February 16th 2018
The National Children’s Orchestras of Great Britain is thrilled to announce an exciting new partnership with BBC Ten Pieces.
Now in its third year, BBC Ten Pieces is a ground breaking initiative from the BBC Learning and BBC Performing Groups, designed to open up the world of classical music to new performers and audiences – particularly children aged 7 to 14, providing the perfect match for NCO as it celebrates its 40th Birthday this year.
The partnership will enable NCO to connect with a major BBC learning project, helping us to share the work of our amazing young musicians further than ever before. Throughout the year, in all 15 of our concerts given by the 12 NCO National and Regional Orchestras – 722 young instrumentalists will perform a piece of the Ten Pieces repertoire.
BBC Ten Pieces also challenges NCO to develop artistically with its first creative composition project. Inspired by Kerry Andrew’s No Place Like, our Under 13 Orchestra will work alongside composer John Webb to create their own piece of music called No Place Like… NCO. This represents a brand new opportunity for NCO musicians and a catalyst for the future creative development of our brilliant orchestras.
Here’s what to listen out for:
- 'Mambo' from Symphonic Dances from 'West Side Story' by Leonard Bernstein
- 'Habanera' and 'Toreador Song' from 'Carmen' by Georges Bizet
- In the Hall of the Mountain King by Edvard Grieg
- A Night On The Bare Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky
- ‘Storm’ Interlude from ‘Peter Grimes’ by Benjamin Britten
- Rodeo – Hoe-Down by Aaron Copland
- Symphony No. 9 in E minor, 'From the New World’ – Largo by Antonín Dvořák
- Abdelazer – Rondeau by Henry Purcell
- Finlandia by Jean Sibelius
- The Nutcracker - Waltz of the Flowers and Russian Dance by Tchaikovsky
- No Place Like by Kerry Andrew*
Catherine Arlidge MBE, Artistic and Educational Director said:
“We very much hope that NCO’s commitment to BBC Ten Pieces will help the message and ethos of Ten Pieces reach even more musicians and even wider audiences than ever before. It is especially poignant for our musicians, who are aged between 7 and 14, to inspire other similarly aged musicians to discover such a treasure trove of great classical music."
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