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Summer Concert Tour28 July — 8 August 2021Saffron Walden, Birmingham, Leeds & London

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The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain is a dynamic community of brilliant teenage musicians making orchestral music with, by and for their generation. Since its founding in 1948 in the aftermath of the war by Dame Ruth Railton, NYO has been a change-maker, bringing young people together from across the nation for the first time. The orchestra was a symbol of hope and optimism in youth and in the role of the arts to heal a war-torn society and has since nurtured the dreams of teenage musicians including many leading musical voices; from Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Mark Elder and Kwamé Ryan to Alison Balsom, Thomas Adès and Judith Weir.

Now, 73 years later, NYO musicians have come through the pandemic with a renewed vigour and passion for sustaining music-making in their lives and the lives of other young people.

Together they will open up their art form and create musical communities with teenagers across the UK. NYO has the voice of young people at its heart, young people who want to live in a world where orchestral music is truly representative of the society they live in. This is why we have renewed our commitment to championing and commissioning new music by women composers and composers of colour. This commitment was recognised in 2021 when NYO was awarded the UK Youth

Inspiring Inclusivity Award. In recent years the BBC Proms has given a platform for music by Anna Meredith, Tansy Davies and Iris Ter Schiphorst, and our 2021 summer season includes music by Jessie Montgomery and a new commission from Laura Jurd. NYO is Southbank Centre’s Associate Orchestra and, as Classic FM’s Orchestra of Teenagers, collaborates with the broadcaster to offer £5 tickets to under-25s to all NYO concerts. The BBC generously broadcasts all NYO concerts on BBC Radio 3.

NYO is a charity, and this year in particular we are incredibly grateful to our community of supporters who have allowed us to keep playing even as concert halls across the country shut down overnight.

You can find out more about the orchestra on the NYO website at nyo.org.uk

If you can give a one-off gift, a regular gift, support a seat or underpin one of our programmes, please visit: nyo.org.uk/support-us

ABOUT NYO

Wordlessly expressive, innocently persuasive, music is the lifeblood of hope, and an irrepressible medium of dissent. We’re delighted to welcome you as the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain makes an explosive and triumphant return to live music-making across the UK, celebrating being back together in live performance for the first time since Autumn 2020!

NYO is committed to enabling young people to find their voice in and through orchestral music, come what may. We kicked off creative planning for the summer by inviting young musicians from the orchestra to tell us how they see the world they live in and what role they want their music-making to have in the world. We came away with a powerful sense that NYO's theme for 2021 has to be 'hope'.

Hope gives us our image of what lies on the other side of our difficulties, hope helps us to keep going through uncertainty. The give-and-take of hope guides every detail of our summer of relationship-building and performance-sharing.

Alongside the five concerts taking place, NYO’s Hope Exchange has involved our musicians going into hundreds of schools across the country this summer, giving individual concerts exchanging musical hope with young audiences. There will also be a series of webinars hosted by our musicians with international youth organisations, to shed light on extraordinary environments in which music-making is an act of hope for young people around the world.

Find out more about NYO’s Hope Exchange at our website, nyo.org.uk

WELCOME TO NYO’S HOPE EXCHANGE

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SARAHALEXANDER OBEChief Executive & Artistic Director

The power of hope!

Tonight’s concert is powered by hope. Hope has been more important than ever during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has upended the lives and dreams of young people. NYO’s Hope Exchange is our defiant response to the pandemic. This summer our teenage musicians are on an urgent mission to inspire other young people with a nationwide explosion of live performance in schools, outdoors and in concert halls. Since March 2020, NYO has engaged with hundreds of young musicians on digital platforms. For the first time in our 73-year history we worked differently, with traditional orchestra roles gone, we were no longer an orchestra. A community of creative musicians with something to say about the world emerged; our musicians felt the pulse of the nation and led a huge campaign to share musical joy through #NYOdetoJoy, leading thousands of people nationwide to make music together at the same time, from their own homes, celebrating the NHS; our musicians raised their voices for racial justice in the wake of the worldwide protests in Summer 2020 and used their musicianship to show

support through #NYOMightyRiver. This project was celebrated by the youth sector, winning the prestigious UK Youth Inspiring Inclusivity Award. Tonight, many of the musicians who shaped these incredible projects perform together live for the very first time. Thank you for being here with us. The thread that runs through these projects is that music-making is a radical act of hope. Our determination to give young people hope through music is heightened by the pandemic: young people need music and music communities more than ever, and we will rise to the challenge working with and for them through NYO and NYO Inspire. We have been delighted to bring NYO’s passion to our supporters over lockdown. We have played the music you love and – with your help – we will continue to do so. Without you, we simply could not be here. And a huge, necessary thank you to everyone who supports young musicians with encouragement, teaching, and passion for music. Together we are a national youth orchestra.

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LAURAJURDComposer

JESSIEMONTGOMERY

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Laura Jurd is a trumpet player, composer and improviser from the UK. She’s the recipient of multiple awards and a BBC New Generation Artist from 2015-2017. She was commissioned by NYO to write CHANT, a work exploring communal expressions of hope. CHANT receives its world premiere by NYO on 28 July at Saffron Hall.

Who or what inspired you to become a composer?

Playing the piano as a toddler and discover-ing the joys of making music at an early age. Playing, improvising and composing have always been intertwined – expression and communication through music.

Tell us about your new piece, CHANT, and what inspired it.

I’m very drawn to music that feels primal, earthy and ancient. A lot of the music I love has a strong connection to folk music. The piece features a lot of communal deliv-ery of melody, which for me instantly triggers a feeling of unity and connection.

In these performances, we're exploring the theme of hope through words and music. What role does hope have in your music?

To chant is to let go, to surrender and to have faith. From psalms, to mantras, to rain-making, chant can be affirmation and hope all at once. This music asks each player to take ownership of the material – to be em-powered by collective melody, to improvise.

What do you love about being a composer?

The mysterious magic that is discovering new sounds and re-discovering familiar ones. Whatever is going on in the world, music is an ever-giving constant.

What is the most challenging part of being a composer?

For me, it’s shaking off of the historic and cultural gravitas around the word ‘composer’. A lot of the music I make is very collaborative by nature. I rarely write for musicians I don’t know very well. As I get older, I’m less and less interested in giving people a completely finished score that dictates every nuance of the music.

What advice would you give to teenage musicians interested in composition?

To listen and to trust yourself. If you love how something sounds then that is what you want to capture. It’s quite simple really. Never feel like you should be able to do things in a particular order. Have fun carving your own path.

What have you enjoyed most about being part of NYO’s Hope Exchange?

Writing for the NYO feels extremely freeing. The musicians are incredibly open-minded, creative and committed to learning. This is more exciting to me than their obvious technical prowess.

What brings you hope?

Music.

Records from a Vanishing City is based on my recollections of the music that surrounded me on Manhattan’s Lower East Side in the 1980s and 1990s. Artists, truth seekers, and cultures of all kinds defined our vibrant community.

