23rd Festival of Youth Orchestras featuring Vincent Kennedy, Elaine Agnew and Raymond Deane works

 

St Peter's NS String Orchestra & Royal Irish Academy of Music Junior Strings, Dublin

Drogheda Young Orchestral Players

Mayo Youth Orchestra

Cork ETB Youth Orchestra

 

Musica Fusion Orchestra, Charleville, Cork

Young European Strings Chamber Orchestra, Dublin

Laois School of Music Orchestra

Donegal Youth Orchestra 

 

The 2018 Festival of Youth Orchestras will see almost 500 young musicians take to the stage of the National Concert Hall to perform a variety of music played by young people for young people – from the standard classical repertoire to music from the movies, pop tunes arranged for orchestra and new music by Irish Composers. The 2018 edition will include music from The Toy Symphony, a Hungarian Dance by Brahms, the Pavane by Gabriel Faure, Shostakovich’s Waltz Number 2 along with performances of music from the Pirates of the Carribean, the Theme from Sesame Street and modern Irish works by Raymond Deane, Elaine Agnew, Vincent Kennedy's Suite from IRISHMEN AND IRISHWOMEN.

 

Presented by The Irish Association of Youth Orchestras