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Perth Musicians Say Music Matters
PKC Instrumental Music Service Video Perth and Kinross Council are proposing to stop paying Music Tutors to run Music Camps and Central Groups (the P&K youth bands, orchestras and choirs). If the council does this, Central Groups will stop and Music Camps will no longer take place, thus depriving children of the most fun …
PKC Music Service is Under Threat Once Again
Music Camps and Central Music Groups run by the Perth and Kinross Instrumental Music Service (IMS) could soon be a thing of the past for the 700 or so children who enjoy participating according to groups representing young musicians. At a meeting of the Lifelong Learning Committee on 2 November 2016, £60,000 of cuts …
Rotary Concert
Perth Youth Orchestra – Rotary Concert 10 September, Perth Concert Hall. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all members of the orchestra and their parents for their part in what was without a doubt one of PYO’s busiest years – Nicola Benedetti Workshop, ChildLine, Music Camp and Concert, Perth Festival of …
CD Cover Competition
https://www.perth-youth-orchestra.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/CompetitionSpec.pdf Also available as a WORD document here.
Raising funds for their fellow musicians
These young musicians from Kinross High School provided the perfect reply to their Chief Patron’s generous fund raising concert last weekend. The second part of her concert, given at St John’s Kirk, Perth, with her fellow Scottish Chamber Orchestra player, Matt Hardy, was performed by PYO members. All these young players are pupils at …
Su-a Lee and Matt Hardy
Osvaldo Golijov – Mariel COMPOSER’S NOTE “I wrote this piece in memory of my friend Mariel Stubrin. I attempted to capture that short instant before grief, in which one learns of the sudden death of a friend who was full of life: a single moment frozen forever in one’s memory, and which reverberates through …
Su-a Lee’s fund raiser in St John’s Kirk for PYO Tour Funds
Su-a Lee, the orchestra’s Patron-in-Chief, was joined by Matt Hardy and the pupils from Kinross High School’s Chamber Group as they gave their services free at a concert in aid of PYO Tour Funds on Sunday 24th April, at 3pm, in St John’s Kirk, Perth. The 80-strong orchestra is in the final stages of preparation …
Summer rehearsal/ concert dates
Thank you all for working so hard at music camp and I felt the two concerts on Saturday and Sunday were two of the best I can remember following music camp. Congratulations to all and to our two soloists on two excellent performances. We now have a busy remainder of the session with Perth …