A year before completing this work, a very dear family friend passed away and I inherited a large portion of his eclectic record collection. James Rose was one of the many suns in the Lower East Side cosmos who often hosted parties and generous gatherings for our extended artist family. His record collection was a treasure trove of the great jazz recordings of the 1950s, 1960s and beyond – he was mad for John Coltrane, but also Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk and Ornette Coleman, as well as traditional folk artists from Africa, Asia and South America.

In the process of imagining this piece, a particular track on a record of music from Angola caught my ear: a traditional lullaby which is sung in call and response by a womens’ chorus. An adaptation of this lullaby and the rhythmic chant that follows it appears in each of the three main sections of Records from a Vanishing City.

This piece is dedicated to the memory of James Rose.

Soul Force is a one-movement symphonic work which attempts to portray the notion of a voice that struggles to be heard beyond the shackles of oppression.

Drawing on elements of popular African-American musical styles such as big-band jazz, funk, hip-hop and R&B, the piece pays homage to the the many voices, which have risen against aggressive forces.

I have drawn the work’s title from Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech in which he says: “We must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.”

Banner was written as a tribute to the 200th Anniversary of the Star Spangled Banner, which was officially declared the American National Anthem in 1814 under the penmanship of Francis Scott Key.

For most Americans the song represents liberty and solidarity against fierce odds, and for others it implies a contradiction between the ideals of freedom and the realities of injustice and oppression. As a culture, it is my opinion that we Americans are perpetually in search of ways to celebrate our ideals of freedom — a way to proclaim, “we’ve made it!” as if the very action of saying it aloud makes it so. And for many of our nation’s people, that was the case: through work songs and spirituals, enslaved Africans promised themselves a way out and built the nerve to endure the most abominable treatment for the promise of a free life. Immigrants from Europe, Central America and the Pacific have sought out a safe haven here and, though met with the trials of building a multi-cultured democracy, continue to find rooting in our nation. A tribute to the U.S. National Anthem means acknowledging these contradictions.

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CHANT (NEW WORK)Janácek

THE FIDDLER'S CHILDBritten arr. Colin Matthews

TEMPORAL VARIATIONS

— I NTERVAL —

Jessie Montgomery

RECORDS FROM A VANISHING CITYDvorák

SYMPHONY NO. 8

JONATHON HEYWARD Conductor JESS GILLAM Soloist

Wednesday 28 July, 7.00pm

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To read more from NYO's joint leaders on NYO’s Hope Exchange repertoire, please visit nyo.org.uk or scan the QR code below.

SAFFRON HALLMusic is the lifeblood of hope, building bridges between generations and traditions.

BETANIA, NYO JOINT LEADERI am extremely excited to be able to play on a concert stage with the NYO once more:I have missed music-making with like-minded musicians at the highest level. We believe in the power of music as the lifeblood of hope, something that is reflected in this programme, which explores how music can build bridges between generations and traditions.

The programme opens with a new work by Laura Jurd (see p4). This is followed by Leoš Janácek’s The Fiddler’s Child, a ballad for solo violin and orchestra based on a haunting ghost story by Svatopluk Cech. The work was premiered by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in November 1917. I am fascinated by this work, and it’s a great starting point for delving into music of the 20th century.

Britten’s Temporal Variations, completed on 12 December 1936, were originally composed for oboe and piano. In 1994 a student of Britten’s, Colin Matthews, arranged the piano part for string orchestra. I am intrigued to see how a solo wind instrument’s sound will blend and combine with the sound of a string section, as this isn’t a commonly used combination of instruments.

GABRIELLA, NYO JOINT LEADERI am really excited about performing Janácek’s The Fiddler’s Child: this piece has a haunting violin solo part, which I will get the opportunity to play myself. For me, the story behind this piece is important as it symbolises the darker times of the pandemic leading to a brighter future.

The second half of the programme opens with Montgomery's Records from a Vanishing City, a tone poem based on the composer's recollections of the music that she experienced growing up in New York's Lower East Side in the ’80s and ’90s. This piece of music can be seen to reflect NYO: an orchestra made up of young people from different backgrounds that’s constantly striving to be forward thinking and convey a positive message.

Lastly, there’s Dvorák Symphony No. 8 in G Major composed in 1889. The music is very engaging and draws inspiration from the Bohemian folk music that Dvorák loved so dearly. This word that comes into my mind when playing this piece is 'optimism', something we’re all looking to embrace after the uncertainty of the last few months.

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Hailing from Ulverston in Cumbria, Jess Gillam is animating the music world with her outstanding talent and infectious personality. After performing at the prestigious Last Night of the Proms in 2018 and having her performance described as “the indisputable highlight” by BBC News, Jess continues to grow her international career as well as presenting on TV and Radio. Jess is passionate about inspiring and bringing joy to people through music and has continued to do so throughout the Coronavirus pandemic. While in lockdown Jess launched her Virtual Scratch Orchestra, inviting musicians of any standard to come together to play music virtually with her. Jess has enjoyed performances around the globe, including at the Last Night of the BBC Proms Japan, with the Minnesota Orchestra, at the Lucerne Festival and with Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.

Jonathon Heyward is one of the most exciting young conductors on the international scene. Winner of the 2015 Besançon International Conducting Competition, Jonathon became a Los Angeles Philharmonic Dudamel Conducting Fellow. Jonathon was previously Assistant Conductor of the Hallé Orchestra, receiving a finalist nomination for Young Creative of the Year (Manchester Culture Awards) in recognition of his community and educational work as Music Director of the Hallé Youth Orchestra. He is now Chief Conductor of the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie. Jonathon is enjoying a remarkable summer of debuts, including with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain at the BBC Proms; the Antwerp Symphony and the Queen Elisabeth 2021 Piano Competition laureates; and the National Symphony Orchestra at Wolf Trap, Washington. Recent and forthcoming highlights include performances with the London Symphony,

This season she continues to perform throughout the UK and Europe in recital as well as with BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Hallé and Manchester Camerata. Jess is the first ever saxophonist to be signed to Decca Classics and recently released her second album, ‘TIME’, which shot to No.1 in the Official UK Classical Charts, as did her debut album ‘RISE’. She has been the recipient of a Classic BRIT Award, was the first ever saxophonist to reach the final of BBC Young Musician, and in 2019, performed live at the BAFTAs to millions of viewers at home.

Jess studied and was mentored by the legendary saxophonist John Harle and graduated from Guildhall School of Music with a Masters with distinction in 2020.

BBC National Orchestra of Wales and BBC Symphony; Baltimore, Detroit and Seattle symphonies; Castilla y León, Musikkollegium Winterthur, Brussels Philharmonic and St Petersburg Symphony. Jonathon’s opera productions include his Royal Opera House debut with Hannah Kendall’s Knife of Dawn; Kurt Weill’s Lost in the Stars with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra; and the world premiere of Giorgio Battistelli’s Wake for the Birmingham Opera Company. Trained as a cellist, Jonathon was Assistant Conductor at the Boston Opera Collaborative. He became the youngest ever semi-finalist at the Blue Danube International Opera Conducting Competition, and was subsequently appointed Associate Director of the Hampstead Garden Opera Company. In 2016, Jonathon completed his postgraduate studies in conducting at the Royal Academy of Music. He is now an Associate of the Royal Academy and a Sir Georg Solti Fellow.

