Southampton & Isle of Wight Music and Friends of the Southampton Youth Orchestras present their annual concert:

Featuring Southampton Youth Orchestra, Southampton Youth Concert Sinfonia, Southampton Youth Strings & Elgar and special guests BOOM!

Come along and enjoy this special event on 1st February at Central Hall!

Parking: Available in the surrounding roads and nearby car parks.

Photos/Video: No photos/videos to be taken please.

Tickets: Adults £12, Concessions £8, Under 16s £2, Family Ticket (2 Adults & 2 Children) £25

Southampton Youth Orchestra’s first concert of the season is an all-French programme with a Spanish twist, featuring Delibes’ Coppelia Suite, Chabrier’s Espana and an exciting performance of Lalo’s Symphonie Espagnol, featuring the debut concerto performance of one of our own young violinists.

All proceeds from tickets and raffle to go Friends of Southampton Youth Orchestras, who support young musicians across the city as well as SYO and our training pyramid.

Parking: available at the venue.

Photos: Please do not take photos or videos.

Tickets: Adults £12, Concessions £8 and Under 18s £1 - available via the button below.

Southampton Youth Orchestra performing at the Fulltone Music Festival in Devizes on Sunday 28 July, 1.00 - 2.00pm.

Please visit https://fto.org.uk/devizes-fulltone-music-festival-2024/ for further details and to purchase tickets.

Southampton Music Services Presents: Southampton Youth Orchestra String Showcase

Join Southampton Youth Orchestra in concert at St Alban’s Church on 27 April 2024 at 7.30pm.

Copland - Quiet City

Soloists: Jamie Wall & Anna Durance

Britten - Simple Symphony

Haydn - Cello Concerto in C Major, Movement 1

Soloist: Isabella Rosa

Conductor: Charlie Mann

Tickets: This event is free entry, with a retiring collection.

Find out more about our Ensembles here.

Join Southampton Youth Orchestra in concert at Romsey Abbey.

More details to follow.

Parking:

Photos/Videos: Please do not share on social media.

Find out more about our Ensembles here.

Southampton Music Hub and the Friends of Southampton Youth Orchestra are delighted to present the Southampton Youth Orchestra Pyramid Concert!

An evening of exciting music featuring four of Southampton Music Hub's ensembles:

• Southampton Youth Orchestra

• Southampton Youth Concert Sinfonia

• Southampton Youth Strings

• Elgar
  
  

Parking: Available in surrounding roads, & city car parks. Do NOT park in Central Hall car park.

Photos/Video: No photos or videos to be taken please.

Tickets: £12 adults, £8 concessions/students, £2 under 16’s, £25 family ticket. These can be purchased via the button below or on the door on the day.

Find out more about our Ensembles here.

Please join us for Southampton Youth Orchestra presenting an exciting nautical concert at Turner Sims!

Nielsen’s Helios Overture opens the concert, illustrating the sunrise on the eastern horizon of the Aegean sea and following the sun’s journey through the sky to sunset.

With the darkened sea, Rimsky-Korsakoff’s thrilling Arabian tale of Scheherazade and Sinbad the Sailor begins.

Musical director Kevin Withell is delighted to welcome guest leader and soloist Stephen Nurse.

Parking: There is parking available at University Car Parks.

Photos/Video: No photos please.

Tickets: £12 adults, £8 concessions/students and £1 for under 18s.

Tickets and more information available via the button below.

Find out more about our Ensembles here.

Southampton Youth Concert Sinfonia present A Not So Silent Night.

Join Southampton's largest youth orchestra featuring Mayflower Youth Theatre for a musical Christmas Party you won't forget! 

Everyone is invited to Southampton Youth Concert Sinfonia's Christmas extravaganza. Featuring around 80 of Southampton's finest young musicians aged 11-18, SYCS always deliver an exciting programme which appeals to all the family.

Programme to feature everyone's favourite Christmas Crackers including Home Alone and Shakin' Stevens. This exciting programme really does have something for everyone. We are delighted to be joined by Mayflower Youth Theatre for this concert and Ho-Ho-Hope you can join us too!

Parking: Available in the school car park.

Photos/Video: There will be an official photographer so no other photos to be taken please.

Tickets: £14 Adults, £10 Concessions, £1 Under 18s.

Tickets and more information available via the button below.

Find out more about our Ensembles here.

Please join us for Southampton Youth Orchestra (SYO) first concert of the season at Turner Sims!

Presenting Storytellers!

This family friendly concert will lead you through a dark tale of a stormy seaside town in the form of Ethel Smyth’s Overture to The Wreckers, the exotic characters of Bizet’s Carmen and the adventures of Norwegian folk legend ‘Peer Gynt’, immortalised in music by Grieg.

The concert finishes with Tchaikovsky’s musical retelling of Shakespeare’s tale of love and loss in his Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture.

Conducted by Kevin Withell and Charlie Mann.

Parking: There is parking available at University Car Parks.

Photos/Video: No photos please.

Tickets: £12 adults, £8 concessions/students and £1 for under 18s.

Tickets and more information available via the button below.

Find out more about our Ensembles here.

Southampton Youth Orchestra are proud to present a performance of Tolgsa Kashif's Queen Symphony at 7.30 on 15 July at the Southampton Guildhall. 

