National Youth Orchestra
Talented musician, Jonathan Brewer, has won a place in the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. The seventeen year old, from Richmond, is a student at Darlington’s Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College and was selected for the orchestra after auditioning in Glasgow and London.
Jonathan, playing the Double Bass, will now join other talented musicians for a series of two-week residential courses during the winter, spring and summer holidays, each of which will culminate in performances at some of the country’s finest concert halls. He will have the chance to work with some of the world’s leading conductors and be taught by top professional musicians. Jonathan’s first performance with the National Youth Orchestra will be early in the New Year when the Orchestra, conducted by James MacMillan, performs Brittan’s ‘Four Sea Interludes’ and Prokofiev’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ at the Roundhouse, London and Leeds Town Hall.
Jonathan won one of only 160 coveted places in the Orchestra, fending off competition from more than 500 applicants.
He says:
“I’m delighted to have been chosen to play with the National Youth Orchestra and am really looking forward to it. I think it will be demanding and challenging but also great fun!”
Jonathan is studying A Level Music, English Literature and Psychology and next year hopes to go to Music College in London. As well as playing the double bass, Jonathan also plays the piano; his ambition is to be a full time member of an orchestra.
November 20, 2007