At Orchestras Live we are in the process of recruiting for a new Chair. If you're thinking of applying for this role (or know someone who should!) this blog may be of interest to you - our super outgoing Chair Tony Stoller reflects on his time here.
orchestraslive.org.uk/opportunities

We're thrilled to share some exciting news with you!

After 25 years of growth Awards for Young Musicians will become Young Sounds UK. We’re better reflecting the breadth of our work while enhancing our reach and impact.

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📍 As a geographically dispersed team with staff across the UK, ensuring everyone feels well-connected is essential. Our Communications Strategist, Alex, writes on how our in-person team days help us stay connected and social.

Read it here ⬇️
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Was lucky enough to be in the audience for this concert - Royal Northern Sinfonia Dinis Sousa and Isata Kanneh-Mason absolutely fizzing!
Catch it on BBC Radio 3 this Wednesday!

Protect Welsh National Opera! Funding cuts are putting its future at risk. Support the Musicians' Union's campaign to keep its members in secure work and keep Wales' rich musical heritage strong Musicians' Union #WNOProud Sign the petition: megaphone.org.uk/petitions/prot… via @megaphoneuk

We are recruiting Orchestras Live !
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Such game changing work done by the brilliant Multitude of Voyces - such beautiful and important music on their fantastic anthologies.

Are you able to help - see below or help retweet?

After an orchestral interlude with the brilliantly rumbustious Nielsen 2 yesterday in Newcastle back with opera and Offenbach today!

Just a month to go until curtain up on our show - Offenbach's 'Tales of Hoffman'.
Thur 30th May 7.15pm
Fri 31st May 7.15pm
Sunday 2nd June 2pm
Performed with the Preston Opera Orchestra
Conducted by Helen Harrison Conductor
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If you want to hear about Vaughan Williams's teaching and how he influenced Grace Williams, Elizabeth Maconchy, Helen Glatz, Ina Boyle and Ruth Gipps, then I have a BBC Radio 3 Sunday Feature for you! bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Composers! For you!
Great scheme here recognising that artistic journeys and careers don't always start straight out of University or College! Fantastic! 👏👏👏

Thanks to Anna Appleby & Young Sinfonia @theglasshouseicm I cannot pass these 3 brilliant works of creative & practical design that inspired 'Bridges' without a good ponder. Can't wait to perform it again in September.
Until then watch it here:
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So many great events #SilentsByTheSea from Northern Silents Winter Gardens BPL this June - check them all the events in this fab brochure - very pleased to feature too!
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The #SilentsByTheSea brochure will be winging its way to various locations in and around #Morecambe and #Lancaster over the next few days. You can check it out online here 👉 issuu.com/northernsilent…

String players!
Farrenc's fantastic 3rd Symphony is the centrepiece of this concert with Blackpool Symphony-it's simply fabulous and string players you're in luck as there's a few more seats available to come and play this fab piece on concert!
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Assistant Director, 'Sherlock Holmes and The Sign of Four'

29 July to 31 August 2024, £572 per week
Deadline: 5pm, 10 May

This position ideally suits a recent graduate or early career director who is looking to develop their professional experience.

northernoperagroup.co.uk/opportunities

#Artist call out 📢

Call out for a graffiti artist, street artist, muralist, designer or illustrator 🎨

📌Deadline for expressions of interest: Tuesday, 30 April
📌Deadline for application: Friday, 31 May

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Very special to be opening the #SilentsByTheSea festival conducting Chaplin's 'The Kid' with the newly formed Northern Silents Sinfonia in the historic Morecambe Winter Gardens.
Brilliant for Morecambe and Lancashire!

#SilentsByTheSea opens at Morecambe Winter Gardens on Sat 8th June 7.30pm with a very special show celebrating the genius of #CharlieChaplin .

Northern Silents Sinfonia makes its debut with Helen Harrison Conductor for THE KID + Neil Brand 🇺🇦 on piano for two Chaplin shorts.

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I’m extremely proud of where I’m from and my accent isn’t a virus. I love Cumbria (I’m not from Lancashire) and although I work in London, I don’t plan on changing my accent. From a proud Northerner!