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JESS GILLAM

CONDUCTOR

JONATHON HEYWARD

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BASS CLARINET RAJ BHAUMIK 17, Glasgow Seat supported by Professor Alastair Watson

BASSOON

ANNA GHIRO Principal 17, Glasgow

CONRAD SPENCER 18, Reading Seat Supported by Susan Mitchell

SOPHIE ROWDENE 17, Ruislip**

HORN

ALICE KNIGHT Principal 18, Newbury

HENRY WARD 17, Hampton

BEN DICKINSON† 17, Glasgow

CHLOE HARRISON 16, Harpenden

BEN DICKINSON 17, Glasgow

TRUMPET

ELIZA TALMANPrincipal 19, Frome

TIAN HSU17, London Seat Supported by David Richardson & Janet Hilton

HANNAH ACWORTH16, Farnham** Seat Supported by HR Taylor Charitable Trust

TROMBONE

EDWARD HYDE Principal 17, Iwade Seat Supported by Brian Turnbull

IAN ASHWORTH† 16, Whitworth,

JAMIE REID18, London

BENJAMIN HASLAM17, Wylam** TUBA

ROHAN DAHIYA 17, Peterborough

CALLUM DAVIS¥ 19, Tipton Seat supported by Anthony Albert

PERCUSSION

ALFIE CREBER‡ 19, Bristol

SAM NICHOLLS¥ 19, Kendal Seat supported by Jonathan Lloyd-Jones, Independent Mediators Ltd

SANA ABU-JABIR 17, Goffs Oak** Seat Supported by John & Diana de la Cour in memory of Betty Ashcroft

HARP

TEZNI WILLIAMS 18, Neath Seat Supported by The Ashley Family Foundation

HELEDD WYNN NEWTON 16, Cardiff** Seat Supported by The Ashley Family Foundation

** NYO Associates

* Leverhulme Arts Scholar

‡ McGowan Scholar

† Blavatnik Scholar

¥ Thompson Scholar

VIOLIN 1

BETANIA JOHNNYJoint Leader 18, London

GABRIELLA BAVETTA*¥ Joint Leader 17, London Seat Supported by The John R. Murray Charitable Trust

MAXIM LAVROV18, London Seat Supported by Susan Morcombe

ISABELLA AZIMA*¥18, Stratford Upon Avon Seat Supported by Andrew Tusa

ANNA LEZDKAN‡18, Petersfield

SCOTT STOREY17, Beckenham

IVY LAU18, Birmingham

ARCHIE FREEMAN17, Billingshurst

LUISA KRAUSOVA 14, Cambridge WILLIAM BROOMHEAD16, Glastonbury**

VIOLIN 2

GEORGINA BLOOMFIELD¥Principal 18, London Seat supported by Venetia Jennings

MAYA DE SOUZA‡ 17, London

TAMSYN BAKER CUDDIHY 19, Barnet

JULIE PIGGOTT18, Craigavon

CHLOE BOWERS-SORIANO¥18, Lingfield Seat Supported In loving memory of John A. R. Birks

JAMES YU 18, Dartford

RHIA THOMAS16, Woking

ISOBEL BARBER‡ 15, Haddington**

VIOLA

JOSHUA LAWPrincipal 19, London

EMILY FRASER18, London

BILL KO18, Cheltenham

CATHERINE WHITE 18, Bushey

HENRY GRANT 18, Kettering

SUMMER BROOKS¥19, Buckfastleigh**

CELLO

BUTTERFLY PATERSON Principal 17, Cambridge Seat Supported by Deborah Harkness

HARRY SCOTT-BURT 16, Rugby Seat Supported by Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust

ANNIE WALTON 18, Glasgow

KEVIN ZHENG 19, Oxford

ELLA HARRISON 14, Harpenden

CONRAD BOYLE 17, London**

DOUBLE BASS

CHARLES CAMPBELL-PEEK Principal 17, Upminster

TOM MAHONEY 18, Devon Seat supported by Rod Mullick

AIYANA RENNIE 16, London

STEPHEN CONWAY 17, Robertsbridge** Seat Supported by Simon Carrington & Alastair Hume

FLUTE

CLIODHNA SCOTT Principal 17, Tranent

BRIONI CROW18, Preston

EMILY MOORS 16, Bristol**

OBOE

CHELSEA BECKERPrincipal 16, Watford

CLARINET

NATHAN KENWORTHY Principal 18, Stockport Seat supported by the Martyn Ibbotson Fund

PHOENIX MOMBRU 17, London Seat Supported by Steven Goldring

NYO 2021: SAFFRON HALL

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Jessie Montgomery

SOUL FORCE (UK PREMIERE)Shostakovich

SYMPHONY NO. 9

— I NTERVAL —

Ruth Gipps

HORN CONCERTOStravinsky

THE FIREBIRD SUITE (1919)

LEE REYNOLDS Conductor ANNEMARIE FEDERLE Soloist

Saturday 31 July, 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre

ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, LONDONMusic is the lifeblood of hope and an irrepressible medium of dissent.

WILL, NYO JOINT LEADERIt’s so special to be able to make live music again, something that has left a gaping hole in society since locking down in March 2020. What better way to make a comeback than starting with Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 9. When Stalin commissioned Shostakovich to compose his ninth symphony, the Soviet officials expected a grand display of pride and patriotism; what Shostakovich delivered was his most blatant examples of mockery and ridicule of the Soviet regime, showing music’s power as an irrepressible medium of dissent. Following the Shostakovich is Montgomery’s Soul Force, a one-movement symphonic work portraying a voice struggling to be heard over the constraints of oppression. The title is derived from a quote from Dr Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. There is so much music waiting to be explored from the last decade and the fact that NYO is helping introduce these to a wider audience is fantastic.

TABITHA, NYO JOINT LEADERDedicated to her son Lance Baker, Ruth Gipps’ Horn Concerto is a beautiful piece that conjures images of serene landscapes and countryside with its lyrical and jubilant writing. Gipps wrote incredible music but as a result of being female in a very male-dominated industry, her music did not get the recognition it deserved. It has been fascinating to uncover her past and the impressionistic and neo-romantic influences that can be heard in her music. For me, as a young musician, Stravinksy’s The Firebird suite as well as Gipps’ Horn Concerto and the rest of our programme perfectly encompass the hopefulness of teenage musicians in our society today. Now that concert halls are starting to open up, we are eager to channel our creative energy, which has been cooped up for so long, into this concert. It will be an incredible feeling and we hope you enjoy it as much as we do.

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At the age of seventeen, Annemarie Federle won the Brass Category Final of the 2020 BBC Young Musician competition. She went on to secure a place at the Final at Bridgewater Hall, where she performed Ruth Gipps’ Horn Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Mark Wigglesworth. The performance was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Four.

