Under 13 Orchestra
“What a stunning performance they gave! Barely thinkable that children this age should perform the Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio Espagnol, let alone perform it so well! No trace of self-doubt among them.”
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The Under 13 Orchestra performs the third movement of Shostakovich's 5th Symphony at Leeds Town Hall on 15 August 2009.
The Under 13 Orchestra is a full symphony orchestra for children up to the age of 13. It offers children their first taste of performing in a major UK concert venue.
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 Leeds Town Hall, Town Hall in Birmingham and The Anvil in Basingstoke. 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 the Under 13 Orchestra may be invited to join the NCO Sinfonietta.
2012 Under 13 Orchestra Members:
| Violin | |
| Natasha Barton | Megan McKay |
| Samuel Bartram | Safia Merchant |
| Patrick Bevan | Gayatri Mullaparthi |
| India Blackshaw-Britton | Eliza Nagle |
| Emily Boyle | Mami Nakada |
| Jedidiah Cheung | Ciara Parker-Northeast |
| Leora Cohen | Holly Pedlar |
| Daniel Cook | Natasha Phang-Lee |
| Victoria Daramy Williams | Felicity Porter |
| Sabrina Davis | Maggie Russell-Campion |
| Imogen Gordon | Tasmin Sarkany |
| Eleanor Hall | Sophia Wakefield |
| Amelia Harding | Naomi Warburton |
| Oscar Jakubiel Smith | Emma Whitehouse |
| Elliott Kempton | Anna Worthington |
| Chere Yee Law | Eileen Xu |
| Karl Lee | Olivia Ziani |
| Viola | |
| Brooke Burkhart | Branwen Jones |
| Hanako Dickinson | Sima Jovanovic |
| Nansi Dingle | Raphaelle Kent |
| Isobel Doncaster | Lucy Lench |
| Chance Freeman | Ben Miller |
| Alys Howells | India Raynes |
| Penny Islef | Eleanor Tuckey |
| Cello | |
| Claire Biek | Natalie Martin |
| Sasha Boult | Joseph Pritchard |
| Celina Dembinska-Kenner | Isabel Russell |
| Grace Dunn | Rowena Taylor |
| Silas Edwards | Christopher Wilkin |
| Ben Finlay | Hamzah Zaidi |
| Lucy Little | Harry Zhang |
| Double bass | |
| Hannah Godfrey-Clarke | Charlotte Morris |
| Maya Jelf | Kazuo Newcombe |
| Rayner Keyse | Thea Sayer |
| Flute | |
| Natasha Dixon | Lauren Nicholls |
| Hannah Gillingham | Pia Rose Scattergood |
| Lucy Hopson | Bethany Wood |
| Oboe | |
| Thomas Edmiston | Saskia Patel |
| Jessica Patel | Lydia Tsoukkas |
| Clarinet | |
| Cara Doyle | May-Ling Shi |
| Verity Guest | Joel Solomons |
| Juliet Lawrence | |
| Bassoon | |
| Helen Fraser | Ashby Mayes |
| Lucy Gibson | Verity Stroud |
| French horn | |
| Kiran Armanasco | George Maynard |
| Olivia Gandee | Jack Morley |
| Harry King | James Palles Clark |
| Trumpet | |
| Agnes Chandler | Michael Hain |
| Callum Clarke | Meghan Shepherd |
| Isabel Davidson | Francis Sinfield |
| Trombone | |
| Ffion Haffenden | Chewepe Tsate |
| Sebastian Hill | |
| Tuba | |
| Jack Pierce | |
| Percussion | |
| Hana Broadhurst | Joseph Parks |
| Harp | |
| Holly Heath | Eloise Oliver |
| Alice Miller | Ryoko Umemoto |
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