Category: News

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We’re delighted to welcome a new staff member to the NYCOS team. Meet Peter Saunders, our new Alumni and Individual Giving Manager!

NYCOS is delighted to announce three new staff members to the Office team – a big warm welcome to Fionntan Curran, Rebecca Smith and Karen Steel.

The choir will bring its mighty performance of Duruflé’s Requiem to three cathedrals and an abbey, conducted by Artistic Director Christopher Bell

This term we have been delivering free after-school clubs across Scotland for children aged 8-10 years, with recruitment workshops in primary schools, including the stunning Wester Ross.

For the first time in three years, NYCOS National Boys Choir and NYCOS National Girls Choir recently met for their week-long residential courses in Edinburgh. Hear what some of the choir members had to say during the course and look through the photos.

In recent weeks we’ve welcomed our newest member of the NYCOS team, with Anna Ghazal joining us as Creative Learning Producer.

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.

Here are a few highlights from our online activities this year.

NYCOS was a signatory to an open letter sent to Fiona Hyslop MSP, Cabinet Secretary for the Economy, Fair Work and Culture on 30 June 2020.

NYCOS choirs have featured on two Reflections at the Quay broadcasts whilst ‘Cantos Sagrados’ was featured as album of the week on BBC Radio Scotland Classics Unwrapped.

On Thursday 30 April, NYCOS singers and staff across the country joined with members of Music Education Partnership Group in singing Over the Rainbow in support of the NHS and all keyworkers.