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Friends pupils tune up with Ulster Orchestra

Lady Daphne Trimble, Chairperson, Ulster Youth Orchestra with Lauren Mulholland, Friends School Matthew Nesbitt, Friends School and David Byers, Chief Executive of the Ulster Orchestra
Lady Daphne Trimble, Chairperson, Ulster Youth Orchestra with Lauren Mulholland, Friends School Matthew Nesbitt, Friends School and David Byers, Chief Executive of the Ulster Orchestra

MATTHEW Nesbitt and Lauren Mulholland, pupils at Friends School in Lisburn, were among ten young composers who unveiled individually composed pieces of work to fellow A and AS-Level students from across Northern Ireland during a unique day of musical performance and training at the Elmwood Hall, Belfast.

The event marked the end of an initiative developed jointly by the Ulster Youth Orchestra and the Ulster Orchestra's Education Department, which was designed to promote musical composition skills among the ten young musicians selected for the programme.

The students, aged between 16 and 18, came together at the beginning of October for the first of three training sessions and composition

workshops led by the Ulster Orchestra's Associate Composer and award-winning composer, Brian Irvine.

The Music Composition Programme is part of the Ulster Youth Orchestra's Outreach Series of musical appreciation and training courses which was launched in 2006, and which involved students from the five Education and Library Boards across Northern Ireland.

Ulster Star
14/12/2007