Year: 2021

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The NYCOS Team is now on leave until Tuesday 4 January.

National Youth Choir of Scotland alumni recently reunited to sing together for the first time in its history. The performance will be broadcast on BBC One Scotland ‘Reflections at the Quay’ on Christmas Day.

We’ve been working hard to rebuild NYCOS Regional Choirs for ages 8-18. Thank you to Emily from Midlothian for this lovely illustration. Find out more about what we’ve been up to and how to join.

To mark COP26, some of our choir members would like to share a message of hope for a more sustainable future. Thank you to NYCOS Midlothian Intermediate Choir for this wonderful contribution.

The National Youth Choir of Scotland is to be featured in the Opening Ceremony for the sixth session of the Scottish Parliament on Saturday 2 October.

The National Youth Choir of Scotland performed at the landmark Kelpies at Helix Park, in a broadcast that aired during The Last Night of the Proms.

The National Youth Choir of Scotland will perform in several free pop-up outdoor events across East Lothian.

NYCOS Aberdeen Choir and Director Ruth Barrie were visited by STV News at their first in-person rehearsal in eighteen months.

NYCOS Inverness Choir and Director John Thomson recently caught up with BBC Alba on their return to singing. Watch more on An Là, Thursday 19 August at 8pm.

We are thrilled to announce the names of our recently appointed Directors and Associate Directors of NYCOS Regional Choirs in Midlothian, Renfrewshire and Stirling.

Following the retirements of long-standing colleagues Carole Allen (Head of Creative Learning) and Ruth Townsend (Head of National Choirs) we are delighted to announce two new appointments to the NYCOS team.

For the first time in sixteen months, NYCOS Mini Music Makers will be running in-person events at outdoor spaces in Glasgow and Rutherglen.

Members of the National Youth Choir of Scotland gathered on Calton Hill, Edinburgh at 6am to be the first to sing again in Scotland.

Watch the digital premiere of ‘Fire’ by Russell Hepplewhite and Michael Rosen and hear what choir members had to say about the song and their experience.

Friday Afternoons songs by Russell Hepplewhite and Michael Rosen will receive an online world premiere on 14 May. One of the 12 songs will be premiered by NYCOS Edinburgh Choir.

NYCOS has been awarded funding to take part in a project to support the continuation of online music education through and beyond the Covid-19 crisis.

For the first time, NYCOS is offering a series of conducting classes tailored to suit the needs of people working at different levels led by Artistic Director Christopher Bell.

NYCOS has been delivering active music lessons for primary schools over the past year through the Sounds Musical project.

Although they couldn’t be together in person, NYCOS National Choir members have met online for their virtual courses over the Easter holidays. Here’s what some choir members had to say about the experience.

NYCOS has been selected to take part in the 2021 Friday Afternoons project.

Find out what NYCOS Regional Choirs have been getting up to in 2021 so far.

NYCOS has appointed James Waters as its new Chair of the Board of Trustees. James is Director of the Lammermuir Festival, Creative Director for Classical Music at Perth Concert Hall and classical programmer at the Bath Festival.