
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'Music is a ‘core’ lesson. It's so much more than just notes on a page: leadership, confidence, creativity, teamwork, history, analysis. After two years of disruption, we need music more than ever. Don't suspend our music education!' – Ines, NYO violinist, speaks for all of us 🎶.
My lead letter in @thetimes today (6 January 2022) about the Head of @ofqual’s depressingly philistine suggestion that subjects such as music and art be demoted in the school curriculum as a result of the Covid pandemic.
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Have you ever seen eight people play one marimba? The NYO Percussion section created this stunning version of the #AsOne melody. 🎶. The As One tour begins tomorrow, culminating in 250+ musicians performing the melody at the BBC Proms this Saturday! 🤩.
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🔊 How does it sound when 164 of the UK's most committed teenage musicians join together to make music they love?! 🤘🔥. In just 1️⃣1️⃣ days we'll be on the @RoyalAlbertHall stage giving a sell-out @bbcproms ❤️. #prokofiev #romeoandjuliet
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@dannyelfman sat down with NYO's Bronagh & Tom to discuss his career, his advice for young musicians, and to tell all about his new composition written especially for NYO, "Wunderkammer", which premiered at @BridgewaterHall in Manchester. Full Interview:.
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Let's spread some musical joy. Who's in!? 🙋 🙋♂️. Grab an instrument and join the Ode to joy-a-thon from your doorstep, window or balcony. We're dedicating to our hospital staff, key workers and those who are isolated 💙. .#NYOdetoJoy
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Young people are capable of incredible things 💪.Over the next week an epic 360 musicians representing 66 counties across the UK are forming NYO Inspire Ensembles in Liverpool, and we’re going to demonstrate what is possible!.#NYOInspire
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Is everybody ready to spread some musical joy with the NYO Ode to Joy-a-thon tomorrow?! . With so many people downloading music, our website is struggling with high volumes, but you can find all of the music in this thread 🤗. #NYOdetoJoy.
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👏🙌👏🙌🤗 .That time we clapped, beatboxed and raised the roof of the @RoyalAlbertHall with @AnnaHMeredith's epic ‘HandsFree’ 🎶.Catch our full 2012 @bbcproms concert @BBCRadio3 Tuesday! 📻.#PromsTimeCapsule .
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From film scores & ‘orchestral chamber punk’ to Coachella and the @bbcproms, @dannyelfman’s musicianship is legendary and we are delighted to be joined by him in an online webinar this evening 🤩 🎼. Stay tuned as we share more behind-the-scenes from our webinar in the next days.
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Nicola Benedetti + Tchaikovsky = 🔥. Excited to be touring with @NickyBenedetti this summer! She is a role model for us, and we’re so happy that she recently became an NYO Ambassador ❤️ . There’s still a week to go, but here is a clip from our first rehearsal together! 🎻🎶
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Thrilled to announce that we have been invited to perform @carnegiehall next year in what will be our first ever tour to the USA! 🇺🇸 #NYO2019 @NickyBenedetti .
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Grab an instrument and play along with thousands of musicians across the UK in a heartfelt performance of Beethoven's 'Ode to Joy' 🎻🌈. How to join our socially distanced orchestra: .#NYOdetoJoy
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‘Now more than ever we need the power of music to bring us together…’ . Thrilled that @marinalsop conducts our NYO Ode to Joy-a-thon tomorrow 🤩. Join our social channels before 5pm as we count down to the big moment! . #NYOdetoJoy
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This will blow you away! 🤩. Listen till the end as we cheer for Mahler 1, in rehearsal with conductor @Alexandre_Bloch. Experience the power a 160 piece orchestra live in concert halls in Manchester, Saffron Walden and London as we go on tour, As One.
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How does it sound when 164 teenagers rise up for something they believe in? 💪. Last chance to experience the full power of #NYORiseUp via @BBCRadio3 in Concert & @BBCSounds 🎶📻.
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We are SO excited to perform at the @bbcproms at the @RoyalAlbertHall TONIGHT! 🙌🙌. Get ready for @dannyelfman’s London Premiere of ‘Wunderkammer’, Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ with @sdinnerstein and Ravel’s beautiful ‘Daphnis et Chloe’ conducted by Andrew Gourlay 🌟
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🤩 A message from our Royal Patron, HRH The Duchess of Cornwall. Thank you for supporting the NYO Ode to Joy-a-thon tonight 🙏 .#NYOdetoJoy @ClarenceHouse
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The Orchestra of 2024 says HELLO! 🤩🎶👋. Here are 158 teenage musicians from all over the UK, joined together for the first time. They’re ready to take on new challenges, share their passion for orchestral music and play their part as changemakers for their generation.
