Performances

Come and see a new generation get behind the greatest orchestral music of all time. When musicians are yet to find their limits, audiences witness unforgettable, unbridled talent.

NYO Ascent Live Stream

4 January 2024 @ 7.00pm
Online (Live Stream from Barbican)
£10
Hear a new generation get behind the greatest orchestral music of all time – experience an exhilarating adventure in sound with The National Youth Orchestra.
4 January 2024 @ 7.00pm
Barbican Hall
England: London & South East
£15
/ Free for teens
Public performances
Hear a new generation get behind the greatest orchestral music of all time – experience…
4 January 2024 @ 7.00pm
Online (Live Stream from Barbican)
£10
Broadcasts
Hear a new generation get behind the greatest orchestral music of all time – experience…
5 January 2024 @ 7.00pm
Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham
England: Midlands
£11.50-£30.50
/ Free for teens
Public performances
Hear a new generation get behind the greatest orchestral music of all time – experience…
6 January 2024 @ 7.30pm
Warwick Arts Centre
England: Midlands
£18-£27
/ Free for teens
Public performances
Hear a new generation get behind the greatest orchestral music of all time – experience…

Past performances

5 August 2023 @ 6.30pm
BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall, London
England: London & South East
Share the joy of being alive, with music that captures the essence of the human spirit. 
4 August 2023 @ 6.00pm
Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden
England: East of England
Share the joy of being alive, with music that captures the essence of the human spirit. 
2 August 2023 @ 6.00pm
Symphony Hall, Birmingham
England: Midlands
Share the joy of being alive, with music that captures the essence of the human spirit. 
15 April 2023 @ 6.30pm
Southbank Centre, London
England: London & South East
Feel the heat! Get ready, The National Youth Orchestra ignites a musical fire on 15 April at Royal Festival Hall.
8 January 2023 @ 4.00pm
Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
England: North West
Join the world’s greatest orchestra of teenagers for an odyssey fuelled by fire cracking musicianship – travel together through time and space, experiencing music’s power to draw our deepest yearnings for belonging and understanding to the surface.
7 January 2023 @ 7.30pm
Warwick Arts Centre
England: Midlands
Join the world’s greatest orchestra of teenagers for an odyssey fuelled by fire cracking musicianship – travel together through time and space, experiencing music’s power to draw our deepest yearnings for belonging and understanding to the surface.
6 January 2023 @ 7.30pm
Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham
England: Midlands
Join the world’s greatest orchestra of teenagers for an odyssey fuelled by fire cracking musicianship – travel together through time and space, experiencing music’s power to draw our deepest yearnings for belonging and understanding to the surface.
4 January 2023 @ 7.00pm
Barbican, London
England: London & South East
Join the world’s greatest orchestra of teenagers for an odyssey fuelled by fire cracking musicianship – travel together through time and space, experiencing music’s power to draw our deepest yearnings for belonging and understanding to the surface.
6 August 2022 @ 6.30pm
BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall, London
England: London & South East
Feel the sound, free your spirit! Join us for a fearless performance by the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain with conductor Andrew Gourlay, where hundreds of teenagers passionately share their love of music.
5 August 2022 @ 6.00pm
Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden
England: East of England
Feel the sound, free your spirit! Join us for a fearless performance by the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain with conductor Andrew Gourlay, where hundreds of teenagers passionately share their love of music.
3 August 2022 @ 6.30pm
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
England: North West
Feel the sound, free your spirit! Join us for a fearless performance by the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain with conductor Andrew Gourlay, where hundreds of teenagers passionately share their love of music.
30 June 2022 @ 11.00pm
Warwick Arts Centre
England: Midlands
Join us in this boundary-breaking performance as the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain open up the music they love to audiences across the UK, packed with pulsing dance rhythms and a feeling of freedom and release.
23 April 2022 @ 6.30pm
Southbank Centre, London
England: London & South East
Boundaries? What boundaries! Join us for a riotous performance with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, where hundreds of musicians radiate beyond the concert platform to champion music that matters to them right now.
1 March 2022 @ 12.00am
Barbican, London
England: London & South East
Join us in this boundary-breaking performance as the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain open up the music they love to audiences across the UK, packed with pulsing dance rhythms and a feeling of freedom and release.
7 September 2021 @ 6.30pm
BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall, London
England: London & South East
NYO makes an explosive return to live music-making. Featuring conductor Jonathon Heyward and renowned violinist Nicola Benedetti. Where music is the lifeblood of hope and a place where ideals and reality wrestle and are reconciled.
8 August 2021 @ 6.00pm
Leeds Town Hall
England: Yorkshire & the Humber
NYO makes an explosive return to live music-making with conductor Holly Mathieson and virtuoso violinist Francesca Dego. Music is the lifeblood of hope and a place where our darkest fears may be confronted and overcome.
31 July 2021 @ 6.30pm
Southbank Centre, London