This season she performs as soloist with the European Union Chamber Orchestra and London Repertoire Orchestra, among others. Recent highlights include performances of Richard Strauss’ two Horn Concertos, Mozart’s Horn Concerto No. 4 and Gordon Jacob’s Horn Concerto.

Originally from Cambridge, Annemarie studies the French Horn on a full scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music with Richard Watkins and David Pyatt, as well as the natural horn with Roger Montgomery. She has recently participated in masterclasses with Radovan Vlatković and Katy Woolley

Lee Reynolds is a British-born conductor with a reputation for bringing intensity and exceptional detail to his performances. He is the Associate Conductor of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain.

Current and recent highlights include his house debut conducting Kurt Weill’s Street Scene at the Opéra de Monte Carlo; broadcast concerts and recordings with the London Symphony Orchestra; Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortilèges with VOpera and the LPO which won this year’s South Bank Sky Arts Award for Opera; his Russian debut with the New Russian State Symphony Orchestra in Moscow; performances with the NYO, and a recording of British Horn Concertos with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Ben Goldscheider.

Other previous highlights include four world premieres at Glyndebourne, performances with the Southbank Sinfonia, the Dublin Concert Orchestra, the Beethoven Academy Orchestra in Kraków, the BBC Philharmonic

and taken part in a performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 with the Academy String Orchestra.

A keen chamber musician, she joined National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain in 2017 and was subsequently Principal Horn for two years, working with conductors including Marin Alsop and Sir Mark Elder. She was also a member of Aldeburgh Young Musicians and Britten Sinfonia Academy for three years.

Annemarie is grateful to the Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) for their generous support in their aftercare scheme for BBC Young Musician Finalists.

Orchestra and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and conducting a new production of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin with Nederlandse Reisopera.

At Glyndebourne, Lee has conducted four world premieres in studio productions, on the main stage and on the Glyndebourne Tour. With the LSO, Lee has conducted performances at the Barbican, the Berlin Philharmonie and LSO St Luke’s. His 2015 recording of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Adolfo Barabino has been lauded in the international press. He also recorded Theodora, a new work by American composer Joshua Ralph, with violinist Joshua Bell.

HORN

ANNEMARIE FEDERLE

CONDUCTOR

LEE REYNOLDS

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VIVIANE GHIGLINO*¥ 17, Colchester**

OBOE

BECKY PUGHE*Principal 17, Clevedon

THEO CHAPPLE18, Sale Seat Supported by J. and M. Kelly

TOM KIRBY† 16, London**

CLARINET

ALEX BUCKLEY* Principal 17, London

LOUISA BUCHAN18, Glasgow Seat supported by an Anonymous donor

SIENA BARR17, Maidstone **

BASSOON

JAMIE KING* Joint Principal, 18, Glasgow Seat Supported by Michael Waldman

EMILY AMBROSEJoint Principal 17, Newbury Seat Supported by Judith Line FERGUS BUTT17, Helensburgh

HORN

SARAH PENNINGTON*‡ Principal 17, London

MATTHEW PRIOR 17, Newbury

IMOGEN MOORSOM 17, Blandford Forum

DANIEL HIBBERT 16, Liverpool

ROBERT JOHNSTON 16, Perth

TRUMPET

FRANK COUGHLAN*Principal 19, Bromsgrove Seat supported by The Elmley Foundation

JESS MCFARLANE17, Crieff Seat supported by Peter Hibbert CHRISTIE SMITH18, HuddersfieldSeat Supported by Ursula Jones

ALEXANDER GRAY16, Woodbridge**

TROMBONE

EMILY NICOLAS Principal 16, Bushey Seat Supported by The Rock Solid Trust

BENJAMIN LOSKA 17, Hove

JACK MYLES17, Newtownards Seat Supported by The Rock Solid Trust

RHYDIAN TIDDY18, Carmarthenshire** Seat Supported by Michael and Maria Fischer TUBA

JUDE SMITH Principal 18, Macclesfield Seat Supported by Nigel Long

EDWARD FRAZER-BROWN 18, IpswichSeat Supported by Amber's Fund

PERCUSSION

PADDY DAVIES17, Kendal

JOSHUA GEARING 16, Hatfield

MURRAY SEDGWICK 18, London

SOPHIE STEVENSON 17, Woodville Seat Supported by GJW Turner Trus

STANLEY TALMAN18, Frome**

ORCHESTRAL KEYBOARD

ERIN JEAN BLACK 18, London

HARP

AIMEE LAM ¥ 17, Bromley

HELENA PIZURA15, Reading**

** NYO Associates

* Leverhulme Arts Scholar

‡ McGowan Scholar

† Blavatnik Scholar

¥ Thompson Scholar

VIOLIN 1

TABITHA APPEL† Joint Leader 17, Oxford

WILLIAM CLARK Joint Leader 18, York Seat Supported by Mrs J Fretwell

IGNACY STEFANOWICZ17, Feltham

ISABELLE ALLAN19, London Seat supported in memory of Aletta du Plessis

ROSS AH-WENG*‡18, South Croydon

SAKURA FISH16, Bishop's Stortford

IRIS CANNING-JONES16, London

CHRISTINA MAXFIELD18, Manchester

EMMA SCOTT 20, Edinburgh Seat Supported by Margaret Lloyd RHYS EVANS*16, London**

VIOLIN 2

BRONAGH LEE¥ Principal 17, Birmingham Seat Supported by GJW Turner Trust

LOTTE COLLIN 17, Newcastle Upon Tyne

ELANOR LEYDECKER17, Dundee

ROWAN DYMOTT17, Rushden Seat supported by John & Margaret Richards in memory of Elspeth Gibb Webb and Josephine Richards

ELLA RICHARDSON17, London Seat Supported by John & Margaret Richards in memory of Elspeth Gibb Webb and Josephine Richards

ROCKET BROOKS18, Buckfastleigh

VIVEK RAMANAN15, Buckinghamshire

ELLA HODGSON-LAWS 15, York**

VIOLA

PATRICK O'REILLYPrincipal 16, Kenilworth Seat Supported by The Reynolds Foundation

ISOBEL ADAMS*¥18, Penarth

ISABELLE NETTLE17, Tonbridge Seat Supported by Peter & Anne Farrar

JAREN ZIEGLER 15, London

MAX RAYWORTH 14, Chepstow

AARON LE MAISTRE*19, Cheltenham**

CELLO

ALEXANDER SCOTT-BROWN Principal 19, London

ALEXANDER WONG 18, Epsom

ANDREW O'REILLY 15, Kenilworth Seat Supported by The Reynolds Foundation

RIYA HAMIE 16, Hove

MADELEINE JOHNSTON* 17, North Shields

AIDAN CHAM 14, St. Albans**

DOUBLE BASS

ANNABEL BENISTON¥ Principal 17, Chatham

THOMAS AMIGONI†¥ 17, CreweSeat Supported by Drs Charles and Jacqueline Ross in memory of Alex Ross JELLY ROWE16, Leeds

BROOKE SIMPSON* 15, Bromley** Seat Supported by Drs Charles and Jacqueline Ross in memory of Alex Ross

FLUTE

CLAIRE EDMISTON† Principal 18, Oxford

LUCY ROWAN18, Scotland

JULIET BEADLE 18, St. Leonards-On-Sea

NYO 2021: ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON

To read the reflections of NYO Leader Kynan on NYO’s Hope Exchange repertoire, please visit nyo.org.uk or scan the QR code below.

