Participants

2008 National Festival of Music for Youth Participants

Groups in red received an Outstanding Performance Award
Groups in blue received a Highly Commended Performance Award
Groups in green received a New Composition Award


1 National Festival of Youth Orchestras


1A School

Caerleon Comprehensive School Orchestra
John Cleveland College Orchestra
Lady Manners School Orchestra
Northampton School for Boys Orchestra
St Aidan's Orchestra
Ysgol Greenhill Orchestra

1B Music Centre

Birmingham Schools' Concert Orchestra
Colne Valley Music Centre Festival Strings
Con Brio Strings, Solihull
Isca Linea Senior Strings
New Century Strings
North Monmouthshire Senior Strings
Northamptonshire String Sinfonia
Oxfordshire CMS Sinfonia

1C Open

Brighton Youth Orchestra
Greater Gwent Youth Orchestra
Kirklees Youth Symphony Orchestra
Northamptonshire County Youth Orchestra
Southampton Youth Orchestra

1D String and Chamber Orchestras (School)

Lady Manners School String Orchestra
Maelor School String Orchestra
Northampton High School String Orchestra
Rhosnesni High School Orchestra
St Mary's College String Orchestra
The Latymer School Chamber Orchestra

1E String and Chamber Orchestras (Open)

Berkshire Maestros Corelli String Orchestra
Greater Gwent String Symphonia
Hampshire Vivaldi Project
Kirklees Schools String Orchestra
MKMS String Orchestra
Pembrokeshire Schools' Chamber Orchestra


2 National Choral Festival


2A Junior

Brixworth School Choir
Coloma Junior Chamber Choir
Coton Harmonia Youth Singers
Hampshire County Children's Choir
Holmewood House Chamber Choir
Inner Soul
Junior QEGS
Kent College Choristers
King's High School Junior Chamber Choir
Meanwood C of E Primary School Choir
New Hall Preparatory School Chamber Choir
Oldham Junior Girls Choir
Priory School Chamber Choir
Shakespeare Primary School Choir
Smithybridge Primary School Choir
Songsquad
St Andrew's Big Choir
St Vincent's RC Primary School Choir
Sutton Valence Prep School Choir
The Latymer School Junior Singers
The Rainbow Connection Junior Choir
West Calderdale Music Centre Choir

2B Senior

Bridgwater College Show Choir
Charvil Girls' Choir
City of Hull Youth Choir
Common Room Choir
Egglescliffe School Chamber Choir
Farnham Youth Choir
Four Counties Youth Choir
Greater Gwent Youth Choir
Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College Vocal Consert
Halifax Young Singers Chamber Choir
Imagination
Male Force
Penglais Senior Show Choir
Ravenscliffe Voice Crew
Runshaw Chamber Choir
St Aidan's Chamber Choir
St Benedicts School Chamber Choir
St Bonaventure's School Choir
St Cecilia Singers
St Thomas More Chamber Choir
Taplow Youth Choir
Tees Valley Youth Choir
The Rainbow Connection Singers
Wood Green School Boys Choir
Ysgol Gerdd Ceredigion


3 National Chamber Music Festival

3A Junior

Cartmel Music Centre Chamber Music Trio
Pieces of String
Queen's College Junior School String Trio
The Crooked Barbers
The Nicolaou Junior Piano Trio
The Nicolaou Six Hands
Wellingborough Music & Arts Centre Brass Farthings

3B Senior

Albemarle String Quintet
Arnold Wind Quintet
Birmingham Schools' Brass Ensemble
Bolton Youth String Quartet
Centre for Young Musicians Wind Quintet
Egglescliffe School Cello Consort
Hampshire Award Flutes
Havering Oboe Trio
Ilex Quartet
Lady Manners School String Quartet
Leon Trio
Monmouth Comprehensive Piano Quintet
Mountbatten Saxophone Quartet
North Monmouthshire String Quartet
Primo Tuba Quartet
Tenforu
The Original Chamber Ensemble
The Bell Quartet
The Furiant Quartet
Unisax


4 National Brass Band Festival

4A School

Abraham Darby Brass Band
Fred Longworth High School Brass Band
Lady Manners School Brass Band
Smithills School Senior Brass Band
Tapton School Brass Band
Treorchy Comprehensive School Brass Band
Wardle High School Intermediate Brass Band

4B Music Centre

Aylesbury Music Centre Brass Band
Bolton Youth Brass Band
Forest of Dean Area Youth Brass Band
North East Hampshire Area Schools Band
Rochdale Borough Youth Band
(New Composition Award)
Sellers International Youth Band
Southampton Youth Brass Band
Wrexham Schools' Brass Band
Youth Brass 2000

4C Open

Greater Gwent Youth Brass Band
Gwynedd and Mon Youth Brass Band
Hampshire County Youth Band
Junior Guildhall Brass Band
Northamptonshire County Youth Brass Band
Telford Youth Brass Band


5 National Wind Band Festiva
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5A School

Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School Concert Band
Northampton School for Boys Symphonic Winds
Norton Knatchbull Wind Band
NSG Wind Band
RGS First Wind Band
Rhosnesni High School Band
St Aidan's Symphonic Band
Smithills School Senior Symphonic Wind Band

5B Music Centre

Chichester Youth Concert Band
City of Sheffield Festival Band
Colne Valley Music Centre Senior Wind Band
Hastings Area Youth Wind Orchestra
Newport Music Centre Senior Wind Band
Rochdale Youth Wind Band
Stoke-on-Trent City Youth Wind Orchestra
Wellingborough Music & Arts Centre Festival Band

5C Open

Derbyshire City & County Youth Wind Band
Greater Gwent Youth Symphonic Winds
Northamptonshire County Youth Concert Band
Oxfordshire Youth Windband
Pembrokeshire Schools' Wind Band


