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Arts Council England
14 Great Peter Street LONDON SW1P 3NQ	Tel: 020 7333 0100 www.artscouncil.org.uk Send an Email
Arts Council England East
Eden House 48-49 Bateman Street CAMBRIDGE CB2 1LR	Tel: 01223 454400 www.artscouncil.org.uk Send an Email
Arts Council England East Midlands
St Nicholas Court 25 - 27 Castle Gate NOTTINGHAM NG1 7AR	Tel: 0115 989 7520 www.artscouncil.org.uk Send an Email
Arts Council England London
2 Pear Tree Court LONDON EC1R 0DS	Tel: 020 7608 6100 www.artscouncil.org.uk Send an Email
Arts Council England North East
Central Square Forth Street NEWCASTLE NE1 3PJ	Tel: 0191 225 8500 www.artscouncil.org.uk Send an Email
Arts Council England North West
Manchester House 22 Bridge Street MANCHESTER M3 3AB	Tel: 0161 834 6644 www.artscouncil.org.uk Send an Email
Arts Council England South East
Sovereign House Church Street BRIGHTON BN1 1RA	Tel: 01273 763000 www.artscouncil.org.uk Send an Email
Arts Council England South West
Bradninch Place Gandy Street EXETER EX4 3LS	Tel: 01392 218188 www.artscouncil.org.uk Send an Email
Arts Council England West Midlands
82 Granville Street BIRMINGHAM B1 2LH	Tel: 0121 631 3121 www.artscouncil.org.uk Send an Email
Arts Council England Yorkshire
21 Bond Street Dewsbury WF13 1AX	Tel: 0845 300 6200 www.artscouncil.org.uk Send an Email
Birmingham Conservatoire
Paradise Place BIRMINGHAM B3 3HG	Tel: 0121 331 5901/2 www.conservatoire.uce.ac.uk Send an Email
Encompassing a senior music college and Junior Department, Birmingham Conservatoire is at once an international conservatoire, a fully-fledged faculty of the University of Central England and a major concert venue for many of Birmingham’s principal concert promoters and organisations. Offering over 300 concerts and events per year, the Conservatoire’s larger performing resources include a Symphony Orchestra and smaller Sinfonia; two Wind Orchestras and a Wind Ensemble; a Brass Band and Brass Ensemble; a contemporary music group - the Thallein Ensemble; a full Baroque orchestra - Capelle; a Jazz Big Band and Jazz Orchestra; and several Junior ensembles.
Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme
Snape Maltings Concert Hall Saxmundham IP17 1SP	Tel: 01728 688671 www.aldeburgh.co.uk Send an Email
The Britten-Pears Orchestra offers an excellent opportunity for emerging young professionl musicians to study with leading conductors and musicians. The Orchestra appears regularly in Festivals in Snape. In 2001 the Orchestra received funding from the Esmee Faibairn Foundation to allow its relaunch. In addition to covering students' costs this new funding provided the opportunity to plan repertory and artists in advance and offers an environment that will best prepare players for orhcestral life. As well as rehearsing programmed works, sessions are given over to training for Education work, specialist-taught sectional rehearsals and opportunities for exploring chamber repertory.
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Allington House 150 Victoria Street London SW1E SAE	Tel: 020 7630 2900 www.coeurope.org Send an Email
European Union Baroque Orchestra
Hordley, Wootton WOODSTOCK Oxon OX20 1EP	Tel: 01993 812111 www.eubo.org.uk Send an Email
EUBO is a bridge between conservatory study and professional life for young specialist instrumentalists from all over the European Union. Membership is renewed annually by competitive audition and in an average year the Orchestra includes musicians from 14 different countries with an average age of 26. Artistic leadership is vested in Music Director Lars Ulrik Mortensen (Denmark) and Director of Studies Margaret Faultless (UK). The spirit of international co-operation and the energy and vitality of the young EUBO musicians give each of the Orchestra’s performances a distinctive profile. EUBO receives funding from the European Commission as an “ambassador to promote European culture”. EUBO’s tours are sponsored by Microsoft and HVB Luxembourg, and the group has been appointed baroque orchestra in residence in the new cultural centre Trifolion in Echternach, Luxembourg.