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As part of our ongoing relationship with the BBC and its commitment to connect audiences with remarkable music and culture, we are excited that our performance at the BBC Proms on Saturday 7 August, 7.30pm will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3, and BBC Four television on the following day, Sunday 8 August. You can listen for 30 days at bbc.co.uk/radio3 or via BBC Sounds. Thank you to the BBC for its active and supportive relationship.

NYO is Classic FM’s Orchestra of Teenagers, and we’re happy to be partnering with the broadcaster to offer discounted tickets to under-25s to NYO concerts.

Laura Jurd

CHANT (NEW WORK)Prokofiev

VIOLIN CONCERTO NO. 2

— I NTERVAL —

Jessie Montgomery

BANNERBeethoven

SYMPHONY NO. 3 "EROICA"

JONATHON HEYWARD Conductor NICOLA BENEDETTI Soloist

Friday 6 August, 7.30pm Saturday 7 August, 7.30pm

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BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY HALL & BBC PROMSMusic is the lifeblood of hope and a place where ideals and reality wrestle and are reconciled.

KYNAN, NYO LEADERI know that I am not the only member of the orchestra who is beyond delighted to return to live music and play for you – a live audience! – again.

The programme transports us through music that depicts ideals and confronts reality. After a new work by Laura Jurd (see p. 4), we travel through music that explores ideals of freedom and multi-culturalism in Jessie Montgomery’s work, to pride in Russian folk music in Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto, and finally the urgent need for optimism which rings out from Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ Symphony.The pieces are all quite different in style and surrounded by different contexts. But when I listened to them, I noticed that they unanimously sounded jubilant. The pieces all tell a story either musically, contextually (or both!) of hardships, of ideals coming up against an anxious sense of reality. But the composers infuse the music with sounds of hope and opportunity, culminating in a powerful programme perfect for the NYO community. The stories presented vary from deep personal struggles to broader feelings of unity and it gives the whole programme a sense of humanity which allows these expressions of hope to be tangible and relatable. We invite you to celebrate with us in this programme of hope and optimism.

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VIOLIN

NICOLA BENEDETTI

Nicola Benedetti is one of the most sought-after violinists of her generation. Her ability to captivate audiences and her wide appeal as an advocate for classical music has made her one of the most influential artists of today.

In 2021-2022, Nicola opens the Barbican Centre’s season and amongst others, collaborates with the London Symphony Orchestra, LA Philharmonic, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic and Cincinnati Symphony. In April 2021 Nicola gave the world premiere of Mark Simpson’s Violin Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra and Gianandrea Noseda – receiving critically acclaimed reviews. Other season highlights include a European tour with cellist Leonard Elschenbroich and pianist Alexei Grynyuk, who have been performing together as a trio since 2008, and tours to Spain with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Asia with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Winner of the GRAMMY Award for Best Classical Instrumental Solo in 2020, as well as Best Female Artist at both 2012

and 2013 Classical BRIT Awards, Nicola records exclusively for Decca (Universal Music). Her latest recording of Elgar’s Violin Concerto entered at number one in the UK’s Official Classical Album Chart. Other recent recordings include her GRAMMY award-winning album written especially for her by jazz musician Wynton Marsalis: Violin Concerto in D and Fiddle Dance Suite for Solo Violin.

Nicola was appointed a CBE in 2019, awarded the Queen’s Medal for Music (2017), and an MBE in 2013. In addition, Nicola holds the positions of Vice President (National Children’s Orchestras), Big Sister (Sistema Scotland), Patron (National Youth Orchestras of Scotland’s Junior Orchestra, Music in Secondary Schools Trust and Junior Conservatoire at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland).

Nicola plays the Gariel Stradivarius (1717), courtesy of Jonathan Moulds.

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ANNIE WALTON 18, Glasgow**

DOUBLE BASS

STEPHEN CONWAY*Principal 17, Robertsbridge Seat Supported by Simon Carrington & Alastair Hume

CHARLES CAMPBELL-PEEK 17, Upminster

AMELIE JONES16, Borehamwood

TOM MAHONEY 18, Devon Seat supported by Rod Mullick

FLUTE

DAISY NOTON Principal 18, Hailsham Seat Supported by Graham Carter

RUBY HOWELLS¥ 19, Market Drayton Seat Supported byThe Millichope Foundation

BRIONI CROWE‡ 18, Preston

CLIODHNA SCOTT 17, Tranent**

OBOE

ARCHIE MORTON*¥Principal 18, Glasgow Seat supported by Ofenheim Trust

PHOEBE BARBER‡19, Haddington

CHELSEA BECKER 16, Watford**

CLARINET

NATHAN KENWORTHY*Principal 18, Stockport Seat supported by The Martyn Ibbotson Fund

RAJ BHAUMIK17, Glasgow Seat Supported by Professor Alastair Watson

PHOENIX MOMBRU 17, London** Seat Supported by Steven Goldring

BASSOON

WILL KIDNER¥ Principal 20, Dorchester

EVA SERKSNAITE‡18, Sutton Seat Supported by Anthony Albert

ANNA GHIRO 17, Glasgow** HORN

BRENDAN CONNELLAN*ഠJoint Principal 18, Haywards Heath Seat Supported by Paul Allam

ALICE KNIGHT Joint Principal 18, Newbury

ANNA LE HURAY 17, Teddington

HENRY WARD 17, Hampton

TRUMPET

ELIZA TALMAN*Principal 19, Frome

HANNAH ACWORTH16, Farnham Seat Supported by HR Taylor Charitable Trust

TIAN HSU17, London**Seat Supported by David Richardson & Janet Hilton

PERCUSSION SAM NICHOLLS*¥Principal 19, KendalSeat Supported by Jonathan Lloyd-Jones, Independent Mediators Ltd.