6 Rock, Pop and Urban Music Festival


About Time
Hollow Limit
Kirklees Music School Soul Band
Kites Of Fiction
The MarmoZets
Montage
President Zebra
Prestige
SE23
Something Good
Soul Patrol
The Deafness


7 Ensembles 2008

Barber-Q
Bents Green Special School Musicians
Berkshire Youth Guitar Orchestra
Berkshire Youth Percussion/Marimba Ensemble
Birmingham Schools' Percussion Ensemble
Bitesize Youth Theatre 2
BlockWork
Brassworks (Wigan)
BSTGE
Calderdale Youth Guitar Ensemble
Cardiff & The Vale of Glamorgan Advanced Percussion Ensemble
City of Hull Youth Percussion Ensemble
Colne Valley High School Percussion Ensemble
Centre for Young Musicians Percussion Ensemble
Flute Fusion
Gower Guitar Quartet
Greater Gwent Bottom Heavy
Hampshire Flute Choir
Harlequin
Havant Clarinet & Saxophone Choir
HCSC Saxophone Quartet
High Wycombe Music Centre Guitar Consort
Hi-Notes Ensemble
Medieval Minstrels
North Chadderton Brass Ensemble
Northampton School for Boys Low Brass Ensemble
Northamptonshire County Clarinet Choir
Northamptonshire County Youth Guitar Ensemble
Northamptonshire Saxophone Choir
Oxfordshire County Clarinet Choir
Oxfordshire Youth Percussion Ensemble
Pembrokeshire Schools' Percussion Ensemble
Percussion School
Phoenix
Soul Sounds
Step On Stage
The Castle School Boys' Barbershop Group
The Junior Original Chamber Ensemble
The Marlborough School Band
The O'Grady Company
The Whitstable Recorder Ensemble
The Yangchin Group
Wardle High School Percussion Ensemble
Warneford Sax Quartet


8 Traditional and International Music Festival

Beckfoot Samba Skool
Biddenham Bees
Coimriú
Cove School Steel Band
Honley High Fliers
Hornsey Steel Pans
Kagemusha Junior Taiko
King Arthurs School Folk Group
Leeds Silver Doves
Ludlow Djembe Drummers
North Tyneside Steel Band
Oku Nojo Daiko
Panatical!
Parkinson Lane Singers
Sir Thomas Picton School Folk Duo
Sounds of Steel
Taal-Tarang
The Plucked String Orchestra
The Voyager School Bhangra Music Group
Wakefield Fiddle 'n' Flutes
Ysgol Bryn Elian
Zingaresque 1


9 Infants and Juniors at the National Festival

9A Infants

Fairfield Prep. School
Little Voices
Meltham CE School Infant String Group
One Voice
Pownall Hall School Junior Choir
Prospect House School Junior Choir
Spaldwick Blackbirds Ocarina Band
The Queen's Gate Junior Singers
Thornton College Year 3
West Lodge First School Storyteller

9B Juniors

All Saints Chamber Choir
All Saints Sixteen
Band 2 East Barnet Music Centre
Birmingham Schools' Recorder Ensemble
Burghclere School Band
Dulwich College Prep Big Band
Forest of Dean Area Junior Wind Band
G & Ts
Hamp Junior Samba
Healey Primary School Brass Band
Holme School
KMS Holme & Colne Junior Strings
Laycock Primary School Years 4 & 5
Lord Street Primary School Wind Band
Middleton Primary School Choir
Montem Primary School Drummers
Nether Green Junior School Orchestra
North Duffield School Juniors
Northamptonshire County Junior String Orchestra
Opera Babies
Penny Bridge C E Primary School Class 4
Putney High School Junior Department Years 5 & 6 Choir
Savannah Sounds
Scarborough AMC Junior Concert Band
Smithy Bridge Primary School Brass Band
St Andrew's Gamelan Group
St Elphege's School Junior Choir
St John the Divine Choir and Music Makers
St Mary's Recorder Ensemble

St Wilfrid's Primary Jazz Dragons
The Abbey Junior School LI and UI Choir
The Green School Steel Band
TongueTwisters
Turnfurlong Jazz
Waddesdon Village Primary School
Westfields Junior School Choir
Withycombe Stomp
Ysgol Glanaethwy Juniors


10 National Jazz Festival

10A School

Ace Trio
Altricham Grammar School for Boys Swing Band
Bramhall High School Swing Band
Bury St Edmunds County Upper School Swing Band
CHS Jazz Band
Caerleon Comprehensive School Trad Band
Cardinal Vaughan Big Band
EMS Big Band
Glossopdale Community College Big Band
Great Sankey Swing Band
Hope Valley College Big Band
Jazz Mice
Lady Manners School Jazz Orchestra
Northampton School for Boys Big Band
Norton's Dixie Kings
Power Jazz Septet
Ripon Grammar School Big Band
Runshaw Tritones
Silcoates School Big Band
St Birinus Jazz
St John Fisher Catholic High School Jazz Orchestra
The Blue Sails
(New Composition Award)
Wet Paint

10B Music Centre

Colne Valley Music Centre Big Band
Durham Youth Big Band
Hastings Area Youth Jazz and Blues Band
Jazz Vehicle
(New Composition Award)
Luton Youth Jazz Orchestra
Newport City Big Band
SE Hants Jazz Project

10C Open


CCVG Youth Big Band
Devon Youth Jazz Orchestra
Encienda
Greater Gwent Youth Big Band
Lancashire Youth Jazz Orchestra
Milestones
Northamptonshire County Youth Big Band
TMIC: The Bridge Rats Big Band
Wiltshire Youth Jazz Orchestra

 


 

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