NZSM players selected for NZSO National Youth Orchestra

20 December 2016

Almost twenty NZSM students and alumni have been selected to be part of the NZSO National Youth Orchestra this year.

Since its inception in 1959, the National Youth Orchestra has played a vital role in providing unique opportunities for the country’s most gifted young orchestral performers, many of whom have gone on to forge successful careers as orchestral players, soloists, chamber musicians and teachers.

Approximately 50% of the current players in the NZSO are former members of the NZSO National Youth Orchestra.

This July 2016 is the first time the NZSO and the NYO have collaborated in performance. The players listed below will be joined by members of the NZSO to make an orchestra of 128 players to perform Messiaen's Eclairs sur l’Au-Delà in July.

NZSM students and alumni in the 2016 NZSO National Youth Orchestra

Claudia Tarrant-Matthews
Nick Majic
Laura Barton
Salina Fisher (alumna)
Grace Stainthorpe
Sophie Tarrant-Matthews
Georgia Steel
Star Verity (alumna)
Lavinnia Rae
Olivia Wilding
Sam Vennell
Jandee Song
Ashleigh Mowbray (alumna)
David McGregor
Harim Oh
Breanna Abbott
Toby Pringle
Patrick Macaskill-Webb
Dale Vail