One Long Song - Anoushka Lucas National Youth Choir @natyouthalumni Greg Beardsell Joanna Tomlinson Lucy Joy Morris Ruth Evans @natyouthfellows #NYCGB40 Royal Albert Hall

What a weekend of music-making with @NYCGBcomposers at the VOCES8 Centre. Concert link coming soon!

Total joy is the only way to describe the concert to celebrate National Youth Choir turning 40 in style at the Royal Albert Hall last night. Great to see all the fantastic choirs in action, and to play my small part in the performance with @natyouthfellows alumni!

Introducing National Youth Choir Young Composers 2023 cohort ‼️‼️

#WillHarmer
Dr Alex Tay
Emily Hazrati
Millicent🍡

We are so excited to be reunited with @natyouthfellows for our first ever National Youth Choir course 🤗🤗🤗

🎶 @natyouthfellows representation from cohorts 3,4,6,7&8 on National Youth Choir Girls Choir music team this Summer! What a wonderful course with such fantastic young singers ❤️
Jason Ching Shivani Rattan Antonio Oliveira

We've just had a beautiful and idyllic day Audio Network recording our new compositions for @natyouthfellows, forming the second half of upcoming YC5 album NMC Recordings 💿✨

So excited to share these creations with the world in January 2024!

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My new recording of Laudibus in Sanctis with @natyouthfellows is getting its first airplay tomorrow on Jack Pepper 🇺🇦 3pm show on Scala Radio. Thanks Jack! National Youth Choir @natyouthalumni

OUT NOW: Young Composers 5 📢

We are so phenomenally proud of our latest NMC Recordings album featuring 8 new pieces by our 2023 National Youth Choir Young Composers performed by National Youth Choir (18-25 Years), @natyouthfellows, Emily Dickens & Ben Parry

Listen now ➡️ bit.ly/3ShAOVI

The National Youth Choir section leaders and fellows are back together ready for a wonderful week of singing🌹

This arrangement is by the fab Peter Hicks, written for recent @uniofyork graduations ceremonies. Thanks to all the section leaders and @natyouthfellows for singing 🩵

Fab day at the VOCES8 Centre yesterday, producing National Youth Choir Showcase, feat. music by National Youth Choir Young Composers Kristina Arakelyan, cond. Nicholas Chalmers Olivia Shotton, perf. @natyouthfellows. Great to work with Tom Mungall and the VOCES8 Foundation team again, plus wonderful NYC colleagues.

Have you listened to our Young Composers 5 album NMC Recordings yet?

If the answer is no, you can listen on streaming platforms here: nmcrecs.lnk.to/YoungComposers5

We're thrilled to finally be sharing these sounds with the world 🥳🥳🥳

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⭐ OUT NOW: Young Composers 5 ⭐

Inventive new choral music by Dr Alex Tay Millicent🍡 Emily Hazrati & #WillHarmer

Performed by the brilliant National Youth Choir, Emily Dickens, @natyouthfellows & Ben Parry

Available to download & stream now ⬇️
nmcrecs.lnk.to/YoungComposers5

Yesterday was an inspiring day accompanying auditions for the @natyouthfellows programme with Ruth Evans and Lucy Hollins at The Amadeus. Always a pleasure to be a small part of the National Youth Choir family!

Wonderful to be LondonHandelFestival Come&Sing today. Glorious to hear #Zadok sung with such vibrance by school pupils and National Youth Choir @natyouthfellows in Handel’s church, led by Laurence Cummings & Emily Dickens

Great energy today in rehearsals for our 2024 Showcase at the VOCES8 Centre 🎬

We’re here with our @natyouthfellows conducted by Nicholas Chalmers + National Youth Choir Young Composers

Can’t wait to share the final results in our broadcast on Wed 28 Feb at 6.30pm > bit.ly/3whVy8D

After a manic start to the autumn of recording for National Youth Choir Young Composers with @natyouthfellows (read my blogpost!), workshop leading for The Sixteen and Somerset Council, teaching again at Esher College and joining the LYC West team at London Youth Choirs,

Such a please to record this music & really looking forward to performing it live in a couple of weeks! 🤩 National Youth Choir @natyouthfellows

Still buzzing after last night's National Youth Choir 40th anniversary concert at the Royal Albert Hall! A real joy to have been involved and to play a part in bringing Ben Parry's fantastic piece to life. Huge congrats to all those involved- we are all part of one long song! 🎉🎶

Take a look behind the scenes at the National Youth Choir Young Composers working closely with the @natyouthfellows & Ben Parry to record their new pieces🎧

Tomorrow we'll be releasing a single from the YC5 album to get you excited to hear the full thing!

nmcrec.co.uk/discover/studi…

Can't believe it's been over a week since recording our National Youth Choir Fellowship compositions! 🥹🥹💖

My new work 'khāné (meditations on home)' emerged from @natyouthfellows responses to a prompt on the subject of 'home': the source of this piece's text and musical landscapes.