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Music video for Philip Glass' Symphony No.3, Movements III and IV Featuring Scottish Ensemble and senior members of the National Youth Orchestras of Scotland. To watch the film click here

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We were delighted to still be able to share a little bit of festive joy with everyone in the form of this Christmas classic lovingly arranged by NYOS Jazz pianist Moss Taylor. To watch the film click here

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Dance from a Distance by C Duncan, perfromed by the National Youth Orchestras of Scotland and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. To watch the film click here

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This August NYOS Symphony Orchestra is delighted to welcome conductor Jamie Phillips to the podium for the first time.

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NYOS Senior Orchestra ends its exciting year with a complete performance of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.5.

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Iona McDonald (Violin)

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This exciting year culminates with a performance of the complete Alexander Borodin’s Second Symphony, marking only the second time that NYOS Junior Orchestra has performed an entire symphony.

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Andrew Bain (Director)

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This summer NYOS Jazz Orchestra continue its recent explorations of world-music with award-winning saxophonist, composer, arranger and bandleader Paul Booth.

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Guiding the Orchestra through this wonderful programme is conductor Alice Farnham, one of Classic FM’s Ten Best Women Conductors 2019.

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We are delighted to continue our partnership with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and we welcome to the podium former RSNO Assistant Conductor Christian Kluxen.

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The spring concert opens with Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture, composed for Heinrich Joseph Collin’s 1804 interpretation of the famous Greek tragedy.

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Grażyna Bacewicz, Overture

Dmitri Shostakovich, Violin Concerto No.1

Béla Bartók, Concerto for Orchestra

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Andrzej Panufnik, Concerto Festivo

Robert Schumann, Cello Concerto

Dmitry Kabalevsky, Symphony No.2

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Andrew Bain & Malcolm Edmonstone

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Yazz is composer who seeks to blur the lines between jazz and electronic sound design, bringing together the sounds of her mixed heritage. Her music has been described as ‘psychedelic Arabic jazz, intoxicating and compelling’.

To complement Yazz’s music, Malcolm has also arranged a set inspired by other incredible female artists including Nikki Iles among others.

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NYOS Jazz Access presents ‘Rush Hour Jazz’ in a place where the rush hour consists of the 20 vehicles recently disembarked from the Mallaig to Armadale ferry.

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Mark James

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Johannes Brahms, Hungarian Dance No.5

Alexander Arutiunian, Trumpet Concerto

William Walton, Crown Imperial

Antonín Dvořák, Symphony No.8

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We are delighted that this spring’s NYOS Symphony Orchestra concerts mark the beginning of our new partnership with the RSNO.

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 “An evening of fine music making, showing the remarkable musicianship these young players are capable of. Mixing a grand sweep with abundant spirit and passion” The Scotsman

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We are thrilled to welcome conductor Jon Hargreaves to the podium this spring to lead our youngest members through an array of pieces chosen to introduce our players to some of the very best of the orchestral repertoire at this early stage in their musical lives as they perform as part of NYOS Junior Orchestra. 

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Andrew Bain & Malcolm Edmonstone

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NYOS Jazz Orchestra presents a profusion of cool jazz in two parts.

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The Cumnock Tryst Festival host a special Festival Club each evening from 21.30 on Thursday 4th, Friday 5th and Saturday 6th of October 2018. The event is free and open to all. All they ask is to ‘pay what you like’ as a donation on the night. The NYOS Jazz Ambassadors perform on Saturday 6th October and will be joined by performers from Drake Music Scotland’s Digital Orchestra at the Festival Club.

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SAME RIVER THRICE is a creative collaboration between Drake Music Scotland and the National Youth Orchestras of Scotland, written by Malcolm Edmnostone and performed live at this year’s Cumnock Tryst Festival by Drake Music Scotland's Digital Orchestra alongside NYOS Futures.

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The National Youth Orchestras of Scotland is delighted to announce its first ever involvement in Glasgow Doors Open Day Festival 2018.

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After 30 years, NYOS Symphony Orchestra makes a welcome return to the Edinburgh International Festival 2018. 

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In Tell Us Who We Are, the young people question and explore who they are as millennials within society. Through the prism of war, they contrast their lives to all of the young people who have lived in the century following the end of World War One. 

They have all the world’s information they could ever need at the touch of a button but now, in the Year of Young People, they want to know what the world thinks of them and if they’re voice is being heard.

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A celebratory gala concert with the NYOS Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow and the Universität der Künste in Berlin. 

