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Chineke! Junior Orchestra Summer Concert

Join the Chineke! Junior Orchestra for a matinee concert showcasing the inspiring results of their week-long residential rehearsal and performance course.

The Chineke! Junior Orchestra is the sister ensemble to the Chineke! Orchestra, and is made up of majority Black and ethnically diverse musicians aged 11 – 22.

Both ensembles were founded simultaneously in 2015 with the aim of creating opportunities for emerging and established musicians of Black and ethnically diverse heritage.

This concert comes at the end of an intensive musical week spent together rehearsing and exploring the music to be performed, as well as receiving individual tuition from members of the senior orchestra, who act as mentors, teachers and role models.

Performers

Chineke! Junior Orchestra

Matthew Lynch conductor

Elodie Chousmer-Howelles violin

Charles Campbell-Peek double bass

Repertoire

Coleridge-Taylor: Ballade in A minor for orchestra, Op.33; Romance in G for violin & orchestra, Op.39

Bottesini: Grande Allegro di Concerto (alla Mendelssohn) for double bass & orchestra

Holst: Mars, the bringer of war from The Planets

Need to know

Age guidance
For ages 7+

For your visit

This event is held at the The Clore Ballroom Southbank Centre

The Clore Ballroom is open six days a week.

Tuesday, 10am – 6pm*
Wednesday – Sunday, 10am – 11pm
Monday, closed.

*If we’re hosting a performance, the building will stay open until the event ends.