Great Orchestra Experiment 2019

Thank you for making the Great Orchestra Experiment 2019 such a brilliant event. We had 31 schools and around 1400 children attend. This year's Great Orchestra Experiment had us travelling across the globe and in time! The incredible Robin Hood Youth Orchestra accompanied by professional musicians played a range of great music including Berlioz's March to the Scaffold, Feeling Good, the Greatest Showman and more ...

We would also like to thank the Albert Hall team, the College Street technical team and all the schools that brought their children to the Great Orchestra Experiment. We would also like to thank everyone who came to our Open Rehearsal on March 26, 2019 and offered their valuable feedback! We were able to make last minute changes and incorporate a lot of those suggestions.

A heartfelt thank you to our guest musicians including Durgesh Parmar, University of Nottingham's Elizabeth Kelly, the Villier's Quartet, Sing City 2018 winners Kensey Willow from Nottingham College and Lauren Slater from Nottingham Girls' Academy, Mark Roberts and Alex Patterson from Nottingham Cathedral. Your support made the event so much more brilliant and we hope you had a fantastic time supporting us with this inspirational event.

A massive well done to RHYO and to all the Nottingham City pupils who attended this year. See below for list of participating schools.

Bentinck Primary and Nursery

Blue Bell Hill Primary

Brocklewood Primary

Burford Primary

Cantrell Primary

Claremont Primary

Crabtree Farm Primary

Djanogly Northgate Accademy

Dovecote Primary

Dunkirk Primary School (Highfields Campus)

Forest Fields Primary

Glade Hill Primary

Greenfields Community School

Haydn Primary

Heathfield Primary and Nursery

Hempshill Hall Primary

Huntingdon Academy

Mellers Primary

Nottingham Academy Primary

Portland Spencer Academy

Radford Academy

Robin Hood Primary

Rosslyn Park Primary

Saint Teresa's Catholic Primary

Seely Primary

St Mary's Catholic Academy

Welbeck Primary

Westglade Primary

William Booth Primary

Each year, schools are sent invitations to join GOE. For the last four years, we have had around 30 schools participate in the event. GOE provides an opportunity for children, many of whom have never attended a live performance, to see an orchestra play and to participate with high quality musicians. This means that one of the most positive outcomes of GOE is cultivating a new audience for music and engaging with groups of all backgrounds.

Watch our promotional video from GOE 2015 to see how the concert plays out.