Through a live link, audiences in George Square Glasgow and on the European Mile in Berlin can experience the excitement and atmosphere of the concerts in both cities on the stage and big screen.

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This extraordinary tour opens in Dundee at the glorious Caird Hall, where NYOS Symphony Orchestra perform a selection of pieces from its full summer programme.

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This summer NYOS Senior Orchestra, conducted by Catherine Larsen-Maguire, presents a programme designed to challenge and inspire its members.

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Andrew Bain & Malcolm Edmonstone

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This summer NYOS Jazz Orchestra presents a profusion of cool jazz over four concerts, in two parts.

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Andrew Bain & Malcolm Edmonstone

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This summer NYOS Jazz Orchestra presents a profusion of cool jazz over four concerts, in two parts. 

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Ben Burnley

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This summer in Glasgow NYOS Junior Orchestra, conducted by Holly Mathieson present a programme sure to delight audiences of all ages.

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Andrew Bain

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This summer NYOS Jazz Orchestra presents a profusion of cool jazz over four concerts, in two parts. 

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This spring in Perth and Glasgow, NYOS Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the compelling and insightful Rebecca Miller, present a programme full of natural wonder.

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This spring NYOS Senior Orchestra, conducted for the first time by Catherine Larsen-Maguire present a programme designed to challenge and inspire its members with repertoire influenced by nature, sure to captivate its audience. Arrive early for a special pre-concert performance.

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This spring in Stirling NYOS Junior Orchestra, conducted by Holly Mathieson present a programme full of natural wonder sure to delight audiences of all ages.

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Some of the finest young bands in the world come together in a showcase of what could well be the future of Jazz. Hear Miles Davis and Gil Evans’s Miles Ahead and more played by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Youth Orchestra, NYOS Jazz Orchestra and the Guildhall Jazz Orchestra.

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The musical crew of the good ship Camerata and Children’s Classic Concerts favourites Olly and Owen are enlisting the help of adventurous children everywhere - solve the cryptic clues that will take you around the globe, collecting tunes and finding rhythms that will have you dancing on the deck. 

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"For one night only, award-winning comedian/composer Vikki Stone will perform her brand-new orchestral work Concerto for Comedian and Orchestra, alongside one of Scotland's finest youth chamber ensembles: NYOS Camerata."

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Following the huge success of Drake Music Scotland and the National Youth Orchestras of Scotland collaboration "Same River Twice" in 2015 with composer Malcolm Edmonstone, musicians from these two organisations are coming together again to collaborate with Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Composer, Oliver Searle. 

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The National Youth Orchestras of Scotland (NYOS) are delighted to announce world-famous percussionist, Colin Currie as soloist this summer visiting Aberdeen, Perth and Glasgow. 

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We are delighted to welcome conductor Maxime Tortelier to work with NYOS Senior Orchestra again this summer.

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NYOS Jazz Orchestra present a programme that takes them on a 'Road Trip Across America'. The orchestra is led, as always by Music director Malcolm Edmonstone and Principal Conductor Andrew Bain and the featured guest artist this summer is the amazing Scottish guitarist Malcolm MacFarlane.

#Jazz100

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Findlay Spence (cello)

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Conductor Holly Mathieson once again takes charge of NYOS Junior Orchestra for its concert this summer at Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh.

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Each year UNESCO International Jazz Day recognizes Jazz as an art form capable of “promoting peace and dialogue among cultures, diversity and respect for human rights while reinforcing the role of youth in enacting social change.”  

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The Americas is the theme for all National Youth Orchestras of Scotland ensembles throughout 2017. During its spring tour NYOS Symphony Orchestra will perform a blend of well known standards together with rarely heard gems directly linked to, or inspired by, the Americas.

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NYOS Senior Orchestra perform an array of exhilarating and horizon broadening compositions inspired by the Americas under the baton of conductor Maxime Tortelier.

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This spring, under the baton of conductor Holly Mathieson, NYOS Junior Orchestra presents a broad spectrum of music from North and South American composers – with music rarely heard in the UK or European concert halls – together with works by more prominent European composers inspired to celebrate the remarkable diversity of the Americas.

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Escape the festive flurry and join the UK’s leading string orchestra for an atmospheric evening of radiant light and shimmering music.

Concerts by Candlelight Film Trailer

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Directed by by Malcolm Edmonstone

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This concert marks a new collaboration between NYOS Futures and Mark Lockheart, directed by Malcolm Edmonstone performing music from Mark’s latest album ‘Ellington in Anticipation’. 