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Congratulations to our Chief Executive and Artistic Director Sarah Alexander on receiving her OBE for services to music from Her Majesty the Queen at Buckingham Palace 👏
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WE’RE AT THE PROMS!🤩. In an hour we’ll take the stage and breathe new life into orchestral music at the @bbcproms!. Grab your tickets for #NYOAlive NOW: Can’t make it to the concert hall? Tune in on @BBCRadio3 as the performance will be live on air!
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We are inspired by the extraordinary commitment, hope and courage of Her Majesty the Queen; at just 21 years of age, she vowed that her life would be devoted to the service of her people and never faltered. Through music, we offer our deepest sympathy to the Royal Family.
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🎶🌍.We're inviting YOU, whatever your instrument, to power up our musical planet and put music at the heart of your local community. Play or remix 'Jupiter' from Holst's The Planets with us, live, at 5pm on Friday 29 May: #NYOMusicalPlanet
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.'The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain gave a ferociously committed, exuberant and exhilarating performance of Beethoven’s Third and a buzzing new piece by Laura Jurd' – @guardian . @Jheyward843 @NickyBenedetti .
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We ❤️ our bassoon section, and here they are dancing us into a happy Wednesday! 👏💃🏽
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We're forming a huge socially distanced orchestra we want YOU to join us!. At 5pm, 17 April, play 'Ode to Joy' from your window, doorstep or balcony to show support for our key workers 💙🎶.@nycgb will be raising their voices along with us! . #NYOdetoJoy
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Without the vital work that music education hubs, services and organisations deliver across the UK, our activities simply wouldn't exist. Thank you for making #NYOInspire possible 🙏
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👏👏👏 a MASSively inspiring evening @southbankcentre tonight! Wow!! Thank you so much to @marinalsop @Chineke4Change and the incredible cast of singers, dancers and actors - we can’t wait to perform it all again tomorrow #Bernsteinat100 #bernstein
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“Thousands of hours of musical dedication and love!” Hear the results tonight @BBCRadio3 7.30pm in the broadcast of our 'Voice of the Americas' tour 📻🎶🎉 In the meantime, here's a taste of our encore, Ginastera’s Malambo! ➡️
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Who is excited for @BBCRadio3's broadcast of #NYORiseUp on Monday? ☝️. Listen from 7.30pm and join our movement as we make our voices heard with stirring music by Shostakovich & Britten.
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Tonight we play the @bbcproms. 🙌. It’s the finale of the As One tour and we couldn’t be more excited! 🤩. Watch hundreds of teenage musicians unite and perform As One at the @RoyalAlbertHall. Book your promming ticket or tune in to BBC Radio 3 for the live broadcast at 7.30! 🔊
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Orchestral music has a role to play in our world and in the lives of teenagers everywhere. That’s why we’re rising up and demonstrating our passion and energy to share what is possible. Will you join our movement? #NYORiseUp #Shostakovich11 @warwickarts
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We're forming a socially distanced orchestra to play Beethoven's iconic musical symbol of unity, and we want you to join us! 🌈🎺. #NYOdetoJoy
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'We must all support music education across the world!'.- NYO viola Ynyr Pritchard. There's a fire in our bellies and we're ready to take the @RoyalAlbertHall by storm at #BBCProms - thank you to everyone who supports us and the future of orchestral music. We won't let you down💪
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We're ready to NYO Ode to Joy-a-thon! Are you? 🤗. Head to your doorstep at 5pm tomorrow and join thousands of musicians spreading joy through music 🎸🎻🎺🎶. Download your part here: #NYOdetoJoy
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Calling musicians of all ages and abilities! . TODAY: Grab an instrument and join our huge socially distanced orchestra to play Beethoven's 'Ode to Joy' from your doorstep or window 🎻🌈. #NYOdetoJoy .Full details:
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Here’s a clip from our last full rehearsal at @WarwickArtsCentre with @Alexandre_Bloch. before we take flight tomorrow night! 🎶. 4 January @BarbicanCentre (Live-Stream).6 January @RoyalNottingham. 7 January @warwickarts. 8 January @liverpoolphil. Tickets:.
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All 164 of us have taken over the @southbankcentre 🤩. Here we are in rehearsal in the Royal Festival Hall, preparing to blow your socks off with a fiesta of Mexican and American music this evening
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Need a little something to smile about today? .Here are 164 teenagers giving their all to some Shostakovich 🙌
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TONIGHT at 8pm on BBC Four 📡🤩🎶. We’re still pinching ourselves… the energy at the @bbcproms last night was electrifying! ⚡️. Relive our performance from the @royalalberthall tonight, with presenters @LintonStephens and @vikkistone. Photography: BBC/Chris Christodoulou. #AsOne
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It's the start of #BlackHistoryMonth .For us, that means celebrating and amplifying the history of Black composers: .‘You hear “classical music” and you immediately think: Beethoven. Wouldn’t it be cool if people think: Florence Price, or Coleridge-Taylor?’ – Alice, NYO musician.