This exciting work is rarely performed so this is a great opportunity to hear it performed by some of Southampton's talented young musicians.  The three Groove's rocks bands will be setting the scene in the first half with a range of rock classics.

Tickets: £10 Adult, £5 Concessions/Students, £1 under 16's

Please note there is a Theatre Levy of £1.75 on each ticket sold and a Booking Fee of 10% will be charged on bookings under £20.

Tickets available from the O2 Guildhall Southampton Box Office or via the button below https://www.academymusicgroup.com/o2guildhallsouthampton/events/month

Please join us for Southampton Youth Orchestra (SYO) strings concert at Cantell School.

Parking: There is parking available on site.

Photos/Video: Photos are permissible at this concert but please do not share on social media.

Tickets: This concert is free entry, but there will be a retiring collection for Friends of Southampton Youth Orchestra.

Southampton Youth Orchestra (SYO) returns to St. Andrew's Church for an exciting spring concert.

Offenbach's ever-popular overture to Orpheus in the Underworld opens the concert with it famous 'can-can' finale, and Dvorak's ever-popular New World Symphony takes pride of place in the second half. Southampton Youth Orchestra are delighted to welcome Edward Bence to perform Saint-Saens' effervescent and virtuosic Piano Concerto No.2.

Parking: None on site but parking available on nearby streets and on Cemetery Road

Photos/Video: Permitted but please do not share on public media

Tickets: £12 adults, £8 senior citizens/students & £1 under 16’s available via the button below.

Conductor: Kevin Withell

Assistant Conductor: Charlie Mann

A Pyramid Concert featuring Southampton Youth Orchestra (SYO), Southampton Youth Concert Sinfonia (SYCS), Southampton Youth Strings (SYS), Elgar & Acorn Strings at Central Hall.

Tickets: £12 adults, £8 senior citizens/students, £2 under 16’s & £25 family ticket. Available at door or selected rehearsals

Parking:  Surrounding roads, city car parks. Please do not park in Central Hall car park.

Photos/Video: No photos/videos to be taken.

Southampton Youth Orchestra (SYO) join forces for the very first time with Southampton Music Hub’s two choirs – Bella Voce and Soton Voce – for a night of classic Christmas celebration, featuring music from Hely-Hutchinson, Anderson and Vaughan-Williams, with traditional carols and lesser-known gems.

Tickets: £12 adults, £8 concessions & £1 under 18’s

Tickets available via Thornden Hall: 023 8024 6555 / https://www.thorndenhall.co.uk/whats-on/classics-at-christmas

There is parking at the venue.

Southampton Youth Orchestra presents Shostakovich's ever-popular, irrepressibly dark and witty Symphony No.5.

The concert will begins with Verdi's Nabucco Overture, famous for the Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves, Saint-Saens' classic Danse Macabre and Leonard Bernsteins lesser known 'Broadway-style' overture Slava!

Before the interval, conductor Kevin Withell, assisted musically by members of the orchestra, will provide a historical and musical understanding of the symphony for the audience in his own inimitable way.

Tickets are available via the button below.

Ticket prices: Adults £12, Concessions £8, Under 18s £1

Southampton Youth Wind Band will be performing at Mela Festival, in Hoglands Park.

The Southampton Mela Festival is a long-standing summer highlight in Southampton’s events calendar celebrating Modern and Traditional Asian Culture.

Admission to Mela Festival is free.

To find out more about the festival, click the button below.

A spring concert at Thornden Hall.

Southampton Youth Orchestra (SYO) perform Schubert’s ‘Great C Major’ Symphony and Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture, as well as welcoming local horn soloist Charlie Mann for Richard Strauss’ formidable 1st Horn Concerto.

Tickets available through Thornden Hall.

£12 adults, £10 concessions, £1 under 18’s.

Pyramid concert at Central Hall, with performances by Acorn Strings, Elgar Strings, Southampton Youth Strings (SYS), Southampton Youth Concert Sinfonia (SYCS) and Southampton Youth Orchestra (SYO).

Tickets available on the door or via ensemble members through FSYO

In Advance : £10 adult / £6 concessions / £2 under 16
On the Door : £11 adult / £7 concessions / £3 under 16

Southampton Youth Orchestra present a programme of Russian classics, including the festive ‘Nutcracker’ by Tchaikovsky. More information and tickets available via the button below.

Tickets: £12 (general admission), £8 (concessions), £1 (under 18's)

Programme to include:

• Weber - Overture to Die Frieschutz

• Brahms - Schicksalslied

• Beethoven - Symphony No.9

• Featuring Southampton Philharmonic Choir and members of Southampton Youth Orchestra Alumni

More details tbc.

Programme to include:

• Dvorak — Czech Suite

• Mozart — Horn Concerto No.4

• Sibelius — Symphony No.2

A free workshop for Double Bass players of all standards with Caoline Emery.

Programme includes:

• Mendelssohn — Hebrides Overture

• Haydn — Trumpet Concerto (Soloist: Paul Hart)

• Vaughan Williams — English Folk Song Suite

• Haydn — Symphony No.104

Tickets:
£10 adults, £7 senior citizens and students, £1 under 18s

Tickets available from Turner Sims Box Office on 023 8059 5151

Southampton Youth Orchestra Concert. Tickets will be available from the Turner Sims Box Office on 023 8059 5151 or online