Open your ears to the music of the universe as the world's greatest orchestra of teenagers embarks on its summer concert tour voyaging back through a century of space discovery.

Join Millie Ashton, violinist and leader of NYO, as she presents our first-ever podcast.  She speaks to fellow NYO Musicians, a physicist, and a composer, uncovering the story behind our new musical work 'Gravitational Waves' - a new piece by Iris ter Schiphorst that transforms a chirp from a galaxy far away into an imaginative orchestral piece for 164 teenage musicians. 

NYO Summer Concert Tour:
Thu 4 Aug - Snape Maltings Concert Hall
Fri 5 Aug - Symphony Hall, Birmingham
Sat 6 Aug - BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall

Iris ter Schiphorst: 'Gravitational Waves'
R. Strauss: 'Also sprach Zarathustra'
Holst: 'The Planets'

£5 under 25s tickets (in association with Classic FM)
Book tickets here: https://www.nyo.org.uk/summer-2016

Featuring:
Millie Ashton, NYO Leader
Georgie Davis, NYO clarinetist & violist
Matthew Venvell, NYO percussionist
Bernard Schutz, physicist
Iris ter Schiphurst, composer

Credit:
Ben Eshmade, podcast producer


NYO Podcast: A Summer of Space Discovery

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