City of Sheffield Youth Orchestra
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The City of Sheffield Youth Orchestra is an orchestra
in Sheffield
, England
. It has about 90 players whose age range from 13 to 21 years, with half still being at school with the rest at college, many of them training as professional musicians. The orchestra assembles three times a year during holiday periods for concentrated training courses with tutors and conductors of professional standing. They have worked with many distinguished soloists including Natalie Clein
, Matthew Barley and Leonel Morales.
The C.S.Y.O. is the only UK youth orchestra to be a triple winner in the Sainsbury’s Youth Orchestra Series (the major UK youth orchestra competition), and in the finals on two other occasions.
Over the past few years the orchestra has performed in the Pablo Casals
International Festival in Spain 2008, southern Poland in 2007, Croatia in 2002 and again at the Pula International Music Festival performing Swan Lake with the Bolshoi Ballet in 2005, invited to play at the inaugural concert of the 4th International Piano Festival in Granada, Spain in 2004, for the Lord Mayor of London at the Barbican concert hall in London, given highly acclaimed performances at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1994, 1999 and 2003, represented the UK at the Second Festival of European Youth Orchestras in Florence, Italy in 2000. The orchestra was asked to record the backing track at Abbey Road Studios, London, to a commercial recording of John Lennon’s last song. Prior to this the orchestra has toured in the Czech Republic, Germany, the Benelux countries, Switzerland, Norway, France, Spain and Poland. During summer 2009 the orchestra toured in the Leipzig area of Germany.
Orchestra
An orchestra is a sizable instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. The term orchestra derives from the Greek ορχήστρα, the name for the area in front of an ancient Greek stage reserved for the Greek chorus...
in Sheffield
Sheffield
Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough of South Yorkshire, England. Its name derives from the River Sheaf, which runs through the city. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and with some of its southern suburbs annexed from Derbyshire, the city has grown from its largely...
, England
England
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. It has about 90 players whose age range from 13 to 21 years, with half still being at school with the rest at college, many of them training as professional musicians. The orchestra assembles three times a year during holiday periods for concentrated training courses with tutors and conductors of professional standing. They have worked with many distinguished soloists including Natalie Clein
Natalie Clein
Natalie Clein is a British cellist. Her mother is a professional violinist. Her sister is the actress Louisa Clein....
, Matthew Barley and Leonel Morales.
The C.S.Y.O. is the only UK youth orchestra to be a triple winner in the Sainsbury’s Youth Orchestra Series (the major UK youth orchestra competition), and in the finals on two other occasions.
Over the past few years the orchestra has performed in the Pablo Casals
Pablo Casals
Pau Casals i Defilló , known during his professional career as Pablo Casals, was a Spanish Catalan cellist and conductor. He is generally regarded as the pre-eminent cellist of the first half of the 20th century, and one of the greatest cellists of all time...
International Festival in Spain 2008, southern Poland in 2007, Croatia in 2002 and again at the Pula International Music Festival performing Swan Lake with the Bolshoi Ballet in 2005, invited to play at the inaugural concert of the 4th International Piano Festival in Granada, Spain in 2004, for the Lord Mayor of London at the Barbican concert hall in London, given highly acclaimed performances at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1994, 1999 and 2003, represented the UK at the Second Festival of European Youth Orchestras in Florence, Italy in 2000. The orchestra was asked to record the backing track at Abbey Road Studios, London, to a commercial recording of John Lennon’s last song. Prior to this the orchestra has toured in the Czech Republic, Germany, the Benelux countries, Switzerland, Norway, France, Spain and Poland. During summer 2009 the orchestra toured in the Leipzig area of Germany.