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November 2011

Dineo Matsepe, a young violinist from Soweto, playing for an audience of 3000 at the Sasol Leadership Forum in April.

Dineo Matsepe started as a member of the Johannesburg Youth Orchestra, and now is a member of the Johannesburg Philharmonic Academy Orchestra. She has been asked to audition for the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra this year. She was one of five of our musicians to go to Switzerland for five weeks of lessons at the Konservatorium Bern in August. They also played in a modern opera production and got to experience Swiss life and culture. A big thank you to the Konservatorium Bern and the European Federation of National Youth Orchestras for helping us make this dream a reality.

"Thank you so much for giving young musicians the greatest opportunity to come together and create masterful performances, and for the chance to broaden our musical horizons."

Dineo Matsepe, June 2011

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Sasol National Youth Orchestra Course 2011

The National Youth Orchestra Foundation would like to thank our principal sponsor, Sasol, for their generous support since 1979. Watch the BBC News insert on our concert at the Sasol National Youth Orchestra course in July, and our performance with Archbishop Desmond Tutu, by clicking here

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In world news: we thought you might like to read this fascinating article about how a radiologist is "replicating" a Stradivarius violin


Apply for Nationals 2012 22 June - 1 July 2012 is the Sasol National Youth Orchestra Course in Johannesburg 6-16 December 2012 is the National Youth Wind Orchestra's third course, and our first National Youth String Orchestra course. All courses are open to young musicians between the ages of 13-25, of minimum Grade 6 music standard. Apply online or if you do not have access to the internet, SMS your name and instrument to 0832722117. "Thank you, it was the most amazing personal and musical endeavour I've ever attempted. Once you have a taste of it, you can't stop thinking about next year!" Calvin Human, percussion, Durban More Info	National Youth Wind Orchestra 2011 comes to the windy city The National Youth Wind Orchestra will meet in Port Elizabeth from 4-14 December for the second course of its kind - designed specially for the wind ensemble. The fifty-piece orchestra will be conducted by Norway's Bjørn Breistein and the programme is an exciting mix from Bernstein's West Side Story Suite to South African composer Noel Stockton's Afrodylic. Also included is a South African premiere of Norwegian composer Geirr Tveitt's Sinfonia di Soffiatori. The National Youth Wind Orchestra will perform on 14 December 2011 at 19:30 at the Feather Market Centre. Bookings at Computicket More Info	Let a Child Play! Every year hundreds of young musicians from across the country audition for our National Youth Orchestra courses. Some cannot afford travel costs or course fees. Some need music lessons and instruments, a new set of strings or a bowtie. Are you able to help us realise their musical dreams? Please call us on 0832722117 or email us on info@sanyo.org.za if you are able to help. The National Youth Orchestra has partnered with the Play It Again Foundation since 2009 to give young musicians access to instruments and musical tuition. If you have an instrument you no longer play perhaps it can be put to good use by this organisation. More Info

A blast from our past...

This is the National Youth Orchestra course in the 1970s. Do you know anyone in this photograph? If so, we'd love to hear from you.

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