Our first Toddlers Proms event of 2013 was a great success. Thank you to everyone that came along and joined us at one of the 3 concerts. Brian and the orchestra all enjoyed educating and inspiring the young audience members in their passion of music. Fantastic! Very engaging and the conductor was wonderful. Our daughter [...]
NATHANIEL STOOKEY The Composer is Dead BENJAMIN BRITTEN The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra From the author of Lemony Snicket. There’s dreadful news from the concert hall-the composer is dead! In a perplexing orchestral whodunit, the Sydney Youth Orchestra invites you to join Guy Noble as he interrogates the entire symphonic arrangement regarding their whereabouts at [...]
Conductor: Richard Gill Soloist: Teddy Tahu Rhodes SCHUMANN Symphony No.3, Op.97 JAMESON Contact WORLD PREMIERE WAGNER Wotan’s Farewell VERDI Ella giammai m’ami MOZART Non più andrai WAGNER Siegfried’s Funeral Music Teddy Tahu Rhodes and Richard Gill return to the SYO, performing Wagner, Mozart, Verdi and Schumann. SYO proudly introduces a fresh new voice in composition, Philip Jameson, as we perform the world premiere [...]
SYO Toddlers Proms are designed to educate, engage and inspire young children, as they are introduced to classical music and experience live performance in a fun and interactive environment. Brian Buggy leads our SYO Philharmonic in this energetic performance filled with nursery rhymes and songs your child will know and love. This will be a [...]
Our Junior Strings Coordinator Nick Tester has written a fantastic article advising the best way to go about purchasing a new instrument. When looking for full size violin I would recommend not looking based on brand but instead go to reputable violin vendors and seeing what they’ve got within your price range. Thus before you [...]
Toby Thatcher grew up in Sydney where he graduated with honours from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 2011. Prior to that he was a student at the Conservatorium High School and it was during this time that he first joined the Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2004 he was accepted into the Sydney Youth Orchestra with [...]
