Welcome to
the ESYO website
This is the web page of the Association of Friends
of the East Sussex Youth Orchestra. If you want to find out more about this
wonderful orchestra, please read on!
The
Orchestra
The East Sussex Youth Orchestra has
achieved a consistently high standard of professionalism in the 23 years
since its foundation in 1979. Its conductor is Colin
Metters. It draws its 90 players from the schools and colleges of
East Sussex and Brighton & Hove. Many continue to play with the orchestra
after moving on to music college or university.
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ESYO has performed in all the
principal music venues in the County, including Glyndebourne and has appeared
on many occasions in London at St John Smith Square, the Queen Elizabeth
Hall, The Royal Albert Hall, The Barbican Centre and The Royal Festival
Hall in 2000.
Since its formation, ESYO has toured abroad visiting France and Germany
on a number of occasions as well as Belgium, Austria and Hungary and in
Budapest and in Prague on a tour of Eastern Europe.
In 1998, the Orchestra participated in the Festival of British Youth
Orchestras in Edinburgh and Glasgow as part of the Edinburgh Fringe
Festival and won the competition.
It was awarded the Boosey & Hawkes 1998 Youth Orchestra Award as a
result of the performance in Edinburgh of Robin Holloway's orchestral
fantasy, "Wagner Nights". The Award was presented at a special performance
of the work in the presence of the composer in January 1999.
Also in January 1999, ESYO's performance of Walton's Portsmouth Point
was broadcast by BBC Radio 3 in its Youth Orchestras of the World series.
Our recent concerts have included Rakmaninov's Second Symphony, Elgar's
First Symphony, Elgar's Cockaigne Overture, Tchaikovsky's Violin concerto,
Sibelius' Violin Concerto and the Saint-Saens Cello Concerto.
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"I shut my eyes and found that their heartfelt playing could have
been the LSO themselves." - Patricia Cain, the Bexhill School of Music, Eastbourne
Herald 18/8/2000
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Friends
The Association of Friends
of ESYO is the charity that supports the East Sussex Youth Orchestra by
raising funds to enable ESYO to do more than just the basic training and
rehearsal. It helps the orchestra to be seen by a wider audience both
in Britain and abroad than Council funds allow.
The Association of Friends enables those talented individual youngsters
who could not otherwise afford it, to participate in tours outside East
Sussex. They also supports and helps to fund the young professional soloists
who play with the orchestra as guests.
Would you like
to support ESYO?
If you would like to support ESYO, please join the
Association of Friends of ESYO, (Membership costs only £10 per annum)
please fill in a Membership
Form and a Gift Aid Form.
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