- Friends of Southampton Youth Orchestras

Be our Friend in 2024!

The Southampton Youth Orchestras are a fantastic way for children and young adults to benefit from the wonderful opportunities that playing music can bring. Whatever your background, learning a musical skill has been shown to improve language, literacy and general intelligence; academic ability; personal and social development and emotional development.

Friends of Southampton Youth Orchestras is a charitable organisation (Registered Charity no. 283789) which supports Southampton’s orchestral and string ensembles. These offer opportunities for very new players, who may be just 8 or 9 years old, through to sixth-formers of Grade 8 standard and beyond. Many of those who started out in the junior ensembles have, with encouragement from teachers and families, built on those early experiences to get right to the top of the SYO musical Pyramid and beyond.

Find out more about FSYO

Pyramid Concert

This year’s concert will take place on Saturday 3rd February 2024 in Central Hall, with the concert planned to start at 7pm.
Tickets will be available at selected rehearsals or on the door.

How can I help?

Be a Friend! You can become a Friend by completing our Membership form, or if you can contribute in other ways, just drop us a line and we’ll get in touch. Please read our pages on how you can help and on different ways to support us

We’d love to hear from you if you could offer any kind of support, however great or small, throughout the year! Please contact Nancy Lewis (Chair) to find out more about how you can contribute. Joining today is one important way of helping us to support your child’s orchestra, and other orchestras in the pyramid, now and into the future.

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