SANA ABU-JABIR17, Goffs OakSeat Supported by John & Diana de la Cour in memory of Betty Ashcroft SOPHIE WARNER 17, London**

** NYO Associates

* Leverhulme Arts Scholar

‡ McGowan Scholar

† Blavatnik Scholar

¥ Thompson Scholar

VIOLIN 1

KYNAN WALKER*†¥ Leader 19, Sutton Coldfield Seat Supported by David Dutton & Mave Turner

BETANIA JOHNNY*Co-Leader 18, London

MAXIM LAVROV18, London Seat Supported by Susan Morcombe

ISABELLA AZIMA*¥18, Stratford Upon Avon Seat Supported by Andrew Tusa

ELLA FRASER*¥19, Glasgow

ANNA LEZDKAN‡18, Petersfield

AMBER SUN15, Stanmore

PRIYA BERKS18, Oxford

MAYA DE SOUZA*‡ 17, London

IVY LAU18, Birmingham RHIA THOMAS16, Woking**

VIOLIN 2

CATHERINE ALSEY*¥ Principal 19, Gillingham Seat supported by Mrs B. M. Edge, in memory of Patricia May and John Rossford Edge

GEORGINA BLOOMFIELD*¥ 18, Buxton Seat Supported by Venetia Jennings

SCOTT STOREY17, Beckenham

TAMSYN BAKER CUDDIHY19, Barnet

CHLOE BOWERS-SORIANO¥18, Lingfield Seat Supported in loving memory of John A. R. Birks

ARCHIE FREEMAN17, Billingshurst

JULIE PIGGOTT18, Craigavon

JAMES YU 18, Dartford

CATHERINE MCCARDEL 17, Norwich** VIOLA

JAMIE HOWE*Principal 19, Lisburn

HOLLY WOODS19, Whittlesford Seat Supported by Julian & Caroline Nettel

JOSHUA LAW*¥19, London

SUMMER BROOKS19, Buckfastleigh

CATHERINE WHITE18, Bushey

HENRY GRANT18, Kettering**

CELLO

DANUSHKA EDIRISINGHE* Principal 18, Loughborough Seat supported by Paul & Eunice Morgan

ZAK EL-SHIRBINY 18, Oxford Seat supported by Mr Charles Hastings

JAMES DEW 18, Bognor RegisSeat supported by The John R. MurrayCharitable Trust

MARI MACGREGOR* 16, GlasgowSeat supported by Pat & Gus Moore

DORALY GILL 18, Welwyn Garden CitySeat supported by the Marie-Louise Von Motesiczky Charitable Trust

BUTTERFLY PATERSON17, CambridgeSeat supported by Deborah Harkness

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To read the reflections of NYO Leader Gabriella on NYO’s Hope Exchange repertoire, please visit nyo.org.uk or scan the QR code below.

Laura Jurd

CHANT (NEW WORK)Prokofiev

VIOLIN CONCERTO NO. 2

— I NTERVAL —

Anna Clyne

SOUND AND FURYSchumann

SYMPHONY NO. 4

HOLLY MATHIESON Conductor FRANCESCA DEGO Soloist

Sunday 8 August, 7.00pm

LEEDS TOWN HALLMusic is the lifeblood of hope, building bridges between generations and traditions.

GABRIELLA, NYO LEADEROn 5 January 2020, I took part in my last NYO full-scale orchestral concert. The memorable event took place at the Barbican Centre in London and little did I know at the time that our lives were about to change dramatically. NYO’s Hope Exchange is an initiative that aims to promote a positive way forward, as we all begin to emerge from the dark moments of the pandemic.

Tonight’s programme explores music as the lifeblood of hope, specifically through music that explores how composers can use music to confront and overcome our darkest fears. After a new work by Laura Jurd (see p. 4) exploring communal expressions of hope, we turn to Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 2 which premiered in 1935. The concerto starts off with a simple violin melody based around Russian folk music, but this lyricism is infected by an anxious sense of reality as the concerto continues.

Next, Anna Clyne's Sound and Fury is a riveting musical evocation of a world drained of hope. Playing this piece takes us as young people on a kind of journey which can somehow be seen to mirror the last few months of reflection during lockdown leading to a new and exciting future.

Finally, we close with Schumann's Symphony No 4, a piece which evokes an ultra-dramatic world of sublime light and fearful dark, where hope struggles with horrid foreboding. The symphony begins with a slow, intense introduction that creates an impassioned mood, typical of Schumann's Romanticism.

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Celebrated for her sonorous tone, compelling interpretations and flawless technique, Francesca Dego is one of the most sought-after young violinists on the international scene. Recently signed to Chandos Records, her first disc on the label honours the legacy of Niccolò Paganini with a recording of works inspired by the great violinist and performed on his violin, the fabled “Il Cannone”. Past releases include her highly acclaimed first concerto disc featuring concertos by Paganini and Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari alongside the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Daniele Rustioni on Deutsche Grammophon.

Born in Lecco, Italy, to Italian and American parents, Francesca regularly appears with major orchestras worldwide, and recent and forthcoming highlights include performances with the Philharmonia, Hallé, Ulster, Royal Philharmonic and Royal Scottish National Orchestras, Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan and Tokyo Symphony Orchestras, Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice, Orchestre de Chambre de

New Zealand-born Holly Mathieson is the Music Director of Symphony Nova Scotia in Halifax, Canada. She was also recently appointed to the newly created role of Artist in Association at English Touring Opera and is Co-Artistic Director of the Nevis Ensemble. Her previous appointments have included Assistant Conductor at the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Resident Conductor with the National Youth Orchestras of Scotland.

Highlights this year include her debuts with Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, as well as return visits to the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Philharmonia Orchestra. She has been touring extensively throughout New Zealand with the NZSO, the Auckland Philharmonia and the Christchurch Symphony and will make a covid- delayed start as Music Director of the Symphony Nova Scotia in Canada in October 2021.

Holly’s debut recording with Decca featuring Clara Schumann’s Piano Concerto performed by Isata Kanneh-Mason and the

Lausanne, Teatro Carlo Felice Genova, at St Petersburg’s renowned Stars of the White Nights festival, Teatro Regio di Torino, Orquestra de Sevilla and de la Comunitat Valenciana at Palau de les Arts, Auckland Philharmonia, Las Vegas Philharmonic, Santa Barbara Symphony, Het Gelders Orkest, and the Orkest van het Oosten.

Her international career to date has allowed her to work alongside many esteemed conductors including Sir Roger Norrington, Fabio Luisi, Karen Durgaryan, Christopher Franklin, Lionel Bringuier, Dalia Stasevska, Paul Goodwin, Christopher Hogwood, Yoel Levi, Donato Renzetti, Grant Llewellyn, Wayne Marshall, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Diego Matheuz, Shlomo Mintz, Gemma New, Alpesh Chauhan and Xian Zhang. Francesca is the winner of numerous national and international competitions, including the renowned “Paganini Competition” in Genoa in 2008. Francesca is based in London, and plays on a precious Francesco Ruggeri violin (Cremona 1697).

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra was released in July 2019 and reached No.1 in the UK Classical charts.

In 2018 she became Co-Artistic Director of the innovative Nevis Ensemble, which aims to take music out of the concert hall, and into isolated communities. The orchestra has given 170 free performances to 25,500 people across Scotland, including a tour of the Outer Hebrides.

She has worked with, and learned at the side of, many esteemed conductors including: Marin Alsop, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Christoph von Dohnányi, Peter Oundjian, Donald Runnicles, Thomas Søndergård, and Garry Walker.

Holly is based in Glasgow where she previously held the prestigious Leverhulme Fellowship at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She holds a PhD in Music Iconography and in 2016, she was named as one of New Zealand's Top 50 Women of Achievement.

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CLARINET

LOUISA BUCHANPrincipal 18, Glasgow Seat supported by an Anonymous donor

SIENA BARR17, Maidstone

LUCAS DICK 16, Esher**

BASSOON

AIDAN CAMPBELL† Principal 19, Maidenhead

EMILY AMBROSE17, Newbury Seat Supported by Judith Line

JAMIE KING 18, Glasgow** Seat Supported by Michael Waldman

HORN

BEN DICKINSON†Principal 16, Glasgow

ROBERT JOHNSTON 16, Perth

SARAH PENNINGTON‡ 17, London

ROSS DONALDSON 17, Glasgow

IMOGEN MOORSOM 17, Blandford Forum

TRUMPET

LUKE LANEPrincipal 17, Andover

CHRISTIE SMITH18, Huddersfield Seat Supported by Ursula Jones DYLAN SAVAGE16, Ammanford**

TROMBONE RHYDIAN TIDDY¥Principal 18, ManchesterSeat Supported by Michael and Maria Fischer

JOSH BRIERLEY18, Bolton

JACK MYLES 17, NewtownardsSeat Supported by The Rock Solid Trust

EMILY NICOLAS 16, Bushey**Seat Supported by The Rock Solid Trust

PERCUSSION PADDY DAVIES 17, Kendal

STANLEY TALMAN 18, Frome

SHESH ABU-JABIR 15, Goffs Oak**

** NYO Associates

* Leverhulme Arts Scholar

‡ McGowan Scholar

† Blavatnik Scholar

¥ Thompson Scholar

VIOLIN 1

GABRIELLA BAVETTA*¥ Leader 17, London Seat supported by The John R. Murray Charitable Trust

WILLIAM CLARKCo-Leader 18, York Seat Supported by Mrs J Fretwell

TOWA MATSUDA17, London

BRONAGH LEE¥17, Birmingham Seat Supported by GJW Turner Trust

ROSS AH-WENG‡18, South Croydon

ELANOR LEYDECKER17, Dundee

ROCKET BROOKS18, Buckfastleigh

ROWAN DYMOTT17, Rushden Seat Supported by John & Margaret Richards in memory of Elspeth Gibb Webb and Josephine Richards

LOTTE COLLIN 17, Newcastle Upon Tyne

CHRISTINA MAXFIELD18, Manchester NOAH STONE15, Harrow**

VIOLIN 2

TABITHA APPEL*† Principal 17, Oxford

ELLA RICHARDSON* 17, London Seat Supported by John & Margaret Richards in memory of Elspeth Gibb Webb and Josephine Richards

SAKURA FISH16, Bishop's Stortford

VIVEK RAMANAN15, Buckinghamshire

EMMA SCOTT20, Edinburgh Seat Supported by Margaret Lloyd

TARA SPENCER15, Reading

INES CHOI† 16, London

ELLA O’SHEA 16, Bath**

VIOLA

ISOBEL ADAMS*†¥Principal 18, Penarth

AARON LE MAISTRE19, Cheltenham

DANYA RUSHTON 15, Barnet

KEZIA ELLIOTT*18, Watford

CHARLIE POTTS 19, Norwich

CATHERINE JAMES15, Esher**

CELLO

EDDIE MEAD*Principal 18, Porthcawl Seat supported by Mrs Monica Meeneghan in memory of Alwynne Hedley Griffiths

ANDREW O'REILLY15, Kenilworth Seat Supported by The Reynolds Foundation

RIYA HAMIE 16, Hove

MADELEINE JOHNSTON 17, North Shields

TAREK ELDIN 20, Regensburg

ELLA HARRISON 14, Harpenden**

DOUBLE BASS

BROOKE SIMPSONPrincipal 15, Bromley Seat Supported by Drs Charles and Jacqueline Ross in memory of Alex Ross

LAURENCE FLOWER 15, London

EMILY CHAMBERS14, Chipping Norton

ANNABEL BENISTON¥ 17, Chatham**

FLUTE

VIVIANE GHIGLINO*‡ Principal 17, Colchester

EMILY MOORES16, Bristol

AMELIE DONOVAN19, Exeter**OBOE

ELLA LEONARD*Principal 19, Watchet Seat supported by Mrs Susan Morcombe

TOM KIRBY†16, London

EMILY LONG 16, London**

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‘During this tricky time your support and encouragement has kept us playing. We won’t ever forget it.’

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Could you enable a young musician to get back on their feet after this year of cancelled music events and opportunities? Put simply, our musicians are performing on stage tonight because of you. Your help is urgently needed now to get more musicians back to live playing. If you give to the NYO bursary fund you will enable a teenage musician to:

• Enjoy the music that you love• Join a national team committed to brilliance• Give inspiration, encouragement

and experience to teenagemusicians around the UK

• Join a diverse community sharing a commonand urgent purpose to change the futureof orchestral music

To give to the NYO bursary fund,please visit: nyo.org.uk/help-us-keep-playing

Thank you for your support.

GET TO THE WORLD STAGE

HELP A COMMITTED TEENAGER

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Royal PatronHRH THE DUCHESS OF CORNWALL

FounderTHE LATE DAME RUTH RAILTON DBE

AmbassadorsALISON BALSOM OBE CHRIS BEARDSHAW NICOLA BENEDETTI CBE BENJAMIN R. BROADBENT KATIE DERHAM DANIELLE DE NIESE SIR MARK ELDER CH, CBE JOHN WILSON

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

JOHN SINGER (NYO CHAIR) DONAGH COLLINS LYN FLETCHER ANDREW GAMBRELL MAZDAK SANII

DEVELOPMENT BOARD

BARONESS LAWRENCE OF CLARENDON OBE SAKER NUSSEIBEH CBE

MANAGEMENT TEAM

Chief Executive & Artistic DirectorSARAH ALEXANDER OBE

Finance & Administration DirectorTIM FOXON

Development DirectorNICOLETTE SHAW

Communications & Marketing DirectorMEL SPENCER

Artistic Planning DirectorCRAIG WEST

FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION

Finance ManagerKEREN MODHA

OPERATIONS

Producer, NYOROSI CALLERY

Producer, NYO InspireRACHEL LONG

Producer, NYO OpenSHANNON HO

Residency ManagersALFIE WHITBREAD PETER NODEN

Pastoral Support ManagerHANNAH MEARS-YOUNG

Residency AssistantsOWEN STAVENUITER IONA ALLAN ABIGAIL DAVIES MATTHEW WILSHER

Stage Managers KEVIN ELWICK FREDDIE JACKSON SARAH WOOLHOUSE Assistant Stage Managers MICHAEL DAWSON PHIL ENTWHISTLE