European Union Youth Orchestra
6A Pont Street London SW1X 9EL	Tel: 0207 235 7671 www.euyo.org.uk Send an Email
Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Silk Street Barbican LONDON EC2Y 8DT	Tel: 020 7628 2571 www.gsmd.ac.uk Send an Email
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Hull Sinfonietta
Music Department, Larkin Building University of Hull Hull HU6 7RX	Tel: 01482 465998 www.hullsinfonietta.org.uk Send an Email
Hull Sinfonietta is an initiative organised by leading musicians from Humberside, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. The ensemble is the principal and largest professional chamebr ensemble within the Humber region. The Sinfonietta produces live music at the highest level, enriches the region's cultural and artistic appeal, benefits the residents and local business, and engages in a range of educational, audience-building projects. Its repertoire is broad, but focuses on appealing, rarely-performed works that are of significant historical interest; an important aspect of this mission is its role in providing a much-needed performance platform for composers associated with the North and East of England.
Irish Chamber Orchestra
Foundation Building University of Limerick Limerick	Tel: 00 353 61 202620 www.irishchamberorchestra.info/ Send an Email
Leeds College of Music
3 Quarry Hill LEEDS LS2 7PD	Tel: 0113 222 3400 www.lcm.ac.uk Send an Email
Making Music
2-4 Great Eastern Street London EC2A 3NW	Tel: 0870 903 3780 www.makingmusic.org.uk Send an Email
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Pty. Ltd.
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra ABC Centre, 120 / 130 Southbank Boulevard Melbourne VIC 3006	Tel: 0061 3 9626 1110 www.mso.com.au Send an Email
Oleg Caetani - Chief Conductor and Artistic Director Hiroyuki Iwaki - Conductor Laureate Elizabeth Proust - Chairman Trevor Green - Managing Director With a reputation for excellence, versatility and innovation developed over almost 100 years the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is renowned for its performances of the great symphonic masterworks with leading international soloists and conductors. In 2005, Oleg Caetani took up the baton as the MSO’s Chief Conductor and Artistic Director for a four-year appointment. In September 2006 he also takes up the position of Music Director at London’s English National Opera. Each year the Orchestra performs to more than 250,000 people in Melbourne and regional Victoria, at events ranging from the annual Sidney Myer Free Concerts in the Sidney Myer Music Bowl to the series of Classic Kids concerts for young children. The MSO reaches an even larger audience across Australia through its regular concert broadcasts on ABC Classic FM.
National Association of Youth Orchestras
Central Hall West Tollcross EDINBURGH EH3 9BP	Tel: 0131 221 1927 www.nayo.org.uk Send an Email
National Children's Orchestra of Great Britain
51 Grovelands Avenue Hitchin Herfordshire SG4 0QU	Tel: 01934 820254 www.nco.org.uk Send an Email
The fulfilment of a childhood dream, NCO was founded in 1978 by a visionary music teacher, Vivienne Price, to give musically talented children under the age of fourteen the opportunity of playing together in full, age-banded symphony orchestras. This unique participation enhances their musical education and gives them the essential life experience of living, working and having fun as part of a peer group in safe, supportive surroundings. It is truly inclusive, bringing together children from many social and ethnic backgrounds. There are five national and four regional orchestras under the NCO aegis; in all, over 500 dedicated young musicians.
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Zetland House 5-25 Scrutton Street London EC2A 4HJ	Tel: 020 7613 7810 www.nyo.org.uk Send an Email
National Youth Orchestras of Scotland
13 Somerset Place GLASGOW G3 7JT	Tel: 0141 332 8311 www.nyos.co.uk Send an Email
Since 1979 The National Youth Orchestras of Scotland (NYOS) has provided high quality orchestral and jazz training, unequalled on a national scale, to thousands of young musicians from all over Scotland. In the nineties projects developed to meet demand with three additional orchestras. The prime work of NYOS remains the operation of residential orchestral and jazz courses, tutored by professional musicians, and concert tours with international conductors and soloists for the four orchestras. In addition to the orchestras NYOS also runs a series of workshops in schools across Scotland, an annual UK Award for talented young musicians, auditioned from eight conservatoires in Britain, a music journalism course and provides a full-time violin/viola teacher in Fort William serving the Lochaber District as well as ensembles for public, private, corporate and royal occasions.