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Eamonn Dougan

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We are delighted to announce that NYOS Camerata will perform at the Cumnock Tryst 2016 alongside a wealth of musical riches at the newest Tryst venue, Auchinleck Parish Church, also known as Barony Church.

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This wonderful new collaborative project is a continuation of an exchange programme combining the talents of students from NYOS Camerata, the Nationaal Jeugd Orkest (NJO) in the Netherlands and players from Hebrides Ensemble. Rehearsals will take place in Glasgow in early August under the direction of conductor Will Conway in preparation for two unique chamber concert performances.

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Malcolm Edmonstone & Andrew Bain

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Iain Ballamy & Liane Carroll

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This summer we are excited to welcome back previous collaborators – saxophonist Iain Ballamy performing some of his compositions such as All Men Amen and Floater along with pianist/vocalist Liane Carroll – to perform a series of arrangements by Malcolm Edmonstone, including songs made popular by Frank Sinatra, The Beatles, Carole King and others. 

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The Invitation to the Dance extends into the summer as NYOS Symphony Orchestra (The National Youth Orchestra of Scotland) performs a sumptuous selection of ballet music, which includes Stravinsky’s wonderfully rhythmic composition The Firebird.

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This summer, NYOS Senior Orchestra will make a welcome return to the stunning Greyfriars Kirk for an afternoon performance in Edinburgh.  Before that however, the young musicians have the honour of performing at the International Society for Music Education (ISME) World Conference 2016 at Glasgow’s Royal Concert Hall.

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This summer, NYOS Senior Orchestra have the honour of performing at the International Society for Music Education (ISME) World Conference 2016 at Glasgow’s Royal Concert Hall.

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Calum Tonner

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This year we are delighted to welcome back Holly Mathieson for her second season as conductor of the Junior Orchestra and we look forward to another year of inspired performances.

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Jules Jackson

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This year, NYOS Jazz Access performs on tour with NYOS Jazz Orchestra. Under the direction of Jules Jackson, its repertoire includes an array of big band classics and arrangements of familiar recent hits.

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Malcolm Edmonstone & Andrew Bain

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Iain Ballamy & Liane Carroll

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This summer we are excited to welcome back previous collaborators – saxophonist Iain Ballamy performing some of his compositions such as All Men Amen and Floater along with pianist/vocalist Liane Carroll – to perform a series of arrangements by Malcolm Edmonstone, including songs made popular by Frank Sinatra, The Beatles, Carole King and others.  

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This spring, NYOS Jazz Orchestra joins Iain Dixon, in collaboration with equally talented young musicians from the vibrant Greater Manchester jazz scene. Iain boasts an illustrious career, which began with the BBC Radio Orchestra and the BBC Big Band, and we eagerly anticipate this unique project arranged for double big band.

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This April, NYOS Senior Orchestra in association with Ayr Arts Guild, make a welcome return to the beautiful Ayr Town Hall with Conductor James Lowe.

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This spring, NYOS Symphony Orchestra will perform a wonderfully rich programme of dance-infused repertoire including Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet to commemorate 400 years since the death of Shakespeare.  So loved are both the story and Sergei Prokofiev’s score that virtually every ballet company in the world has a production of Romeo and Juliet in its repertory.  

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In 2016 NYOS Junior Orchestra will perform a wonderfully rich programme of dance-infused repertoire from different countries including a range of ballet music such as Khachaturian’s Spartacus Ballet Suite No 2

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We are delighted to announce that NYOS Camerata will perform at the Cumnock Tryst 2016 alongside a wealth of musical riches at the newest Tryst venue, Auchinleck Parish Church, also known as Barony Church.

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Wotan – Paul Carey Jones | Brünnhilde – Miriam Murphy | Siegmund – Ronald Samm | Sieglinde – Janice Watson | Fricka – Andrea Baker

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This series of concerts marks the second year of an exciting collaboration between The National Youth Orchestras of Scotland and Hebrides Ensemble.

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We take to China a programme full of Scottish Connections, which has been the theme for all NYOS orchestras this year. We commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of Erik Chisholm, the Scottish composer, by performing his first Piano Concerto – 'Pìorbaireachd'.

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We take to China a programme full of Scottish Connections, which has been the theme for all NYOS orchestras this year. We commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of Erik Chisholm, the Scottish composer, by performing his first Piano Concerto – 'Pìorbaireachd'.

