Main Orchestra
“To see Ben develop over the last four years or so through the NCO, making friends, developing his music, and becoming a young man, has been wonderful. We are so happy for him, proud and grateful that he has felt so able to bring out the best of himself because of the environment you have created.”
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The Main Orchestra performs Bernstein's West Side Story at Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham on 22 August 2009.
Getting a place in Main Orchestra is the ultimate NCO achievement. This full symphony orchestra for children up to the age of 14 showcases the very best of the NCO experience.
Members have two 9-day residential courses, one at Easter and one in the Summer, both of which end with a public concert. Previous venues have included Symphony Hall in Birmingham, Brighton Dome and Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham. There is also a Winter non-residential weekend leading up to a concert, usually in the Queen Elizabeth Hall at Southbank Centre.
There are occasionally other special concerts by invitation and members of Main Orchestra may be invited to join the NCO Sinfonietta. Main Orchestra has also been invited to tour abroad, going to China in 2006 and Italy in 2008.
2012 Main Orchestra members:
| Violin | |
| Emily Adams | Stephen Nurse |
| Jasmin Allpress | Scarlet O'Shea |
| Isabel Blankfield | Shana Pampapathi |
| Alexander Chalk | Lois Pennington |
| Alexander Dawkins | Ralph Rusconi |
| Madeleine Dawson | Matthew Sach-Keen |
| Ellen Dunn | Charlotte Sasse |
| Mila Ferramosca | Christopher Savage |
| Ella Fox | Maya Saxena |
| Athena Hawksley-Walker | Sarah Suh |
| Katie Jankinson | Marianne Sutton |
| Annabel Johnson | Phoebe Tarleton |
| Charlie Lovell-Jones | Eleanor Walton |
| Philippa Marks | Raffaella Watson |
| Nell McCann | Jack Weiss |
| Iona McDonald | Lily Winter |
| Nell Norman | Penny Young |
| Viola | |
| Miranda Bailey-Sharam | Niamh Meyer |
| Rhys Barnes | David Millross |
| Takeo Broadhurst | Noah Norman |
| Laura Cooper | Natasha Park |
| Anya Eyres | Reuben Philip |
| India Golding | Hannah Roberts |
| Sehee Lim | Bethan Samuel |
| Cello | |
| Susannah Barton | Noah Max |
| Hera Bradly | Joe Morford |
| Maxim Calver | Ellen Porter |
| James Castle | Anoushka Sharp |
| Mike Huang | Ellen Sheppard |
| Osian Jones | Eleanor Tsoukkas |
| Georgina Lloyd-Owen | |
| Double bass | |
| Harry Atkinson | Alexander Jones |
| Edward Ball | Emma Prince |
| Charlie Cox | Sophie Walker |
| Flute | |
| Amy Aron-Muellbauer | Eleanor-Jane Holland |
| Lucy Driver | Daniel Shlomo |
| Clara Harris | Lydia Wyatt |
| Oboe | |
| Polly Bartlett | Emily Stephens |
| Charlotte Ewins | Pippa Stevens |
| Clarinet | |
| Sarah Brienza | Jessica Hale |
| Matthew Essam | Raymond Shi |
| James Gilbert | |
| Bassoon | |
| Lucy Dundas | Eleanor Mackie |
| Isabel Hall | Andrew Vettraino |
| French horn | |
| Harrison Dunk | Isaac Sanders |
| Alex Grinyer | David Wheeler |
| Cameron McDonnell | William Whitty |
| Trumpet | |
| William Mead | Nicholas Smith |
| Tom Parker | Henry Thomas |
| Dylan Price | Zerlina Vulliamy |
| Trombone | |
| David Cox | Albert Owen |
| Isobel Daws | Luke Waldock |
| Jake Jones | |
| Tuba | |
| Reuben Cohen | Harry Smith |
| Percussion | |
| Elliott Gaston Ross | William Parsons |
| Max Heaton | |
| Harp | |
| Hannah Allaway | Rosie von Spreckelsen |
| Aoife Miralles |
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