Meet our National Youth Music Organisations
Intro
From the coast of Cornwall up to the northern borders of England, these organisations offer large-scale, inclusive performances, music programmes, residencies, summer schools and workshops, helping to develop their skills, experience, and knowledge of music and supporting them to excel as young creatives.
Awards for young Musicians
For over 20 years, we’ve supported talented young people from low-income families, helping them to overcome financial and social obstacles. Whatever the genre, whatever the style, our strategically-targeted programmes help young musicians from across the UK to grow, flourish and fulfil their musical potential.
British Youth Music Theatre
British Youth Music Theatre are a national performing arts education charity and the largest commissioner of new musicals in the UK. Every year we engage around 2000 11-21 year olds in our auditions, workshops, Young Company and projects; BYMT helps young people and developing artists to navigate and further their training and careers in the arts.
National Youth Folk Ensemble
At the English Folk Dance and Song Society, we champion the folk arts at the heart of England’s rich and diverse cultural landscape. We run the National Youth Folk Ensemble, which enables young people throughout England to create and perform inspiring new arrangements of folk music.
Milap Festival Trust (SAMYO)
Samyo’s musical repertoire is constantly evolving, and no tour is the same. From its debut season in 2002, the tour and performances have presented new experiences in traditional and contemporary Indian classical music for its audiences.
Music for Youth
Music for Youth is a national youth music charity working with young people aged 25 and under across the UK. Our vision is to ensure that every young person in in the UK can achieve their musical potential by performing the music they love. We believe that music, and the chance to participate in high-quality musical activities, should be open to every young person.
National Children’s Orchestra of Great Britain
We support children aged 8-14 to be happy and healthy through transformative orchestral experiences and performances of exceptional quality. We inspire them to be the best musician that they can be, unlock their creative potential and support their wellbeing. We give children the time and respect to develop their voices and we create a sense of belonging and community.
National Youth Choir
The National Youth Choir champions choral singing and music-making across the UK. Its choirs have over 900 members aged 9-25 years and its Learning and Engagement programme introduces choral singing to more than 4,000 young people in schools and communities each year. In addition, its Young Composers and Fellowship schemes support musicians in the early stages of their professional careers.
National Youth Jazz Collective
The National Youth Jazz Collective enables young jazz enthusiasts to find equally keen young musicians. Together we help develop their skills, passion and experience as jazz players. With our annual Summer School and series of monthly sessions in different regional centres around England, we support music education by empowering 8–18 year-olds to learn, improvise, compose, arrange and lead bands.
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain exists to unlock the potential of the UK’s young musicians, through the power of orchestral music. Our teenage musicians come from all over the UK, and from very different backgrounds – but they’re bound together by their love for orchestral music, and their desire to open up orchestral music to other young musicians.
Open Up Music
Open Orchestras helps special schools set up accessible orchestras, so that hundreds of young disabled people get first access to music education every year. The National Open Youth Orchestra (NOYO) is the world’s first disabled-led national youth orchestra. It pioneers an inclusive orchestra model where talented 11-25 year-old disabled and non-disabled musicians rehearse and perform together.
Orchestras for all
We provided a safe space for young people aged 11-18 who are living in the UK to participate in an exciting range of musical activities as part of National Orchestra for All, Modulo Programme and Music Leadership Training.
Pagoda
Pagoda Arts aspires is a high quality organisation introducing Chinese Culture to a wide and diverse community and developing a unique Youth Orchestra to be at the cutting edge of contemporary and classical Chinese and Western music
The National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain
The National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain (NYBBGB) is the UK’s leading brass band charity for children and young people. We exist to give the brightest young brass and percussion musicians the opportunity to develop their musicianship, play together and inspire others.
UD
UD educates, empowers and creates life opportunities for young people inspired by the sounds, words and rhythms of Black music culture. UD presents quality events that encourage young people to become consumers of live music as well as enabling grassroots talent to hone their craft and derive inspiration from established artists.
Sound and Music
At Sound and Music we support a diverse range of talented composers to develop their work; we help audiences to discover and experience new music; and we enable children and young people to explore their musical creativity. We strive for a world in which more people of all ages and from all backgrounds have more opportunities to access, create and enjoy new music.
Our investment in music education:
Music Education Hubs are groups of organisations working together in partnership to deliver high-quality music provision for all children and young people
National Youth Music Organisations provide opportunities for thousands of young people to take part in making and enjoying music.
