Date:Saturday 04 Aug 2012

Venue:Royal Albert Hall, London

Time:2pm

Cost:£5–£36

This year at the BBC Proms, the national youth orchestras of Great Britain and Northern Ireland will perform with their ‘big brothers and sisters’ over the course of a weekend.

The National Youth Orchestra of Scotland will perform jointly with the BBC Scottish Orchestra and the National Youth Orchestra of Wales will perform with the BBC Welsh Orchestra. The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain will perform in the evening of 4 August, while that afternoon the Ulster Orchestra will perform jointly with the Ulster Youth Orchestra of Northern Ireland (making a combined orchestra of 153 players).

Now in its 118th year, this will be the 11th time the UO has performed at the BBC Proms since 1985. The concert will also mark the Proms début of its Principal Conductor, JoAnn Falletta, and the world première of Elaine Agnew’s Dark Hedges.

If you can’t make it to London, listen live on BBC Radio 3.

Prom 28: Ulster Orchestra & Ulster Youth Orchestra Programme:

Ulster Youth Orchestra

Chabrier                               España

Ulster Orchestra & Sir James Galway

Mozart                                  Flute Concerto in D, K314

Ulster Orchestra, Ulster Youth Orchestra & Sir James Galway

Elaine Agnew                        Dark Hedges

Ulster Orchestra & Ulster Youth Orchestra

Stravinsky                            Firebird (1911 version)

TICKETS

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