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We take to China a programme full of Scottish Connections, which has been the theme for all NYOS orchestras this year. We commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of Erik Chisholm, the Scottish composer, by performing his first Piano Concerto – 'Pìorbaireachd'.

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NYOS Symphony Orchestra performs only one date in Scotland this summer at Perth Concert Hall on 29th July 2015. Come along and wish the Orchestra 'Bon Voyage' as it sets off on its adventure to China.

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This summer, NYOS Senior Orchestra will be joined by Leonard Elschenbroich - the charming and deeply expressive cellist - to perform Bloch's Schelomo.  

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Malcolm Edmonstone & Andrew Bain

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Due to circumstances out with our control the Glasgow performance venue has now changed. The concert will now take place at Cottiers Theatre in Hyndland instead of Websters Theatre on Great Western Road. The concert will still take place at 8pm on Thursday 16th July.

Our sincere apologies for any inconvenience caused.  Tickets are still available through via Cottiers - Websters Box Office

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Diana Sheach

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This summer, conductor Holly Mathieson will once again conduct NYOS Junior Orchestra for its concert in July at Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh.  

Following its fantastic spring concert - at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland - students, tutors and audience members alike were united in their praise of Holly and how she interacted and inspired the orchestra to deliver such a mature and precise performance.

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This year's programme features music with a Scottish Connection, including Malcolm Arnold’s Four Scottish Dances and Claude Debussy’s Marche Ecossaise. NYOS Junior Orchestra will also perform Edvard Grieg’s In the Hall of the Mountain King, which is one of the BBC’s 10 Pieces.

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Chris George

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A Northumbrian Kist' is inspired by an old local word for treasure chest and this concert is a rich mix of glorious string orchestral music

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Daniel Rainey (violin)

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The Senior Orchestra follows it's critically acclaimed 2014 season with a celebration marking the 150th anniversary of Jean Sibelius.

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Following the spring residential course, NYOS Symphony Orchestra will continue the Scottish Connections theme, performing Strauss’ masterful tone-poem Macbeth in two of Scotland’s most renowned concert halls, the City Halls, Glasgow and the Caird Hall, Dundee.

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For their 2015 season, the young musicians of NYOS Jazz Access ensemble look to one of the most exciting periods in jazz music - to the 1970s. After the liberalism of the 1960s and the emergence of the free and avant garde scenes, and the emergence of rock and roll, the inevitable fusion of jazz and rock came of age.

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NYOS Jazz Artistic Directors Malcolm Edmonstone and Andrew Bain perform live as a trio with special guest Malcolm MacFarlane on guitar in selected venues across Scotland. Music will feature a mixture of funk, soul and traditional jazz guaranteed to put everyone in a festive mood.

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Andrew Bain

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Gordon McNeil

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NYOS Jazz Orchestra of Scotland is one of Scotland’s foremost youth jazz ensembles. Under the direction of Malcolm Edmonstone and Andrew Bain, and featuring soloist Gordon McNeil on saxophone, will recreate the magic of Brecker, from moving ballads to upbeat fusion.

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Linda Buckley fiol String trio
Mozart Piano Concerto arr for Piano quintet No 14 K449 E flat major
Shostakovich Piano Quintet in G minor Op 57

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Michael Francis

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Håkan Hardenberger

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In 2014 The National Youth Orchestras of Scotland (NYOS) celebrates 35 years of nurturing talent by hosting a 35th Anniversary Gala Concert attended by its Patron, HRH The Earl of Wessex at Edinburgh’s Usher Hall, 2nd August 2014. The main flagship orchestra of NYOS, The National Youth Orchestra of Scotland, will be joined, on stage, by possibly the best trumpet player alive today, Håkan Hardenberger.

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NYOS Senior Orchestra will Commemorate the First World War Centenary this July with Benjamin Grosvenor at Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh.  Later on in the month the orchestra takes part in the biggest event during the opening weekend of the Commonwealth Games Cultural Festival.

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Jessica Coleman

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NYOS Junior Orchestra celebrate the Commonwealth this summer in Perth with a programme including music by Bruch, Walton and Eric Coates.

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Malcolm Edmonstone & Andrew Bain

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For their 2015 season, the young musicians of NYOS Jazz Access ensemble look to one of the most exciting periods in jazz music - to the 1970s. After the liberalism of the 1960s and the emergence of the free and avant garde scenes, and the emergence of rock and roll, the inevitable fusion of jazz and rock came of age.