England: London & South East
NYO makes an explosive return to live music-making to explore music as the lifeblood of hope and an irrepressible medium of dissent. Featuring conductor Lee Reynolds and soloist Annemarie Federle.
28 July 2021 @ 6.00pm
Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden
England: East of England
An explosive return to live music-making for NYO with conductor Jonathon Heyward, and soloist Jess Gillam. Music is the lifeblood of hope, building bridges between generations and traditions.
7 June 2021 @ 11.00pm
Symphony Hall, Birmingham
England: Midlands
NYO makes an explosive return to live music-making. Featuring conductor Jonathon Heyward and renowned violinist Nicola Benedetti.
25 October 2020 @ 7.30pm
Southbank Centre, London
England: London & South East
On #BlackoutTuesday, music lovers across the world went silent, flooding social media with black squares to show support for racial justice and equality in the music industry and beyond.
6 January 2020 @ 7.30pm
Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham
England: Midlands
Rise up! From protests to revolutions, the 20th Century saw momentous social change driven by passionate young people. So, come and join a movement; a mass action by a community of teenage musicians – the world’s greatest orchestra of teenagers – brought together by their passion for music. The soundtrack? Immense musical calls to arms that defined an era.
5 January 2020 @ 7.30pm
Barbican, London
England: London & South East
Rise up! From protests to revolutions, the 20th Century saw momentous social change driven by passionate young people. So, come and join a movement; a mass action by a community of teenage musicians – the world’s greatest orchestra of teenagers – brought together by their passion for music. The soundtrack? Immense musical calls to arms that defined an era.
4 January 2020 @ 7.30pm
Warwick Arts Centre
England: Midlands
Rise up! From protests to revolutions, the 20th Century saw momentous social change driven by passionate young people. So, come and join a movement; a mass action by a community of teenage musicians – the world’s greatest orchestra of teenagers – brought together by their passion for music. The soundtrack? Immense musical calls to arms that defined an era.
27 July 2019 @ 6.30pm
BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall, London
England: London & South East
Love, desire, ambition, optimism, rebellion, angst and tragedy – the desperate frustrations, euphoric joys and limitless dreams of youth are all here in this concert brought to you by the world’s greatest orchestra of teenagers.
27 July 2019 @ 6.30pm
Victoria Hall, Stoke-on-Trent
England: Midlands
Love, desire, ambition, optimism, rebellion, angst and tragedy – the desperate frustrations, euphoric joys and limitless dreams of youth are all here in this concert brought to you by the world’s greatest orchestra of teenagers.
26 July 2019 @ 6.30pm
Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden
England: East of England
Love, desire, ambition, optimism, rebellion, angst and tragedy – the desperate frustrations, euphoric joys and limitless dreams of youth are all here in this concert brought to you by the world’s greatest orchestra of teenagers.
14 April 2019 @ 3.00pm
Symphony Hall, Birmingham
England: Midlands
This spring experience a united force of brilliantly talented and fiercely passionate young musicians – the world’s greatest orchestra of teenagers, in fact – come together under the baton of Mexican conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto to extend the hand of friendship across the Mexican-US border, celebrating the power of music to build bridges.
13 April 2019 @ 6.30pm
Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
England: North West
This spring experience a united force of brilliantly talented and fiercely passionate young musicians – the world’s greatest orchestra of teenagers, in fact – come together under the baton of Mexican conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto to extend the hand of friendship across the Mexican-US border, celebrating the power of music to build bridges.
12 April 2019 @ 6.30pm
Southbank Centre, London
England: London & South East
This spring experience a united force of brilliantly talented and fiercely passionate young musicians – the world’s greatest orchestra of teenagers, in fact – come together under the baton of Mexican conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto to extend the hand of friendship across the Mexican-US border, celebrating the power of music to build bridges.
7 January 2019 @ 7.30pm
Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham
England: Midlands
Stop the world I want to get off! Modern life assaults our senses with an anxiety-inducing barrage of colour and noise, information and distraction. But with brave, bold and brilliant playing the world’s greatest orchestra of teenagers is ready to take it on through music that gives voice to our fears, helps us find hope and brings us together in joyful celebration.
5 January 2019 @ 7.00pm
Barbican, London
England: London & South East
Stop the world I want to get off! Modern life assaults our senses with an anxiety-inducing barrage of colour and noise, information and distraction. But with brave, bold and brilliant playing the world’s greatest orchestra of teenagers is ready to take it on through music that gives voice to our fears, helps us find hope and brings us together in joyful celebration.
4 January 2019 @ 7.30pm
Warwick Art Centre
England: Midlands
Stop the world I want to get off! Modern life assaults our senses with an anxiety-inducing barrage of colour and noise, information and distraction. But with brave, bold and brilliant playing the world’s greatest orchestra of teenagers is ready to take it on through music that gives voice to our fears, helps us find hope and brings us together in joyful celebration.