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.
2010 Main Orchestra members:
| Violin | |
| Nicole Abela | Natalie Green |
| Siubhan Andrews | Athena Hawksley Walker |
| Divya Baron | Harriet Haynes |
| Elizabeth Bosson | Hepzibah Hill |
| Poppy Brown | Joe Hodson |
| Tilly Chester | Mark Humphreys |
| Riley Court-Wood | Cameron Jacobs |
| Stephane Crayton | Sinan Kelenchy |
| Emma Exton | Natasha Kenealy |
| Lucy Fews | Kiara Kottegoda |
| Isabella Fleming | Tom Le Neve Foster |
| Hannah Leney | Arpan Sharma |
| Prishita Maheshwari | Rebecca Taylor |
| Elizabeth Nurse | Amedeo Toso |
| Holly Randhawa | Emi Uchishiba |
| Charlotte Schnurr | Anthony Zhang |
| Viola | |
| Catriona Baker | Nicholas Pegg |
| Abby Bowen | Gemma Ratcliffe |
| Frances Hopper | Helena Ritter |
| Esyllt Jones | Madeleine Rolinson Lord |
| Emma Murray | Katharine Smith |
| Stacey Newlin | Alexander Tucker |
| Joanna Patrick | Oskar Vouilloz |
| Cello | |
| William Clark-Maxwell | Nina Kiva |
| Edward Deakins | Hannah Merchant |
| Rosie Downer | Jacob Owen |
| Andrew Harsley | Laurens Price-Nowak |
| Christopher Hedges | Benedict Rowan-Young |
| Sarah Hughes | James Watson |
| Owain Huw | Robert Wheatley |
| Double bass | |
| Matthew Finan | Georgina Morris |
| Dominic Jelf | Alexander Shaper |
| Daniel Makharinsky | Noah Wood |
| Flute | |
| Tamara Kreitman | Sophie Sakol |
| Katie Macdonald | Epsie Thompson |
| Calla Randall | Alexander van Leeuwen |
| Oboe | |
| Francesca Cox | Bethany Kilbey |
| Philippa Elmer | Imogen Taylor |
| Joseph Jankinson | |
| Clarinet | |
| Andrew Farnden | Rotimi Osindero |
| Sam Gillespie | John Tothill |
| Matthew Jacobson | Flora Walsh |
| Bassoon | |
| Ho Ting Chan | Kai Tay Ashcroft |
| Henry Davall | Sarah Young |
| French horn | |
| Joel Ashford | Benjamin Hulme |
| Alexander Foster | Alison Mansfield |
| Kirsty Hobkirk | Eleanor Wicks |
| Trumpet | |
| Nathan Dale | Ruairidh Matthews |
| Lucy Humphris | Joe Penaliggon |
| Susannah Jeffery | Alexander Rees |
| Trombone | |
| Joseph Arkwright | Rebecca Swanson |
| William Cook | Benny Vernon |
| Henry Kitchen | |
| Tuba | |
| Jamie Farrington | Jamie Riddoch |
| Percussion | |
| Thomas Highnam | Jonathan Mansfield |
| Luke Hinchliffe | Jessica Wood |
| Samuel Howes | |
| Harp | |
| Jay Boender | Hannah Tollemache |
| Rachel Carver | Victoria Whitmore |
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