Opera and Music Theatre Forum
54 Astonville Street LONDON SW18 5AJ	Tel: 0208 516 6313 www.omtf.org.uk Send an Email
Orchestras Live
10 Stratford Place LONDON W1C 1BA	Tel: 020 7629 9601 www.orchestraslive.org.uk Send an Email
'Involving people from all sectors of the community in the pleasures of high quality live orchestral music.' The Eastern Orchestral Board is the development agency dedicated to community-wide access to the work of high quality professional orchestras throughout thirteen counties of Arts Council England’s East, East Midlands and part of South-East regions. EOB works in partnership with arts venues, arts festivals, local authorities, schools, music services, music clubs, community music organisations, arts agencies, professional and amateur orchestras and other artists. With a small staff, EOB provides financial support and acts as an initiator, advisor and facilitator on a wide range of projects. Eastern Orchestral Board also manages Orchestras Live, the new ACE-funded promoter network dedicated to the development of a robust market for chamber orchestras in under-served areas of the country.
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Royal Academy of Music
Marylebone Road London NW1 5HT	Tel: 020 7873 7300 www.ram.ac.uk Send an Email
The Royal Academy of Music, Britain's senior conservatoire, has prepared musicians for successful and evolving careers since 1822. Students study varied programmes including instrumental performance, composition, jazz, musical theatre and opera, gaining University of London degrees from undergraduate (BMus) to PhD level. The Academy's student community is truly international, with over 50 countries represented. Distinguished musicians who studied at the Academy include Sir Harrison Birtwistle, John Dankworth, Lesley Garrett, Evelyn Glennie, Sir Elton John, Dame Felicity Lott, Joanna MacGregor, Michael Nyman, Sir Simon Rattle and Jean Rigby. The Academy's free 'living' museum is open seven days a week and includes Academy Chimes, a well-stocked music shop.
Royal College of Music
Prince Consort Road LONDON SW7 2BS	Tel: 020 7589 3643 www.rcm.ac.uk Send an Email
The Royal College of Music, London enjoys a worldwide reputation as a conservatoire where performers, conductors and composers are trained to the highest international standard. Situated in the heart of South Kensington's cultural family, the RCM is adjacent to the Royal Albert Hall, Imperial College London, the Royal College of Art, the V&A and the Natural History Museum.
Royal Northern College of Music
124 Oxford Road MANCHESTER M13 9RD	Tel: 0161 907 5200 www.rncm.ac.uk Send an Email
Principal: Professor Edward Gregson The RNCM trains the orchestral musicians and conductors of the future and its alumni are to be found in orchestras across the UK and further afield. It is also a major arts venue, hosting performances by the BBC Philharmonic, Manchester Camerata and others.
Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama
100 Renfrew Street GLASGOW G2 3DB	Tel: 0141 332 4101 www.rsamd.ac.uk Send an Email
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
Castle Grounds Cathays Park Cardiff CF10 3ER	Tel: 029 2034 2854 www.rwcmd.ac.uk Send an Email
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
RTÉ Music Division Donnybrook Dublin 4	Tel: 00353 1 208 3143 www.rte.ie/music Send an Email
Sinfonia Cymru
7 West End Terrace Llantwit Major CF61 1SN	Tel: 01446 796201 www.sinfoniacymru.co.uk Send an Email
Sinfonia Cymru is a rare champion of young musical talent which, by combining the most outstanding music students with young professional musicians, provides a unique training experience in orchestral chamber music. The orchestra performs classical music of the highest quality throughout Wales, and is committed to performing in areas of the country which have limited cultural provision. Sinfonia Cymru is committed to inspiring young people to discover the power of live music and is currently engaged in a collaborative project with Gwent Music Service and Independent Ballet Wales, culminating in a ‘Carnival’ concert party at The Riverfront in Newport involving 400+ children from socially deprived areas of the City.
Trinity College of Music
King Charles Court Old Royal Naval College London SE10 9JF	Tel: 020 8305 4444 www.tcm.ac.uk Send an Email
Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra
Flat 4, 11 Gunnersbury Avenue Ealing Common LONDON W5 3NG	Tel: 07850 038 564 www.ymso.org.uk Send an Email