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| BBC Singers and Nationwide Youth Voices with Nicholas Chalmers on the BBC Singers’ Centenary Live performance, October 2024 |
The BBC Singers and the Nationwide Youth Choir have introduced a three-year partnership between the 2 organisations to open the pathway for the subsequent technology of younger voices. The partnership will centre on the collective ambition for younger singers to achieve invaluable expertise of performing and recording collectively, specializing in training initiatives to offer alternatives for college students from throughout the nation to expertise the enjoyment of singing. It should embody work involving Nationwide Youth Choir’s oldest singers, aged 18-25; its chamber ensemble, Nationwide Youth Voices; and its skilled improvement scheme for singers, conductors and composers; the Rising Skilled Artists programme.
The 2 teams shared the stage on the BBC Proms earlier this yr performing Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 from reminiscence with Aurora Orchestra, and the Nationwide Youth Choir joined the BBC Singers at their centenary live performance on the Barbican on 2 October 2024, the place they carried out Numbers by former Nationwide Youth Choir Younger Composer Shruthi Rajasekar, led by Nicholas Chalmers, who’s principal conductor of the Nationwide Youth Choir’s flagship ensemble, Nationwide Youth Choir (18-25 Years), and affiliate conductor, studying on the BBC Singers.