Driver & LogisticsTREVOR HILL, TC TRUCKING

LibrarianHELEN HARRIS

DEVELOPMENT

Head of Individual GivingARIANA MUSIOL

Development ManagerALISDAIR ASHMAN

Individual Giving CoordinatorBEN ELLIS

Individual Giving CoordinatorBETHANY SOUTHWORTH

MARKETING

Communications and Marketing OfficerRACHEL KLARNETATZI

Content OfficerDAVID MCCAFFREY

Ticketing & MarketingELIZABETH DAVIS

Press PHILIPPA CHAMBERLAYNE

MUSICAL TEAM

Violin 1SARAH EWINS LYN FLETCHER

Violin 2PAULETTE BAYLEY KYRA HUMPHREYS

ViolaDAVID ASPIN CLIFTON HARRISON FIONA WINNING

NYO TEAM

CelloADRIAN BRADBURY BECKY KNIGHT SU-A LEE

Double BassJOSIE ELLIE GRAHAM MITCHELL VERA PEREIRA

FluteCORMAC HENRY SARAH NEWBOLD AMY YULE

OboeRUTH BOLISTER GORDON HUNT MELINDA MAXWELL

ClarinetYANN GHIRO ANNA HASHIMOTO TIM LINES

BassoonSARAH BURNETT JAREK AUGUSTINIAK

HornSUE DENT RICHARD KENNEDY BETH RANDELL

TrumpetJOHN MILLER MARK O’KEEFFE ALAN THOMAS

TromboneKATY JONES JIM MAYNARD AMOS MILLER

TubaRYAN BREEN EWAN EASTON

Percussion & Timpani KIZZY BROOKSLOUISE GOODWINTOBY KEARNEYPAT KINGPAUL PHILBERTIAN WRIGHT

HarpELUNED PIERCEANNE DENHOLM

Orchestral KeyboardALISON PROCTER

CompositionALEX PAXTON Creative Leaders KIZZY BROOKS ALEX PAXTON DELIA STEVENS

SUPPORT TEAM

Support Team LeadersEWAN CASEMAN JO LYNCH

Deputy Support Team LeadersSOPHIE SIMPSON CARMEL SMICKERSGILL YUSRA SUPDAROWA JAMIE LOUISE WHITE

Support Team JAMES BRADY SVENJA BUHL DAVID BULLOCK SARAH BURSTON TOM CAYLEY ADAM COLLINS CHRYSHELLE DUCUSIN GEORGE ENGLISH SUSIE GRIFFIN

SAM HAU GENNIE JOY LIZZIE LEONARD RUARIDH (ROO) MATHIESON TOM MORGAN COLE MORRISON CHRIS POTTS SAM PURKIS CALLA RANDALL MEEKAEEL RASHID TED RILEY JESSAMY ROBINSON LUCAS ROBSON ELLIE ROSE JEREMY SALTER EMILY SAWYER DAN SPRINGATE ELLIE TAYLOR IRA THOMAS PAMELA UGOCHUKWU IZZY WAY

NURSES

SANDRA BARNES ANTON CRAYTON

OSTEOPATH

ANDREW PATTERSON

YOU ARE THE MUSIC…WHILE THE MUSIC LASTS T.S. ELIOT Gillian was born in Leicester in 1933 and would go on to become a founding member of NYO. Her early interests included painting, photography, and swimming; however, it was music that would form the basis for her life. Beginning with the piano she was prompted to take up the violin and at 13 she joined the Leicester Junior Orchestra. NYO followed and was the defining musical and personal experience of her teenage years, plotting the course for the rest of her life. Through NYO, Gillian established her love of playing and singing, broadened her horizons with travelling around the UK and abroad, and was signposted to making her career in music and the theatre.

Gillian died in 2016, leaving a legacy gift to NYO in the hope of giving the experience she had as a young musician at NYO to future generations of young people around the UK.

As an early member, Gillian had seen our founder, Dame Ruth Railton struggle with funding the orchestra and wanted to ensure that NYO has the means to continue to develop the passion and potential of young musicians for years to come. nyo.org.uk/legacies

‘What I remember best is the poised tension of the rehearsals, the more-than-adult approach, with a willing surrender and dedication perhaps never again approached in our later, professional lives…. Out of this grew the magic; the concert was the necessary release and fulfilment.’

GILLIAN ASHBY, NYO VIOLIN 2 (1949-51)

Gillian (second from left) with cousins Jane, Stella and Charles (L-R) at Llandudno in 2004.

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TRUSTS ANDFOUNDATIONSNYO would like to thank the following trusts and foundations for their support, without which our work would not be possible.

The Ashley Family Foundation Limited / Blavatnik Family Foundation / The Cecil King Memorial Foundation / The du Plessis Family Foundation / The Elmley Foundation / Esmée Fairbairn Foundation / GJW Turner Trust / Grumpy Givers / The Guyll-Leng Charitable Trust / Paul Hamlyn Foundation / The Houghton Dunn Charitable Trust / Ian Mactaggart Trust / The Leverhulme Trust / Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust / Misses Barrie Charitable Trust / The John R. Murray Charitable Trust / The Ofenheim Charitable Trust / The Reynolds Foundation / The RVW Trust / The Saintbury Trust / The Three Monkies Trust / The Barbara Whatmore Charitable Trust

THANK YOU INDIVIDUAL SUPPORTERSSir Leonard & Lady Blavatnik

William de Winton

Mr & Mrs Ricardo Dorich

Jan & Leni du Plessis

Alexander Graham

Steven Larcombe &

Sonya Leydecker

Jim & Carole Leng

Michael & Lynne McGowan

Mr & Mrs Paul Morgan

Richard Shaw

John & Susan Singer

John & Pauline Tremlett

We acknowledge and thank all parents whose incredible support has enabled their musician to take place in NYO. Thank you to all families who made a donation on top of 2021 fees.

PRINCIPAL SEAT SUPPORTERSDavid Dutton & Mave Turner

Michael & Maria Fischer

SEAT SUPPORTERSAnthony Albert

Paul Allam

In loving memory of John A. R. Birks

Graham Carter

Simon Carrington & Alastair Hume

John & Diana de la Cour in memory of Betty Ashcroft

Mrs B. M. Edge in memory of Patricia May and John Rossford Edge

Peter & Anne Farrar

Mrs J Fretwell

Steven Goldring

Deborah Harkness

Charles Hastings

Peter Hibbert

Venetia Jennings

Ursula Jones

J. and M. Kelly

Judith Line

Margaret Lloyd

Jonathan Lloyd-Jones, Independent Mediators Ltd.

Nigel Long

The Martyn Ibbotson Fund

Mrs Monica Meeneghan in memory of Alwynne Hedley Griffiths

Susan Mitchell

Pat & Gus Moore

Mrs Susan Morcombe

Rod Mullick

Julian & Caroline Nettel

The Reynolds Foundation

John & Margaret Richards in memory of Elspeth Gibb Webb and Josephine Richards

David Richardson & Janet Hilton

The Rock Solid Trust

Brian Turnbull

Andrew Tusa

Michael Waldman

Professor Alastair Watson

We also acknowledge a number of seats which are supported by anonymous donors.

LEGACY PLEDGERSPaul Allam

Julian Anderson

Leslie Berry

David Carrington

Hilary & Simon Carrington

Mary Cordall

Ann Hall (Taylor)

Peter Hibbert

John Ludlow

Jeremy Poole

Ian Senior

Roger Sirett

Professor Derek Smith

Professor D.E. Young

We also acknowledge a number of legacy supporters who wish to remain anonymous.

We thank and acknowledge our NYO community of supporters for their kind support this year.

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info@nyo.org.uk 020 7189 8100 nyo.org.uk

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