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TONIGHT at 8pm on BBC 4, it's the television broadcast of our @bbcproms performance!📺🎶. @JessGillamSax presents our 'jaw-dropping' Open Up: Free Spirits at the @RoyalAlbertHall💥. (Watch & Listen → available for 30 Days on @BBCiPlayer). #NYOpenUp
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Never in doubt!💥🎶. We crossed our fingers, we held our breath, and we made it to our first rehearsal residency of the year. A huge HELLO from NYO 2022!. We can't wait to let loose and raise the roof in @warwickarts and @BarbicanCentre. #NYOpenUp
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Behind the scenes at an NYO rehearsal! 😲. Conductor, Alexandre Bloch asks the orchestra to hum along as they play the 3rd movement of Mahler's Symphony No.1. A fascinating insight into the rehearsal process. Catch the full performance on BBC iPlayer:
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Officially the world’s sassiest youth orchestra. Where else can you find 164 teenage musicians dancing the Mambo like this? 💃🏽🕺🏽Only 5️⃣days until.#NYOUnleashed. Book now @THSHBirmingham @southbankcentre #WestSideStory #bernsteinat100 #danceoff
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WE MADE IT…OUR FIRST LIVE CONCERT THIS YEAR! 🙌🙌🙌 . Tonight we let loose…LIVE at the @BarbicanCentre in London. We have limited tickets on the door and it’s FREE FOR TEENS, so get yourselves here if you haven’t got tickets already….
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In the face of an education crisis, this year we’re joining together to share music with a point to make. We’re rising up, raising our voices. Will you join our movement? 🎺. 4-7 Jan @warwickarts @BarbicanCentre @RoyalNottingham #NYORiseUp @mattconducts
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Thank you to everybody who joined our movement tonight #NYORiseUp @BarbicanCentre!. Orchestral music has a role to play in the lives of teenagers everywhere, and we'll keep shouting it loudly!. Next stop @RoyalNottingham 🎉
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🔊♥️Sibelius 2.Rehearsals underway at @warwickarts! We'll be performing this incredible piece of music here, @BarbicanCentre & @RoyalNottingham 5-7 Jan! #nyo2019 @KKarabits #nyostateofflux #totallyteenage
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Delighted that award-winning gardener & broadcaster @chrisbeardshaw who we collaborated with at #rhschelsea has become our patron 😊
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What is possible when 164 totally committed young people are given a platform to reach their potential? . Find out tonight @BarbicanCentre 💪. #NYORiseUp.
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Overwhelmed by the incredible commitment shown over 9 days at NYO Inspire Ensembles: 360 young music lovers from across the UK proving that everybody has something they can learn and share with others 🎶. Here's a clip from the strings sharing earlier today! 🤩.#nyoinspire
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We’re back on a cinematic scale at the #BBCProms this year! 100's of teenage musicians bring their vitality to a new work by Hollywood legend Danny Elfman, Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and Ravel’s sumptuous Daphnis and Chloe, celebrating the brilliance of the UK's young people.
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We’re back and bigger than ever! We’re delighted to announce the musicians who will spend the next year with us, sharing music directly with audiences everywhere, as part of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. 🙌. To find out more:.
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Thrilled to meet Sir Mark Elder today for our first full orchestral rehearsal! Our adventure into magical mystical music begins. ✨🎶🏰🎶 #nyo2018 #sorcerersapprentice
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Want orchestras to exist in the future?.Then we need this 👇. The future relies on opportunities created for young people 🙌 . #NYOInspire #musiceducation #musicalopportunities
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'Music is an incredibly powerful force that can make change for the better, and if we can inspire other teenagers to be their best through music, that's a step in the right direction for all of us!'Chloe, NYO violin. 🥳We are excited to introduce NYO 2020:.
