Next concert: 13th October 2021, St. John's Smith Square. Find out more here.
In June 2021, the YMSO returned to St. John’s Smith Square with a programme showcasing the abilities of their young musicians in repertoire for full symphony orchestra, including Elgar's In the South and Glazunov Symphony No. 5 in B flat Major.
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Next auditions
Due to the COVID-19 crisis we have been unable to offer our current members as many public performances as we had planned. We are therefore holding our next round of auditions in January/February 2022.
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"these students represent the next generation of orchestral musicians who will continue our great classical tradition into the new millennium. The orchestra needs all your encouragement and support."
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It’s great to be finally be back on the stage at the beautiful St John’s Smith Square once again for our concert this Wednesday 13th October!
There are still some tickets available here:
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Introducing our soloist for Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2, the fantastic William Bracken! 🎹
William Bracken, currently a postgraduate student at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, was born into a musical family. His father, Ian, led the cello section of YMSO in the 1980s and is currently a member of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. William began learning the piano at the age of four. He studied with Richard Meyrick on the Pianoman scholarship scheme, with
Jonathan Middleton at the Junior RNCM and now studies with Ronan O’Hora, Martin Roscoe and Paul Roberts at GSMD. William has performed concertos by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Gershwin, Saint-Saëns and Prokofiev, and has won prizes at the Welsh International Piano Festival and the Musikfest Wasserschloss Gesmold competition in Germany. He most recently won the GSMD’s Glass Sellers’ Beethoven Prize and currently holds a teaching position in the keyboard department at Eltham College in South-East London. William is supported in his postgraduate studies by the Munster Trust Derek Butler Award and by the Craxton Memorial Trust.
Hear William next Wednesday 13th October, at St John’s Smith Square:
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