Members of the City of Leeds Youth Orchestra are aged between fourteen and nineteen. The Orchestra is part of City of Leeds Youth Music (CLYM), supported by Education Leeds through the Leeds Music Support Service.
The City of Leeds Youth Orchestra maintains a reputation as one of the leading ensembles of its kind in the country. For more than forty years it has given generations of young players an opportunity to express their musical talents. Its repertoire ranges from Beethoven and Schubert to John Adams and Carl Jenkins. The orchestra plays regularly in Leeds and has performed in concert halls, churches and cathedrals throughout the United Kingdom and Europe. In March 2008, the orchestra performed the Sinfonia Antartica by Ralph Vaughan Williams at Leeds Town Hall, receiving a 5-star review from The Yorkshire Post.
Summer residential courses have been held in Durham, Giggleswick, Bath and York. Abroad, the orchestra’s most recent tours have been to Germany and eastern Poland. The Polish tour (July 2008) culminated in a concert at the Warsaw Conservatoire.
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