World O World - National Youth Choir (15-18 Years)

Hello! We're excited to welcome you to this National Youth Choir performance. The young singers on stage have come together from across the UK to spend the last eight days singing and having fun on a residential National Youth Choir course.

Getting here and timings
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  • This event takes place at the Bradshaw Hall auditorium in the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. See directions by car and rail
  • The concert starts at 3pm, and is due to finish at approximately 4pm
Today's music
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Hail Gladdening Light - Charles Wood
How to Fold the Wind - Caroline Shaw
Dúlamán - Michael McGlynn
Butterfly - Mia Makaroff
Words of the Sun - Zhou Long
Det ar en ros utsprungen - Jan Sandström
The Great Sea (world premiere) - Esther Bersweden
Commissioned by National Youth Choir with generous support from Dorico
America - Simon & Garfunkel arr. Edward Randell
World O World - Jacob Collier
National Youth Choir (15-18 Years) singers
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Soprano
Sophie May Anderson
Poppy Armstrong
Holly Ashbrook
Emily Barton
Sanjana Bathala
Clover Bigmore
Léonie Branson
Martha Brennan
Georgia Brindley
Sarah-Jane Butler
Rose Butler-Cole
Leila Rose Chinn
Allegra Clement-Davies
Zephany Coleman
Anne Collins
Lucia Cook
Caitlin Danaher
Kayla DeVile
Emily Edge
Kitty Edwards-Owen
Beatrice Farncombe
Molly Fry
Rosalila Gibbons
Edie Gray
Faith Gregory
Sevi Harvey
Georgina Hudson
Darda Hui
Elen Johnson
Evie Jones
Sophia Jones
Susanna Jones
Camilla Kirk
Anna Krzemienska
Keira Langley
Paloma Leon-Villapalos
Kitty Lewis-Banks
Catherine Li
Isla Lloyd
Chenxi Ma
Bess Macpherson
Augusta Maddox
Tsing Lam Natalie Mak
Kayla Holly Tawananyasha Maniwa
Aurora Masalles Kar
Terra Matsumoto
Sabina Mitsopoulos

Myrtle Moore
Alice Morosanu
Sophie Nye
Lucy Palfery
Imogen Paskins
Ishani Patel
Imogen Payne
Ella Phippen
Bethan Pollard
Zoe Power
Alicia Robb
Benedict Roberts
Imogen Sanderse
Evie Schmidt-Martin
Neve Seekings
Victoria Smith
Molly Snow
Jess Terlecki
Sacha Tewes
Ella Walker
Amelia Waring
Anna Wright
Emma Wyse
Chloe Zaimi
Lizzie Zimmern

Alto
Zoe Ashbrook
Emma Boswell
Sylvie Chong
Yeanika Currie
Cara Davies
Emily Doggett
Emily Duff
Arabella Engledow
Eleni Evriviades
Charlotte Foulkes
Shreya Francis
Orli Garnett
Petra Kidd
Rubie Le Masurier
Seren Mathias-Mitchell
Malia Amelia Mbenza Mbenza
Afi Sesika Norgbey
Joel Adams Perera
Raechel Philip
Matilda Pilikian
Lila Pramoj

Sophie Pugsley
Sophie Ramsden
Grace Watkin
Sanuli Wijedasa
Zoe May Wilkinson

Tenor
Sebastian Addis
Alex Beattie
Gabriel Ferris
William Fiske
Henry Fry
Charlie Groom
Aleksei Lichter
Björn McGahan
Jonny Oliver
Oliver Polkinghorne
Thomas Tennant
Luke Thornton
Leander Urquhart
Montague Weaver
Max Xue

Bass
Charles Ashworth
Edward Black
Marcello Boldrini-Diamond
Thomas Borg
George Brookes
Ben Cooper
Sebastian Cunningham
Charles Dowdall
David Edgington
Benjamin Haines-West
Jack Knight
Tom Knight
Alexander Lau
Milo Lennon
Donald Lewis
Ted Marsden
Yevindra Meedeniya Jayasekera
Luca Moston
Lorenzo Salisbury
George Scott
Harry Sundeland
James Sykes
Thomas Welchman
Benjamin Willis
Our amazing course staff
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Principal Conductor - Matthew Quinn
Vocal Coach in Residence - Charlotte Mobbs
Vocal Coach - Richard Edgar Wilson
Assistant Conductor/Section Coach - Daniel Rodríguez Tíjaro
Section Coaches - Jason Ching, Florence Price, Emily Varney
Section Coach/Accompanist - Libby Burgess
Course Manager - Freya Parry
Assistant Course Manager - Sam Tilley
Head of Pastoral Care - Will Matthews
Heads of House/Senior Pastoral Care - Lucy Edge, Harriet Jarvis, Andrew Sheldon
Senior Pastoral Care - Heather Fuller, Sam Gray, Hannah Macaulay, Sara de Visser
Head of Social - Rachel Wheatley
Course Assistants - Samuel Freer, Izzy Jackson, Francesca Martin

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