CHANGE TO AUGUST REHEARSALS
July 29, 2010 by Fiona
To all NYJO rehearsal members and potential new attendees, As holidays take up many during the weeks of August we are reducing the workshops from 2 to 1. This means there will be no separate NYJO1 rehearsals in August but there will be a joint NYJO1/2 workshop.
Read more ...Chris Dagley 1972-2010
NYJO was extremely saddened to hear that ex-NYJO drummer Chris Dagley was killed in the small hours of Wednesday 28th July, when his motorcycle crashed on the A40 dual carriageway near White City. Chris was returning home from his regular gig with the James Pearson Trio, the Ronnie Scott house band. The shocking death of [...]
Read more ...Alan Plater CBE, FRSL (15 April 1935 – 25 June 2010)
June 28, 2010 by Steve
Alan Plater CBE, the prolific dramatist and screenwriter, who was an Honorary Vice-President of NYJO and had been a Board Member for many years, passed away last Friday. His longstanding association with NYJO came about after he saw the band play Hull, back in the days of Guy Barker. More recently he is seen here [...]
Read more ...One Big Encore for Bill Ashton!
June 12, 2010 by Steve
The London Gazette has today announced that, in the Queen’s birthday honours, William Michael Allingham Ashton MBE, Life President of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra, has been awarded an OBE for Services to Music. The entire Board of NYJO, together with all the Associates, would like to offer Bill their most sincere and heartfelt congratulations! [...]
Read more ...NYJO’s exciting Summer Concert Season starts here…
June 4, 2010 by Steve
This year’s major transformation of NYJO has led to the setting up of an exciting new Summer Season of London Concerts, designed to impress an ever-growing audience. NYJO’s new musical direction is radically shaking up its traditional concert format – presenting exciting new horizons for the band and its listeners alike. NYJO’s Summer Concert Season includes: 6th June: London, Ronnie Scotts [...]
Read more ...James Larter’s on TV…
May 19, 2010 by Steve
Earlier in the year we reported that James – NYJO’s 15-year old percussionist – had reached the Percussion Category finals of the BBC’s Young Musician of the Year competition. Unfortunately he didn’t win – but he did get to be on TV and, for the next few days, you can catch his competition performance by [...]
Read more ...Tom Walsh is first recipient of Prestige Jazz Award
April 30, 2010 by admin
Tom Walsh, longstanding NYJO trumpet player, was announced as the first recipient of the prestige Humphrey Lyttelton Royal Academy of Music Jazz Award at a presentation concert held in Hammersmith at the end of April. The award was presented by Humph’s son Stephen – further details of the awards evening can be found at http://www.humphreylyttelton.com/ [...]
Read more ...Sarah Ellen’s A Winner!
April 25, 2010 by Steve
Last week former NYJO singer Sarah Ellen Hughes won a major international jazz vocalist competition – against strong opposition from around the world. Sarah Ellen was competing in the International Jazz Voices Competition in Lithuania. After working her way up through the various stages of the competition, against 31 other contestants from many different countries, [...]
Read more ...NYJO – the transformation has begun!
April 14, 2010 by Steve
A new phase in the National Youth Jazz Orchestra’s life began on Monday 12 April. After 45 years, the indomitable Bill Ashton MBE is handing on the baton to two people. Dr. Fiona Ord-Shrimpton becomes NYJO’s newly-appointed Executive Director, and Royal College Professor of Jazz Mark Armstrong assumes responsibility for the band’s musical direction. Bill Ashton [...]
Read more ...NYJO’s Chair Appeal Benefit Gig – The Bull at Barnes 30th March
March 26, 2010 by admin
The NYJO Chair Appeal moves up a gear with a benefit concert – sponsored by UK Jazz Radio – at The Bull’s Head at Barnes on Tuesday 30th March. It’s appropriate that The Bull’s Head, which celebrated 50 years of promoting live jazz last year, should be hosting NYJO’s first benefit concert in 45 years – [...]
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