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A stage full of musicians! Pinching ourselves and raring to go 🎶. We're bursting with excitement to open up this music to you all:.🎟️Join us at @BarbicanCentre on 3 Jan.🎟️Join us at @warwickarts on 7 Jan.🎧 Listen on @BBCRadio3 on 22 Feb. #NYOpenUp
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9 days. 1 city. 399 teenage musicians totally passionate about music! NYO Inspire Ensembles kicks off TODAY and we're proud to be celebrating the diversity and drive of young musicians in the UK #NYOInspire @ResonateHub 🎶🎺🎻
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What was @dannyelfman up to during lockdown? 🤔🤩. More than 300 teenage musicians came together to be inspired by the prolific composer and ask him questions about his new work and how he kept his creativity going during lockdown. #DannyElfman #NYO2021
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The calm before the storm. ⛅ NYO staff are busy preparing for 11 days of epic teenage music-making. #BernsteinMass #nyounleashed @Chineke4Change @HaileyburyMusic
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Backstage @southbankcentre our musicians Tom, James, Zoe and Annemarie with @marinalsop following another spectacular performance of Bernstein’s MASS tonight 🎺👏🎶 #bernsteinat100
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Access to music shouldn't be down to luck 👏.Couldn't agree more with @JessGillamSax 🎷.
I feel so honoured to have been awarded an MBE for services to music. Thank you so much to everyone who has supported me, I’m so grateful. I’m lucky to have had the opportunity to learn music but that shouldn’t be down to luck- everyone should have that chance. Thank you again🙏
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What do NYO rehearsals look like right now?. We can't be together physically but we're still very much a community committed to spreading some musical joy 💛. There's an exciting week of musical activity ahead: our digital residency starts today!!. #NYOdetoJoy
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We’re standing in solidarity with musicians and creatives raising the volume in Parliament Square today for #LetMusicLive protests 📢.Freelancers make up so much of our sector and they need support.
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What is @NickyBenedetti's top advice for teenage musicians? What was she like as a teenager? . We asked her a few totally teenage questions ahead of our tour together this week. 🤩.Read the interview >> #NYO2019 #NicolaBenedetti
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When there are 164 of you, it's hard to fit in a selfie with conductor extraordinaire, Carlos Miguel Prieto. But it's worth a try!. Can't wait to wow you @THSHBirmingham 💪
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MANCHESTER! WE ARE READY TO GO! 🎶. Get ready for the world premiere of @dannyelfman’s new work, ‘Wunderkammer’ as well as Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ and Ravel’s ‘Daphnis et Chloe’, with soloist @sdinnerstein and conductor Andrew Gourlay.
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Over 160 teenagers from across the UK are sharing their ❤️ of orchestral music and exploring new music worlds here in Newcastle!. Tonight, we are rehearsing Ravel’s gem Daphnis et Chloé for the Open Up: Free Spirits tour. Only one week to go!💫. #NYOpenUp
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Hollywood legend @dannyelfman composed Wunderkammer especially for NYO’s teenagers who will take this stratospheric piece on its World Premiere Tour in less than a month!🤩. Come join us in Manchester, Saffron Walden and London! Find out more: . #NYOpenUp
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The NYO Ascent tour begins TOMORROW! 🎶✨. Here is a sneak 'peak' of the Alpine Symphony just for you, performed by NYO and conductor Sir Mark Elder. Thursday - @BarbicanCentre + live-stream.Friday - @RoyalNottingham.Saturday - @warwickarts. Book now:
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🤩🤩🤩.So thankful to @SirSimonRattle for this kind message of support for our digital activities, on the day of our @bbcproms broadcast. We too look forward to making music with you again in the future 🙏. 9 hours to go until the broadcast! Who's excited?! 🙋
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The only place to be tonight from 8.30pm: @BBCRadio3 📻🎶. It's our first concert since lockdown, with a powerful message about the change we want in our world as young musicians 💪. #NYOMightyRiver.@JermainJackman @ErrollynWallen .@southbankcentre
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We’re at the Barbican Centre!! 🤩. Tonight, we begin the NYO Ascent tour with a performance at the @BarbicanCentre, with conductor Sir Mark Elder, and it’s… SOLD OUT!. Experience an exhilarating adventure in sound - watch the LIVE-STREAM at 7pm! Book now:
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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Keep on rising up, young musicians. The world is listening.’ @theartsdesk .The first review for our #NYORiseUp concert tour is in!🙌🤩
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NYO Inspire musicians are poised for action after this afternoons brilliant final rehearsal, ahead of tonight's @Coventry2021 and @PRSFoundation's New Music Biennial Double Bill featuring HandsFree by @AnnaHMeredith and Mighty River by @ErrollynWallen at Coventry Cathedral
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NYO brings its teenage orchestral brilliance to the beautiful @Konzerthaus! A wonderful evening filled with the melodies of Lera Auerbach’s Icarus, Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with soloist Alina Pogostkina and Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet, conducted by Mark Wigglesworth. 🔥
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Wow! What a great tutti rehearsal today! 🎶👏It’s day 4 of intensive preparation for our 3-date UK concert tour at @thsh_birmingham, @snapemaltings and the @bbc_proms, and Debussy’s ‘La Mer’ 🌊 is sounding fantastic already! #nyo2018
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