Our Concerto Auditions are taking place this year on Tuesday 1 March at 7pm at the Perth Music Centre, North Inch Community Campus, Gowans Terrace, Perth. Please download the here. https://www.perth-youth-orchestra.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Concerto-audition-form-2016.pdf Concerto Auditions – Tuesday 1 March 2016 at 7.00pm Perth Music Centre, North Inch Community Campus All Instrumental Music Staff will also have …
Music Service celebrates 50 years
https://vimeo.com/146957477 This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Instrumental Music Service! To celebrate this achievement they’ve put together a short film to show some of the areas they provide music provision, highlighting what it means to the children, parents and staff. They’d love to know what you think! Tell them about any experiences …
Ceilidh success
Thanks to all who came along to our Ceilidh in aid of tour to Prague in July 2016, at St Matthew’s Church Hall, to Mr Turnbull and the musicians from Breadalbane Academy, to Mrs Rutherford and PYO Ceilidh Strings, and to all who supported us with raffle prizes.
Lamb Box Sale for PYO Funds
Libby Morris plays French Horn in PYO and having saved enough for her place on the Prague tour, she would now like to contribute funds to the PYO tour by selling a limited number of lamb boxes, produced from lambs born and reared on our family farm in Aberfeldy. All proceeds from the sale …
Ceilidh Tickets on Sale
Tickets for our Family Ceilidh, on Saturday 5th December, 7.30-11pm, in St Matthew’s Church Hall are on sale just before rehearsals on Monday evening. Adults £8, children £5 and family ticket £20. Raffle tickets should be available for distribution at rehearsals the following week. We have some good prizes and aim to give one …
Newsletter – November 2015
https://www.perth-youth-orchestra.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/PYONewsletter-1115.pdf Download your copy of our latest newsletter – here.
Cake and Book Sale
Well done to PYO’s committee and band of helpers at today’s Book and Candy Sale in the North Inch Church Hall.
Playing with Nicola Benedetti
Young musicians from Perth and Kinross and Sistema Scotland in Stirling joined Nicola Benedetti to take part in a performance of Vaughan Williams’ Lark Ascending. Based on lines of a poem by George Meredith, Vaughan Williams composed his “pastoral romance for orchestra” prior to the outbreak of the First World War. Taking up the …
Mr D. Eoin Bennet – Memorial Service
Mr D. Eoin Bennet B.E.M, Perth Youth Orchestra’s longest serving conductor, has died at the age of 80. He was appointed in 1969 and over a period of 32 years he consistently developed the highest standards of performance and musicianship in the young people with whom he worked. He was originally from Dundee and …
PYO – Final Concert 2014-15 season
Perth Concert Hall – 31st September 2015 – Photos