The 2016 Young Leaders Camp included a visit to Longborough Festival Opera, in its post-season, and its idyllic surrounds. The Young Leaders met, played for, listened to and conversed with two of the great artists of our time, baritone Roderick Williams and violinist Nicola Benedetti, hosted by Martin Graham, whose pep talk was food for the

It was tipping it down with rain when the Young Leaders arrived at St Leonard’s Church in Malinslee for a performance that would celebrate their week of intensive music-making in Shrewsbury. In they packed, meeting and giving stickers to members of the In Harmony Telford Nucleo Orchestra, which was preparing to rehearse. The church is

Courtesy of our generous donors and friends at Ronnie Scott's Charitable Foundation, British jazz great Pete Long got our Young Leaders to put down their music, be a Big Band and try out some improvisation. Shouting out for women in jazz, Pete asked the girls to step up - well done in particular to Habeba, Janaya

Our dream team of teachers and mentors did an outstanding job inspiring, guiding, learning and leading by example. This year’s teaching team hold posts at, have recently graduated from or perform with the following impressive organisations and institutions: Orquestra Geração (Sistema Portugal) (5 people) Royal Academy of Music (4) Birmingham Conservatoire (4) Chineke! Foundation (3) El

The Young Leaders Orchestra focused on four pieces during the Sistema England camp at Shrewsbury School in August 2016. We wanted repertoire that, first and foremost, the musicians would love, and secondly that would serve as ‘musical passports’, enabling the Young Leaders to transport themselves and their audiences to different countries, cultures, eras and new

In the final week of August a group of our most committed students were invited to a week-long youth orchestra camp organised by Sistema England. The Young Leader’s Orchestra brought together young people from In Harmony and El Sistema-inspired projects from all round the UK, and teaching staff from all over the world to coach

‘An orchestra is one family, one person almost, with all these different sections – the brain, the lungs, the skin, that brings a human together – that’s the orchestra.' Daniel, The Nucleo Project, Young Leader 60 young musicians from Sistema programmes in Liverpool, London, Newcastle, Norwich and Telford will gather in August 2016 at Shrewsbury School for the