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Orchestral Skills Training Program 2023

Next date: Friday, 06 October 2023 | 06:00 PM to 09:30 PM

Supported by the Hills Shire Council, the Sydney Hills Youth Orchestra and the Sydney Hills Junior Orchestra are hosting a Symphonic Skills Training program for the Hills Shire young music lovers.

The Symphonic Skills Training Program provides the opportunity for young musicians, aged 8 – 25, to broaden their potential music career by building up their orchestral music repertoires, as well as imparting to them the value of communication, teamwork, and discipline.

Symphonic skills training will be including how to watch and follow a conductor and various orchestral etiquette. For those who play wind instruments, brass instruments, and percussion, they will learn new techniques that aren’t as widely used in a band setting as with an orchestra, requiring them to be more sensitive with their technical abilities.

This program has 40 scheduled sessions (rehearsals and concerts) with carefully selected programs covering a variety of cultural aspects and artistic values.

The program for each concert includes important classical symphonies with multiple movements. This multiple-movement training will strengthen young musicians' physical and mental capabilities and will give a fantastic performing experience that young musicians will be benefited from forever.

Established in 2011, a training arm of the Sydney Contemporary Orchestra Inc. (SCO), the SCO Youth Symphony (SYS) is our Youth Program for young music lovers, music students, young musicians, and young music teachers in Sydney, Australia.

Led by its Founding Conductor, Artistic & Executive Director, Dr. Brian Chatpo Koo, the SYS offers young music lovers the opportunity to play and enjoy classical orchestral music of all kinds, not only performing but also learning to understand how those masterpieces were constructed, and expanding their orchestral music education training and orchestral music performance experience.

The orchestra also broadens their potential music career by building up their orchestral music repertoires, as well as imparting to them the value of communication, teamwork, and discipline.

After training, they can join our Western Sydney Symphony Orchestra playing alongside professional musicians to get more professional experience. Furthermore, they can join the Sydney Contemporary Orchestra to earn income as professional musicians.

Since 2011, we have hosted 35 concerts and trained more than 200 young musicians. Some of them are now pursuing their tertiary music studies and some of them are working as professional musicians.

Rehearsals will be on Friday evenings during the school terms: