Next Concert: Tuesday 16th June 2026
The Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra is Britain’s leading orchestra for young musicians on the threshold of their professional careers. It provides invaluable experience to those who are studying or have recently completed their training, but are not yet established in the profession.
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Applications for the Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra 2026-2028 are now closed.
The next round of auditions will take place in 2028.
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There is not an orchestra in the British Isles that doesn’t contain alumni of the YMSO. As a testament to how influential they feel their time at YMSO was, many of them return to the orchestra to tutor at rehearsals and also advise.
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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."
Lord Menuhin
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Our next concert is just over a week away, and we are really looking forward to working with Romanian pianist Radu-Gabriel Stoica 🎶
Born in Alexandria, Southern Romania, Radu-Gabriel Stoica started studying the piano at the age of seven. He is a C. Bechstein scholar, supported by Mr Lewis, and a 2024/25 LSO Conservatoire Scholarship holder studying a Master of Performance degree at the Royal College of Music in London, under the tutelage of Ian Jones, Dmitry Alexeev, and Dorian Leljak. Radu has participated in numerous masterclasses, including Walter Krafft, Ippazio Ponzetta, Dinara Klinton, Maria Masycheva, Georgy Gromov, Tatiana Sarkissova, and Elizabeth Sombart.
Radu has won a variety of national and international competitions, such as the National Olimpiad, Nice International Piano Competition, International Piano Competition Tudor Dumitrescu, 1st Prize in the Joan Chissell Schumann Piano Competition, 1st Prize at the Frederic Chopin International Piano Competition held in Bacau, and 1st Prize in Norah Sande Award piano competition. He has performed at venues including St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Wigmore Hall, Burg Namedy, and the Romanian Athenaeum. Radu has performed Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2 previously at Palatul Republicii in Moldova alongside the National Philharmonic Orchestra Serghei Lunchevici and conductor Ondrej Soukup.
Come and hear Radu perform Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with us on Tuesday 16th June, 7:30pm at Cadogan Hall 🎹
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The Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra end their 2025/26 season at Cadogan Hall in style, with an evening of art and romance 🎶
The concert opens with Berlioz's Hungarian March, a spirited piece drawn from a popular folk tune which was originally part of his dramatic legend The Damnation of Faust🧞♂️
Pianist Radu-Gabriel Stoica is our soloist for Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2, an emotional tour-de-force which needs no introduction.
Finally, the orchestra performs Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. Each movement, masterfully orchestrated by Ravel, depicts a different scene or portrait, ranging from a bustling market to the Great Gates of Kiev.🌁
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YMSO was honoured to perform at the EU Delegation’s Europe Day 2026 celebrations on Tuesday at Smith Square Hall. Our thanks goes out to the European Union in the UK for welcoming us to their wonderful event! 🎶🇪🇺🇬🇧🎻 ... See MoreSee Less
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